CBN 1 Theory Exam 1 – Study Guide and Practice Questions Review
Material
What are the values at the SFMCCON? - correct answer ✔✔personal and professional
development (learning, caring, leadership, personal worth, dignity), Service (integrity,
responsibility, accountability), quality (excellence), agility (adapting to change, being prepared
and flexible)
What are the CON's three main goals? - correct answer ✔✔prepare the graduate to practice
professional nursing in a variety of healthcare settings, provide the essential foundation for
undergraduate study in nursing, foster a commitment to personal and professional growth and
responsibility
What are the six overlying concepts for the nursing curriculum at the SFMCCON? - correct
answer ✔✔person, health, nursing, environment, society, student-centered learning
What characteristics does a profession possess? - correct answer ✔✔a theoretical body of
knowledge leading to defined skills, abilities, and norms; a code of ethics for practice; extended
education of its members, as well as a liberal arts foundation; members have autonomy in
decision-making and practice; provides a specific service
What are the standards of professional performance in nursing? - correct answer ✔✔quality of
practice, education, professional practice evaluation, collaboration, communication, ethics,
evidence-based practice and research, resources, leadership, environmental health
What is the ANA standards of care also known as? - correct answer ✔✔the nursing
process/ADPIE
What are the components of ADPIE? - correct answer ✔✔assessment, nursing diagnosis,
planning, implementation, evaluation
, What is magnet status? - correct answer ✔✔highest credential for nursing facilities and around
the world
What does the Nurse Practice Act contain? - correct answer ✔✔what a nurse can and cannot do
in practice: ADPIE, licensure requirements, revocation/suspension of license, reciprocity of
license members of the Board of Nursing
Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) - correct answer ✔✔an
important accrediting body- THINK ABOUT QUALITY
What are examples of caring behaviors in nursing? - correct answer ✔✔providing presence,
touch (task-oriented, caring, or protective), listening, knowing the client, spiritual caring, family
care
What are some signs of caregiver stress? - correct answer ✔✔Denial, anger, social withdrawal,
anxiety, depression, exhaustion, irritability, sleeplessness, lack of concentration, health
problems
What are the five perspectives on caring? - correct answer ✔✔human trait (born with it), moral
imperative (right vs. wrong decision value), affect (a feeling you have about
someone/something), interpersonal interactive (exchange between 2+ people), therapeutic
intervention (performed by nurses to achieve goals/outcomes)
What perspective on caring is unique to nursing? - correct answer ✔✔Therapeutic intervention
Patricia Benner's theoretical view - correct answer ✔✔"caring means that persons, events,
projects, and things matter to people", caring is primary because it sets up the possibility of
giving and/or receiving help, interpersonal interaction, specific and rational, emphasis on
disease orientation to healthcare
Material
What are the values at the SFMCCON? - correct answer ✔✔personal and professional
development (learning, caring, leadership, personal worth, dignity), Service (integrity,
responsibility, accountability), quality (excellence), agility (adapting to change, being prepared
and flexible)
What are the CON's three main goals? - correct answer ✔✔prepare the graduate to practice
professional nursing in a variety of healthcare settings, provide the essential foundation for
undergraduate study in nursing, foster a commitment to personal and professional growth and
responsibility
What are the six overlying concepts for the nursing curriculum at the SFMCCON? - correct
answer ✔✔person, health, nursing, environment, society, student-centered learning
What characteristics does a profession possess? - correct answer ✔✔a theoretical body of
knowledge leading to defined skills, abilities, and norms; a code of ethics for practice; extended
education of its members, as well as a liberal arts foundation; members have autonomy in
decision-making and practice; provides a specific service
What are the standards of professional performance in nursing? - correct answer ✔✔quality of
practice, education, professional practice evaluation, collaboration, communication, ethics,
evidence-based practice and research, resources, leadership, environmental health
What is the ANA standards of care also known as? - correct answer ✔✔the nursing
process/ADPIE
What are the components of ADPIE? - correct answer ✔✔assessment, nursing diagnosis,
planning, implementation, evaluation
, What is magnet status? - correct answer ✔✔highest credential for nursing facilities and around
the world
What does the Nurse Practice Act contain? - correct answer ✔✔what a nurse can and cannot do
in practice: ADPIE, licensure requirements, revocation/suspension of license, reciprocity of
license members of the Board of Nursing
Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) - correct answer ✔✔an
important accrediting body- THINK ABOUT QUALITY
What are examples of caring behaviors in nursing? - correct answer ✔✔providing presence,
touch (task-oriented, caring, or protective), listening, knowing the client, spiritual caring, family
care
What are some signs of caregiver stress? - correct answer ✔✔Denial, anger, social withdrawal,
anxiety, depression, exhaustion, irritability, sleeplessness, lack of concentration, health
problems
What are the five perspectives on caring? - correct answer ✔✔human trait (born with it), moral
imperative (right vs. wrong decision value), affect (a feeling you have about
someone/something), interpersonal interactive (exchange between 2+ people), therapeutic
intervention (performed by nurses to achieve goals/outcomes)
What perspective on caring is unique to nursing? - correct answer ✔✔Therapeutic intervention
Patricia Benner's theoretical view - correct answer ✔✔"caring means that persons, events,
projects, and things matter to people", caring is primary because it sets up the possibility of
giving and/or receiving help, interpersonal interaction, specific and rational, emphasis on
disease orientation to healthcare
