NURS 1110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: American Nurses Association, Iced Coffee, Registered Nurse
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Advocacy in the care of individuals, families, communities, populations. Caring is central to the practice of the registered nurse. Nurses use the nursing process to plan and provide individualized care to their healthcare consumer. Optimal outcomes can be achieved with a professional work environment. Ana = american nurses association (definition of nursing) Ex: nurses can educate patients (within our scope of practice), can educate about a diagnosis but can"t tell them they have a diagnosis. Professional practice education - evaluating own practice to the professional expectation. Establish educational requirements for entry into practice. Emphasize need for diagnosis and treatment of human responses to actual or potential health problems. Expansion of nursing and healthcare knowledge and appropriate application of technology. Expansion of healthcare resources and health policy. Definitive planning for health policy and regulation. Humans manifest an essential unity of mind, body and spirit. Human experience is contextually and culturally defined.
