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This document defines key terms related to nursing including:
Caregiver, case manager, change agent, communicator, consumer, counselor, diagnostician, leader, manager, patient, professional, socializer, and teacher. It also profiles important historical figures in nursing such as Clara Barton, Florence Nightingale, Mary Mahoney, and Sojourner Truth who advanced the field through their pioneering work.
This document defines key terms related to nursing including:
Caregiver, case manager, change agent, communicator, consumer, counselor, diagnostician, leader, manager, patient, professional, socializer, and teacher. It also profiles important historical figures in nursing such as Clara Barton, Florence Nightingale, Mary Mahoney, and Sojourner Truth who advanced the field through their pioneering work.
This document defines key terms related to nursing including:
Caregiver, case manager, change agent, communicator, consumer, counselor, diagnostician, leader, manager, patient, professional, socializer, and teacher. It also profiles important historical figures in nursing such as Clara Barton, Florence Nightingale, Mary Mahoney, and Sojourner Truth who advanced the field through their pioneering work.
Chapter 1 Alexian Brothers Caregiver a role that has traditionally included those activities that assist the client physically and psychologicallly Case Manager a nurse who works with the multidisciplinary health care team to measure effectiveness of the case management plan and monitor outcomes Change agent persons (or groups) who initiate change or who assist others in making modifications in themselves or in the system Clara Barton a schoolteacher who volunteered as a nurse during the Civil War. Most notably, she organized the American Red Cross, which linked with the International Red Cross when the U.S. Congress ratified the Geneva Convention in 1882. Client a person who engages the advice or services of another person who is qualified to provide this service Client advocate Communicator nurses identify client problems and then communicate these verbally or in writing to other members of the health team Consumer an individual, a group of people, or a community that uses a service or commodity Continuing education (CE) formalized experiences designed to enlarge the knowledge or skills of practitioners Counseling the process of helping a client to recognize and cope with stressful psychologic or social problems, to develop improved interpersonal relationships, and to promote personal growth Demography the study of population, including statistics about distribution by age and place of residence, mortality, and morbidity Diagnostic-related groups (DRGs) a Medicare payments system to hospitals and physicians that establishes fees according to diagnosis Dorothea Dix woman leader who provided nursing care during the Civil War Fabiola a wealthy Roman matron; viewed by some as the patron saint of early nursing who used her position and wealth to establish hospitals for the sick Florence Nightingale considered the founder of modern nursing, she was influential in developing nursing education, practice, and administration Governance the establishment and maintenance of social, political, and economic arrangements by which practitioners control their practice, self-discipline, working conditions, and professional affairs Harriet Tubman known as the Moses of her People for her work with the Underground Railroad; during the Civil War she nursed the sick and suffering of her own race In-service education education that is designed to upgrade the knowledge or skills of employees Knights of Saint Lazarus an order of knights that dedicated themselves to the care of people with leprosy, syphilis, and chronic skin conditions Lavinia L. Dock a nursing leader and suffragist who was active in the protest movement for womens rights that resulted in the U.S. Constitution amendment allowing women to vote in 1920 Leader a person who influences others to work together to accomplish a specific goal Lillian Wald founder of the Henry Street Settlement and Visiting Nurse Service, which provided nursing and social services and organized educational and cultural activities; considered the founder of public health nursing Linda Richards Americas first trained nurse Luther Christman Manager one who is appointed to a position in an organization that gives the power to guide and direct the work of others Margaret Higgins Sanger considered the founder of Planned Parenthood, was imprisoned for opening the first birth control information clinic in Baltimore in 1916 Mary Breckinridge a nurse who practiced midwivery in England, Australia, and New Zealand; founded the Frontier Nursing Service in Kentucky in 1925 to provide family-centered primary health care to rural populations Mary Mahoney first African American professional nurse Patient a person who is waiting for or undergoing medical treatment and care Patient Self-Determination Act (PSDA) legislation requiring that every competent adult be informed in writing on admission to a health care institution about his or her rights to accept or refuse medical care and use advance directives Profession an occupation that requires extensive education or a calling that requires special knowledge, skill, and preparation Professionalism a set of attributes, a way of life that implies responsibility and commitment Professionalization the process of becoming a professional; acquiring characteristics considered to be professional Sairy Gamp a character in the Charles Dickens book Martin Chizzlewit who represented the negative image of nurses in the early 1800s Socialization a process by which a person learns the ways of a group or society in order to become a functioning participant Sojourner Truth an abolitionist, Underground Railroad agent, preacher, and womens rights advocate, she was a nurse for more than 4 years during the Civil War and worked as a nurse and counselor for the Freedmans Relief Association after the war Standards of Practice descriptions of the responsibilities for which nurses are accountable Standards of Professional Performance as set by the American Nurses Association (ANA), describe behaviors expected in the professional nursing role Teacher a nurse who helps clients learn about their health and the health care procedures they need to perform to restore or maintain their health Telecommunications the transmission of information from one site to another, using equipment to transmit information in the forms of signs, signals, words or pictures by cable, radio, or other systems