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NSC 252 EXAM 1 QUESTIONS ANDANSWERS UPDATED 2024 [ 25
EKU BSN Mission statement ANS - To prepare professional nurses at all levels who work in
interpersonal environments to promote health and well-being for diverse populations across the
Commonwealth, country and world
4 beliefs ANS - 1. Patient
2. Environment
3. Health
4. Nursing
Patient ANS - Individuals, families, groups, communities, and populations. Each patient is unique and
merits respect, support, and dignity. Patients develop and adapt in recognizable phases and patterns.
Patients continually seek meaning and purpose. Through participation in life's experiences, patients
grow, assume responsibility and develop across the lifespan. Patients are holistic beings integrating
biological, psychological, socio-cultural, and spiritual dimensions. The term "client" may be used
interchangeably with "patient"
Environment ANS - The aggregate of all objects, conditions, forces, and ideas that interact with
patients. The elements of the environment include the physical, biological, sociocultural, and
organizational systems. A health promoting environment facilitates movement toward wellness
Health ANS - Dynamic process between the patient and environment. Optimal health includes
biological, environmental, psychological, sociocultural, spiritual , and organizational influences. Health
reflects a patient's ability, willingness, and resources to engage the environment in a matter that
maximizes wellness
Nursing ANS - An autonomous and caring profession. Nursing is an art and science that promotes
health through patient-centered care. While respecting patients' right to self-determination, nursing
provides holistic care during health, illness, and death
BSN professional nursing outcomes ANS - 1. Treats patients as holistic, unique and self-directive with
the right to make deciding for themselves concerning health matters
, 2. Uses the nursing to provide, manage, and evaluate culturally competent primary, secondary, and
tertiary prevention for diverse clients across the life span in a variety if settings
3. Uses evidence-based nursing practice, critical-thinking, research methodologies, informatics, and
healthcare technology to provide therapeutic interventions, predict outcomes, and influence the
delivery of health care
4. Assumes a leadership role in health care by commuting and collaborating with patients, health care
professionals, and health care systems
5. Supports safe, quality, responsible, and economic interdisciplinary health care as a consumer and
sociopolitical advocate within multiple health care systems
6. Promotes the ethical and legal practice of professional nursing
7. Demonstrates self-care, professionalism, accountability, and competence in nursing practice, with a
commitment to advancing the profession of nursing
Legal and Ethical Responsibilities ANS - Ethical practice is the implementation of moral principles and
standards governing conduct. Legal practice is the adherence to the laws and regulations governing
nursing.
EKU DBGN definition of nursing ANS - an autonomous and caring profession. Nursing is an art and
science that promotes health through patient-centered care. While respecting patients' rights to self-
determination, nursing provides holistic care during health, illness, and death
Pre-Mid 19th century ANS - Dates back to the 3rd and 4th centuries - men & women provided care and
healing for the poor, sick, & homeless
Influenced by such things as women's roles & status, religion, war, societal attitudes...
Not a "respectable" occupation at this point in history
Mid-late 1800's ANS - "Nightingale Era" - envisioned nurses as "educated", primary focus within
hospitals, began to transform nursing into a respectable profession
"Training" for nurses began (American Civil War)
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