Ch01 The Nature Of Nursing Key Terms Nursing Fundamentals Bernardxb

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Caregiver

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a role that has traditionally included those activities that assist the client physically and psychologically

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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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Clara Barton

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"a schoolteacher who volunteered as a nurse during the Civil War. Most notably, she organized the American Red Cross, which linked with the International Red Cross when the U.S. Congress ratified the Geneva Convention in 1882"

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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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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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Consumer

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

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Continuing education (CE)

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formalized experiences designed to enlarge the knowledge or skills of practitioners

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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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Credentialing

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"the process of determining and maintaining competence in practice; includes licensure, registration, certification, and accreditation"

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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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Dorothea Dix

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woman leader who provided nursing care during the Civil War

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Fabiola

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a wealthy Roman matron; viewed by some as the patron saint of early nursing who used her position and wealth to establish hospitals for the sick

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Florence Nightingale

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"considered the founder of modern nursing, she was influential in developing nursing education, practice, and administration"

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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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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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In-service education

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education that is designed to upgrade the knowledge or skills of employees

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Knights of Saint Lazarus

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"an order of knights that dedicated themselves to the care of people with leprosy, syphilis, and chronic skin conditions"

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Lavinia L. Dock

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a nursing leader and suffragist who was active in the protest movement for women's rights that resulted in the U.S. Constitution amendment allowing women to vote in 1920

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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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Lillian Wald

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"founder of the Henry Street Settlement and Visiting Nurse Service, which provided nursing and social services and organized educational and cultural activities; considered the founder of public health nursing"

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Linda Richards

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America's first trained nurse

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Manager

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

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Margaret Higgins Sanger

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"considered the founder of Planned Parenthood, was imprisoned for opening the first birth control information clinic in Baltimore in 1916"

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Mary Breckinridge

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"a nurse who practiced midwivery 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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Mary Mahoney

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first African American professional nurse

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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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Patient Self-Determination Act (PSDA)

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legislation requiring that every competent adult be informed in writing on 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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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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Professionalism

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

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Professionalization

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

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Sairy Gamp

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a character in the Charles Dickens book Martin Chizzlewit who represented the negative image of nurses in the early 1800s

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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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Sojourner Truth

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"an abolitionist, Underground Railroad agent, preacher, and women's rights advocate, she was a nurse for more than 4 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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Standards of Practice

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descriptions of the responsibilities for which nurses are accountable

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Standards of Professional Performance

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"as set by the American Nurses Association (ANA), describe behaviors expected in the professional nursing role"

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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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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"