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Who is Florence Nightingale?

Founder of modern nursing

What did Florence Nightingale do?

Insisted on better hygiene infield hospitals and founded the first school of nursing

What did Florence Nightingale do for the Crimean War?

Reduced mortality rates by improving sanitation measures

What is the Nightingale Fund?

Promotes nurse training and used to establish the first Nightingale School of Nursing in London

What is the Nightingale Model?

A standard for proper education and supervision of nurses in practice

What did Florence Nightingale advocate for?

Health of people, health care reformation, and education preparation for nursing

What is the Victorian Order of Nurses?

Signified a professional standard of education for Canadian nurses that recognized the need for altruism, compassion, and nursing knowledge

What are the Sisters of Charity (Grey Nuns)?

Pledged their lives to help the poor and sick with home visits. Established the first surgical hospital for women.

Who formed Sisters of Charity?

Marguerite d'Youville

Who was the first woman to provide nursing care?

Marie Rollet Hebert

What was the first Canadian hospital?

Hotel-Dieu-Quebec

Who is Jeanne Mance?

She was the only one with healthcare knowledge in the settlement. She recruited settlers and nuns to help with the hospital. She was the founder of Montreal.

What did Jeanne Mance do?

She provided nursing care for wounded villagers and aboriginal people.

What is the first hospital diploma school?

St. Catherine's Training School

Who is Mary Agnes Snively?

Director of Nursing School at Toronto General Hospital and

Founder of Canadian Nurses Association.

What did Mary Agnes Snively do?

Established the first nursing student residence and a proper curriculum

What were the ICN's goals?

Professional welfare of nurses, interests of women, and improvement of people's health

What was the first Canadian undergraduate nursing degree program?

UBC

Who is Sister Simone Roach?

Told to develop a code of ethics

What is professionalism in nursing?

Behaviours, skills, and attributes required or expected of members of the a profession.

How do nurses show professionalism?

Providing quality care to patients through a commitment to profession-led regulation, professional ethics, personal health, fitness to practice, legal, and ethical dimensions to nursing

What does the BCCNM do?

Sets standards of practice, limits, and conditions related to the scope of practice.

Who does the BCCNM serve?

Public

Who does the BCCNM get its authority from?

Health Professions Act

What does the BCCNM do for nurses?

Gives us registration

Who does the BCCNM regulate?

Licensed Practical Nurses, Psychiatric Nursing, Registered Nurses, Nurse Practitioners, Midwives

What are BCCNM's standards?

Professional standards, practice standards, scope of practice standards, and limits and conditions

What do BCCNM's professional standards do?

Framework for nursing practice in BC. Describes the minimal level of performance required to provide safe, competent, and ethical care.

What do BCCNM's practice standards do?

Provide further direction by outlining principles and requirements related to specific aspects of nursing practice

What do BCCNM's scope of practice standards do?

Articulates activities that RNs are educated and authorized to perform.

What do BCCNM's limits and conditions do?

Assist nurses to provide safe, competent, and ethical care by setting these requirements for practice

What are BCCNM's functions?

Sets requirements for registration, recognizes education programs, establishes and monitors standards of practice and ethics, establishes and employs registration inquiries, promotes and collaborates relations with other organizations to enhance interprofessional practice

What does BCNU do?

Acts on behalf of workers and secures salary, benefits, and working conditions.

Who does BCNU serve?

Nurses

What does the CNA do?

Deals with broad issues in nursing and holds the code of ethics. They are the liaison with nursing as a profession and the government.

What does the NNPBC do?

Acts on behalf of nursing, advances the profession, and influences health and social policy.

What does the ICN do?

Works to ensure nursing quality care, sounds health policies globally, and advances nursing knowledge. Operated by nurses worldwide.

What does the CNPS do?

Protects you as a nurse and offers legal advice, risk management services, legal assistance, and professional liability protection to nurses.

What are the Professional Nursing Standards?

1. Professional Responsibility and Accountability

2. Knowledge-Based Practice

3. Client-Focused Provision of Service

4. Ethical Practice

What does Standard 1: Professional Responsibility and Accountability mean?

Maintain standards of nursing practice and professional conduct determined by BCCNM.

What does Standard 2: Knowledge-Based Practice mean?

Practicing within your own scope of practice. Understanding your limits.

What does Standard 3: Client-Focused Provision of Service mean?

Acting in the client's best interest, putting the client at the centre of care. Providing care that is holistic, not only looking at physical needs but looking at all dynamics.

What does Standard 4: Ethical Practice mean?

Maintaining client dignity. Acting within the code of ethics.

What is the CNA Code of Ethics?

1. Providing safe, compassionate, competent, and ethical care.

2. Promoting health and well-being.

3. Promoting and respecting informed decision-making.

4. Honouring dignity

5. Maintain privacy and confidentiality

6. Promoting justice

7. Being accountable

What is the Health Professions Act?

Authority that BCCNM must hold nurses to a particular standard. Gives BCCNM its mandate to govern nursing progression.

What are the controls of practice?

1. Individual Nurse Competence: commitment to keeping skills and knowledge current.

2. Employer Policies: processes, policies, and procedures to ensure RNs meet standards of practice.

3. BCCNM Standards, Limits, and Conditions define regulations and develop standards, limits, and conditions to help RNs in practice.

4. Regulation/Legislation

Who can use reserved titles?

Any one who is registered with BCCNM and given the permission

What is the title for a student nurse?

SN

What is the title for a new grad?

RN (P)

What is the title for employed student nurse?

ESN or SN

What is the title for a licensed graduate nurse?

LGN

What is the title for a registered nurse with certified practice?

RN-C

What does section 6 state?

Restricted activities that do not require an order

What does section 7 state?

Restricted activities that do require an order

What are restricted activities that need an order?

Require an order from a listed health care professional and must be authorized to perform or provide the activity.

1. Procedures below body surface

2. Administering substances

3. Putting items into body openings

4. Putting substances into ears

5. Hazardous forms of energy

6. Medications

7. Allergy testing and treatment

What are restricted activities that don't need an order?

Part of general nursing practice.

1. Diagnosis

2. Wound care

3. Intravenous

4. Inhalation

5. Instillation and injection

6. Assessing clients and treating conditions

7. Managing labour

8. Hazardous forms of energy

9. Ordering the application of energy

10. Medications

11. Prescribing medications

12. Therapeutic diets

What are non-restricted activities?

Fundamental to nursing practice and are included in the scope of practice.

1. Assisting clients with ADLs

2. Carrying out an electrocardiogram

3. Communicating appropriately with clients

4. Collaborating with others on the healthcare team

5. Coordinating care services for clients

6. Counselling clients

7. Develop professional relationships with clients

8. Documenting timely, accurate repots

9. Managing or applying physical restraints

10. Mentoring and preceptoring

11. Planning client care