Final Review

Question 1

What number constitutes how many working nurses there are in the U.S. today?

Answer 1

2.6 million

Question 2

What are the three types of note taking strategies?

Answer 2

outlining, mapping, cornell

Question 3

What are the four goals of nursing?

Answer 3

Prevent health, prevent illness, restore health, and facilitate coping

Question 4

Ten classic criteria used as a standard to identify characteristics of a profession are?

Answer 4

Flexner’s Criteria

Question 5

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

Answer 5

professional commitment

Question 6

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

Answer 6

doctoral programs

Question 7

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

Answer 7

morality

Question 8

HIPAA is a policy related to which ethical principle?

Answer 8

confidentiality

Question 9

This entity signs amendments and bills into laws…

Answer 9

executive branch

Question 10

Name two causes for nursing litigation.

Answer 10

• failure to use adequate precautions to protect against patient injury
• dysfunctional communication
• poor record keeping
• abandonment
• failure to teach
• using faulty equipment

Question 11

What are the three payers of healthcare?

Answer 11

1. self-pay
2. employee insurance
3. government

Question 12

What are the major components of

grand nursing theories?

Answer 12

person, health, environment, and nursing

Question 13

These are the three elements in the definition of leadership…

Answer 13

power, others, and 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 65 who worked at least 10 years?

Answer 15

Medicare

Question 16

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

Answer 16

test anxiety

Question 17

What is a provision of a 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

This is when duty to give care is ignored

Answer 19

abandonment

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

life expectancy?

Answer 21

increased by 8 years

Question 22

What is the leading cause of death in the U.S.?

Answer 22

Cardiovascular Disease

Question 23

What age bracket are 50% of the poor

in the U.S. in?

Answer 23

Under 18, over 65

Question 24

According to research, abortions in the U.S. have trended in what direction?

Answer 24

decreased by 33%

Question 25

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

Answer 25

decreasing

Question 26

Radiology Technicians need to have more training in order to work with these specific radiology tests…

Answer 26

CT and MRI