Test #1- lecture 1

Question 1

Who is considered your patient?

Answer 1

individuals, families, and communities

Question 2

What do health care advocacy groups recognize?

Answer 2

the importance of the role quality professional nursing has on the nations’ health care.

Question 3

What are Benner’s stages of nursing proficiency?

Answer 3

Novice
advanced beginner
competent
proficient
expert

Question 4

What is a novice nurse?

Answer 4

Completed through the course of the nurse’s education, a time of new experiences and performance of tasks.

Question 5

What is an advanced beginner nurse?

Answer 5

A new nurse merging into professional practice.

Question 6

What is the ANA definition of nursing?

Answer 6

Nursing is the protection, promotion, and optimization of health and abilities; prevention of illness and injury; alleviation of suffering through the diagnosis and treatment of human response; and advocacy in the care of individuals, families, communities, and populations.

Question 7

What does the ANA define the scope of nursing as?

Answer 7

guides nurses to make significant and visible contributions that improve the health and well-being of all individuals, communities, and populations

Question 8

What does the nursing scope and standards of practice describe?

Answer 8

Who
What
Where
When
Why
How

Question 9

What is the Who in the ANA scope of practice?

Answer 9

Registered Nurses
Advanced Practice Registered Nurses
Have been educated, titles and maintain active licensure to practice nursing.

Question 10

What is the WHAT in ANA scope of practice?

Answer 10

The protection, promotion and optimization of health and abilities
prevention of illness and injury
facilitation of healing
alleviation of suffering through the diagnosis and treatment of human response
advocacy in the care of individuals, families, groups, communities and populations

Question 11

What is the WHERE in ANA scope of practice?

Answer 11

Wherever there is a patient in need of care.

Question 12

What is the WHEN in ANA scope of practice?

Answer 12

Whenever there is a need for nursing knowledge, compassion, and expertise.

Question 13

What is the WHY in ANA scope of practice?

Answer 13

The profession exists to achieve the most positive patient outcomes in keeping the nursing’s social contract and obligation to society.

Question 14

What is the main focus of the ANA?

Answer 14

to protect and advance the scope of practice for nurses and to ensure that nurses practice in the full extent of their education and abelites to provide evidence-base care to patients.

Question 15

What are the professional responsibilities and roles?

Answer 15

autonomy and accountability
caregiver
advocate
educator
communicator
manager

Question 16

What is autonomy?

Answer 16

An essential element of professional nursing that involves the initiation of independent nursing interventions without medical orders.

Question 17

What is accountability?

Answer 17

that you are responsible professionally and legally for the type and quality of nursing care provided.

Question 18

What is caregiver?

Answer 18

you help patients maintain and regain health and find their max level of independent function through the healing process.

Question 19

What do a patient’s health care needs include?

Answer 19

emotional, spiritual, and social well-being

Question 20

What is patient advocate?

Answer 20

you protect your patient’s human and legal rights and help patients assert those rights when needed.

Question 21

How are you and educator?

Answer 21

can be formal or informal.
always use teaching methods that match your patient’s capabilities and needs, and incorporate other resources, such as the family, in teaching plans.

Question 22

What is a communicator?

Answer 22

effectiveness is central to the nurse– patient relationships.
allows you to know your patients, including their strengths, weaknesses, and needs.

Question 23

What is a manager?

Answer 23

you will establish an environment for collaborative patient-centered care to provide safe, quality care with positive patient outcomes.

Question 24

What did Florence Nightingale do?

Answer 24

established 1st nursing philosophy base on health maintenance and restoration.
organized 1st school of nursing
1st practicing epidemiologist
Improved sanitation in battlefield hospitals
Practices remain a basic part of nursing today

Question 25

When did Nightingale organize the 1st school of nursing?

Answer 25

1860- Nightingale Training School for Nurses

Located at St. Thomas’ Hospital in London

Question 26

How did Nightingale practice as an epidemiologist?

Answer 26

1st practicing one
used her keen mind and statistical analysis to show the connection between poor sanitation and diseases like cholera and dysentery

Question 27

What was Nightingale known as?

Answer 27

Lady with the Lamp

From crossing the battlefields of the Crimean War with her lantern

Question 28

What are the QSEN competencies?

Answer 28

patient-centered care
Teamwork and collaboration
evidence-based practice
quality improvement
safety
informatics

Question 29

What is preventative health care?

Answer 29

focuses on reducing and controlling risk factors for disease through activities such as occupational health programs.

Question 30

What is primary health care?

Answer 30

Focuses on improved health outcomes.

Question 31

What is secondary health care?

Answer 31

Provided by a specialist upon referral from PCP.

Question 32

What is tertiary health care?

Answer 32

Specialized consultative care, usually provided on referral from secondary medical personnel.

Question 33

What is restorative health care?

Answer 33

serves patients recovering from an acute or chronic illness/disability?

Question 34

What is continuing health care?

Answer 34

for people who are disabled, functionally dependent, or suffering a terminal disease

Question 35

What is discharge planning?

Answer 35

develops plan for continuing care
determines post-hospital destination
identifies patient needs
begins process while still hospitalized.

Question 36

What happened during the curriculum era of nursing?

Answer 36

1900-1940s
nursing education expanded beyond basic anatomy and physiology courses to include courses in the social sciences, pharmacology, and nursing arts that addressed nursing actions, skills and procedures.

Question 37

What happened during the research era?

Answer 37

1950-1970s

nurses became increasingly involved in conducting studies and sharing their findings.

Question 38

What happened during the graduate education era?

Answer 38

1950-1970s

early versions of nursing theories were developed that offered more structure to nursing research

Question 39

What happened during the theory era?

Answer 39

1980-1990s
significantly contributed to knowledge development.
Resulted in the publication of several nursing journals, the development of nursing conferences, and the offering of more doctoral programs in nursing.

Question 40

What happened during the theory utilization era?

Answer 40

2000s-today

nurses strive to provided evidence-based practice, which stems from theory, research, and experience.

Question 41

What is nursing knowledge?

Answer 41

Derived from basic and nursing sciences, experience, aesthetics, nurses’ attitudes, and standards of practice.