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| Florence Nightingale | During the Crimean War, trained women to care for the sick and wounded. Also cleaned wards, improved ventilation and sanitation. |
| the practical nurse | takes on the role of caregiver, educator, collaborator, and manager to accomplish the goals of nursing. |
| interventions | Actions taken to improve, maintain, or restore health or prevent illness. |
| aseptically | Without introducing infectious material. |
| Nursing theorists | Base their beliefs on the relationships amoung humans, environment, health, and nursing. |
| Evidence-based nursing | The integration of research with clinical expertise and patient values. |
| ANA | Standards of Nursing Practice |
| Nurse Practice Act | designed to protect the public, and they define the legal scope of practice. Regulated by the state board of nursing. |
| Diagnosis-related groups (DRG's) | Based on this, the hospital received a set amount of money for a patient who is hospitalized with a certain diagnosis. |
| Health maintenance organizations (HMO's) | A type of group practice, enrolls patients for a set fee per month. They provide a limited network of physicians, and hospitals to choose from. |
| disease | pathologic process that causes illness. |
| illness | disease of body or mind. |
| chronic illness | disease lasting for a long-time. |
| terminal illness | disease which there is no cure and ends in death. |
| primary illness | disease that develops without being caused by another health problem. |
| idiopathic illness | disease for which there is no known cause. |
| Stages of Illness | transition, acceptance, and convalescence. |
| self-actualized | Reaching one's full potential. |
| asymptomatic | without symptoms |
| coping | adjusting to or accepting challenges. |
| holistic | Considers biologic, psychological, sociologic, and spiritual aspects and needs of the person. |
| Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs | physiological, safety & security, love & belonging, self-esteem, and self-actualization. |
| active listening | Accurately perceiving information from another by focusing and concentrating on what they are saying. |
| homeostasis | A steady state or equilibrium. |
| accountability | Taking responsibility for one's actions or non-actions. |
| delegation | Assignment of duties to another person. |
| confidential | kept private (ie: patient information) |
| consent | A form that records a paitent's permission to perform a treatment or surgery. |
| emancipated minor | Established independence by moving away from parents or through service in the armed forces, marriage, or pregnancy. |
| advanced directive | Another name is a "living will", spells out a patient's wishes regarding treatment if becomes unconscious or uncapable of making those decisions later on. |
| DNR | Orders written by a physician when the patient has indicated a desire to be allowed to die if they stop breathing or their heart stops. |
| negligence | Failing to do something a reasonable prudent person would do. |
| assault | The threat to harm another without that person's consent. |
| battery | actual physical contact against a person's will. |
| defamation | When one person remarks about another person that are untrue, and can damage that person's reputation. |
| invasion of privacy | A violation of a professional relationship. |
| incident report | document an occurance out of the ordinary. Not a part of the patient's chart unless mentioned in nursing notes. |
| ethics | rules of conduct. |
