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What is the Aim of Nursing
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A profession that uses specialized knowledge & skills to promote wellness, prevent illness, and to provide care for individuals in health and illness.
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What essential competencies in providing safe Nursing care do nurses use?
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Cognitive skills (have to think), technical skills (have to do-performance of skills), Interpersonal skills (have to care & communicate) and ethical/legal skills(have to value & obey the rules).
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What is critical thinking?
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Process that challenges the nurse to interpret & evaluate info/data to derive judgements. Organizing info,picking out relevant info, judgements made on rationale rather than on prejudice,preference,self interest or fear.
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What is the basis of the conceptual framework of the ACC ADN program
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Organizing framework. The individual who is apart of a family & or community is the center of the framework. Individuals have needs. Nursing assists the individuals to meet their needs.
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How does the ANA define nursing
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American Nurses Association. ANA defines nursing as one who focuses on human experiences and responses to birth,health,illness, and death with in the context of indivuals, families, groups and communities.
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What are five essential competencies that nurses use to provide safe care.
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Cognitive skills
Technical skills/ Psychomotor skills Interpersonal skills Ethical Legal skills |
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What is Cognitive skills?
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Nurses who use critical thinking to solve patient problems & meet their needs creatively. have to think!
Picking out relevant information Judgments are made—based on reason and rationale rather than on prejudice, preference, self-interest, or fear. |
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What are technical/psychomotor skills
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have to do –performance of skills.
Creatively adapt equipment & Technical procedure to needs of patients in diverse circumstances. use psychomotor skills to provide care & meet needs of patients. Use technical equp. with competence & ease to achieve goals with minimal distress to patient. |
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What are interpersonal skills?
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have to care and communicate.
Communicates with the patient, family & members of the health care team. Use interactions with patients, significant others & colleagues to promote human dignity & respect. Elict personal strengths & abilities of pts to achieve health goals & establish caring relationships. |
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What are Ethical & Legal skills?
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have to value and obey the rules.
Nurses conduct themselves in a manner w/ their personal moral code & professional role. Nurses are trusted to act in ways that advance interests of pts. They are accountable for their own practice. |
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What does it mean that nursing is a profession?
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A professional organization is one that sets standards for practice & education. Nursing is a well defined body of specific and unique knowledge, strong service orientation, recognize authority by a professional group, code of ethics, professional organization that sets standards, ongoing research & autonomy.
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What does it mean that nurses need to exhibit professionalism?
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Being professional means being accountable & responsible for our own actions.
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What is the major focus of the following professional nursing organizations?
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American Nurses Association – ANA
National League of Nursing – NLN The Joint Commission - TJC National Council Licensure Examination – NCLEX Quality and Safety in Education in Nursing - QSEN |
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What is the NLN?
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National league of Nursing. It is an organization open to all people interested in Nursing, including nurses, non nurses, & agencies. Its objective is to foster the development & improvement of all nursing services & nursing education,. It is an accreditation agency for nursing schools.
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What is the TJC?
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The Joint Commission. Defines the national patient safety goals.
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What is the NCLEX?
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National Council Licensure examination. IT provides the licensing examination for nurses.
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What is the QSEN?
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Quality and Safety in Education in Nursing. Overall goal is to address the challenge of preparing future nurses with the knowledege, skills & attitudes necessary to improve the quality & safety of health care.
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How does the Nurse Practice Act legally guide nursing practice?
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The nurse practice acts are laws established in each state in the US to regulate the practice of nursing. The board of nursing for each state has the legal authority to allow graduates of approved schools of Nursing to take the licensing exam. They can exclude untrained or unlicensed people from practicing nursing. They make & enforce rules & regulations for nurses. They define the legal scope of nursing practice for a state.
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What does it mean that nurses function only in their legal “Scope of Practice”?
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Each nurse is held legally responsible & account5able for meeting the standards of nursing practice. Never act beyond your "Scope of Practice"
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How do the nurse’s personal values impact nursing care
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Your values will impact your judgement on a day to day basis. At the end of the day you have to do whats right in the interest of the patient.
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What is nursing ethics? What is the purpose of the nursing code of ethics?
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Is a subset of bioethics, is the formal study of ethical issues that arise in the practice of nursing & of the analysis used by nurses to make ethical judgements. The purpose for the code of ethics for nurses is it is a statement of the ethical obligations & duties of every individual who enters the nursing profession. It is the professions non negotiable ethical standard.
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what is code of ethics?
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Is a set of principles that reflect the primary goals, values & obligations of the profession. The ultimate ethical responsibility for professional practice of nursing and nursing skills lies with YOU, as an the individual nurse
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What are the five steps of the nursing process?
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Assessing
Diagnoses Planning Implementation Evaluation |
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What are examples of Assesing in the nursing process?
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Assess the patient to determine the need for nursing care. Collect data, validate data & organize data.
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What are examples of Diagnoses in the nursing process?
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For actual & potential health problems. You analyze data & formulate a diagnosis.
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What are examples of Planning in the nursing process?
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Identify expected outcomes & plan care. Develop a holistic plan of individualized care that specifies the desired goals & related outcomes & the nursing interventions most likely to assist the pt to meet those outcomes. Establish goals & Develop outcome criteria
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What are examples of Implementation in the nursing process?
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Carry out the plan/perform skills. Execute the plan of care.
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What are examples of Evaluation in the nursing process?
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Evaluate the effectiveness of the plan of care in terms of patient goal achievement. Reassess/revise, terminate goal if met.
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ACC has developed an assessment tool know as “PERSON”. What does PERSON stand for?
What are examples of data collected within each of these |
P-Psychosocial needs (what is the patients psychological state, are they interacting with you, how is the behavior. mood, attention spans, need for meds?
E-Elimination needs. Do you need to cath a patient, have they had any bm today, is pt incontinet? R- Rest,regulatory, reproductive needs. Rest patterns. S-safety needs. Restraints, casts. O-Oxygenation needs. All vital signs, circulation, breathing patterns. N-Nutritional needs. What is the pts diet. What foods do they prefer? |
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What is the correct process / steps included when entering a patient’s room
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Look at orders, gather equipment, handwashing and PPE. Knock on door and state your name. Ask pt name & DOB and check MRN. Ask for any allergies. State why you are there.
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How do you introduce yourself?
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Hi I am Rochelle an ACC Nursing Student.
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What National Patient Goal is related to patient identification?
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The purpose of the National Safety goal is to improve pt safety. The Goals focus on problems in health care safety & how to solve them.
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What are the two main identifiers used to identify a patient? If a patient is unconscious, how would you identify the patient?
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Patient name or dob & mrn # If Patient is unconscious you would ask the family member who is their with them.
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What are the steps included in exiting a room? What are the 4 “P’s
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Pain
Potty position possessions Verbalize to patient you are leaving. |
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What are the six components of the infection cycle?
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Infectious agent
Reservoirs Portal of Exit Means of transmission Portal of entry Suceptible host |
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What are transmission barriers used to decrease spread of pathogens and break the chain of infection
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Transmission-based precautions—used in addition to standard precautions for patients with suspected infection. Used for Patients with suspected infection with a pathogen that can be transmitted by airborne, droplet, or contact routes.
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What is the difference between medical asepsis and surgical asepsis
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Medical asepsis includes proc
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