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Nursing is ......?
Both a science and an art.
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The word nurse originates from ______ which means _____?
nutrix, to nourish
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What are the aims of nursing?
- To promote health
- To provent illness
- To restore health
- To facilitate coping with disability or death
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What are the essential competencies in providing safe nursing care?
- Coginitive Skills
- Technical Skills
- Interpersonal Skills
- Ethical/Legal Skills
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Which Skill involves nursing knowledge and critical thinking to problem solve and find best solution to meet a patient's needs.
Cognitive/Intellectual
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Define Critical thinking?
Process that challenges a nurse to interpret and evaluate information/data to derive judgments
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What steps are needed for critical thinking in nursing?
- Organizing information
- Picking out relevant information
- Making sound judgments based on reason and rationale, not preference, prejudice, self interest or fear
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What are the 2 Nursing organizations that form the code of ethics?
- ANA American Nurses Association
- NLN National League for Nursing
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Name for Legal standards of nursing practice actions
- TBON- Nurse Practice Acts
- TJC- National Patient Safety Goals
- QSEN competencies
- IOM- Institue of Medicine
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Describe Goal 1 of National Patient Safety Goals
- Improve Patient ID 2 ways:
- Patient's Name
- Medical Record Number
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Describe Goal 2 of National Patient Safety Goals
- Improve communcation among caregivers by SBAR:
- S-Situation
- B-Background
- A-Assessment
- R-Recommendation
- Quickly report important results of tests and diagnostic procedures to right staff person
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Describe Goal 3 of National Patient Safety Goals
Improve safety of using medications. This is further discussed in levels 1-4
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Describe Goal 7 of National Patient Safety Goals
Reduce risk of health care-associated infections with proper handcleaning guidlines from CDC and WHO. As well as proven guidlelines to prevent infections that are difficult to treat
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Describe Goal 9 of National Patient Safety Goals
Reduce the risk of falls
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Describe Goal 14 of National Patient Safety Goals
Prevent pressure ulcers
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Describe Goal 15 of National Patient Safety Goals
- Prevent patients from harming themselves by recognizing symptoms
- Changing mood
- Giving away possessions
- Increasing risk taking
- Injuring self
- Talking or writing about death or suicide
- Threatening to kill self
- Withdrawing from family and friends
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Legally defines and regulates the scope of nursing practice in each state of the US
A. Nursing Practice Act
B. ANA & NLN
C. The joint commisiion TJC
D. QSEN competencies
E. Institute of Medicine
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Provide established sandards of practice that provide specific guidance to the professional nurse
A. Nursing Practice Act
B. ANA & NLN
C. The joint commisiion TJC
D. QSEN competencies
E. Institute of Medicine
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Evaluates health care organizations & inpires them to excell in poviing safe & effective care of the highest quality and value
A. Nursing Practice Act
B. ANA & NLN
C. The joint commisiion TJC
D. QSEN competencies
E. Institute of Medicine
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Pursues strategies to develope effective teaching approaches to assure graduate competencies
A. Nursing Practice Act
B. ANA & NLN
C. The joint commisiion TJC
D. QSEN competencies
E. Institute of Medicine
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An independent, nonprofit organization that works outside of government to provide unbiased and authoritative advice to decision makers and the public
A. Nursing Practice Act
B. ANA & NLN
C. The joint commisiion TJC
D. QSEN competencies
E. Institute of Medicine
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Give the Summarized Philosophy and Framework of Nursing
- The individual has Needs
- Nursing assists the individual to meet their needs
- Nurses perform certain skills to assist in meeting these needs
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What are the 5 steps in the nursing process?
- Assessment
- Diagnosis
- Planning
- Implementation
- Evaluation
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What is the guide for assessment
- P=Psychosocial Needs
- E=Elimination
- R=Rest, Regulatory, Reproductive Needs
- S=Safety Needs
- O=Oxygenation Needs
- N=Nutrition Needs
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What are the 2 types of Data collected during assessment?
- Subjective- something patient tells you about
- Objective-data detectable by the nurse
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What is the process of Diagnosis?
Analyzing and interpreting the data to identifyhealth needs and formulate nursing diagnoses
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What are the 2 parts of planning?
- Establishing goals and developing outcomes
- Getting ready to implement the skill (gather necessary equipment and making preparations before beginning the skill)
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Implementation is simply...
Carrying out the plan
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Evaluation has 2 parts. What are they?
- Determine if the goal was met and see the patient's response to the plan
- Then act on the information obtained by documenting on the chard as well as telling appropriate staff
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