PCC Study Exam 1 Questions & Answers 2024/2025
Define professional nursing - ANSWERSThe protection, promotion, and optimization of health abilities, prevention of illness and injury, alleviation of suffering through the diagnosis and treatment of human response and advocacy in the care of indi...
Define professional nursing - ANSWERSThe protection, promotion, and optimization of health abilities,
prevention of illness and injury, alleviation of suffering through the diagnosis and treatment of human
response and advocacy in the care of individuals, families, communities, and populations
Past nursing leaders - ANSWERS-Florence Nightingale: put in charge of nursing British and allied soldiers
in Turkey during the Crimean War. "Lady with the Lamp"
-Clara Barton: pioneering nurse who founded the American Red Cross
-Lillian Wald: American nurse humanitarian and author. Founder of American community nursing.
-Harriet Tubman: served during the war as a nurse, scout, and spy for the Union
-Isabel Hampton Robb: American nurse theorist, author, nursing school administrator and early leader
-Lavinia Dock: A nurse, feminist, authour, pioneer in nursing education and social activist. Assistant
superintendent at John Hopkins School of Nursing under Isabel Hampton
-Mary Adelaide Nutting: She was a graduate of the first class of Johns Hopkins Hospital school of nursing
Educational pathways to nursing practice - ANSWERS-Practical and Vocational Nursing Education (LPN)
-Registered Nursing Education (Associate degree/Diploma in nursing or Baccalaureate in Nursing)
-Advanced Practice/Graduate Education in Nursing (Master's and Doctoral education in Nursing
DNP/PhD)
Important nursing organizations - ANSWERSSigma Theta Tau International
-National Honor Society for Nursing
-Delta Beta at Large: USF
National Nursing Organizations
-American Nurses Association
-Florida Nurses Association
-National League for Nursing
, -American Association of Colleges of Nursing
-National Student Nurses Association
Briefly address licensure - ANSWERSThe NCLEX exam, also known as the National Council Licensure
Examination, is a standardized exam that each state board of nursing uses to determine whether a
candidate is prepared for entry-level nursing practice.
-Nurse practice acts: laws that regulate practice
-State Boards of Nursing: define practice, establish criteria for licensure, scope of practice, enforce rules
that govern nursing
Role of the Nurse - ANSWERSCenter for health care delivery. Holistic care - an integrated approach to
health care that treats the "whole" person, not simply symptoms and disease. Mind and body are
integrated and inseparable.
Role of Acute Care Nurses (practice inside the hospital) - ANSWERS-staff nurse - direct care, specific
patients, assigned times
Role of Non-Acute Care Nurses (practice outside the hospital) - ANSWERS-community-based home
health nurse - at-risk populations, homeless, parish/church-based
-long-term care nurses - patients who have lost some or all ability to function, skilled facility or nursing
homes
-occupational health and industrial nurses - factories, corporations; ensure productivity and OSHA
standards
-Home care - homebound clients
- Ambulatory care - practice in clinics or surgical centers, medical offices, walk-in clinics, retail
sites/pharmacies
-Hospice/palliative care nurses - comfort and quality of life for the dying and terminally ill
-public health and school based programs
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