What to Study:
Issues and Trends in Professional Nursing Review
National Patient Safety Goals 2020 (*homecare, ambulatory, behavioral, hospital)
https://www.jointcommission.org/en/standards/national-patient-safety-goals/hospital-2020-national-
patient-safety-goals/
Institute of Medicines’ Five Core Competencies
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK221528/pdf/Bookshelf_NBK221528.pdf
(Chapter 3)
Trends in Nursing
Role stress
Telehealth
Medical cannabis
Mental health
Cultural competence
Workplace violence
Concepts and Theories in Nursing Review
Major Nursing Theories:
Grand Nursing Theories, Mid-range Nursing Theories, Practice Theories,
Borrowed Theories, Caring Theories
Selected theories to review:
Abdellah – Practice Model of Nursing
King – Open Systems Theory
Roy’s adaptation model
Henderson’s nursing need theory
Neuman – Systems Theory
Nightingale
Orem – Self-care Deficit Theory
Parse – Theory of Human Becoming
Kolcaba – Comfort Theory
Pender – Health promotion model
Peplau – Interpersonal relations
Benner – From Novice to Expert, Benner’s Stages of Clinical Competence
Leninger – Theory of Culture Care Diversity and Universality
Paterson & Zderad – Humanistic Nursing Theory
Watson – Theory of Human Caring
Boykin & Schoenhofer – Nursing as Caring Theory
**Be sure to understand these theories towards applications of modern practices in nursing**
Community Health Review
Primary, Secondary, Tertiary Prevention
Data generation versus Data gathering
Disaster preparedness
Minnesota Intervention Wheel
Different types of disasters and infectious disease outbreaks
School health
Care of LGBTQ
Healthy People 2020
https://www.healthypeople.gov/
About/Mission Statement
Overarching Goals
Topics and Objectives
Review for Health Assessment
Vaccine schedule for adults
Erikson’s Ego vs Despair
Emergency plans for older adults
Different types of physical activity for adults
Different types of nursing assessments
Review for Research
Qualitative Research aspects and methods
Quantitative Research aspects and methods
Evidenced-Based Research and Practice (process, management, implementation)
Four ethical principles
The Institutional Review Board (IRB)
Eight Steps to Integrating EBP
Review for Leadership
Collective Bargaining and Shared Governance
Leaders and Managers
Emotional Intelligence Leader
Legalities of nursing (professional negligence, malpractice, misdemeanor, felony, quasi-
intentional tort, unintentional tort)
Types of powers
RNs and delegation