Essentials Exam 1 Study Guide

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NUR3294 Summer 2018 Exam 1 Focused Review • Characteristics of the Nursing Profession • Respond to needs of patients • Actively participate in policy • Respond and adapt to challenges... • Make clinical judgments and decisions about patients’ health care needs based on knowledge, experience, and standards of care • Purpose and components of nursing's standards of practice • To improve the health and well-being of all individuals, communities, and populations through the significant and visible contributions of registered nursing using standards-based practice • Assessment • Diagnosis • Outcomes identification • Planning • Evaluation • Purposes of Code of Ethics • To improve the health and well-being of all individuals, communities, and populations through the significant and visible contributions of registered nursing using standards-based practice • Differentiate between Educational programs for professional RN • Professional Registered Nurse • 2-year associate degree • 4-year baccalaureate degree • Graduate Education • Master’s degree, advanced practice RN • Doctoral degrees • Continuing and in-service education • CEUs • In-service • Definition of Registered Nurse practice • Protect, promote, and optimize our patients’ health • Prevent illness and injury • Advocate for the care of our patients • Alleviate suffering through the diagnosis and treatment of human responses • Nursing professional responsibilities • For obtaining and maintaining specific knowledge and skills • To provide care and comfort • To emphasize health promotion and illness prevention • Examples of nursing professional roles • Caregiver • Advocate • Educator • Communicator • Manager • What is the importance of Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN)? • Patient-centered care • Teamwork and collaboration • Evidence-based practice • Quality improvement • Safety • Informatics • What are reason for studying theories and theorists? • Gain understanding of what occurred in the past and events that have shaped what have gotten us to the point we are at today. • Provide research to postulate fresh ideas to gain new insights and advance new technologies. • What are examples of interdisciplinary theory used to guide nursing practice? • Basic human needs • Developmental • Psychosocial • Systems • What are the relationships among nursing theory, the nursing process and patient needs? • The nursing theory drives the process, which in turn directs the care taken to properly address the patient’s needs. • Define theory based nursing practice? • Generate nursing knowledge for use in practice • Can direct how to use nursing process • Are adaptable to different patients and all care settings • The goal of nursing knowledge is to explain the practice of nursing as different and distinct from the practice of medicine, psychology, and other health care disciplines. • Importance of theory based nursing practice important? • Is a conceptualization of some aspect of nursing • Describes, explains, predicts, and/or prescribes nursing care • Know the differences between preventive care, primary care, secondary care, tertiary care, and restorative care (and different types of restorative care) • Preventive care focuses on reducing and controlling risk factors for disease through activities such as occupational health programs. • Primary health care focuses on improved health outcomes for an entire population. It includes primary care and health education, proper nutrition, maternal/child health care, family planning, immunizations, and control of diseases. ………………………………….CONTINUED………………………………………. [Show More]

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