Kozier Chapter 1 Historical and Contemporary Nursing Practice
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Caregiver | a role that has traditionally included those activities that assist the client physically and psychologically while preserving the client's dignity |
| Case manager | a nurse who works with the multidisciplinary health care team to measure the effectiveness of the case management plan and monitor outcomes |
| Change agent | a person (or group) who initiates changes or who assists others in making modifications in themselves or in the system |
| Clara Barton | a schoolteacher who volunteered as a nurse during the Civil War. Most notably, she organized the American Red Cross, which linked with the International Red Cross when the U.S. Congress ratified the Geneva Convention in 1882 |
| Client | a person who engages the advice or services of another person who is qualified to provide this service |
| Client advocate | an individual who pleads the cause of clients' rights |
| Communicator | nurses identify client problems and then communicate these verbally or in writing to other members of the health team |
| Consumer | an individual, a group of people, or a community that uses a service or commodity |
| Counseling | the process of helping a client to recognize and cope with stressful psychologic or social problems, to develop improved interpersonal relationships, and to promote personal growth |
| Demography | the study of population, including statistics about distribution by age and place of residence, mortality, and morbidity |
| Florence Nightingale | considered the founder of modern nursing, she was influential in developing nursing education, practice, and administration |
| Governance | the establishment and maintenance of social, political, and economic arrangements by which practitioners control their practice, self-discipline, working conditions, and professional affairs |
| Harriet Tubman | known as "The Moses of Her People" for her work with the Underground Railroad. During the Civil War she nursed the sick and suffering of her own race |
| Knights of Saint Lazarus | an order of knights that dedicated themselves to the care of people with leprosy, syphilis, and chronic skin conditions |
| Lavinia L. Dock | a nursing leader and suffragist who was active in the protest movement for women's rights that resulted in the U.S. Constitution amendment allowing women to vote in 1920 |
| Leader | a person who influences others to work together to accomplish a specific goal |
| Lillian Wald | founded the Henry Street Settlement and Visiting Nurse Service which provided nursing and social services and organized educational and cultural activities. She is considered the founder of public health nursing |
| Manager | one who is appointed to a position in an organization which gives the power to guide and direct the work of others |
| Margaret Sanger | considered the founder of Planned Parenthood, was imprisoned for opening the first birth control information clinic in Baltimore in 1916 |
| Mary Breckinridge | a nurse who practiced midwivery in England, Australia, and New Zealand, founded the Frontier Nursing Service in Kentucky in 1925 to provide family-centered primary health care to rural populations |
| Patient | a person who is waiting for or undergoing medical treatment and care |
| Patient Self-Determination Act (PSDA) | legislation requiring that every competent adult be informed in writing upon admission to a health care institution about his or her rights to accept or refuse medical care and to use advance directives |
| Profession | an occupation that requires extensive education or a calling that requires special knowledge, skill, and preparation |
| Professionalism | a set of attributes, a way of life that implies responsibility and commitment |
| Professionalization | the process of becoming professional; acquiring characteristics considered to be professional |
| Sairy Gamp | a character in Dickens book, Martin Chizzlewit, who represented the negative image of nurses in the early 1800s |
| Socialization | a process by which a person learns the ways of a group or society in order to become a functioning participant |
| Sojourner Truth | an abolitionist, Underground Railroad agent, preacher, and women's rights advocate, she was a nurse for over 4 years during the Civil War and worked as a nurse and counselor for the Freedman's Relief Association after the war |
| Standards of clinical nursing practice | descriptions of the responsibilities for which nurses are accountable |
| Teacher | a nurse who helps clients learn about their health and the health care procedures they need to perform to restore or maintain their health |
| Telecommunications | The transmission of information from one site to another, using equipment to transmit information in the forms of signs, signals, words, or pictures by cable, radio, or other systems |
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