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The need for university-based nursing education programs was brought to light during which important historical time?
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WWII
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Training schools for nurses were established in the United States after the Civil War. The standards of U.S. schools deviated from those of the Nightingale paradigm. Which of the following statements is true about U.S. training schools?
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Training schools eliminated the need to pay employees.
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What guidelines do nurses follow to identify the patient's health care needs and strengths, to establish and carry out a plan of care to meet those needs, and to evaluate the effectiveness of the plan to meet established outcomes?
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Nursing process
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The nursing process is one of the major guidelines for nursing practice. Nurses implement their roles through the nursing process. The nursing process is used by the nurse to identify the patient's health care needs and strengths, to establish and carry out a plan of care to meet those needs, and to evaluate the effectiveness of the plan to meet established outcomes.
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Question: Organize these events in chronological order, beginning with the earliest (1) and ending with the most recent (5).
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During the Crusades, religious orders provided nursing care to the sick.
Florence Nightingale administers care to British soldiers during the Crimean War. Clara Barton organized the American Red Cross. Mary Elizabeth Mahoney graduated from the New --England Hospital for Women and Children in 1879 as America’s first African American nurse. -Margaret Sanger advocated for contraception and family planning in the United States. |
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The nurse has paged a patient's primary care physician because the patient's potassium level this morning is 2.6 mEq/L, a value that the nurse recognizes as a significant threat to the patient's cardiac health. What has the nurse enacted?
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Cognitive skills
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Which of the following organizations is the best source of information when a nurse wishes to determine whether an action is within the scope of nursing practice?
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American Nurses Association (ANA) The ANA produces the 2003 Nursing: Scope and Standards of Practice, which defines the activities specific and unique to nursing. |
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The AACN
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Addresses educational standards
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NLN
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promotes and fosters various aspects of nursing.
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ICN
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Provides a venue for national nursing organizations to collaborate, but does not define standards and scope of practice.
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During the Christian era, nursing care excluded which area?
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Psychiatric services
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A nurse receives an x-ray report on a newly admitted patient suspected of having a fractured tibia. The nurse contacts the physician to report the findings. What role is the nurse engaged in?
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Communicator
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A student is choosing her educational path and desires a nursing degree with a track that contains community nursing and leadership, as well as liberal arts. The student would best be suited in which type of program?
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Baccalaureate program
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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services document Healthy People 2010 establishes guidelines aimed at increasing the quality and years of healthy life for Americans as well as eliminating health disparities. What do these goals represent important components of?
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Health promotion
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The Nurse Corps of the United States Army was established by whom?
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Dorothea Dix
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During the clinical rotation, a nurse documents the vital signs of a client on the bedside chart. What role is the nurse playing in such a situation?
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Communicator
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