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Describe the images of nursing throughout history. Correct Answer ✓✓
1. Angel of mercy
2. Self-sacrifice
3. Handmaiden/servant
4. Naughty nurse
5. Battle Ax nurse
Define nursing Correct Answer ✓✓ profession that focuses on the
holistic person receiving healthcare services and provides a unique
contribution to the prevention of illness and maintenance of health
Discuss characteristics of a profession Correct Answer ✓✓ Can be seen
as an...
- occupation
- career where a specialized knowledge of a subject/field is applied
- a group of qualified persons engaged in a specific area or occupation
with competence in that area
Characteristics includes:
1. Education
2. Code of Ethics
3. Compensation
,4. Organized to promote needed service
5. Autonomy
6. Recognized by government
Name and describe at least six roles of the professional nurse Correct
Answer ✓✓ 1. Caregiver
2. Communicator
3. Counselor
4. Educator
5. Client Advocate
6. Change agent
7. Leader
Differentiate among the various forms of nursing education Correct
Answer ✓✓ forms may include
1. research
2. theory
3. accreditation
4. publications
5. acquire norms and values of the profession
Explain how nursing practice is regulated Correct Answer ✓✓ Nursing
practice is regulated through Nurse practice acts, which are laws that
protect the public by defining legal scope of nursing practice, define
, legal requirement and activities for nurses, set criteria for education and
licensure of nurses, and establish disciplinary procedures for RNs.
Describe factors influencing the profession of nursing Correct Answer
✓✓ 1. consumer awareness
2. Health orientation
3. Cost containment
4. Increased use of less skilled personnel
5. Shorter hospital stays
6. Higher acuity rates
7. Evidence-based practice
Explain critical thinking in nursing and the ways which nurses' use
critical thinking. Correct Answer ✓✓ Nursing is a problem-solving
process that uses many individual critical thinking skills
Discuss and give examples of the differences between
practical/procedural knowledge and theoretical knowledge Correct
Answer ✓✓ Practical/procedural knowledge is gained through doing
things while theoretical knowledge is gained through learning from
books which teaches reasoning.
Explain the nursing metaparadigm concepts of person environment,
health, and nursing and how they are used to guide nursing practice
Correct Answer ✓✓ The nursing metaparadigm includes person, health,
environment, and nursing. The essential components of nursing theory is
found in the metaparadigm as it orients nurses to a unified world view.
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