Nursing roles
STUDY GUIDE FOR UNITS 1-3
1. Evolution of Practical Nursing: Chapter 1
a. What main contribution to nursing are attributed to each period?
b. What contributed most to African-Americans’ involvement in nursing? The Civil War, beginning in 1861
c. What were Florence Nightingale’s and Mary Seacole’s specific contributions?
2. The Image of Nursing: Chapter 2
a. How has it changed over the decades?
b. What is the public’s perception of nurses and nursing?
c. What is the new image that nursing is attempting to create about the profession?
3. Trends in Nursing Education and Licensure/Certification: Chapter 3-4
a. Know the different tracks available in nursing education: 2 year AND, 3 year diploma, BSN, MSN, Advanced nursing..
b. What does each different type of education prepare the nurse for?
c. What is credentialing all about? How does a nurse become certified and with whom?
d. How does a nurse demonstrate/achieve competency?
e. What is incivility in the nursing profession and education? What does it look like? What impact does it have on the education process?
4. Nursing Theories: Chapter 5
a. What is a mode-hypothesis-construct-variable?
b. Review the following theorists and their nursing theories (not all are in your book) i. Martha Rodgers- Science of unitary human beings ii. Dorothea Orem- Developed a theory of self-care iii. Hildegard Peplau- Developed a theory that addresses the interpersonal relationship between the nurse and the patient iv. Madeleine Leininger- Developed a theory to assist nurses in providing culturally-competent nursing care v. Myra Levine- Developed the conservational theory vi. Jean Watson- Developed theory of human caring/caring science vii. Merle Mishel- Developed the theory of uncertainty in illness viii. Florence Nightingale- First nurse to develop nursing research ix. Sr. Calista Roy- developed the adaptation model of nursing, a prominent nursing theory
5. LegalEthical Issues
1. Evolution of Practical Nursing: Chapter 1
a. What main contribution to nursing are attributed to each period?
b. What contributed most to African-Americans’ involvement in nursing? The Civil War, beginning in 1861
c. What were Florence Nightingale’s and Mary Seacole’s specific contributions?
2. The Image of Nursing: Chapter 2
a. How has it changed over the decades?
b. What is the public’s perception of nurses and nursing?
c. What is the new image that nursing is attempting to create about the profession?
3. Trends in Nursing Education and Licensure/Certification: Chapter 3-4
a. Know the different tracks available in nursing education: 2 year AND, 3 year diploma, BSN, MSN, Advanced nursing..
b. What does each different type of education prepare the nurse for?
c. What is credentialing all about? How does a nurse become certified and with whom?
d. How does a nurse demonstrate/achieve competency?
e. What is incivility in the nursing profession and education? What does it look like? What impact does it have on the education process?
4. Nursing Theories: Chapter 5
a. What is a mode-hypothesis-construct-variable?
b. Review the following theorists and their nursing theories (not all are in your book) i. Martha Rodgers- Science of unitary human beings ii. Dorothea Orem- Developed a theory of self-care iii. Hildegard Peplau- Developed a theory that addresses the interpersonal relationship between the nurse and the patient iv. Madeleine Leininger- Developed a theory to assist nurses in providing culturally-competent nursing care v. Myra Levine- Developed the conservational theory vi. Jean Watson- Developed theory of human caring/caring science vii. Merle Mishel- Developed the theory of uncertainty in illness viii. Florence Nightingale- First nurse to develop nursing research ix. Sr. Calista Roy- developed the adaptation model of nursing, a prominent nursing theory
5. LegalEthical Issues