1.1 Points

Question 1

Four common goals of nursing

Answer 1

To promote wellness
To prevent illness
To facilitate coping
To restore health

Question 2

What is the role of the practical nurse?

Answer 2

Caregiver
Educator
Collaborator
Advocate
Manager

Question 3

What are interventions?

Answer 3

Interventions are actions taken to improve, maintain, or restore health or prevent illness.

Question 4

What is the evidence-based nursing?

Answer 4

Evidence-based nursing describes nursing care that uses the best research evidence coupled with the clinical expertise of the clinician, considering the values of the patient.

Question 5

Goal of nursing:
To help patients gain independence in meeting their needs as quickly as possible

Answer 5

Virginia Henderson(1955)

Practice framework:
Fourteen fundamental needs

Question 6

Goal of nursing:
To reduce stress, allowing the patient to recover as quickly as possible

Answer 6

Dorothy Johnson(1968)

Practice framework
Seven behavioral subsystems in an adaptation model

Question 7

Goal of nursing
To achieve maximum level of wellness

Answer 7

Martha Rogers (1970)

Practice of framework
Concepts of “unitary man” evolving along the life process

Question 8

Goal of nursing
To care for and help patients with various needs attain self-care

Answer 8

Dorothea Orem (1971)
Practice framework
Self-care deficits

Question 9

Goal of nursing
The help individuals, families, and groups attain and maintain maximum levels of total wellness through purposeful interventions

Answer 9

Betty Neumann ( 1972)
Systems model with stress reduction as its goal; nursing care occurs on various levels: primary prevention, secondary prevention or tertiary prevention

Question 10

Goal of nursing
To identify types of demands placed on the patient and the patient’s adaptation to them

Answer 10

Sister Callisto Roy (1976)

Practice framework
Four adaptive modes: physiologic, psychological, sociological, and independence

Question 11

Goal of nursing
To promote health, restore patients to health, and prevent illness

Answer 11

Jean Watson (1979)
Practice framework
“Caretive” factors, with caring as an interpersonal process used to meet human needs

Question 12

Goal of nursing
To assist the patient in interaction with the environment and in co-creating health
To sustain a safe and protective environment

Answer 12

Rosemarie Parse (1987)
Practice framework
Human becoming patients are open, mutual, and constantly interacting with the environment. Health is constantly changing.

Question 13

Goal of nursing
To care about the patient as an individual

Answer 13

Patricia Banner and
Judith Wrubel (1989)
Practice framework
Primacy of caring: caring is central and allows for the giving and receiving of help. Caring extends to all aspects of care of the patient.