Welcome!!!!

Hi, everybody!! This is Anna Gonzales and Stephanie Jenks from your class of 2011. We decided to start up our class's blog. I would like to start off and say "Congratulations" to you all for making it into the ADN program. I welcome you all into your new "nursing family". This blog will serve as a great resource tool in posting questions, pictures, links, study guides and weekly questions. Please make sure you BOOKMARK this website. There will be a lot of information coming your way in the next couple of weeks. So PLEASE check back to your blog frequesntly time to time. This website will serve as a great resource to you all throughout your nursing program. If you have any questions please feel free to contact Stephanie Jenks at stephaniejenks@hotmail.com or myself at agonzales33@comcast.net. Well enough play, I better get back into studying for my N1 exam this Thursday. Well good luck to you all on your N1 exam this Thursday and I will look forward into meeting you all.

~Anna Gonzales & Stephanie Jenks .^_^.

N1~ Study Guide for Test #1 (30 multiple choice)

1. Describe the roles and career opportunities for nurses.

2. Discuss the influence of social and economic changes on nursing practices.

3. Discuss the role of nurses in different health care delivery settings and the types of settings you see them in.

4. Know the steps of the nursing process

5. Discuss the steps of nursing assessment.

6. Differentiate between subjective and objective information.

7. Differentiate between a nursing diagnosis and a medical diagnosis.

8. Describe the steps of the nursing diagnostic process.

9. Discuss the difference between a goal and an expected outcome.

10. Discuss the process of selecting nursing interventions.

11. Define the three implementation skills.

12. Describe how evaluation leads to discontinuation, revision, or modification of a plan of care.

13. Discuss the role of ethics in professional nursing.

14. Explain a nursing perspective in ethics.

15. Explain the legal concepts of standard of care and informed consent.

16. Describe the nurse’s role regarding DNR orders.

17. Describe the five levels of communication and their uses in nursing.

18. Describe qualities, behaviors, and communication techniques that affect professional communication.

19. Discuss legal guidelines for documentation.

20. Identify ways to maintain confidentiality of records and reports.

21. Describe five quality guidelines for documentation and reporting.

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