Kozier 1: Historical and Contemporary Nursing Practice
Terms
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- caregiver
- a role that has traditionally included those activities that assist the client physically and psychologically while preserving the client’s dignity
- case manager
- a nurse who works with the multidisciplinary health care team to measure the effectiveness of the case management plan and monitor outcomes
- change agent
- a person (or group) who initiates changes or who assists others in making modifications in themselves or in the system
- clara barton
- a schoolteacher who volunteered as a nurse during the Civil War. Most notably, she organized the American Red Cross, which linked with the International Red Cross when the U.S. Congress ratified the Geneva Convention in 1882
- client
- a person who engages the advice or services of another person who is qualified to provide this service
- client advocate
- an individual who pleads the cause of clients’ rights
- communicator
- nurses identify client problems and then communicate these verbally or in writing to other members of the health team
- consumer
- an individual, a group of people, or a community that uses a service or commodity
- counseling
- the process of helping a client to recognize and cope with stressful psychologic or social problems, to develop improved interpersonal relationships, and to promote personal growth
- demography
- the study of population, including statistics about distribution by age and place of residence, mortality, and morbidity
- Diagnostic-related groups (DRGs)
- a Medicare payments system to hospitals and physicians which establishes fees according to diagnosis
- Fabiola
- a wealthy Roman matron – viewed by some as the patron saint of early nursing who used her position and wealth to establish hospitals for the sick
- Florence Nightingale
- considered the founder of modern nursing, she was influential in developing nursing education, practice, and administration
- Governance
- the establishment and maintenance of social, political, and economic arrangements by which practitioners control their practice, self-discipline, working conditions, and professional affairs
- Harriet Tubman
- known as "The Moses of Her People" for her work with the Underground Railroad. During the Civil War she nursed the sick and suffering of her own race
- Knights of Saint Lazarus
- an order of knights that dedicated themselves to the care of people with leprosy, syphilis, and chronic skin conditions
- Lavinia L. Dock
- a nursing leader and suffragist who was active in the protest movement for women’s rights that resulted in the U.S. Constitution amendment allowing women to vote in 1920
- Leader
- a person who influences others to work together to accomplish a specific goal
- Lillian Wald
- founded the Henry Street Settlement and Visiting Nurse Service which provided nursing and social services and organized educational and cultural activities. She is considered the founder of public health nursing
- Manager
- one who is appointed to a position in an organization which gives the power to guide and direct the work of others
- Margaret Sanger
- considered the founder of Planned Parenthood, was imprisoned for opening the first birth control information clinic in Baltimore in 1916
- Mary Breckinridge
- nurse who practiced midwivery in England, Australia, and New Zealand, founded the Frontier Nursing Service in Kentucky in 1925 to provide family-centered primary health care to rural populations
- Patient
- a person who is waiting for or undergoing medical treatment and care
- Patient Self-Determination Act (PSDA)
- legislation requiring that every competent adult be informed in writing upon admission to a health care institution about his or her rights to accept or refuse medical care and to use advance directives
- Profession
- an occupation that requires extensive education or a calling that requires special knowledge, skill, and preparation
- Professionalism
- a set of attributes, a way of life that implies responsibility and commitment
- Professionalization
- the process of becoming professional; acquiring characteristics considered to be professional
- Sairy Gamp
- a character in Dickens book Martin Chizzlewit, who represented the negative image of nurses in the early 1800s
- Socialization
- a process by which a person learns the ways of a group or society in order to become a functioning participant
- Sojourner Truth
- an abolitionist, Underground Railroad agent, preacher, and women’s rights advocate, she was a nurse for over 4 years during the Civil War and worked as a nurse and counselor for the Freedman’s Relief Association after the war
- Standards of clinical nursing practice
- descriptions of the responsibilities for which nurses are accountable
- Teacher
- a nurse who helps clients learn about their health and the health care procedures they need to perform to restore or maintain their health
- Telecommunications
- The transmission of information from one site to another, using equipment to transmit information in the forms of signs, signals, words, or pictures by cable, radio, or other systems