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57 Cards in this Set
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Advocate
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a nurse who speaks for the patient but does not take away the patients independence
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Caring
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feeling and exhibiting concern and empathy for others
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Change agent
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someone who engages deliberately in, or whose behavior results in, social, cultural, or behavioral change
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Clinical judgment
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the process by which nurses come to understand the problems, issues, and concerns of patients, to attend to salient information, and to respond to client (patient) problems in concerned and involved ways; includes both conscious decision making and intuitive response
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Clinical reasoning
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the nurse’s ability to assess patient problems or needs and analyze data to accurately identify and frame problems within the context of the individual patients environment
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Collaboration
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cooperative effort among healthcare providers, staff, and multiple organizations who work together to accomplish a common mission.
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Counselor
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a person who gives guidance in a specific area of expertise or knowledge.
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Critical thinking
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purposeful, informed, outcome-focused (results-oriented) thinking that requires careful identification of key problems, issues, and risks.
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Educator
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a person who teaches others; typically a profession such as a nurse, teacher, and so on
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Entrepreneur
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an innovator who recognized opportunities to introduce a new process or an improved organization
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Identity
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sense of self as a professional nurse
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Intuition
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quick and ready insight
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Intrapreneur
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one who takes direct responsibility for turning an idea into a profitable finished product through assertive risk taking and innovation
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Knowledge
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an awareness and understanding of facts
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Knowledge management
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a method for gathering information and making it available to others
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Knowledge worker
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a person who is effective in acquiring, analyzing, synthesizing, and applying evidence to guide practice decisions
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Provider of care
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a healthcare staff member who provides care to patients
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Reality shock
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the reaction of students when they discover that the clinical experience does not always match the values and ideals that they had anticipated
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Reflective thinking
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creativity and conscious self-evaluation over a period of time
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Research
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investigation or experimentation aimed at the discovery and interpretation of facts about a particular subjects
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Researcher
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a person who systematically investigates and studies materials and sources to establish facts and reach conclusions
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Role
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behavior oriented to the patterned expectation of others
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Role transition
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Gradual development in a new role
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Scholarship
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a fund for knowledge and learning
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Status
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a position in a social structure with rights and obligations
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Theory
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a body of rules, ideas, principles and techniques that applies to a particular subject
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Advertising
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methods used by employers and schools of nursing for recruitment and by professional organizations that want to make nursing more visible
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Advocacy
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speaking for something important (one of the major roles of a nurse)
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Assertiveness
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confronting problems in a constructive manner and not remaining
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Colleagueship
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a collaborative, professional relationship in which there is mutual trust and an understanding that each partner contributes to the relationship
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Empowerment
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having power or authority
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Image
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a representation of oneself or one’s profession
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Influence
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the power or capacity to cause an effect in indirect or intangible ways
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Power
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the ability to influence decisions and have an impact on issues that matter
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Powerlessness
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the feeling that one cannot make an impact, is not listened to, or is not sought out for his or her opinion
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Accreditation
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the process by which organizations are evaluated on their quality, based on established minimum standards
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Advanced practice nurse
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a registered nurse with advanced education in adult health, pediatrics, family health, women’s health, neonatal health, community health, or other specialties
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Articulation
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a formal agreement between two or more institutions that allows specific programs at one institution to be credited toward direct entry or advanced standing at another
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Associate degree in nursing
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a degree offered as culmination of a 2-year program that includes some liberal arts and sciences curriculum
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Baccalaureate degree in nursing
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a degree from a 4-year nursing program in a higher education institutions
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Certification
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a process by which a nongovernmental agency validates, based on predetermined standards, an individual nurses qualification and knowledge for practice in a defined functional or clinical area of nursing
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Continuing education
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systematic professional learning designed to augment knowledge, skills, and attitude
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Credentialing
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a process used to ensure that practitioners are qualified to preform and to monitor continued licensure
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Curriculum
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an integrated course of academic studies that describes the programs philosophy, level, and terminal competencies for students, or what they are expected to be able to accomplish by the end of the program
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Diploma schools of nursing
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a nursing program associated with a hospital that offers a nursing degree that is not offered through a college or university setting typically 3 years in length
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Distance education
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a set of teaching and/or learning strategies to meet the learning needs of students separate from the traditional classroom and sometimes from traditional roles of faculty; for example, an online course.
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Master’s degree in nursing
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a graduate level nursing degree of approximately 2 years with specialty focus; it may be an advanced nurse practitioner, clinical specialist, or so on.
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Nurse internship/ Nurse externship
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a program that offers nursing student employment (typically during the summer) and includes educational experiences such as seminars, special speakers, and simulation experiences.
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Nurse practice act
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The act that governs nursing practice in the state in which the nurse practices.
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Nurse residency
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A special employment program that helps new RN graduates transition to practice in a structured program that provides content and learning activities, precepted experiences, mentoring, and gradual adjustment to higher levels of responsibility.
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Practicum
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a course that includes clinical activities and stresses the practical application of theory in a field of study, also referred to as clinical.
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Preceptor
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an experienced and competent staff member (an RN or, for nurse practitioner students, possibly a nurse practitioner or physician) who has received formal training to function as a preceptor and who serves as a role model to guide student learning, serving as a resource for the nursing student.
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Prescrptive authority
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Legal authority granted to advanced practice nurses to prescribe medication.
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Regulation
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an official rule or order, based on laws, governing processes, practice and procedure; in nursing, legal regulation governs licensure.
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Self-directed learning
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a process in which individuals take the initiative, with or without the help of others, in diagnosing their learning needs, formulating learning goals, identifying human and material resources for learning, choosing and implementing appropriate learning strategies, and evaluating learning outcomes.
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Standards
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Statements that serves as guides to practice
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Training
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activities and instruction intended to foster skilled behavior
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