Chapter 1 & 2: Contemporary Nursing
The first nursing journal owned, operated, and published by nurses was: -American Journal of Nursing -Nurse Educator -Nursing Research -Standards of Clinical Nursing Practice
American Journal of Nursing Explanation: The American Journal of Nursing was first published in 1900 and was owned, operated, and published by nurses. It continues to provide information that may be of interest to nurses in all nursing specialities, and those who practice general nursing. Nurse Educator is a more recently developed journal which specializes in nursing education and targets nurse eductors. Nursing Research is also a more recently developed nursing journal with a focus on nursing research and targets nurses interested in research. Standards of Clinical Nursing Practice are directives and guidelines that may be published as books available to nurses for purchase and review. It is not a nursing journal.
Nurses who enlist their services to the military are able to do so thanks to the work of which organizer of health care? Linda Richards Florence Nightingale Theodor Fliedner Dorothea Dix
Dorothea Dix Explanation: Dorothea Dix, while not a nurse, established the Nurse Corps of the United States Army during the Civil War. Linda Richards was the first trained nurse to graduate from a nursing program. Theodor Fliedner opened the first hospital-based school of nursing, and Florence Nightingale was nursing's first professional leader.
What is the best nursing intervention to promote health in a client at risk for heart disease? -Emphasizing a client's strengths to encourage weight loss -Informing the client that the client must lose weight -Instructing the client to adhere to a high-sodium diet -Taking the client's pulse rate daily
Emphasizing a client's strengths to encourage weight loss Explanation: Nurses promote health by identifying, analyzing, and maximizing each client's own individual strengths as components of preventing illness, restoring health, and facilitating coping with disability or death. Emphasizing the client's strengths to encourage weight loss is the most effective way to promote this client's health. Informing the client that the client must lose weight would not help the client use his or her strengths to accomplish the goal. Low-sodium diets can prevent heart disease. Taking the pulse daily would not prevent heart disease.
When looking at a model for evidence-based practice, what is the final step of the process? -Evaluating practice change -Searching the literature -Appraising evidence -Formulating a clinical question
Evaluating practice change Explanation: The fifth and final step in the process of implementing evidence-based practice is to evaluate and critically appraise the change in practice. Formulating a clinical question and searching and appraising the literature precede this step.
Establishing the criteria for the education and licensure of nurses is a component of: -a state's nurse practice act. -the ANA Standards of Practice. -the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Healthy People 2020 document. -evidence-based practice.
a state's nurse practice act. Explanation: Although nurse practice acts vary from state to state, they typically specify the criteria for the education and licensure of nurses. The ANA Standards of Practice and Healthy People 2020 do not address such legal and licensure issues. The philosophy of evidence-based practice does not encompass specific criteria for educating and licensing nurses.
Evidence-based care emphasizes decision making based on the best available evidence and: -use of outcome studies to guide decisions. -evaluation by experts to direct care in specialty areas. -care based on pathophysiologic factors. -cost efficiency of treatment models.
use of outcome studies to guide decisions. Explanation: Evidence-based care emphasizes decision making based on the best available evidence and the use of outcome studies to guide decisions. The other answers do not represent the primary emphasis of evidence-based care but represent other approaches (specialty or expert knowledge, traditional medical model, and economic concerns).