Fundamentals: CH 1 Nursing and Health Care Environment

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- rising rates of unemployment, underemployment, and low paying jobs, mental illness, and homelessness and rising health care costs all contribute to increases in the medically underserved population
- working poor- make too much money to qualify for Medicaid and as a result do not receive any health care

Threat of Bioterrorism

- nurses are active in disaster preparedness
- activities sometimes range from participation in vaccine research, decontamination in the event of biological attack and triage for mass casualty to crisis response units

Rising Health Care Costs

- present challenges to the profession, consumer, and the health care delivery system
- responsible for providing the patient with the best-quality care in an efficient and economically sound manner

Nursing Shortage

- ongoing global nursing shortage, which results from insufficient qualified RNs to fill vacant positions and the loss of qualified RNs to other professions

ANA standards of nursing practice

2. Diagnosis: RN analyzes the assessment data to determine the diagnoses or issues
9. Evidence-Based Practice and Research: the registered nurse integrates evidence and research findings into practice

Scope and Standards of Practice

-ANA has documenting the scope of nursing and developing standards of practice

Code of Ethics

philosophical ideals of right and wrong that define the principles you will use to provide care to your patients
- important for you to also incorporate your own values and ethics into your practice

Fundamentals: CH 1 Nursing and Health Care Environment

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