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FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE FOR FUNDAMENTALS OF PRACTICAL NURSING

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Types of Nursing Programs:  Associate degree: 2-year program; entry educational level for registered nurses ◆Baccalaureate degree: 4-year program; focuses more on management and leadership ◆ ... Diploma: 3-year hospital-based program ◆Licensed practical or vocational nurse (LPN/LVN): 9 months to 1 year most basic entry-level program Milestones in Nursing History  Ancient times: care provided by family and male priests ◆1000 AD: women allowed to study midwifery ◆1700–1800: poor, lower class women provided care in unsanitary conditions ◆1836: first school of nursing established; nurses referred to as Kaiserworth deaconesses (era of Florence Nightingale) ◆1897: Nurses Associated Alumnae of the United States formed to protect against incompetent nurses ◆1892: first training program established for practical nurses in New York City ◆Early 1900s: licensure required in some states ◆1955: all states required practical nurses to be licensed Scope of Practice ◆Limitations and allowances of what a nurse can do ◆Nurses responsible for knowing their own scope of practice Nurse Practice Act ◆Law governing nurses’ actions ◆Written to address each specific level of nursing ◆Establishes scope of practice for each level of nurse, based on educational preparation ◆Enforced by the Board of Nursing Four Characteristics of Competent Nurses ◆Being responsible ◆Being honest ◆Being caring ◆Being competent Nursing Responsibilities ◆Caring for several patients and seeing that their physical and spiritual needs are met ◆Performing patient and family teaching and preparing them for patient discharge ◆Noticing changes in patient condition and notifying appropriate health-care professional [Show More]

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