NUR2058 Dimensions in Nursing Practice Final Exam Concept Guide
Module 1 – Professional Nursing: History, Roles, Scope, and Standards of Practice
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Nursing Now Chapters, 2, 4, 5
Quality and Safety Educating for Nurses (QSEN): (Chapter 4, pg 75; pg 390) is the process of
developing a framework for nursing schools; curriculum. Guidelines for what is taught in schools.
Client-centered Care
Teamwork and collaboration
Evidence-based Practice (EBP)
Quality Improvement (QI)
Safety
Informatics
Nurse Practice Acts: (Pg 100) is state legislation regulating the practice of nurses; defines scope of
practice and makes nurses accountable for their actions.
Establishes State Boards of Nursing (SBNs)
Defines SBN powers regarding practice within state
Rules written by SBNs become statutory law
Defines Scope of Practice for nurses
Ruling on who uses RN and LPN/LVN
Sets up application procedure for state licensure
Determines fees for licensure
Establishes requirements for renewal of licensure
Determines responsibility for any regulations governing expanded practice for nurses in that
state
American Nurses Association: (pg 9) concerned with the quality of nursing practice in the daily healthcare setting.
Reason for lack of power: less than 10% of all nurses are members at the national level
Gives modern definition of nursing (pg 20): Nursing is the protection, promotion, and
optimization of clients’ health and abilities, the prevention of disease and illness..
Board of Nursing:
Confidentiality: (pg188) Right of the client to expect the communication with a professional to remain
unshared with any other person unless a medical reason exists or unless the safety of the public is
threatened.
Florence Nightingale: (pg 30) (1820-1910) viewed as person who elevated nursing to the status of a
profession.
Lady with a Lamp
She introduced the concept of research.
Impact of Wars on Nursing: (pg22-25)
Case Management: (pg 81) holds health-care services together across practitioners, agencies, funding
sources, locations, and times. Refers to method of coordinating care with an individual client or on a
system-wide basis.
Professional Organizations
Module 2 – Professionalism in Nursing
Nursing Now Chapters 1, 17
Professional Nursing Organizations: national nursing organizations need the participation of all nurses
in order to claim that they are truly representative of the profession. Allows the membership to speak
with one voice when making values about health care issues.
Code of Ethics: (pg9) a written list of a profession’s values and standards of conduct. RN’s often face
ethical dilemmas which require an individual to make a choice between two equally unfavorable
alternatives.
Registered Nurse: (pg10) scope of practice is admission assessment, iv meds, blood products, care plans,
client teaching, unstable clients, and acute diseases. Must perform the history and physicals.
Licensed Practical Nurse: scope is vital signs, uncomplicated skills, chronic diseases, oral and IM,
and medications.
Unlicensed Assistive Personnel (UAP): CNA, monitor techs, PCT… scope of practice for CNA -
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