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1. Which of the following statements accurately describe anelement of nursing? Select
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A) The skills involved in nursing areprimarily technical in nature.
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B) The primary focus of nursing is to assist individuals to recover fromillness.
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C) The science of nursing is the knowledge base for the care that is given.
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D) The art of nursing is the collection of knowledge through research.
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E) Nursing is considered to be both an art and a science.
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F) Nursing is a profession that used specialized knowledge and skills.
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2. Which of the following set of terms best describes nursing at the end of the Middle Ages?
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3. Which of the following is a characteristic ofnursing practiced fromearly civilizationto the
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16th century?
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A) Most earlycivilizations believedthat illness had supernatural causes.
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B) The physician was the priest who treated disease withprayer.
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C) The nurse was a nun committed to caring for the needy and homeless.
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D) Nursing changed from a spiritual focus to anemphasis onknowledge expansion.
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4. In what time period did nursing care as wenow know it begin?
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A) pre-civilization
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5. Who is considered to be the founder ofprofessional nursing?
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A) Dorothea Dix l
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D) ClaraBarton l
6. Which of the following nursing pioneers establishedthe Red Cross inthe United States
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in1882?
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C) Dorothea Dix l
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7. What was one barrier to the development ofthe nursing profession inthe United
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States after the Civil War?
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A) lackof educational standards
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B) hospital-basedschools of nursing l l l
C) lackof influence from nursing leaders
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8. Which ofthe following individualsprovided community-based careand founded public
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9. Which of the following nursing groups provides a definition and scope ofpractice
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A) ICN
B) AAN
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D) The Joint Commission
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10. Teaching a woman about breast self-examination isan example ofwhat broad aim
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of nursing?
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11. What nursing activity would meet the broad nursing aimof facilitating coping
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12. A nurse caring for a patient with diabetes chooses an appropriate planof care and
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A) Technical
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A) Anurse helps a patient prepare aliving will.
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C) A nurse explains the rationale for a patients plan of care.
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D) A nurse holds the hand of a woman whose baby died in childbirth.
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14. Anurse practitioner is caring for a couple who are the parents of an infant diagnosed
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D) Collaborator
15. A nurse is providing nursing care in a neighborhood clinic to single pregnant teens.
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