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What is the purpose of the ANAs scope and standards of practice?

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To define the activities that are special and unique to nursing

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The school nurse is teaching a class of junior high students about the effects of smoking. This educational program will meet which of the aims of nursing?

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Preventing illness

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What is ethnocentrism?

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The beliefs that ones own ideas, beliefs, and practices are best or superior to others

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What is inductive reasoning?

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One builds specific ideas from general ideas

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What is deductive reasoning ?

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One examines a general idea then considers specific ideas

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Florence nightingales nursing theory?

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Meeting the personal needs of the patient within the environment

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Hildegard Peplaus nursing theory?

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Nursing is a therapeutic , interpersonal, and goal oriented process

She wanted to develop interaction between the nurse and client

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Virginia hendersons nursing theory?

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The patient is an individual who requires help to reach independence as quickly as possible

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Faye Abdullah nursing theory?

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Nursing is a problem solving art: main goal is to problem solve…21 problems

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Ida Jean Orlando nursing theory?

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To use the nursing process to provide solutions to problems as well as prevent them

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Martha Rogers nursing theory?

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The client continuously changes and co-exists the environment

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Dorothea Orem nursing theory?

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To care for and help client obtain total self care

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Imogene king nursing theory?

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To have nursing as an interpersonal process between nurse, client, and healthcare system

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Betty Newmans nursing theory?

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A systems theory in reducing stress

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Sr. Callista Roy nursing theory?

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To asses the demands on a client and help the client adapt

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Madeline Leininger nursing theory?

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To care across all cultures …..provides the foundation of transcultural nursing care

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Jean Watson nursing theory?

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To care using interventions to meet human needs (10 carative factors)

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Patricia Benners nursing theory?

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To go from novice to expert in nursing

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What does the PICO format stand for?

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P: patient, population, problem of interest
I: intervention
C: comparison
O: Outcome

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Which type of theory focuses on clinical nursing practice?

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Prescriptive theory

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Which type of quantitative research is conducted to directly influence or Improve clinical practice?

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Applied research

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A nurse researcher is studying the effects of e cherishes and sleep on blood pressure. The researcher identifies blood pressure as which type of variable?

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Dependent

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What does utilitarian mean?

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The rightness or wrongness of an action depends on the consequences of the action

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What does deontologic mean?

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An a action is right or wrong independent of its consequences

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Ethical distress vs. Ethical dilemma

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Ethical distress: results from knowing the right thing to do but finding it almost impossible to execute because of certain constraints ( fear of losing job)

Ethical dilemma: occurs when the principles of bioethics justify two or more conflicting courses of action

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True or false

The nursing process is a five step process

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True

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The best description of critical thinking indicators in which of the following?

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Evidence based descriptions of behaviors that demonstrate the knowledge, characteristics, and skills that promote critical thinking in clinical practice

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Although the nursing process is presented as an orderly progression of steps in reality there is great interaction and overlapping among the five steps. Which of the following describes his characteristic of the nursing process?

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Dynamic

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Which group is responsible for the promotion and organization of activities to continue development, classification, and scientific testing of nursing diagnosis?

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National American Nursing Diagnosis Association : NANDA

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What does veracity mean?

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To tell the truth

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What does fidelity mean?

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To honor agreements or keep promises

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A nurse falsely imprisions a patient by an unauthorized use of restraints…..this is an example of what

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Tort

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