Chapter 1

Question 1

How is nursing both a science and an art?

Answer 1

• Caring, compassion = art

- Knowledge, skills = science

Question 2

Standards of Practice

Answer 2

• Ethics, quality of practice, professional practice evaluation
• Guides nurses to make significant and visible contributions that improve the health/wellness of all individuals, communities, and populations
• Competent level of nursing care
• Use critical thinking and nursing process to make clinical decisions

Question 3

ANA Code of Ethics

Answer 3

• Philosophical ideals of right and wrong
• Nurses held to certain standards/expectations (carry out responsibilities and obligations in a professional manner)
• Quality care for every patient
• Advocate for all patients

Question 4

What are the 9 provisions of the code of ethics?

Answer 4

1. Nurses practice with compassion, respect, dignity, worth, and uniqueness
2. Our primary commitment is to the patient
3. The nurse is a patient advocate protecting the patients
4. The nurse has authority, is accountable, and takes responsibility
5. The nurse owes the same duty to self as is given to others (personal growth and development)
6. The nurse seeks to create, maintain, and improve the ethical environment
7. Nurses advance our profession (research, scholarly inquiry, developing and implementing professional practice standards)
8. The nurse collaborates to protect human rights and reduce health disparity
9. Through professional organizations nursing values and the integrity of the profession is maintained

Question 5

What are the 6 professional roles of a nurse?

Answer 5

1. Autonomy and accountability
2. Caregiver
3. Advocate
4. Educator
5. Communicator
6. Manager

Question 6

What were the major contributions to the nursing profession from Florence Nightingale?

Answer 6

• Established the nursing profession (respect)
• Improved hospitals and nursing education
• Sanitization and hand washing

Question 7

What is QSEN and what are the 6 competencies it requires?

Answer 7

• Quality and Safety Education for Nurses
  1. Patient-centered care
  2. Teamwork and collaboration
  3. Evidence-based practice
  4. Quality improvement
  5. Safety
  6. Informatics

Question 8

What are the 4 goals of Healthy People 2020?

Answer 8

1. Attain high-quality, longer lives free of preventable disease, disability, injury, and premature death
2. Achieve health equity, eliminate disparities, and improve the health of all groups
3. Create social and physical environments that promote good health for all
4. Promote quality of life, healthy development, and healthy behaviors across all life stages