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Nursing 1290 Exam 1 Study Guide: Key Concepts and Historical Figures, Exams of Nursing

This comprehensive study guide for nursing 1290 exam 1 covers essential concepts and historical figures in nursing. It explores the attributes of a good nurse, the molloy humanistic framework, the evolution of nursing care, and the contributions of prominent nurses like florence nightingale and lillian wald. The guide also includes information on nursing organizations and their missions. It is a valuable resource for students preparing for their first nursing exam.

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Attributes of a good nurse ✔✔1) Caring ~ "too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a
smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of
which have the potential to turn a life around" -Leo Buscaglia
2) Communication skills ~ the ability to speak and listen well
A) Use language to clearly communicate a lot of information
B) Pertinent to nursing care
C) Nurses are never focused on irrelevant or trivial information
3) Emotional stability ~ A persons ability to remain calm when faced with stress; recognition of
your personal stress triggers
4) Empathy ~ people will forget what you said, what you did, but people will never forget how
you made them feel
5) Critical thinking ~ can think quickly and address problems as, or before, they arise; the
difference between someone living or dying
6) Good attention to detail ~ to create something exceptional, your mindset must be relentlessly
focused on the smallest detail - Giorgio Armani
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Attributes of a good nurse ✔✔1) Caring ~ "too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a

smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around" - Leo Buscaglia

  1. Communication skills ~ the ability to speak and listen well

A) Use language to clearly communicate a lot of information

B) Pertinent to nursing care

C) Nurses are never focused on irrelevant or trivial information

  1. Emotional stability ~ A persons ability to remain calm when faced with stress; recognition of your personal stress triggers

  2. Empathy ~ people will forget what you said, what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel

  3. Critical thinking ~ can think quickly and address problems as, or before, they arise; the difference between someone living or dying

  4. Good attention to detail ~ to create something exceptional, your mindset must be relentlessly focused on the smallest detail - Giorgio Armani

What are the elements of Molloy Humanistic framework ✔✔Definiton ~ we believe that valuing

the individual in the context of humanity, environment, and health gives meaning to humanistic nursing practice

  1. Valuing ~ holding in high esteem the inherent worth and dignity of all individuals

  2. Humanity ~ a unique human being, functioning as an integrated whole, reflecting bio-psycho- socio-cultural dimensions

  3. Health ~ a dynamic state of bio-psycho-socio-culturlal well being

  4. Environment ~ the sum total of all internal and external dimensions that influence human beings

State to state analysis forecasted(?) a shortage of registered nurses between 2009-2010. According to the US bureau of Labor Statistics, what was the prediction discussed in class for RNs? ✔✔The current total of number of RNs will not meet the demand for the workforce(?)

Prior to the modern era, how was safe nursing care provided? ✔✔1) women traditionally

provided nurturance at home

  1. safest nursing care was provided in ones own home

  2. extended to sick and injured community

  3. other societies included medicine men, shamans, and other male tribe members

C) educated as nurse midwife in england

D) started first school of midwifery in the US in 1939

E) between 1925-1975 ~ 17053 berths and 11 maternal deaths = well below national average

F) beginning of pre-natal care

G) inducted into ANA' hall of fame contributions of women, community, and family nursing and rural health care delivery

Isabel Robb ✔✔1) competencies needed to be proven in order to receive qualifications

  1. first president of ANA

  2. organized nursing school superintendents which became the National League of Nurses

  3. member of the committee to form the AJN

Dorothea Dix ✔✔1) appointed to organize military hospitals, provide trained nurses (nurse

recruiter), and disperse supplies

  1. received official status and no salary for this position

  2. fought for rights of the mentally ill

  3. 6 million people hospitalized during the war- one half million surgical cases; 2000 nurses served in the war

  4. most effective advice of the 19th century

Florence Nightingale ✔✔1) founder of modern nursing

  1. established the fort nursing philosophy based on health maintenance and restoration

  2. first practicing nurse epidemiologist

  3. first nurse researcher

  4. changed society's views of nurses

  5. traveled to Crimea for the war

  6. "notes of nursing" ~ pure air, pure water, efficient drainage, cleanliness, and light

  7. body and mood as separate entities and basis of holistic view of health; data and. outcomes; nursing research and evidence based practice

  8. the nurse who could improve the health of her patients by increasing airflow and encouraging hand washing

  9. established a reputation that allowed her to improve nursing standards; the beginning of professional nursing education

  10. established a training school for nurses at the infirmary in london; provided theory-based knowledge and clinical skill-building

  11. encourages the belief that there is a body of nursing knowledge distinct from medical knowledge

  1. brought supplies and nursed the wounded on the front

  2. inspired by International Red Cross to form American Red Cross in 1881

Susie Walking Bear Yellowtail ✔✔1) helped to end abuses in indian health care system

  1. decreased death rate of native american children

  2. established funding mechanism for education of native american nurses

  3. presidents award in 1992 for outstanding nursing health care

Virginia Henderson ✔✔1) wrote the textbook on nursing practice: Textbook of the principles

and practice of nursing

  1. established tools that promoted nursing research: nursing studies index

3 consider the florence nightingale of her time because of her work as a teacher and researcher

