Exam Review

True/False, Matching

 Understanding Nursing theorists and their main points of view/professional nursing practice
 Nurses elevated to sainthood
 Pillars of Canadian Health Care System
 Nursing Organizations CNO, RNAO, CNA, NPAO, WeRPN and what they do/who they represent
 Professional Practice Standards and proper work etiquette
 What is nursing theory?
 Social justice – approach and application
 Nursing Metaparadigm
 Components of nurse-client relationship; active listening (SURETY), self-disclosure, self-
awareness, self-regulation
 Therapeutic Boundaries
 Types of nurses – PSW, Health Care Aide, RPN, RN, NP (advanced practice) and their roles,
responsibilities and limitations
 Scope of practice
 Accountability
 Competencies
 Regulation
 Duty to Report
 Duty to provide care
 Ways of Knowing
 Feedback to communication – ex. False reassurance, expressing approval, closed vs open ended
questions
 Understanding research and conducting research, the differences
 Health promotion and culture
 What is involved in delivering culturally safe nursing practices
 Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
 Tanner’s Model
 The Nursing Act
 Types of offences: neglect, sexual abuse, financial, emotional abuse and physical abuse
 Social relationship with patients
 Nurse-Client Relationships – respect, empathy, professional intimacy and trust
 Self-Regulation
 Accountability
 Code of conduct
 Code of ethics
 Principles – professional presence, client’s right to know, crossing the line, privilege
 Consent
 Competence
 Negligence
 Medicare
 Canadian Health Act
 Role of Nurses in Health Care Reform
 CNO registration requirements
 Quality Assurance – Learning Plan, Accountability, Competency
 Standard of Care
 Client’s that are incapacitated
 Types of consent
 Types of communication in therapeutic nurse-client relationship – verbal, non-verbal, implicit
and explicit
 Universality. Portability, Accessibility, Comprehensiveness
 Right to Health Care
 Institutions in Canadian Health Care
 5 Levels of Care
 Refusal of care
 Palliative vs Respite Care
 Fitness to practice as a nurse
 Critical thinking and therapeutic care – practice reflection
 Gifts
 Safety
 Personal Privacy
 Assimilation
 Canada’s Aboriginal Policy
 Types of trauma
 Types of approaches to patients (ie. Trauma victims)
 Leadership
 Advocacy
 Public and community health nursing – primary, secondary, tertiary
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