Intro to Nursing Final
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sarahfah11 on December 11, 2011
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Florence Nightingale | Focused on environment, trained in germany, founded first training school |
| Clara Barton | Formed the American Red Cross in 1882; known as the "angel of the battlefield" |
| Famous trio of schools | bellevue; connecticut; and Boston |
| Mary Eliza Mahoney | First african american trained nurse |
| Linda Richards | first trained US nurse |
| National League of Nursing | started originally in 1893; current name in 1952 |
| ANA | formed in 1911 |
| Lillian Wald | founded Henry street settlement; cared for inner city poverty; start of Public Health Nursing |
| Mary breckenridge | 1925 Established frontier Nursing Service; was a nurse and midwife |
| Wood Hull study | 1997; looked at 20,000 articles; found that nurses are invisible |
| Johnson and Johnson | aimed to enhance nursing's future; improve image; recruit and retain nurses |
| 5 social phenomena affecting nursing | 1. Aging population 2. Rise of consumerism 3. increasing cultural diversity 4. technological advances 5. violence |
| Acute Illness | sudden often severe; may or may not have lifetime impact; coping mechanisms vary |
| Chronic Illness | often a gradual onset but then requires ongoing medical attention; rapidly growing concern in US; severity and outcomes vary |
| Stages of illness | disbelief; anger; control; depression; participation |
| Spirituality | inner strength related to belief in and sense of connectedness with a higher power |
| Family Care | role distribution; acute vs chronic illness; individual and group coping abilities; help to reduce anxiety, to increase comfort |
| Principles of adult patient learning | meet physical needs first; prior experiences can be resources; readiness to learn is often associated with a need to learn; learning environment must be conducive |
| Profession | an occupational group with a set of attitudes or behaviors |
| 3 criteria in all definitions of professions | service/altruism; specialized knowledge; autonomy/ethics |
| Henderson | 14 basic needs |
| Watson | nursing was carative medicine is curative; all about relationships |
| King | person, interpersonal relationships, and social contexts |
| Roy | adaptation to environment |
| Peplau | focused on nurse patient relationships |
| Variables | physiological; psychological; sociocultural; developmental; spiritual |
| Environments | Internal; external; created |
| Stressors | Intra-personal; inter-personal; extra-personal |
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