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Advocate - Correct Answer-the protection of human or legal rights and the
securing of care for all patients based on the belief that patients have the
right to make informed decisions about their health and lives
Caregiver - Correct Answer-The provision of care to patients that combines
both the art and the science of nursing in meeting physical, emotional,
intellectual, sociocultural, and spiritual needs. As a caregiver, the nurse
integrates the roles of communicator, teacher, counselor, leader,
researcher, advocate, and collaborator to promote wellness through
activities that prevent illness, restore health, and facilitate coping with
disability or death. The role of caregiver is the primary role of the nurse.
4 Nursing Aims - Correct Answer-1. Promotes health
2. Prevent illness/disease
3. Restore health
4. Facilitate coping with disability or death(die with dignity)
Florence Nightingale - Correct Answer-Established sanitary nursing care
units. Founder of modern nursing. Began professional education of nursing.
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Nursing profession criteria - Correct Answer-well defined body of specific
and unique knowledge
Strong service oriented
Recognized authority by a professional group
Code of Ethics
Professional organization that sets standards
Ongoing research
Autonomy and self-regulation
Standards of Nursing Practice - Correct Answer-allow nurses to carry out
professional roles, serving as protection for the nurse, the patient, and the
institution where health care is provided
Nurse Practice Act - Correct Answer-laws established in each state in the
US to regulate the practice of nursing
Nursing Process - Correct Answer-Assessment
Diagnosis
Planning
Implementation
Evaluation
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Used by the nurse to identify the patients health care needs and strengths,
to establish and carry out a care plan to meet those needs, and to evaluate
the effectiveness of the plan
Sources of Knowledge - Correct Answer-Traditional-passed down from
generation to generation
Authoritative-comes from an expert
Scientific-implying through research (scientific method)
General Systems Theory - Correct Answer-how to break whole things into
parts and then to learn how the parts work together in systems
Adaptation Theory - Correct Answer-defines adaptation as the adjustment
of living matter to other living things and to environmental conditions
Developmental theory - Correct Answer-process of growth and
development of humans as orderly and predictable, beginning with
conception and ending with death
Nursing theory - Correct Answer-differentiates nursing from other
disciplines and activities by serving the purposes of describing, explaining,
predicting, and controlling desired outcomes of nursing care practices
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Deductive reasoning - Correct Answer-general to specific
Inductive reasoning - Correct Answer-specific to general
Common Concepts in Nursing Theories - Correct Answer-Person (patient)
Environment
Health
Nursing
Sister Callista Roy - Correct Answer-Nursing interventions are needed
when individuals demonstrate ineffective adaptive responses; adaptive
modes. Adaptation model, relationships between persons, universe, god,
Adaptation model: assistance with the adaptation to stressors to facilitate
the integration process of the client. Theory helps the "biospsychosocial"
client modify external stimuli, adaptation will occur
Evidence-based practice - Correct Answer-in nursing is a problem solving
approach to making clinical decisions using the best evidence available
PICOT format - Correct Answer-Patient population
Intervention or issue of interest