Final Exam Review

Question 1

What are 3 note taking methods?

Answer 1

Outlining, Cornell, and Mapping

Question 2

How many working nurses are there in the US today?

Answer 2

2.6 million nurses

Question 3

What are 4 nursing goals?

Answer 3

1. Promote health
2. Prevent illness
3. Restore health
4. Facilitate coping

Question 4

What is Flexner’s Criteria?

Answer 4

10 classic criteria used as a standard to identify characteristics of a profession

Question 5

Discuss Professional Commitment. What are the examples of this?

Answer 5

Life long learning, identification of one’s self with a profession, responsibility and accountability, and promoting a profession

Question 6

What education level is expected to expand nursing knowledge through research?

Answer 6

Doctoral programs

Question 7

What is morality?

Answer 7

A personal standard of what is right and wrong, good and bad, in a situation

Question 8

HIPPA is a policy related to which ethical principle?

Answer 8

Confidentiality

Question 9

This entity signs amendments and bills into law.

Answer 9

The executive branch

Question 10

Name 2 causes for nursing litigation

Answer 10

1. Failure to use adequate precautions to protect against patient injury
2. Dysfunctional communication
3. Poor record keeping
4. Abandonment
5. Failure to teach
6. Using faulty equipment

Question 11

What are the 3 payers of healthcare?

Answer 11

Self-pay
Employee insurance
Government

Question 12

What are the [4] major components of grand nursing theories?

Answer 12

Person
Health
Environment
Nursing

Question 13

These are the 3 elements in the definition of leadership.

Answer 13

Power
Others
Shared vision

Question 14

What is one journal that AACN produces?

Answer 14

Journal of professional nursing

Question 15

What government funded program funds 17% of all health services and provides health insurance to citizens over the age of 65 who have worked at least 10 years?

Answer 15

Medicare

Question 16

What are headaches, tense muscles, and upset stomach all signs of?

Answer 16

Test anxiety

Question 17

What is a provision of caring relationship that facilitates health and healing?

Answer 17

Nursing

Question 18

Inspiring members to be ethical and protecting society are all included in the purpose of this?

Answer 18

Code of Ethics

Question 19

What is abandonment?

Answer 19

When duty to give care is ignored

Question 20

What phase of research involves collecting data and preparing data for analysis?

Answer 20

Empirical Phase

Question 21

During the past 50 years, what has happened to life expectancy?

Answer 21

It has increased by 8 years

Question 22

What is the leading cause of death in the US?

Answer 22

Cardiovascular Disease

Question 23

What age bracket are 50% of the poor in the US in?

Answer 23

Under 18 and over 65

Question 24

According to research, abortions in the US have trended in what direction?

Answer 24

They have decreased by 33%

Question 25

According to research statistics, what is the direction of the rate of teen pregnancy?

Answer 25

It is decreasing

Question 26

Radiology technicians need to have more training in order to work with these specific radiology tests.

Answer 26

CT and MRI