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Telecommunications

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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.

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Teacher

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A nurse who helps clients learn about their health and the health care procedures they need to perform to restore or maintain their health.

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Standards of Clinical Nursing Practice

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Descriptions of the responsibilities for which nurses are accountable

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Sojourner Truth

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An abolitionist, Underground Railroad agent, and women's rights advocate. She was a nurse for over four years during the civil war and worked as a nurse and counselor for the Freedman's Relief Association after the war.

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Socialization

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A process by which a person learns the ways of a group or society in order to become a functioning participant

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Sairy Gamp

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A character in a Dicken's book, Martin Chizzlewit, who represented the negative image of nurses in the early 1800's

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Professionalization

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The process of becoming professional; acquiring characteristics considered to be professional

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Professionalism

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A set of attributes, a way of life that implies responsibility and commitment

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Profession

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An occupation that requires extensive education or a calling that requires special knowledge, skill and preparation

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Patient Self-Determination Act (PSDA)

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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.

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Patient

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A person who is waiting for or undergoing medical treatment and care

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Mary Breckinridge

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A nurse who practiced midwifery 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

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Margaret Sanger

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Considered the founder of Planned Parenthood, was imprisoned for opening the 1st birth control information clinic in Baltimore in 1916.

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Manager

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One who is appointed to a position in an organization which gives the power to guide and direct the work of others

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Lillian Wald

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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.

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Leader

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A person who influences others to work together to accomplish a specific goal

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Lavinia Dock

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A nursing leader and suffragist who was active in the protest movement for womens' rights that resulted in the US Constitution Ammendment allowing women to vote in 1920

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Knights of St. Lazarus

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An order of knights that dedicated themselves to the care of people with leprosy, syphillis, and chronic skin conditions.

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Harriet Tubman

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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.

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Governance

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The establishment and maintenance of social, political, and economic arrangements by which practitioners control their practice, self-discipline, working conditions and professional affairs.

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Florence Nightingale

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Considered the founder of modern nursing, she was influenced in developing nursing education, practice, and administration

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Demography

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The study of population, including statistics about distribution by age and place of residence, mortality and morbidity

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Counseling

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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

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Consumer

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An individual, a group of people, or a community that uses a service or commodity

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Communicator

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Nurses identify client problems and then communicate these verbally or in writing to other members of the health team

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Client advocate

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An individual who pleads the cause of the client's right

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Client

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A person who engages the advice or services of another person who is qualified to provide this service

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Clara Barton

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A schoolteacher who volunteered as a nurse during the civil war. Most notably, she organized the Red Cross, which linked with the International Red Cross when the US Congress ratified the Geneva Convention in 1882

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Change Agent

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A person (or group) who initiates changes or who assists in making modifications in themselves or in the system

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Case Manager

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A nurse who works with the multidisciplinary health care team to measure the effectiveness of the case management plan and monitor outcomes

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Caregiver

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A role that has traditionally included those activities that assist the client physically and psychologically while preserving the client's dignity