Margaret Sanger ✔✔1) one of the most controversial nurses of modern times

  1. dedicated to provide legal birth control

  2. founded planned parenthood

  3. 1916 - world's first birth control clinic in new york city

Mary Mahoney ✔✔First professionally trained African American nurse

Mary Seacole ✔✔1) jamaican nurse who cared for British soldiers at the battle front during the

crimean war

  1. established a hotel for the sick and injured soldiers

Caps ✔✔1) signified respectability, cleanliness, and servitude

  1. a nursing cap is the universal symbol of nursing

  2. florence nightingale was the first to wear one

Pinning ✔✔1) not graduaion

  1. by 1916, pinning new graduates with associates degrees was standard throughout the US

  2. it signifies the readiness for role of a nurse

The american nurses association (ANA) ✔✔1) started in 1896 as the Nurses Associated

Alumnae - renamed the ANA in 1911

  1. represents all RN's in the us and considered the voice of nursing

  2. founded with intent of achieving licensure

The American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) ✔✔1) 1973

  1. recognition of professional achievement

  2. accreditation program-nursing education (CNE)

  3. certification program - specialty expertise, magnet recognition programs

American Nurses Foundation (ANF) ✔✔National philanthropic organization established by the

ANA that supports, coordinates, and funds nursing research, disseminates pertinent research findings, and manages related grants.

American Society of Superintendents of Training Schools of Nursing (National League of Nursing; LNL) ✔✔1) 1893

  1. elevated standards of nursing education

  2. later became national league of nursing (1952)

  3. accredits practical nursing programs and associate degree programs

What are the mission statements of the nursing organizations reviewed ✔✔ANA ~ to improve

the quality of nursing care; to protection, promotion, and optimization of health and abilities,

prevention of illness and injury, alleviation of suffering through the diagnosis and treatment of human response, and advocacy in the care of individuals, families, communities, and populations

NLN ~ to identify the nursing needs of society and to foster programs designed to meet these needs

AACN ~ to establish quality standards for bachelor's and graduate-degree nursing education, assist deans and directors to implement those standards, influence the nursing profession to improve health care, and promote public support of baccalaureate and graduate education, research, and practice of nursing

STT ~ provide leadership and scholarship in practice, education, and research to improve the health of all people

NSNA ~ mentor the professional development of future registered nurses and facilitate their entrance into the profession by providing educational resources, leadership opportunities, and career guidance

NCSBN ~ provides an organization through which boards of nursing act together on matters of common interest and concern

What are the benefits of attending nursing schools with or without accreditation? ✔✔With

  1. participate in federally funded and state entitlement programs

  2. pursue advanced studies to other accredited schools RN to BSN and masters programs

  3. more competitive in the job market

  4. nationally established standards for nursing education

Without

  1. allows nclex examination and receive quality education

Accredited

  1. qualifying for loans, scholarships, and military service

  2. there is no data to support who graduate from accredited school are paid more

  3. acceptance into graduate school requires that nurse graduated from an accredited school

  4. accredited schools do not always cost more

What's. the difference between occupation and professions? ✔✔Occupation

  1. temporary

  2. minimal training - associate degree

  1. only what is required to get a job or a promotion

  2. short term

  3. reasonable work for reasonable pay

  4. responsibility ends with shift

  5. no codes of conduct or ethics

Profession

  1. occupation required extensive education or specialized training

  2. professionals

  3. self selected

  4. self disciplined group of individuals who hold themselves out to the public as possessing a special skill

  5. skill is derived from education and training

  6. prepared to exercise skill primarily in the interest of others

  7. a systematic body of knowledge - provides the framework for the professions practice

  8. standardized, formal higher education

  9. commitment to providing a service that benefits individuals and the community

  10. standards and code of ethics

  • eligible to provide basic nursing care to patients

Nursing Assistant

  • works under the supervision of a nurse and performs duties that assist patients and nurses with daily routines

State Boards of Nursing ✔✔1903 - first board of nursing established in north carolina, new york,

new jersey, and virginia

1983 - new york became the first state to define a scope of proactive and adopt a mandatory licensure law

Purpose: protecting the health, safety and welfare of the public

A) ensuring all licensed nurses provide safe and competent care

B) writing the administrative rules

C) disciplining nurses for unsafe practice

D) approving nursing programs

E) nursing education of RN/LPN programs in each state

  • the board of directors is appointed by the governor, depending on the state
  • the board meets often to oversee board of nursing activities and to take disciplinary action on nurse licenses ad necessary
  • members are state employees

NCLEX ✔✔National Council Licensure Examination

What are the ANA Standards of Practice? (6) ✔✔1. Assessment - collection of patient

  1. Diagnosis - analysis of assessment
  2. Outcome identification - expected outcomes
  3. Planning - strategies
  4. Implementation - action phase
  5. Evaulation - progress toward expected outcome