HONDROS NUR205 EXAM 1 Questions and
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• What are the key characteristics of nursing? -✓✓1. Holistic Care
2. Specialized knowledge and training
3. Professional organization
4. Code of ethics for nursing
5. Scope and standards of practice
6. ANA definition of nursing
• Nursing is seen as ______ care -✓✓holistic
• What is holistic care? -✓✓looks at physical, mental, emotional, and social well
being of those we are caring for
• Nursing is a _____ rather than a job -✓✓Profession
• Profession is an -✓✓occupation that has specialized body of knowledge and
training
• A profession has a -✓✓duty to the public good
• The standards of practice -✓✓describe the minimum set of criteria for giving
quality care
,• The standards of practice assure -✓✓competency and quality care
• Who publishes scope and standards of practice -✓✓The American Nursing
Association
• The scope of nursing describes -✓✓what the profession of nursing does and how
it is done
• ANA definition of nursing -✓✓-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, communities, and populations
• What is the professional organization for nursing? -✓✓American Nursing
Association (ANA)
• Code of Ethics for Nurses are -✓✓statements of the values and belief of nurses,
which are based on ethical principles
• What are the roles and functions of the nurse? -✓✓1. Care Provider
2. Educator
3. Advocate
4. Leader
5. Change Agent
6. Manager
,7. Researcher
8. Collaborator
9. Delegator
• What is the primary role of the nurse -✓✓Care provider
• nurse as educator -✓✓-ensure patient receives sufficient information to base
consent for care and treatments
-focus on discharge planning
• Nurse as advocate -✓✓-interprets information and provides necessary education
-supports the patient's wishes and communicates them to other health care
providers
-situations when patient cannot speak for themselves
• Nurse as a Leader -✓✓-provides direction and purpose
-motivates to work toward common goal
• nurse as a manager -✓✓-coordinating all care that a patient needs
-oversee the staff, budget, and resources
• nurse as researcher -✓✓-critique studies
-apply to practice
-problems we identify become research
, • Nursing research is how -✓✓nursing care is improved
• Nurse as a Collaborator -✓✓-working with other health care providers
-coordination of patient care and communicating
• nurse as delegator -✓✓-entrusting tasks to other health care providers
-knowing the scope of other professionals practice
• The profession of nursing developed through -✓✓war
• Who established American Red Cross -✓✓Clara Barton
• Who headed the US Sanitary Commission (Army Nursing Corps) -✓✓Dorothea
Dix
• During wars, nurses emerged as _____ and had more ______ and ______ -
✓✓leaders, autonomy, responsibility
• Nursing religious roots come from -✓✓-nurses (males) in Egypt
-increasing nun and monk work
• When did the profession begin and who started it -✓✓-in the 1850's during the
Crimean War
-Florence Nightingale
Answers | 2026 Step-by-Step Exam Review |
A+ Verified
• What are the key characteristics of nursing? -✓✓1. Holistic Care
2. Specialized knowledge and training
3. Professional organization
4. Code of ethics for nursing
5. Scope and standards of practice
6. ANA definition of nursing
• Nursing is seen as ______ care -✓✓holistic
• What is holistic care? -✓✓looks at physical, mental, emotional, and social well
being of those we are caring for
• Nursing is a _____ rather than a job -✓✓Profession
• Profession is an -✓✓occupation that has specialized body of knowledge and
training
• A profession has a -✓✓duty to the public good
• The standards of practice -✓✓describe the minimum set of criteria for giving
quality care
,• The standards of practice assure -✓✓competency and quality care
• Who publishes scope and standards of practice -✓✓The American Nursing
Association
• The scope of nursing describes -✓✓what the profession of nursing does and how
it is done
• ANA definition of nursing -✓✓-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, communities, and populations
• What is the professional organization for nursing? -✓✓American Nursing
Association (ANA)
• Code of Ethics for Nurses are -✓✓statements of the values and belief of nurses,
which are based on ethical principles
• What are the roles and functions of the nurse? -✓✓1. Care Provider
2. Educator
3. Advocate
4. Leader
5. Change Agent
6. Manager
,7. Researcher
8. Collaborator
9. Delegator
• What is the primary role of the nurse -✓✓Care provider
• nurse as educator -✓✓-ensure patient receives sufficient information to base
consent for care and treatments
-focus on discharge planning
• Nurse as advocate -✓✓-interprets information and provides necessary education
-supports the patient's wishes and communicates them to other health care
providers
-situations when patient cannot speak for themselves
• Nurse as a Leader -✓✓-provides direction and purpose
-motivates to work toward common goal
• nurse as a manager -✓✓-coordinating all care that a patient needs
-oversee the staff, budget, and resources
• nurse as researcher -✓✓-critique studies
-apply to practice
-problems we identify become research
, • Nursing research is how -✓✓nursing care is improved
• Nurse as a Collaborator -✓✓-working with other health care providers
-coordination of patient care and communicating
• nurse as delegator -✓✓-entrusting tasks to other health care providers
-knowing the scope of other professionals practice
• The profession of nursing developed through -✓✓war
• Who established American Red Cross -✓✓Clara Barton
• Who headed the US Sanitary Commission (Army Nursing Corps) -✓✓Dorothea
Dix
• During wars, nurses emerged as _____ and had more ______ and ______ -
✓✓leaders, autonomy, responsibility
• Nursing religious roots come from -✓✓-nurses (males) in Egypt
-increasing nun and monk work
• When did the profession begin and who started it -✓✓-in the 1850's during the
Crimean War
-Florence Nightingale
