Study 1 Nursing Roles and Professional Foundations with 12 free online flashcards. Review key terms, definitions, and concepts with this interactive flashcard deck.
What defines nursing as a profession?
Nursing is a person-centered, evidence-informed profession that combines caring, knowledge, critical thinking, and clinical judgment to promote health, prevent illness and injury, reduce suffering, and support healing.
How do scope of practice and standards of practice differ?
Scope of practice sets the boundaries of activities a nurse is authorized and prepared to perform. Standards of practice describe competent performance within those boundaries.
What must a nurse consider when delegating a task?
When delegating, a nurse considers law and policy, the other person's training and competence, communicates expectations, and provides appropriate oversight.
What does the nurse's advocate role involve?
An advocate supports a person's rights, dignity, informed choices, and access to appropriate care, and raises concerns when safety or preferences are not being addressed.
What does person-centered care take into account?
Person-centered care treats the patient as a whole person and active partner, considering health needs alongside preferences, values, lived experience, culture, supports, resources, and circumstances.
What are the five steps of the nursing process?
The nursing process is assess, identify needs or problems, plan, implement, and evaluate. It is ongoing: new information or a change in condition may require reassessment.
What is clinical judgment in nursing?
Clinical judgment is the reasoning used to interpret assessment findings, determine what matters most, choose an appropriate action, and evaluate its effect.
What is professional identity in nursing?
Professional identity is a developing understanding of what it means to think and act as a nurse, shaped by education, practice, reflection, relationships, and continuing development.
Which values does ethical nursing practice respect?
Ethical nursing practice respects human dignity, autonomy, privacy, and confidentiality; it supports informed decisions and fair, respectful care.
How can nurses contribute to safety and quality?
Nurses contribute to safety by following appropriate procedures, recognizing changing risks, reporting unsafe conditions and near misses, and helping improve systems of care.
What factors shape a nurse's legal scope of practice?
A nurse's legal scope depends on jurisdictional law and regulations, education, licensure, competence, role, and practice setting.
Does a customary workplace task automatically fit every nurse's scope?
A customary workplace task is not automatically legally or professionally appropriate for every nurse; practice must remain within the nurse's authorization and competence.