1. What are the recommendations for nurses that are published in the
IOM's report The future of nursing? What is Magnet recognition?
a. IOM emphasizes the need for nurses to take the leadership role.
b. Professional n
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1. What are the recommendations for nurses that are published in the
IOM's report The future of nursing? What is Magnet recognition?
a. IOM emphasizes the need for nurses to take the leadership role.
b. Professional nurses teach, advocate, assess, and nurture.
c. Recommendations:
i. Remove scope of practice barriers.
ii. Expand opportunities for nurses to lead and diffuse collaborative
improvements efforts.
iii. Implement nurse residency programs.
iv. Increase proportion of nurses with BSN to 80% by 2020.
v. Double the number of nurses with doctorate by 2020.
vi. Ensure that nurses engage in lifelong learning.
vii. Prepare and enable nurses to lead change to advance health.
viii. Build an infrastructure for the collection and analysis of
interprofessional health care workforce data
d. Magnet recognition recognizes excellence in the nurses’ work
environment.
e. Goal of magnet is to uphold the highest quality of care.
2. What are the components of a professional identity in nursing? Who
determines laws and rules for professional nurses? What role do
nurses play in informed consent?
a. Professional identity in nursing includes: autonomy, knowledge,
competence, professionalism, accountability, advocacy, collaborative
practice, and commitment.
b. Laws and rules are determined by each state’s board of nursing
established by the Nurse Practice Act.
c. Nurses role in informed consent is to ensure the patient as an
understanding of the procedure and to be a witness of a voluntary
consent.
i. Patients have the right to refuse; we do not coerce or persuade.
3. Understand the concepts of care coordination and Collaboration in
nursing. How does collaboration occur? What disciplines and who is
involved?
a. Nurses coordinate w/ patients many issues surrounding health
promotion & disease prevention, treatment methods, lifestyle changes,
and end of life decisions.
i. Collaboration with patients has been used throughout history by
nurses.
b. Nurse-nurse (intraprofessional): Involves all nurses from various
units, fields, and with different experiences; nurse managers,
researchers, educators, and advanced practice nurses.
i. Mentoring is one example of this collaboration
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