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100 Exam 1 Practice Questions and
Answers | 100% Pass
Nursing is profession focused on - Answer✔✔-assisting individuals, families, and communicates
to attain, recover, and maintain an optimum health and function from birth to old age
Nurses act as a bridge between - Answer✔✔-between a vulnerable public and the health care
resources that can literally make a difference between life and death, health and
disease/disability and well-being and discomfort. We can carry out a technical procedure or
hold you hand
Nursing is both an art and a science. What does this mean? - Answer✔✔-Uses specialized
knowledge and skills to promote wellness and to provide care for people in both health and
illness in a variety of practice settings. Science is knowledge base for the care that is given and
art is the skilled application of that knowledge to help others achieve maximum health and
quality of life
*science is knowledge art is application of knowledge
What are some contributions of Florence Nightingale? - Answer✔✔-Crimean War, 1850s,
established first training school for nurses. Patient centered care and role of nurse to meet
those, recognized health and illness as two states, saw nursing as different from medicine,
nutrition is important, life long learning is needed, documentation is necessary, beginnings of
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research, AND infection control and a clean environment...she was proponent of Handwashing
and sanitation. Founder of modern nursing Wadsworth poem: Lo! in that house of misery
A lady with a lamp I see
Pass through the glimmering gloom,
And flit from room to room. What a blessing to the soldiers to see her make her rounds
What was a drawback of hospital schools? - Answer✔✔-The training was working in the
hospital...there was no real formal education, watch and learn, and cheap student workers
Nursing is now based on educational objectives. What are some ways nursing has broadened? -
Answer✔✔-Men, women, and minorities, practice in a wide variety of settings, development of
a specific body of knowledge, conduct and publish nursing research, role of nurse in promoting
health, and EBP to grow professional discipline
Nurse means "to nourish"; a person who: - Answer✔✔-nourishes, fosters, and protects and who
is prepared to take care of sick, injured, and aged people
International Council of Nurses nursing definition states nursing includes - Answer✔✔-
promotion of health, prevention of illness, and care of ill, disabled, and dying people.
ADVOCACY, promoting safe environments, research, helping to shape policy, and health systems
management and education
American Nurses Association (ANA) defines nursing as: (What characteristics are different that
#8) - Answer✔✔-Alleviate suffering through diagnosis and treatment of human response, and
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ADVOCACY in care. Also, social context, knowledge base for nursing, scope of practice,
standards, and regulation of nursing......nursing process, obj. and subj. data, caring relationship
The central focus of all nursing definitions is - Answer✔✔-patient specific, holistic care
Who is Clara Barton? - Answer✔✔-Established Red Cross. Cared for wounds and fed soldiers in
Civil War, organized hospital and nurses. 1880s
Who was Dorothea Dix? - Answer✔✔-Civil War, crusader for reform of mentally ill
List the 4 broad arms of nursing - Answer✔✔-To promote health, to prevent illness, to restore
health, to facilitate coping with disability or death, *examples
List the role and function of nurses. See Table 1-2 - Answer✔✔-Caregiver (holistic care) and
primary role, Communicator, Teacher/Educator, Counselor, Leader, Researcher, Advocate, and
Collaborator, *examples
Define health - Answer✔✔-State of optimal functioning or well being. Not absence of disease or
infirmity. Health is a Subjective state. I can be diabetic and healthy. Maximize each patient's
strengths and components of preventing illness, restoring health, and facilitating coping with
disability or death
*Define prevention. What are some examples of nurses preventing illness? - Answer✔✔-
Anticipatory action taken to prevent the occurrence of an event or to minimize its effects.
Reduce the risk for illness, promote good health habits, and maintain optimal functioning.
Teaching and person example. (*Prenatal care, smoking cessation program, exercise classes,
literature, internet information, health assessment)
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