NSG3180 UNIT 1 QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
When describing nursing to a group of nursing students, the nursing instructor lists all of
the following characteristics of nursing EXCEPT:
a. historically nursing is as old as mankind
b. nursing was originally practiced informally by religious orders dedicated to care of the
sick
c. nursing was later practiced in the home by female caregivers with no formal
education
d. nursing has always been identifiable as a distinct occupation - Answers - a.
historically nursing is as old as mankind
The nursing profession's first nurse researcher, who served as an early advocate for
high-quality care and used statistical data to document the need for hand washing in
preventing infection was:
a. Abraham Maslow
b. Martha Rogers
c. Hildegard Peplau
d. Florence Nightingale - Answers - d. Florence Nightingale
Today, professional nursing education begins at the:
a. undergraduate level
b. graduate level
c. advanced practice level
d. administrative level - Answers - a. undergraduate level
Nursing's metaparadigm, or worldview, distinguishes the nursing profession from other
disciplines and emphasizes its unique functional characteristics. The four key concepts
that form the foundation for all nursing theories are:
a. caring, compassion, health promotion, and education
b. respect, integrity, honesty, and advocacy
c. person, environment, health, and nursing
d. nursing, teaching, caring, and health promotion - Answers - c. person, environment,
health, and nursing
When admitting a patient to the medical-surgical unit, the nurse asks the patient about
cultural issues. The nurse is demonstrating use of the concept of:
a. person
,b. environment
c. health
d. nursing - Answers - b. environment
- The concept of environment includes all cultural, developmental, and social
determinants that influence a client's health perception and behavior
Nurses are prepared to function as: - Answers - - advanced practice nurse practitioners
- administrators
- educators
A young mother tells the nurse, "im worried because my son needs a blood transfusion.
I don't know what to do, because blood transfusions cause AIDS." Which central
nursing construct is represented in this situation?
a. Environment
b. caring
c. health
d. person - Answers - d. person
- Person is defined as the recipient of nursing care, having unique bio-psycho-social
and spiritual dimensions
Nurses use __________________ to bridge the interpersonal space between scientific
understandings and patient-centered health experiences. It is this dimension of
knowledge that helps nurses to individualize nursing and interprofessional care
strategies - Answers - - patterns of knowing
What are the 5 patterns of knowing? - Answers - - empirical
- personal
- aesthetic
- ethical
- emancipatory
This pattern of knowledge is the scientific rationale for skilled nursing interventions. It
draws upon verifiable data from science. Includes logical reasoning and problem
solving. - Answers - Empirical ways of knowing
The nurse performs a dressing change using sterile technique. This is an example of
which pattern of knowledge?
a. empirical
b. personal
c. aesthetic
d. ethical - Answers - - Empirical
This pattern of knowledge allows the nurse to understand and treat each individual as a
unique person. It is knowledge characterized as subjective, concrete, and existential.
, This pattern of knowing occurs when nurses connect with the "humanness" of a patient
experience. It is a "precondition for establishing a therapeutic relationship." This
knowledge develops when nurses intuitively understand and connect with patients as
unique human beings - because they share the experience of being human - Answers -
Personal patterns of knowing
This pattern of knowing allows the nurse to connect in different more meaningful ways.
It links the humanistic components of care with their scientific application. It represents
a deeper appreciation of the whole person or situation, and moving beyond the
superficial to see the experience as part of a larger whole.
- It enables the nurses to experientially relate to the fear behind a patient's angry
response, the courage of a patient with stage 4 cancer, or the pain of a father cutting off
funds for a drug addicted son - Answers - Aesthetic ways of knowing
This way of knowing refers to the moral aspects of nursing. It refers to knowledge of
what is right and wrong, attention to professional standards and codes in making moral
choices, taking responsibility for one's actions and protecting patient autonomy and
rights. - Answers - ethical ways of knowing
This way of knowing includes awareness of social problems and social justice issues as
contributory determinants of health disparities. This pattern of knowing expands and
supports the emergent goals of Health People 2020, with its focus on social
determinants as a context for health care concerns. - Answers - emancipatory ways of
knowing
The nurse-client relationship as described by Hildegard Peplau:
a. would not be useful in a short-stay unit
b. allows personal and social growth to occur only for the client
c. facilitates the identification and accomplishment of therapeutic goals
d. focuses on maintaining a personal relationship between the nurse and client -
Answers - c. facilitates the identification and accomplishment of therapeutic goals
The essence of nursing is: - Answers - - Caring
The identification phase of the nurse-client relationship:
a. sets the stage for the rest of the relationship
b. correlates with the assessment phase of the nursing process
c. focuses on therapeutic goals to enhance client and family well-being
d. uses community resources to help resolve health care issues - Answers - c. focuses
on therapeutic goals to enhance client and family well-being
Abraham Maslow's needs theory is a framework that:
a. begins with meeting basic psychosocial needs first
When describing nursing to a group of nursing students, the nursing instructor lists all of
the following characteristics of nursing EXCEPT:
a. historically nursing is as old as mankind
b. nursing was originally practiced informally by religious orders dedicated to care of the
sick
c. nursing was later practiced in the home by female caregivers with no formal
education
d. nursing has always been identifiable as a distinct occupation - Answers - a.
