Nursing 101 Practice Test Questions And Answers
With Updated Quizzes
What are the 4 major concepts in nursing? ANS ✅ person, environment, health, nursing.
What organization defined nursing as as "the protection, promotion, optimization of health and abilities, prevention
of illness and injury, facilitation of healing, alleviation of suffering through the diagnosis and treatment of human
response, advocacy in the care of individuals, families, groups, communities, and populations"? ANS ✅ ANA
(American Nursing Association)
The act of utilizing the environment of the patient to assist him in his recovery is theorized by____? This theorist
wrote about the inadequate preparation of nurses, and was the first to use the nursing process. ANS ✅ Florence
nightingale did not believe in the germ theory, and perhaps this was her biggest mistake. Yet, her theory was the first
in nursing. She believed that manipulation of environment that includes appropriate noise, nutrition, hygiene, light,
comfort, sanitation etc. could provide the client's body the nurturance it needs for repair and recovery.
For her, Nursing is a theoretical system of knowledge that prescribes a process of analysis and action related to the
care of the ill person. ANS ✅ Remember the word "THEOROYTICAL "For Callista Roy; Nursing is a theoretical
body of knowledge that prescribes analysis and action to care for an ill person. She introduced the ADAPTATION
MODEL and viewed the person as a BIOSPSYCHOSOCIAL BEING. She believed that by adaptation, Man could
maintain homeostasis.
According to her, Nursing is a helping or assistive profession to persons who are wholly or partly dependent or when
those who are supposedly caring for them can no longer give care. ANS ✅ Orem. In self-care deficit theory,
Nursing is defined as A helping or assistive profession to a person who is wholly or partly dependent or when people
who are to give care to them are no longer available. Self-care is the activities that a person does for himself to
maintain health, life, and well-being.
Nursing is a unique profession, Concerned with all the variables affecting an individual's response to stressors,
which are intra, inter, and extra personal in nature. ANS ✅ Neuman divided stressors as either intra, inter, and extra
personal in nature. She said that NURSING is concerned with eliminating these stressors to obtain a maximum level
of wellness. The nurse helps the client through PRIMARY, SECONDARY, AND TERTIARY prevention modes.
The unique function of the nurse is to assist the individual, sick or well, in the performance of those activities
contributing to health that he would perform unaided if he has the necessary strength, will and knowledge, and do
this in such a way as to help him gain independence as rapidly as possible. ANS ✅ Henderson also describes the
NATURE OF NURSING theory. She identified 14 basic needs of the client. She describes nursing roles as
SUBSTITUTIVE: Doing everything for the client, SUPPLEMENTARY: Helping the client, and
COMPLEMENTARY: Working with the client. According to her, breathing normally, Eliminating waste, Eating and
drinking adequately, worship, and Playing are some of the basic needs. She introduced the nature of nursing.
, Caring is the essence and central unifying, a dominant domain that distinguishes nursing from other health
disciplines. Care is an essential human need. ANS ✅ There are many theorists that describe nursing as CARE. This
theorist integrated cultural care, values and beliefs into the care of the patient.
Caring is healing; it is communicated through the consciousness of the nurse to the individual being cared for. It
allows access to a higher human spirit. ANS ✅ The deepest and spiritual definition of Caring came from jean
Watson. For her, Caring expands the limits of openness and allows access to a higher human spirit.
Caring means that person, events, projects, and things matter to people. It reveals stress and coping options. Caring
creates responsibility. It is an inherent feature of nursing practice. It helps the nurse assist clients in recovering in the
face of the illness. ANS ✅ Think of CARE BEAR to facilitate retainment of BENNER. As in, Care Benner. For
her, Caring means being CONNECTED or making things matter to people. Caring according to Benner give
meaning to illness and re establish connection.
. Which of the following are characteristics of the nursing profession? Select all that apply.
a. It is an organization of an occupational group based on the application of generic scientific knowledge.
b. It is concerned with quality not quantity.
c. Caring delineates nursing from other professions.
d. It has an ethical code and standards of practice.
e. It has a body of research that shapes its practice.
f. Members need professional licensure. ANS ✅ b-f
Nursing knowledge is specific and based on research. In nursing, we have quality assurance and control methods to
evaluate the effectiveness of nursing care. Nurses are never concerned with QUANTITY of care provided. Caring
and caring alone is the unique quality of the Nursing Profession. It is the one that delineates Nursing from other
professions.
What are the four broad aims of nursing? Select all that apply.
a. to promote health
b. to prevent illness.
c. To restore health
d. To facilitate coping with death or disability
e. to diagnoses medical conditions accurately. ANS ✅ All but e
There are several key steps in caring for patients as a nurse According to the American Nurses Association? Which
step reflects the nurse's clinical judgment about a patient's response to potential or actual health issues or needs?
Which step is where nursing care plans that outline goals and outcomes are created? ANS ✅ diagnosis; planning
