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Exam 1 review Nursing and Nursing Practice Q Define Nursing Nursing is a profession focused on assisting people family, community to retain recovery; promotion of health, prevention of illness focus is the patient. Q. Describe the criteria where nursing can be identified as a profession. Nurses can be researchers, empathetic people, teachers, etc Define body and specific, strong service and orientation, recognize by authority, code of ethics Ongoing research ALWAYS LOOK AT THE PATIENT NOT AT AS AN ILLNESS BUT AS A WHOLE – holistic care (physically, emotionally, how does it affect their lifestyle) Q Founder of nursing – Florence Nightingale She looking in the whole care of nursing, the cleanliness, the education of it. She focuses it more Holistically (the environment) of the culture of it, the financial of the patient. She was the first nursing theorist to create the environmental theory, start the idea of nursing research. Hygiene care, ventilation, temperature etc. Promotor of health and the founder of modern-day nursing Q qualities of nursers Compassionate Empathetic Attention to detail Problem solvers Advocates Autonomy – independence to think critically to care for their patient without the Dr. Human Dignity - Integrity Altruism – belief in the practice of selfless ( you put the patient first ); the wellware of the and respecting the culture and beliefs of the patient. Q List the roles of professional roles and describe the functions of each Communicator Teacher Counselor Leader Researcher Advocate Collaborator q. The nurse as a person – they follow protocol, follow evidence based practice Patient is first priority, follow holistic views. Downloaded by Clement Sam (samuelkaruiki40@gmail.com) lOMoARcPSD|6879242
Q- List the roles of a professional nurse and describe functions Caregiver – combine science and art of nursing Art is open minded Communicator – using your interpersonal to talk with your patient to develop a rapport (build a relationship) Counselor – provide information and facilitate and problem solving skills to make appropriate referrals Leader – confident in our own practice and assertive in our own care. Researcher – conduct research to improve knowledge and care Advocate – protect patient legal rights and take care of patients, *if the patient as the right to make their own decision* We as a nurse informs and educate Educator – able to meet the appropriate needs of the patient and family; USE of communication skills to assess and develop teaching plans to meet the clients needs and to make it easier for the family to understand. What are the 4 nurse aims - Promote Health Prevent Illness Restore Health Help Facilitate coping facilitate illness, disability and Death Nurses using cognitive, technical, interpersonal, ethical to meet the nursing aims. Q- Educational preparation for nursing practice First is practical and vocational nursing LPN – bedside nursing care; mostly located high schools community college, work under RNS or healthcare providers – takes 1 year long 1/3 in classroom 2/3 clinical RN – 3 routes for rn degree - diploma – 3 years hospitalized base in acute care, 2 associates 2 year in scaled nursing, national legal of nursing BSN – 4 year program nursing in upper-level discipline and to improve practice and foundation for good studies MSN – masters in nursing (NP) Doctors of nursing – instructors, NURSES PRACTICE ACT – LAWS ESTEABLISED IN EACH STATE TO REGULATE THE PRACTICE THE PRACTICE OF NURSING Q- Identify QSEN COMPETENCES IN NURSING EDUCATION Page 313 To provide safe patient care it helps the nurse to achieve the Promote health, restore health, prevent illness, facilitate cope and disabilities and death. 1 st -Team work and Collaboration – Always working with team members and working side by side while forming nursing skills. Downloaded by Clement Sam (samuelkaruiki40@gmail.com) lOMoARcPSD|6879242
2 nd – Evidence based practice – we are always doing stuff based on research and practicing up to date research outcomes 3 rd – Quality improvement – focusing on negative things and improving it; data that monitors the outcomes. 4 th – Safety – Minimize risk, ensuring patient safety, handrails, anti-slip socks. 5 th – Informatics -Technology that supports to communicate, manages knowledge and improves error and supports decision making. Q- State the purpose of conceptual and theoretical models in nursing To organize concepts and the relationships with each other IT arises from outcomes from a single study based on one main theory Theories are a group of concepts that describe a pattern, the frame work. Deductive vs inductive inductive action is one sees a problem happening and comes up with a theory on why its happening Deductive Reasoning is when one examines the general idea and considers the specific actions from that idea. Conceptual (concepts) abstract impressions organized into symbols of reality uses models Concepts can be thought of as the individual bricks used to build a house, with the conceptual framework Concepts describe objects properties and events and the relationships among them Nursing models are conceptual models, constructed of theories and concepts. Concept-idea (is the ingredient) Theory- pulls ideas together (recipe) Conceptual model – the cookbook Q- ANA (American nursing association) Scope of nursing practice, they set the standards for what nurses can do vs what they can’t do. ICN – International Counsel of Nursing - Promotion of health, prevention of illness Research and education and provide collaborative care GENE WATSON – concern clinical holistic care, promoting health and restoring health Dorthy johnson – counselor and modify behavior Florence – environmental holistic care Margarett newman – humans are in constant relationship with stressors and to directly lower stress Hildeagard Peplau – Nursing is therapeutic interpersonal goal orientated process Virginia Henderson – Patient requires to reach independence. Downloaded by Clement Sam (samuelkaruiki40@gmail.com) lOMoARcPSD|6879242
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