NUR 201 Exam 1 Questions With Correct
Detailed Answers.
Florence Nightingale - ANSWER- Established sanitary nursing care units. Founder of
modern nursing. began professional education of nursing.
Clara Barton - ANSWER- Founded the American Red Cross
Dorthea Dix - ANSWER- woman who pushed for changes in the treatment of the
mentally ill and founded 32 mental hospitals
Louise Schuyler - ANSWER- A nurse during the Civil War; returned to New York and
organized the New York Charities Aid Association to improve care of the sick in
Bellevue Hospital; recommended standards for nursing education
Sojourner Truth - ANSWER- former slave who became an abolitionist and women's
rights activist
Margaret Sanger - ANSWER- United States nurse who campaigned for birth control and
planned parenthood
Lillian Wald - ANSWER- Founder of public health nursing
Nursing Aims - ANSWER- 1. To promote health
2. To prevent illness
3. To restore health
4. To facilitate coping with disability or death
Nursing Competencies - ANSWER- 1. cognitive
2. technical
3. interpersonal
4. ethical/legal
Promoting Health - ANSWER- Identifying, analyzing, and maximizing each patient's
individual strengths as components of preventing illness, restoring health, and
facilitating coping with disability or death
preventing illness - ANSWER- to reduce the risk for illness, to promote good health
habits, and to maintain optional functioning; by using an occasional program such as
prenatal care, smoking cessation program; community programs; literature television,
radio more Internet information; health assessment
, QSEN - ANSWER- Quality and Safety Education for Nurses
Restoring Health - ANSWER- range from early detection of a disease to rehabilitation
and teaching during recovery
Facilitate coping with disability or death - ANSWER- - Maximizing person's strengths
and potentials
- Patient teaching
- Referral to community support systems
- Providing end-of-care
- Hospice programs
nursing profession criteria - ANSWER- - Well-defined body of specific and unique
knowledge
- Ongoing research
- Service orientation
- Code of ethics
- Autonomy and self regulation
- A professional organization that sets standards
- Prolonged specialized training
Standards of Professional Performance - ANSWER- - ethics
- education
- evidence-based practice and research
- quality of practice
- communication
- leadership
- collaboration
- professional practice evaluation
- resources
- environmental health
Standards of Nursing Practice - ANSWER- Assessment
Diagnosis
Outcomes identification
Planning
Implementation
Evaluation
Reciprocity - ANSWER- allows a nurse to apply for and be endorsed as an RN by
another state
distinguishes the practice of nursing from medicine - ANSWER- Nursing is concerned
with health, whereas medicine focuses on cure
Detailed Answers.
Florence Nightingale - ANSWER- Established sanitary nursing care units. Founder of
modern nursing. began professional education of nursing.
Clara Barton - ANSWER- Founded the American Red Cross
Dorthea Dix - ANSWER- woman who pushed for changes in the treatment of the
mentally ill and founded 32 mental hospitals
Louise Schuyler - ANSWER- A nurse during the Civil War; returned to New York and
organized the New York Charities Aid Association to improve care of the sick in
Bellevue Hospital; recommended standards for nursing education
Sojourner Truth - ANSWER- former slave who became an abolitionist and women's
rights activist
Margaret Sanger - ANSWER- United States nurse who campaigned for birth control and
planned parenthood
Lillian Wald - ANSWER- Founder of public health nursing
Nursing Aims - ANSWER- 1. To promote health
2. To prevent illness
3. To restore health
4. To facilitate coping with disability or death
Nursing Competencies - ANSWER- 1. cognitive
2. technical
3. interpersonal
4. ethical/legal
Promoting Health - ANSWER- Identifying, analyzing, and maximizing each patient's
individual strengths as components of preventing illness, restoring health, and
facilitating coping with disability or death
preventing illness - ANSWER- to reduce the risk for illness, to promote good health
habits, and to maintain optional functioning; by using an occasional program such as
prenatal care, smoking cessation program; community programs; literature television,
radio more Internet information; health assessment
, QSEN - ANSWER- Quality and Safety Education for Nurses
Restoring Health - ANSWER- range from early detection of a disease to rehabilitation
and teaching during recovery
Facilitate coping with disability or death - ANSWER- - Maximizing person's strengths
and potentials
- Patient teaching
- Referral to community support systems
- Providing end-of-care
- Hospice programs
nursing profession criteria - ANSWER- - Well-defined body of specific and unique
knowledge
- Ongoing research
- Service orientation
- Code of ethics
- Autonomy and self regulation
- A professional organization that sets standards
- Prolonged specialized training
Standards of Professional Performance - ANSWER- - ethics
- education
- evidence-based practice and research
- quality of practice
- communication
- leadership
- collaboration
- professional practice evaluation
- resources
- environmental health
Standards of Nursing Practice - ANSWER- Assessment
Diagnosis
Outcomes identification
Planning
Implementation
Evaluation
Reciprocity - ANSWER- allows a nurse to apply for and be endorsed as an RN by
another state
distinguishes the practice of nursing from medicine - ANSWER- Nursing is concerned
with health, whereas medicine focuses on cure
