assessment - nurse collects comprehensive data to pertinent to the patient's health and/or the situation
diagnosis - nurse analyzes the assessment data
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accountability - responsible professionally and legally for the type and quality of nursing provided, ability to answer for one's own actions
caregiver - Helps patients maintain and regain health, manage disease and symptoms, and attain a maximal level of function and independence through the healing process
patient advocate - you protect your patient's human and legal rights and provide assistance in asserting these rights if the need arises
educator - you explain concepts and facts about health, describe the reason for routine care activities, demonstrate procedures such as self-care activities, reinforce learning or patient behavior, and evaluate the patient's progress in learning
communicator - essential to the nurse-patient relationship; it allows you to know your patients including their strengths, weaknesses, and needs
manager - Coordinates the activities of members of the nursing staff in delivering nursing care and has personnel, policy, and budgetary responsibility for a specific nursing unit or agency
Florence Nightingale - Established sanitary nursing care units. Founder of modern nursing. began professional education of nursing.
Clara Barton - Nurse during the Civil War; founder of the American Red Cross
Mother Bickerdyke - organized ambulance services and walked abandoned battlefields at night, looking for wounded soldiers.
Mary Mahoney - First professionally trained African American nurse; brought cultural diversity and respect
Lillian Wald and Mary Brewster - Opened the Henry Street Settlement, focusing on the health needs of the poor
Mary Nutting - First Nursing professor at Columbia Teachers College.
Helped move nursing into universities.
health - A state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being, not merely the absence of disease or infirmity
health beliefs - person's ideas, convictions, and attitudes about health and illness. They may be based on factual information or misinformation, common sense or myths, or reality or false expectations
positive health behaviors - activities related to maintaining, attaining, or regaining good health and preventing illness
negative health behaviors - include practices actually or potentially harmful to health
health promotion model focuses on which 3 areas - (1) individual characteristics and experiences
(2) behavior-specific knowledge and effect
(3) behavioral outcomes, in which the patient commits to or changes a behavior
health promoting behavior - the desired behavioral outcome and the end point in the [Show Less]