Professional Nursing Concepts Module 1- Chapters 1-4
1. Accountability: Willingness to take credit and blame for actions.
2. Autonomy: the quality or state of being self-governing, the freedom to act on
what you know
3. Code of ethics: a list of provisions that makes explicit the primary goals,
values and obligations of the nursing profession, published by the American
Nurses Association
4. Colleagueship: workplace relationships with common interests
5. Nursing: the profession of a nurse
6. Professional organization: an organization that represents a professional
group, such as nurses represented by the American Nurses Association
7. Professionalism: the conduct, aims, or qualities that characterize or mark a
profession or a professional person
8. Responsibility: moral, legal, or mental accountability
9. Scope of practice: A statement that describes the who, what, where, when,
why, and how of nursing practice.
10. Social policy statement: A statement that describes the profession of nursing
and its professional framework and obligations to society; published by the
American Nurses Association.
11. Standards: a reference point against which other things can be evaluated and
that serve as guidelines to practice
12. Advocate: a nurse who speaks for the patient but does not take away the
patient's independence
13. Applied or clinical research: research designed to find a solution to a
practical problem
14. Basic research: research designed to broaden the base of knowledge rather
than solve an immediate problem
15. Caring: feeling and exhibiting concern and empathy for others
16. Change agent: someone who engages deliberately in, or whose behavior
results in, social, cultural, or behavioral change
17. Clinical judgement: The process by which nurses come to understand the
problems, issues, and concerns of patients; to attend to salient information;
and to respond to patient problems in concerned and involved ways. It
includes both conscious decision making and intuitive response.
18. Clinical reasoning: the nurse's ability to assess patient problems or needs
and analyze data to accurately identify and frame problems within the context
of the individual patient's environment
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19. Collaboration: cooperative effort among healthcare providers, staff, and
multiple organizations who work together to accomplish a common mission
20 Competency: a behavior of a student or staff member is expected to
demonstrate
21. Counselor: a person trained to give guidance on personal, social, or
psychological problems.
22. Critical thinking: purposeful, reasoned, goal-directed thinking that involves
solving problems, formulating inferences, working with probabilities, and making
carefully thought-out decisions
23. Dichotomous thinking: seeing situations as either good or bad, black or
white 24. Educator: a person who teaches others, typically a professional such
as a nurse or teacher
25. Entrepreneur: an innovator who recognizes opportunities to introduce a new
process or an improved organization
26. Groupthink: the mode of thinking that occurs when the desire for harmony in
a decision-making group overrides a realistic appraisal of alternatives
27. Identity: sense of self as a professional nurse
28. Intuition: quick and ready insight
29. Knowledge: awareness and understanding of facts
30. Knowledge management: a method of gathering information and making it
available to others
31. Knowledge workers: a person who is effective in acquiring, analyzing,
synthesizing and applying evidence to guide practice decisions
32. Leader: one who has the ability to influence others, a role that nurses
assume, either formally by taking an administrative position or informally as
others recognize that they have leadership characteristics
33. Management: a formal administrative position that focuses on four major
functions, planning, organizing, leading and controlling
34. Provider of care: a healthcare provider who is the first contact for a patient at
the entry point of care and who then may manage overall care for the patient,
examples of providers are physicians and advance practice registered nurses
35. Reality shock: the reaction of students when they discover that the clinical
experience does not always match the values and ideals that they had
anticipated 36. Reflective thinking: creativity and conscious self-evaluation
over a period of time
37. Researcher: a person who studies a subject in detail in order to discover new
information about it
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1. Accountability: Willingness to take credit and blame for actions.
2. Autonomy: the quality or state of being self-governing, the freedom to act on
what you know
3. Code of ethics: a list of provisions that makes explicit the primary goals,
values and obligations of the nursing profession, published by the American
Nurses Association
4. Colleagueship: workplace relationships with common interests
5. Nursing: the profession of a nurse
6. Professional organization: an organization that represents a professional
group, such as nurses represented by the American Nurses Association
7. Professionalism: the conduct, aims, or qualities that characterize or mark a
profession or a professional person
8. Responsibility: moral, legal, or mental accountability
9. Scope of practice: A statement that describes the who, what, where, when,
why, and how of nursing practice.
10. Social policy statement: A statement that describes the profession of nursing
and its professional framework and obligations to society; published by the
American Nurses Association.
11. Standards: a reference point against which other things can be evaluated and
that serve as guidelines to practice
12. Advocate: a nurse who speaks for the patient but does not take away the
patient's independence
13. Applied or clinical research: research designed to find a solution to a
practical problem
14. Basic research: research designed to broaden the base of knowledge rather
than solve an immediate problem
15. Caring: feeling and exhibiting concern and empathy for others
16. Change agent: someone who engages deliberately in, or whose behavior
results in, social, cultural, or behavioral change
17. Clinical judgement: The process by which nurses come to understand the
problems, issues, and concerns of patients; to attend to salient information;
and to respond to patient problems in concerned and involved ways. It
includes both conscious decision making and intuitive response.
18. Clinical reasoning: the nurse's ability to assess patient problems or needs
and analyze data to accurately identify and frame problems within the context
of the individual patient's environment
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, Professional Nursing Concepts Module 1- Chapters 1-4
19. Collaboration: cooperative effort among healthcare providers, staff, and
multiple organizations who work together to accomplish a common mission
20 Competency: a behavior of a student or staff member is expected to
demonstrate
21. Counselor: a person trained to give guidance on personal, social, or
psychological problems.
22. Critical thinking: purposeful, reasoned, goal-directed thinking that involves
solving problems, formulating inferences, working with probabilities, and making
carefully thought-out decisions
23. Dichotomous thinking: seeing situations as either good or bad, black or
white 24. Educator: a person who teaches others, typically a professional such
as a nurse or teacher
25. Entrepreneur: an innovator who recognizes opportunities to introduce a new
process or an improved organization
26. Groupthink: the mode of thinking that occurs when the desire for harmony in
a decision-making group overrides a realistic appraisal of alternatives
27. Identity: sense of self as a professional nurse
28. Intuition: quick and ready insight
29. Knowledge: awareness and understanding of facts
30. Knowledge management: a method of gathering information and making it
available to others
31. Knowledge workers: a person who is effective in acquiring, analyzing,
synthesizing and applying evidence to guide practice decisions
32. Leader: one who has the ability to influence others, a role that nurses
assume, either formally by taking an administrative position or informally as
others recognize that they have leadership characteristics
33. Management: a formal administrative position that focuses on four major
functions, planning, organizing, leading and controlling
34. Provider of care: a healthcare provider who is the first contact for a patient at
the entry point of care and who then may manage overall care for the patient,
examples of providers are physicians and advance practice registered nurses
35. Reality shock: the reaction of students when they discover that the clinical
experience does not always match the values and ideals that they had
anticipated 36. Reflective thinking: creativity and conscious self-evaluation
over a period of time
37. Researcher: a person who studies a subject in detail in order to discover new
information about it
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