nursing exam 1

ANA

American Nursing Association. Guides us in professional skills, focuses on prevention and alleviation of suffering

Forensic

SANE nursing

APRN

NP is a type of APRN and they can prescribe. Roles: educator, consultant, researcher, administrator, expert clinician

Informatics

Technology/computer nursing

RN roles

Care provider, educator, counselor, client advocate, coordinator of the inner professional health team, leader, manager, researcher, change agent,

ICN

International council of nursing. Care for the sick and well, promote safe environments, shape health POLICY.

quick history

Practical nurses, diploma schools, BSN/ADN, post-grad

First BSN program

Yale

First nursing program

University of Minnesota (diploma school)

Ethics

Altruism, autonomy, human dignity, integrity, social justice

Nurse training act 1943

1st federally funded nursing education act, signed under pres Lyndon B Johnson to help in WW2

IOM

Institute of medicine. Let us know our scope of practice, calls out big issues to improve in nursing.

Florence Nightingale

Crimean War, first nursing school in Florence. Asepsis and infection control, system for transcribing doctors orders, health documentation and stats

Healthy People

Federal project that makes 10 year broad public health goals. Promotes health in a very generalized manner, might see them doing an ad against vaping or something.

First North American hospital

Hospital of immaculate conception

First USA hospital

Pennsylvania hospital

Mary Seacole

Traveled with her own supplies to Crimea, faced the racism of nightingale, persisted and opened a house for the sick.

Harriet Tubman

Helped wounded soldiers through the Underground Railroad

Sojourner Truth

Advocate for sanitary conditions

Dorothea Dix

Teacher, provided supplies to union soldiers

Clara Barton

Founded the Red Cross

Louisa May Alcott

Wrote detailed account of nurses’ experiences. Little women author

Susie King Taylor

Known as first black army nurse, formerly enslaved child, unpaid for her work