Nursing Professional Roles and Values Flashcards

Vocabulary flashcards focusing on core nursing professional values, CNO competency roles, patterns of knowing, attributes of empathy, and professional undervaluation.

Seven Core Nursing Professional Values

The core ethical responsibilities outlined by Mallette & Yonge (2022), which include providing safe/competent care, promoting health, respecting informed decision-making, honouring dignity, maintaining privacy, promoting justice, and being accountable.

Personal Values

Values developed from early childhood that form part of an individual's self-concept and may occasionally conflict with professional contexts.

Professional Values

Values that develop through socialization into the nursing profession and require ethical reasoning and decision-making when challenged.

Clinician Role

The CNO competency role in which registered nurses provide safe, competent, ethical, compassionate, and evidence-informed care across the lifespan based on client needs.

Trauma-Informed Care

A practice approach that prioritizes safety, choice, and control to minimize re-traumatization during clinical assessments and care.

Risk Mitigation

The process of anticipating actual or potential health risks and responding immediately to client deterioration and safety events.

Communicator Role

The CNO competency role where registered nurses use varied strategies and technologies to create professional relationships, share information, and foster therapeutic environments.

Relational Practice

A method of communication in which nurses consciously adapt their interaction based on emotional, cultural, and situational contexts.

Collaborator Role

The CNO competency role where registered nurses play an integral part in healthcare team partnerships by integrating diverse scopes of practice.

Coordinator Role

The CNO competency role in which registered nurses organize point-of-care service delivery with clients, team members, and other sectors to ensure continuous and safe care.

Leader Role

The CNO competency role in which registered nurses influence and inspire others to achieve optimal health outcomes for all.

Quality Improvement (QI)

A continuous leadership process integrating plan, implement, evaluate, and reflect principles directly into daily clinical practice.

Cultural Safety

The practice of consciously creating respectful engagement and actively striving to address inherent power imbalances in healthcare settings.

Advocate Role

The CNO competency role where registered nurses support clients to voice their needs or represent clients who are unable to advocate for themselves.

Substitute Decision-Makers (SDM)

Individuals recognized under legal and regulatory standards to give consent on behalf of clients who are unable to provide informed consent.

Educator Role

The CNO competency role in which registered nurses identify learning needs with clients and apply educational strategies toward achieving optimal health outcomes.

Teach-Back Evaluation

A research-validated health literacy technique where the nurse verifies client understanding of clinical instructions by asking 'could you show me…?' rather than 'do you understand?'.

Scholar Role

The CNO competency role in which registered nurses demonstrate lifelong commitment to excellence through critical inquiry, continuous learning, and applying evidence to practice.

Cultural Humility

Self-reflection practiced by scholars to understand personal biases and humbly learn about others' lived experiences.

Informatics

The field integrating nursing science, information, and communication technology to optimize patient outcomes and manage electronic health records securely.

Personal Knowing

A pattern of knowing described by Carper & Chinn that is subjective, concrete, and relational, requiring self-awareness to recognize and check biases.

Aesthetic Knowing

A pattern of knowing described by Carper & Chinn as the 'art of nursing', connecting humanistic elements with scientific care.

Ethical Knowing

A pattern of knowing that confronts moral aspects of care, such as right vs. wrong, professional codes of conduct, and client autonomy.

Empirical Knowing

A pattern of knowing based on verifiable data, scientific laws, and logical reasoning to provide rationale for clinical interventions.

Emancipatory Knowing

A pattern of knowing that emphasizes awareness of social problems and social justice issues as determinants of health disparities.

Cognitive Attribute of Empathy

An attribute of empathy involving entering another's unique frame of reference and setting aside personal perceptions through deep listening.

Affective Attribute of Empathy

An attribute of empathy involving objective awareness of client thoughts, feelings, and distress while maintaining professional separateness.

Communicative Attribute of Empathy

An attribute of empathy involving conveying perceived understanding back to the client so they feel heard, validated, and secure.

Professional Undervaluation

The systemic oversight of nursing leadership and decision-making abilities driven by misconceptions, stereotypes, historical hierarchies, and financial invisibility.

CNO Registered Nurse Competency Framework

A practice framework defined by nine core nursing roles surrounding the client as the central focus.