NUR 330 Exam 1 Practice Questions and Correct Answers
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NUR 330
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NUR 330
Explain the aims of nursing as they interrelate to facilitate maximal health and quality of life for patients. Promote Health, prevent illness, restore health,and Facilitate Coping with disability or death
Health state of optimal functioning or well-being. NOT merely the absence of disease or illn...
NUR 330 Exam 1 Practice Questions and
Correct Answers
Explain the aims of nursing as they interrelate to facilitate maximal health and quality of
life for patients. ✅Promote Health, prevent illness, restore health,and Facilitate Coping
with disability or death
Health ✅state of optimal functioning or well-being. NOT merely the absence of disease
or illness.
Professional Nursing Organizations ✅International Nursing Organization ICN,
american nurses association ANA, American association of colleges of Nursing AACN,
national student nurses association NSNA, and NLN
Nurse Practice Acts ✅laws established in each state to regulate the practice of
nursing. In Michigan Public Health Code establishes our laws and houses them
Nursing Process ✅Used to ID the patient's healthcare needs and strengths, to
establish and carry out a plan of care to meet those needs, and to evaluate the
effectiveness of the plan to meet established outcomes.
American Nurses' Association Standards of Practice:
2003 Nursing: Scope and Standards of Practice ✅Defines the activities of nurses that
are specific and unique to nursing, Allows nurses to carry out professional roles, serving
as protection for the nurse, the patient, and the healthcare institution, Each nurse is
accountable for his/her own quality of practice and is responsible for the use of these
standards knowledgeable, safe, and comprehensive nursing care
ANA Code of Ethics: ✅Set of principles that reflect the primary goals, values, and
obligations of the profession.
Nursing Advocacy ✅to advocate for someone means to speak for that person when
the person is unable to speak for themselves; respect for the patient at all times
Nursing Responsibility ✅it is the nurse's responsibility to provide care that is
established by Standards of the profession
Nursing Accountability ✅being accountable means that the nurse is answerable for the
outcomes of actions taken; don't try to hide, admit your actions, discuss future
Standards ✅Voluntary; not mandatory but used as guidelines for peer review. Guided
by their own assessment of society's need for nursing and by the public's expectations
of nursing for example ANA Standards of Practice
, Credentialing ✅ways in which professional competence is ensured and maintained
Accreditation ✅process by which an educational program is evaluated and recognized
as having met certain standards
Licensures ✅process by which the state determines that a candidate meets certain
minimum requirements to practice in the profession and grants license to do so
Certification ✅the process by which a person who has met certain criteria established
by a nongovernmental association is granted recognition in a specified practice area
Torts ✅a wrong committed by a person against another person or his/her property.
Intentional Tort ✅a person is considered to have knowledge of the permitted legal
limits of his/her words or acts
Fraud ✅willful and purposeful misrepresentation that could cause or has caused, loss
or harm to a person or property; pretend you're a neurosurgeon
Defamation ✅disregard for truth that damages reputation "That Dr. is an idiot"
Assault ✅threat or an attempt to make bodily contact with another person without that
person's consent
Battery ✅an assault that is carried out and includes willful, angry, and violent or
negligent touching of another person's body or clothes or anything attached to or held
by that other person.
False imprisonment ✅unjustified retention or prevention of the movement of another
person without proper consent; can't keep someone in hospital or tied to bed
Negligence ✅performing an act that a reasonably prudent person under similar
circumstances would not do or failing to perform an act that a reasonably prudent
person under similar circumstances would do
Malpractice ✅an act of negligence by a professional person as compared to the
actions of another professional person in a similar circumstance
4 elements must be established to prove malpractice ✅Duty: what a prudent nurse
does, duty to that pt/assigned to that patient; Breach of Duty: failure to meet standards
of care, Causation: what resulted due to the breach of duty; shows the failure to meet
the standard of care actually caused the injury
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