Benchmark

Question 0

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

Answer 0

To define the activities that are special and unique to nursing

Question 1

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?

Answer 1

Preventing illness

Question 2

What is ethnocentrism?

Answer 2

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

Question 3

What is inductive reasoning?

Answer 3

One builds specific ideas from general ideas

Question 4

What is deductive reasoning ?

Answer 4

One examines a general idea then considers specific ideas

Question 5

Florence nightingales nursing theory?

Answer 5

Meeting the personal needs of the patient within the environment

Question 6

Hildegard Peplaus nursing theory?

Answer 6

Nursing is a therapeutic , interpersonal, and goal oriented process

She wanted to develop interaction between the nurse and client

Question 7

Virginia hendersons nursing theory?

Answer 7

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

Question 8

Faye Abdullah nursing theory?

Answer 8

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

Question 9

Ida Jean Orlando nursing theory?

Answer 9

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

Question 10

Martha Rogers nursing theory?

Answer 10

The client continuously changes and co-exists the environment

Question 11

Dorothea Orem nursing theory?

Answer 11

To care for and help client obtain total self care

Question 12

Imogene king nursing theory?

Answer 12

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

Question 13

Betty Newmans nursing theory?

Answer 13

A systems theory in reducing stress

Question 14

Sr. Callista Roy nursing theory?

Answer 14

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

Question 15

Madeline Leininger nursing theory?

Answer 15

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

Question 16

Jean Watson nursing theory?

Answer 16

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

Question 17

Patricia Benners nursing theory?

Answer 17

To go from novice to expert in nursing

Question 18

What does the PICO format stand for?

Answer 18

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

Question 19

Which type of theory focuses on clinical nursing practice?

Answer 19

Prescriptive theory

Question 20

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

Answer 20

Applied research

Question 21

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?

Answer 21

Dependent

Question 22

What does utilitarian mean?

Answer 22

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

Question 23

What does deontologic mean?

Answer 23

An a action is right or wrong independent of its consequences

Question 24

Ethical distress vs. Ethical dilemma

Answer 24

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

Question 25

True or false | The nursing process is a five step process

Answer 25

True

Question 26

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

Answer 26

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

Question 27

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?

Answer 27

Dynamic

Question 28

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

Answer 28

National American Nursing Diagnosis Association : NANDA

Question 29

What does veracity mean?

Answer 29

To tell the truth

Question 30

What does fidelity mean?

Answer 30

To honor agreements or keep promises

Question 31

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

Answer 31

Tort