Foundations of Nursing Practice

Nursing predates written history.

Florence Nightingale.

Challenged prejudices against women, elevated the status of nurses, established proper training of nurses, based nursing practice on evidence, differentiated nursing from medicine.

<p>Nursing has broadened in all areas.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Nursing is now recognized as a highly respected profession, covered a variety of health care settings, has a specific body of knowledge, ethical conduct, values research, and promotes health.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>International Council for Nurses.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Nursing encompasses autonomous and collaborative care of individuals of all ages, families, groups, and communities, sick or well in all settings.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Promotion of health, prevention of illness, and care of ill, disabled, and dying.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Advocacy, promotion of a safe environment, research, education, and participation in shaping health policy.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Standing alone; independence; right to self-determination.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Standing up for someone who is unable to make choices for themselves.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>American Nursing Association.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The protection, promotion, and optimization of health and abilities, prevention of illness and injury, and advocacy in care.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The patient.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Caring relationships, awareness of human responses, integrating objective data with subjective experience, applying scientific knowledge, learning through inquiry, promoting social justice.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To promote health, prevent illness, restore health, and facilitate coping with disability or death.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The set of intellectual, interpersonal, technical, and ethical/legal capacities needed to practice nursing.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Cognitive, technical, interpersonal, ethical/legal.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Federal government indicative guidelines for US health standards.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Prevent disease, promote health equity, create health-promoting society, and maintain quality of life.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Inequality.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Quality and Safety Education for Nurses.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Patient-centered care, teamwork and collaboration, quality improvement, safety, evidence-based practice, informatics.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Caregiver, communicator, educator, counselor, leader, researcher, advocate, collaborator.</p> Signup and view all the answers