P&P Text Chapter 1 Nursing Today
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Nursing has a code of ethics that professional registered nurses follow and:
1 Defines principles by which nurses provide care to their clients.
2. Ensures identical care to all clients.
3. Protects the client from harm.
4. Improves s - 1. Defines the principles by which nurses' provide care to their clients.
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The founder of modern nursing is:
1. Dorthea Dix
2. Florence Nightingale
3. Clara Barton
4. Harriet Tubman - 2. Florence Nightingale
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The founder of the American Red Cross is:
1. Florence Nightinglae
2. Dorthea Dix
3. Clara Barton
4. Mary Mahoney - 3. Clara Barton
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Evidence-based practice is defined as:
1. The integration of best research evidence with clinical expertise and patient values.
2. Scholarly inquiry of nursing and biomedical research literature.
3. Nursing care based on nutrition.
4. - 1. The integration of best research evidence with clinical expertise and patient values.
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The Standards of Care described in the ANA Standards of Clinical Practice include:
1. The nursing process; assessment, diagnosis, outcome identification and planning, implementation and evaluation.
2. Administratin of medications, personal hygi - 1. The nursing process; assessment; diagnosis, outcome identification and planning, implementation and evaulation.
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Regardless of education preparation, the examination for RN licensure is exactly the same in every state in the US. This:
1. Provides a standardized minimum of knowledge base for the client population nurses serve.
2. Guarantees safe care for a - 1
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Contemporary nursing requires that the nurse posess knowledge and skills for a variety of professional roles and responsibilities. Examples include:
1. Autonomy and accountability.
2. Following physician orders.
3. Providing bedside care.< - 1
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Advanced practice nurses generally:
1. Work in the university setting.
2. Function independently.
3. work in acute care settings
4. Function as unit directors. - 2
- In North American the major professional nursing organizations are?
- National league of Nursing and ANA, American Nurses Association
- As long as a nurse maintains involvement in health care polocy and practice...
- Outsiders will not impose their will on nursing and nursing practice.
- The center of a nurse's practice is....
- the client.
- When giving care, a professional rn provides a specified service according to standards of practice and follows...
- a code of ethics.
- When providing nursing care, the nurse makes clinical judgements about the care needed for clients based on what?
- Fact, experience and standards of care.
- The first african-american professional nurse who ralled for relationships between culture and races was whom?
- Mary Mahoney
- Changes that have influenced health care in recent decades include the poulation shifr from...
- rural areas to urban centers.
- Healthy People 2010 is what and is created by whom?
- Created by fed govt that outlines health care goals for the public.
- What is a code of ethics define?
- the principle by which nurses provide care to their clients.
- In all states what do the Nursing Practice acts do?
- regulate the licensure and practice of nursing.
- What are 2 essential elements that contemporary nurses required to possess in their professional roles?
- Autonomy and accountability
- Which nurse is generally the most independent?
- ANP
- What is the CRNA
- Certified registered nurse anesthetist.