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4 main goals of nursing - correct answer ✔✔promote, prevent, treat, advocate
Scope and Standards of Practice - correct answer ✔✔document that describes
nursing duties and works together with the nursing process
includes assessment, diagnosis, outcome identification, planning, implementation,
and evaluation
LSPN website
Code of ethics - correct answer ✔✔focuses on the conscience of the nurse and
respect for the individual
1. the nurse practices with compassion and respect for every person
2. the nurse promotes, advocates for, and protects the rights, health, and safety of
patient
3. the nurse has authority, accountability, and responsibility for nursing practice;
makes decisions; and takes action consistent with the obligation to promote
health and provide optimal care
Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN) - correct answer ✔✔an RN who has
achieved a bachelor's degree in nursing as well as a minimum of a Master of
science degree in nursing
-NP
,-CNM certified nurse midwife
-CRNA (no rx authority)
-CNS clinical nurse specialist
Wellness and illness - correct answer ✔✔Wellness is an integrated method of
functioning oriented toward maximizing the potential of the individual
Illnesses are separate short or long events that may challenge a person's desire for
health
-most people fall somewhere between wellness and illness
Healthy people - correct answer ✔✔The national model for health promotion and
risk reduction developed by the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services.
-the goals of this project are to increase the length and quality of life for the
population of the US and to eliminate health disparities.
the leading 10 areas of focus are physical activity, being overweight/obese,
tobacco use, substance abuse, responsible for sexual behavior, mental health,
injury and violence, environmental quality, immunization, access to health care
Primary prevention - correct answer ✔✔PREVENTION
involves strategies aimed at preventing problems; health teaching, safety
precautions and nutrition counseling, vital sign checks, glucose checks, etc
,Secondary prevention - correct answer ✔✔SCREENING
includes the early diagnosis of health problems and prompts treatment to prevent
complications; immunizations, diagnostic screenings (lab, X-ray)
Tertiary prevention - correct answer ✔✔TREATMENT
focuses on preventing complications of an existing disease and promoting health
to the highest level; diet teaching and exercise programs
Health Assessment - correct answer ✔✔Gathering information about the health
status of the patient, analyzing and synthesizing those data, making judgments
about nursing interventions based on the findings and evaluating patient care
outcomes (AACN, 2011)
-includes both health history and a physical assessment
Nursing process - correct answer ✔✔1. Assessment
-gather data
2. Diagnosis
-clustering of data to make a judgement about the patient's condition
3. Planning
-write care plan to meet goals
4. Implementation
, -carry out care plan
5. Evaluation
-judgement of effectiveness of nursing care in meeting the goals and outcomes
-collect objective data to determine the extent to which goals were achieved
-revise plan PRN
critical thinking process: - correct answer ✔✔1. Creating- synthesis ideas from
different sources.
2. Evaluation- judge the value of research based on criterial standards.
3. Analysis- examine reasons for theories, find evidence, & seeing relationships.
4. Application- using ideas in new ways and applying theories.
5. Understanding- finding main ideas, summarizing, explaining trends.
6. Knowledge- remembering the facts, terms, concepts and principles of your
subject
Emergency assessment - correct answer ✔✔Involves a life-threatening or unstable
situation