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Body of Knowledge
Called a knowledge base
provides the rationale (why) the nursing interventions
Evidence based care
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Sources of Knowledge
- Traditional- passed down from generation
- Authoritative- comes from an expert
- Scientific- arrived thru scientific method
nursing focuses on scientific knowledge commonly called evidence based care.
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Research in Nursing- to improve care and to advance nursing profession
Clinical nursing journals
Nursing research journals
this helps to make nursing easy.
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Nursing Theory
- Arrange a group of statements/concepts (thoughts, ideas) so they give meaning to a series of events
- - developed to describe nursing
- who we are, what we do, why we do it
- - Four concepts common to most nursing theories
- person (pt), environment, health, nursing
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Nursing theory- manying nursing theorist and theories
- Provides uniform approach to nursing practice
- serves as a guide so people respond in a consistent manner
provides a foundation/organization for the educational plan in schools of nursing
serves as a guide for all phases of nursing process.
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Joint Commission fo Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations JCAHO
concerns for patient safety
panel of patient safety experts
identifies patient risk
NPSC determines highest priority and makes suggestions to Jcaho
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Patient Id - Goal 1
Improve accuracy.
use two patient identifiers
ex name and birth
applied to giving meds, labeling specimen, drawing specimen, receiving blood
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