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How much does it cost to oriente a new nurse? |
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Over 67,000 dollars Easy to see why hospitals prefer to keep their nurses as long as possible. |
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What industry has the highest level of employment for nurses? |
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General Medical and Surgical Hospitals |
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What are the three top paying states for nurses? |
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California, Massachusetts, and Hawaii |
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Why is California the highest paying state? |
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Their nursing unions have been around for quite awhile and have established a "1 nurse to 2 patients" standard. |
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At what hour, during a standard twelve hour nurses' shift, do most accidents happen? |
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How many nurses will be needed to replace retiring nurses through the year 2014? |
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What should one like if they get involved with critical care nursing? |
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Machines (Technology) and no one-on-one with the patients |
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What do palliative nurses deal in? |
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Pain control and comfort measures while the patient passes away |
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What does the graduate temporary permit allow? |
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It allows a new graduate the ability to work the first 90 days free from showing proof of licensure. |
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Through a collaborative practice, how close does the physician need to live from his business? |
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What must a nurse do in order to work in a different state? |
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What are the four main tasks for the 9 member Missouri nursing board? |
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Set nursing education standards Approval of nursing schools Determine the scope of practice Evaluate new graduates after passing NCLEX and nurses applying for licensure from other states. |
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What is the Clinical Ladder? |
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Program allowing nurses to progress while staying in direct patient care |
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A nurse in charge of all activities on a unit including patient care, hiring, and resource management |
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What is a Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS)? |
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Nurse with an advanced degree who is a resource to other nurses and provides care for patients with complex or difficult problems. |
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What is a Clinical Coordinator Nurse? |
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Middle management nurse who has responsibility for multiple units in a health care agency |
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What is flexible staffing? |
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A mechanism where nurses are able to work at times other than the traditional hospital shifts |
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What is Community Health Nursing? |
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A nurse specialty that uses a process of delivering nursing care to improve the health of an entire community. |
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What is the definition of a Nurse Entrepreneur? |
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A nurse who engages in the business issues related to healthcare or nursing. (ex. Owning a traveling nurse agency) |
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Self-determination. Control over one's own professional practice. |
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What is Occupational Health Nursing? |
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A nurse specializing in the care of a specific group of workers in a given occupational setting |
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A nurse specializing in the care of children or adolescents and practice in a school setting |
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A collaboration with patients, their significant others, and health care provider to coordinate high quality healthcare in a cost effective manner |
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What is the definition of Length of Stay (LOS)? |
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The number of days that a patients stays in an in-patient setting only |
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Multidisciplinary care plans outlining a patients treatments and expected outcomes, day by day |
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What is Telepath Nursing? |
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The delivery of nursing care activities through telecommunication technology such as telephones, video conferencing and others |
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What is a Faith Community Nurse? |
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A specialized nurse who focuses on the promotion of health within the context of the values, beliefs and practices of a faith community |
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What is an Informatics Nurse? |
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A nurse who combines nursing science with information management science and computer science to manage and make accessible the information that nurses need |
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What is a Nurse Practioner? |
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A nurse with an advanced degree who specializes in the health care of a specific group sich as elderly, children or pregnant women. They are allowed to act as the doctor. |
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What is a Certified-Nurse Midwife? |
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Nationally certified nurse with advanced specialization in assisting women and couples through uncomplicated pregnancies, deliveries and post-delivery periods. |
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| A nurse who deals with openings (into the intestine) of the patient's abdomen. |
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| What is perioperative nursing? |
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| Perioperative generally refers to the three phases of surgery: preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative. |
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| what is a medical-surgical nurse? |
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| If a nurse gets caught abusing substances, how has the law changed in their favor? |
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| They are allowed to go to rehab, with closer monitoring at the work environment, instead of automatic firing. |
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| What was Florence Nightingale's two largest accomplishments? |
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| Using her statistical background, she effectively argued the case for reform of the entire British Army medical system, which led into the United States as well. She also established training schools, giving rise to the standardization in the field. |
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| What hours did the students at the Florence Nightingale School of Nursing partake? |
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| After how many months were the students at FNGsn eligible for a small pittance to live on? |
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| How many lectures characterized the formal education of the women of the FNGsn? |
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| Who was the Founder of the American Red Cross? |
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| Who did Lincoln appoint as United States Sanitary Commisioner? |
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| Which lady pioneer established her own system of distribution, refusing to enlist in the military nurse corps? |
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| How did the Classical Era classify disease/illness? |
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| They thought it was punishment, a sin, or a curse. |
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| What did the Egyptians think of medicine? |
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| They thought it was magic. |
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| What are the Hebrews known for? |
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| What are the Jewish known for? |
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| Father of Medicine. He thought there was a relationship between human health and the environment. |
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| What was unique of the Roman hospitals? |
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| They had portable hospitals. The nurses were family members, servants, and slaves. |
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| Nursing was influenced by what religion in the middle ages? |
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| What were the origins of nursing in the middle ages? |
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| hospice, orphanages, nursing homes |
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| What disease spread through the middle ages? |
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| When was the last time we had small pox? |
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| Who invented the vaccination method for small pox? |
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| Who invented the process of pasteurization? |
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| What was Joseph Lister known for? |
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| He invented antiseptic and carbolic acid (used for surgeries) |
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| What famous individual did research on Anthrax and identified the organism that caused cholera? |
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| Who came up with the Germ Theory? |
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| Who organized the 1st visiting nurse organization in the Renaissance? |
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| Did St. Vincent de Paul believe that patients recuperated more quickly at home or at the hospital? |
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| Did St. Vincent de Paul believe patients got more nosocomial infections at home or hospitals? |
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hospitals
example...pnuemonia because of sedentary lifestyle at hospitals.....also sleep deprivation from sleep being interupted by nurses and doctors |
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| What caused the "Reformation" or nursing? |
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| The quarrels amongst the hospitals and the nuns. |
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| What happened due to the "Reformation"? |
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| Nuns were done away with as nurses and nursing became a layperson position and catholic hospitals were closed. |
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| What period followed the "Reformation"? |
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| The "Dark Period of Nursing" |
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| Why after the "Reformation" were the nurses selected from alcoholics, prostitutes, gamblers, and prison mates? |
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| Most lay persons were afraid of taking care of the sick. |
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| What two things was Lillian Wald most known for? |
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| As a public health activist and the creator of the Henry Street Settlement. |
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| What was the Henry Street Settlement? |
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| A group of women who went into the home to make sure the children were well enough for school. |
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| During Lillian Wald's time, what percentage of training was theory, chemistry, some anatomy, physiology, bacteriology, and hygeine all together? |
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| Where was the first hospital in America located? What was it called? |
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| Pennsylvania....Pennsylvania Hospital |
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| Who was responsible for designing the written patient record and physician order system? |
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| Linda Richards....The first trained American nurse. |
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| the first African American trained nurse. |
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| How often is The Code for Professional Nursing updated. |
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| What was the first accredited organization for training nursing? |
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| National League of Nursing |
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| What is one of the biggest barriers in role developement? |
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| The reluctancy to share knowledge |
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| What percentage of the 2.6 million nurses are members of national organizations? |
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| Does the public, as a whole, have an accurate conception of what a nurse does? |
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| What is the stigma with males in nursing? |
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| That they couldn't cut it in medical school |
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| How much more does a man make as a female nurse with 5 more years experience? |
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| What is the average age of a nursing staff member? |
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