historically nursing is as old as mankind
The nursing profession's first nurse researcher, who served as an early advocate for
high-quality care and used statistical data to document the need for hand washing in
preventing infection was:
a. Abraham Maslow
b. Martha Rogers
c. Hildegard Peplau
d. Florence Nightingale - Answers - d. Florence Nightingale
Today, professional nursing education begins at the:
a. undergraduate level
b. graduate level
c. advanced practice level
d. administrative level - Answers - a. undergraduate level
Nursing's metaparadigm, or worldview, distinguishes the nursing profession from other
disciplines and emphasizes its unique functional characteristics. The four key concepts
that form the foundation for all nursing theories are:
a. caring, compassion, health promotion, and education
b. respect, integrity, honesty, and advocacy
c. person, environment, health, and nursing
d. nursing, teaching, caring, and health promotion - Answers - c. person, environment,
health, and nursing
When admitting a patient to the medical-surgical unit, the nurse asks the patient about
cultural issues. The nurse is demonstrating use of the concept of:
a. person
,b. environment
c. health
d. nursing - Answers - b. environment
- The concept of environment includes all cultural, developmental, and social
determinants that influence a client's health perception and behavior
Nurses are prepared to function as: - Answers - - advanced practice nurse practitioners
- administrators
- educators
A young mother tells the nurse, "im worried because my son needs a blood transfusion.
I don't know what to do, because blood transfusions cause AIDS." Which central
nursing construct is represented in this situation?
a. Environment
b. caring
c. health
d. person - Answers - d. person
- Person is defined as the recipient of nursing care, having unique bio-psycho-social
and spiritual dimensions
Nurses use __________________ to bridge the interpersonal space between scientific
understandings and patient-centered health experiences. It is this dimension of
knowledge that helps nurses to individualize nursing and interprofessional care
strategies - Answers - - patterns of knowing
What are the 5 patterns of knowing? - Answers - - empirical
- personal
- aesthetic
- ethical
- emancipatory
This pattern of knowledge is the scientific rationale for skilled nursing interventions. It
draws upon verifiable data from science. Includes logical reasoning and problem
solving. - Answers - Empirical ways of knowing
The nurse performs a dressing change using sterile technique. This is an example of
which pattern of knowledge?
a. empirical
b. personal
c. aesthetic
d. ethical - Answers - - Empirical
This pattern of knowledge allows the nurse to understand and treat each individual as a
unique person. It is knowledge characterized as subjective, concrete, and existential.
, This pattern of knowing occurs when nurses connect with the "humanness" of a patient
experience. It is a "precondition for establishing a therapeutic relationship." This
knowledge develops when nurses intuitively understand and connect with patients as
unique human beings - because they share the experience of being human - Answers -
Personal patterns of knowing
This pattern of knowing allows the nurse to connect in different more meaningful ways.
It links the humanistic components of care with their scientific application. It represents
a deeper appreciation of the whole person or situation, and moving beyond the
superficial to see the experience as part of a larger whole.
- It enables the nurses to experientially relate to the fear behind a patient's angry
response, the courage of a patient with stage 4 cancer, or the pain of a father cutting off
funds for a drug addicted son - Answers - Aesthetic ways of knowing
This way of knowing refers to the moral aspects of nursing. It refers to knowledge of
what is right and wrong, attention to professional standards and codes in making moral
choices, taking responsibility for one's actions and protecting patient autonomy and
rights. - Answers - ethical ways of knowing
This way of knowing includes awareness of social problems and social justice issues as
contributory determinants of health disparities. This pattern of knowing expands and
supports the emergent goals of Health People 2020, with its focus on social
determinants as a context for health care concerns. - Answers - emancipatory ways of
knowing
The nurse-client relationship as described by Hildegard Peplau:
a. would not be useful in a short-stay unit
b. allows personal and social growth to occur only for the client
c. facilitates the identification and accomplishment of therapeutic goals
d. focuses on maintaining a personal relationship between the nurse and client -
Answers - c. facilitates the identification and accomplishment of therapeutic goals
The essence of nursing is: - Answers - - Caring
The identification phase of the nurse-client relationship:
a. sets the stage for the rest of the relationship
b. correlates with the assessment phase of the nursing process
c. focuses on therapeutic goals to enhance client and family well-being
d. uses community resources to help resolve health care issues - Answers - c. focuses
on therapeutic goals to enhance client and family well-being
Abraham Maslow's needs theory is a framework that:
a. begins with meeting basic psychosocial needs first
