NUR2058 Dimensions of Nursing Final (Rasmussen)-Questions with
Correct Answers/ Verified/ Latest Update 2024/2025
Hippocrates - ✔️✔️"Father of Modern Medicine.
Beliefs focused on harmony with the natural law instead of on appeasing the gods.
Emphasized treating the whole client, mind, body, spirit, and the environment.
Made diagnosis on the basis of symptoms rather than on an isolated idea of a disease.
He was concerned with ethical standards for physicians, expressed in the now-famous Hippocratic
Oath.
Why have the use of integrative health practices increased - ✔️✔️dissatisfaction with conventional
health care, desire for greater control of health, desire for cultural and philosophical congruence
with personal beliefs, belief in the effectiveness of alternative therapies, individual health status,
rising cost of conventional health care
Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) - ✔️✔️Using research findings to guide nursing practice. It uses
statistical data to estimate the risk-benefit ratio.
The Cap (Common Nursing symbols) - ✔️✔️A symbol of service to others. The first one was in 1874,
primary used to keep long hair out of the way. Each school designed their own. Separate ceremonies
for pinning and capping. Capping was after 6 months of classroom education. Signs of rank were first
year, white cap, 2nd year, vertical black band on the edge, and 3rd year, graduation, vertical band
removed and a black band across the front.
The Nursing Pin (Common Nursing Symbols) - ✔️✔️During the crusades, Knight's hospitallers wore
a white Maltese cross around their neck, showing they were skilled in treating injured soldiers.
The first modern nursing pin attributed to Nightingale, which was the blue cross with her head in the
middle. Each program designed a unique pin to represent values, philosophies, beliefs, and goals.
The Lamp (Common Nursing Symbols) - ✔️✔️Flame of Life, extinguished by death. The burning of
the lamp symbolized enlightenment that accompanies knowledge. Florence used the lamps during
her rounds at night.
,Isabel Adams Hampton-Robb (Helped shaped modern day nursing and their roles) - ✔️✔️Focused
on the academics rather than clinically raised standards of education in the U.S. She was an advocate
for reducing long hours. She was the first president of the ANA, and helped develop American
Journal of Nursing.
Lillian Ward (Helped shaped modern day nursing and their roles) - ✔️✔️Opened the Henry Street
Settlement (a storefront health clinic in a poorer part of NYC. The nurses made home visits and
focused on sanitary conditions and children's health). She was an advocate for wellness education,
Founded the National Organization for Public health nursing, in 1912.
Lavinia Lloyd Dock (Helped shaped modern day nursing and their roles) - ✔️✔️Write the medical
textbook for nurses. She addressed problems of poverty and squalor. She was dedicated to the
pursuit of equal rights. She spent of 20 years fighting for women's rights to vote.
Annie W. Goodrich (Helped shaped modern day nursing and their roles) - ✔️✔️She ran multiple
nursing schools throughout New York. In 1910, she was appointed State Inspector of Nursing Schools
(a position on physicians held), and was the Dean of Nursing in the Army Nursing School, and Yale
School of Nursing. She established a nursing training program at Vassar College.
Loretta C. Ford (Helped shaped modern day nursing and their roles) - ✔️✔️Founded Nurse
Practitioner (NP) Practice.
Florence Nightingale (Helped shaped modern day nursing and their roles) - ✔️✔️Universally
regarded as the founder of modern nursing, Florence Nightingale dedicated her long life to
improving health care and nursing standards. She worked tirelessly for the reform of health care and
nursing and was appointed to many related committees and commissions. A prolific writer, she
wrote extensively about improving hospital conditions, sanitation, nursing education, and health
care in general.
Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) - ✔️✔️Using the model contributed to the adoption
of quality and safety competencies as core practice values. Built on 5 competencies developed
initially by the Institute of Medicine.
What are the 5 Competencies? (QSEN) - ✔️✔️-Client centered care.
-Teamwork & collaboration.
-Evidence-based practice.
,-Quality improvement.
-Safety.
-Informatics.
Case Manager - ✔️✔️Acts as an advocate for the client and their family by coordinating care and
linking the client with the healthcare team, physician, resources, and payor.
GOAL: To help the client obtain quality, cost-effective care while decreasing duplication and
fragmentation of care.
Main method in which nurses can gain power in nursing - ✔️✔️Professional unity; joining a
professional organization
Political activity: getting involved politically
Accountability and professionalism: demonstrating these traits
Networking: "old boy system" nurse support network system "don't eat your young"
Future trends in the nursing profession: look at nursing as a profession.
Review examples of ways a nursing license may be revoked - ✔️✔️• Conviction for a serious crime
• Demonstration of gross negligence or unethical conduct in the practice of nursing
• Failure to renew a nursing license while still continuing to practice nursing
• Use of illegal drugs or alcohol during the provision of care for clients or use that carries over and
affects clients' care
• Willful violation of the state's nurse practice act
Identify why it is important for nurses to join professional organizations - ✔️✔️Organizational
certification is referred to as accreditation and indicates that the institution has met standards
established either by the government or by a nongovernmental agency.
Main method in which nurses can gain power in nursing - ✔️✔️Nurses are demonstrating their
power to achieve a goal when they band together and exert power as a group
, horizontal violence - ✔️✔️takes place almost exclusively in the work setting. It has been recognized
by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) as one of the leading causes of
poor staff morale, excessive sick days, turnover of staff, nurses leaving the profession, poor quality
of care, and physical symptoms such as insomnia, hypertension, depression, and gastrointestinal
upset.
Importance of Interpersonal education for nurses - ✔️✔️Local health needs
Fragmented health-care practices
Present and future health-care needs
Shortages in the health workforce
Collaborative practice
Improved health-care system
Purpose and needs for nursing licensure - ✔️✔️Rules and regulations written by the state boards of
nursing become statutory laws under the powers delegated by the state legislature, and define
powers regarding the practice of nursing within the state.
Vertical Violence - ✔️✔️Bullying from a superior, or vertical violence, is a type of harassment that
can permeate the entire organization and have a detrimental effect on its effectiveness. The concept
of inappropriate use of coercive power becomes a key element in vertical violence.
What are the 3 levels of service in health care? - ✔️✔️Primary care refers to health promotion and
preventive care, including programs such as immunization campaigns.
Secondary care is frequently provided in hospitals and other acute care settings, with an emphasis
on diagnosis and the treatment of complex disorders.
Tertiary care emphasizes rehabilitative services, long-term care, and care of the dying.
