PCC Final Exam Questions & Answers 2024/2025
Role of the nurse - ANSWERSNurses promote health, prevent illness, restore health and facilitate coping with disability or death.
Nurse caregiver - ANSWERSCaring is the central unifying topic concept
Nurse advocate - ANSWERSadvocates for patie...
Role of the nurse - ANSWERSNurses promote health, prevent illness, restore health and facilitate coping
with disability or death.
Nurse caregiver - ANSWERSCaring is the central unifying topic concept
Nurse advocate - ANSWERSadvocates for patient's rights; autonomy, free choice and right to make
informed decisions
Nurse educator - ANSWERSNurses educate patients, families, communities, and emphasize health
promotion and maintenance
Characteristics of the professional nurse - ANSWERSSystematic
Dynamic
Interpersonal skills
Outcome oriented
Global thinkers
Holistic care - ANSWERSan integrated approach to health care that treats the "whole" person, not simply
symptoms and disease. Mind and body are integrated and inseparable
Safety: security of body, employment, resources, morality, family, health, and property
Love/belonging: friendships, family, sexual intimacy
Esteem: self-esteem, confidence, achievement, respect of others
Self-actualization: morality, creativity, spontaneity, etc.
,National nursing organizations - ANSWERSAmerican Nurses Association (ANA)
Florida Nurses Association (FNA)
National League for Nursing (NLN)
American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN)
National Student Nurse's Association (NSNA)
Florida Student Nurses Association (FNSA)
Why are nursing organizations important for the continued development and improvement of the
nursing profession? - ANSWERSSet standards for nursing practice
Healthy People 2020 - ANSWERSNational initiative to:
-Address the effect of lifestyle on health
-Creates health improvement goals
-Eliminates health disparities (main goal)
Nurses role in health promotoin - ANSWERS-Physical exam and prior medical history
-Lifestyle and risk appraisal
-Life stress review
-Health beliefs
-Nutrition
-Screenings
-Assessing
-Developing realistic plans that are patient centered
-Counseling
-Supporting
-Advocating
-Role modeling
,Health protection - ANSWERSThe motivation to avoid illness
Primary health protection - ANSWERSActivities that prevent or slow the onset of a disease
Secondary health protection - ANSWERSActivities that can detect disease
Tertiary health proctection - ANSWERSActivities that slow the progression of a diagnosis
Cardiac or Stroke Rehabilitation programs - ANSWERSTertiary protection
Immunizations - ANSWERSPrimary protection
Diabetes control education - ANSWERSTertiary protection
Workplace health screenings - ANSWERSSecondary protection
Education and legislation about proper seat belt and helmet use - ANSWERSPrimary protection
Chronic pain management program - ANSWERSTertiary protection
Routine Annual Pap Smear - ANSWERSSecondary protection
Safety - ANSWERSThe state of being safe; freedom from the occurrence or risk of injury, danger, or loss;
basic human need
Nurses role in safety - ANSWERSNurses attend to the safety needs of: clients in all healthcare settings
and healthcare workings, including themselves
Performing range or motion on a patient - ANSWERS-Support joint on both sides
, -Encourage active movement
-Do not force past point of comfort
-Incorporate into Activity of Daily Living (ADLs)
Principles of Body Mechanics - ANSWERS-Proper alignment- keep back straight, use legs not back
muscles
-Wide base of support
-Avoid bending and twisting
-Squat to lift
-Keep objects close when lifting
-Raise bed
-Push vs. life
-Get help; Lift teams
Intrinsic factors for falls - ANSWERSFactors within the body or person:
-orthostatic hypotension
-meds
-impaired gait or balance
-neuropathy
-incontinence
-urgency
-vision impairment
-UTI
-confusion
Extrinsic factor for falls - ANSWERSEnvironment:
-Clutter
-Throw rugs
-Wires
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