NUR 201 Test 4
- Historical Perspectives on Nursing
Answer caregivers for the ill and injured have always been a part of history. The roles, settings, and responsibilities, however, have changed over time.
- Lilian Wald
Answer Established a neighborhood nursing service for the sick and poor of the lower east side in New York City, the founder of public health nursing.
- Dorthea Dix
Answer Served as a superintendent of the Female Nurses of the Army during the civil war, was given the authority and the responsibility for recruiting and equipping a corps of army nurses, was a pioneering crusader for the reform of the treatment of the mentally ill.
- Florence Nightingale
Answer Defined nursing as both an art and a science, differentiated nursing from medicine, created freestanding nursing education, published books about nursing and health care, is regarded as the founder of modern nursing.
- Florence Nightingale contributions to nursing
Answer Identifying personal needs of patients & role of the Nurse in meeting those needs.
Establishing standards for hospital management. Establishing a respected occupation for women. Establishing nursing education.
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health & illness. Believing that nursing is separate and distinct from medicine. Recognizing that nutrition is important to health.
Instituting occupational and recreational therapy for sick people. Stressing the need for continuing education for nurses.Maintaining accurate records, recognized as the beginnings of nursing research.
- Definition of Nursing
Answer Originated from the Latin word nutrix (to nourish)
a person who nourish's ,fosters and protects take care of sick, injured, dying or aging individuals.
- The International Council of Nurses ( ICN)
Answer promoting national associations of nurses, improving standards of nursing practice, seeking a higher status for nurses, and providing an international power base for nurses.
- Nursing includes
Answer Promotion of health, prevention of illness, and care of ill, disabled, and dying people.Encompasses autonomous and collaborative care of individuals of all ages, families, groups, and communities, sick or well and in all settings.
Advocacy, promotion of safe environment, research, participation in shaping health policy and in patient and health systems management, and education are also key nursing roles.
- Four broad aims of nursing practice in the definition of nursing
- Promote health.
Answer
- Prevent illness.
- Restore health.
- Facilitate coping with disability or death.
- To meet the aims the nurse must use four blended competencies
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