NUR 301 Final Exam Questions with Correct
Answers
What are the four nursing aims?
1. Promote health
2. Prevent illness
3. Restore health
4. Facilitate coping with disability or death
How do nurses prevent illness?
nurses prevent illness primarily by teaching and by personal example
How do nurses promote health?
nurses promote health by identifying, analyzing, and maximizing each patient's own individual
strengths as components of prevention illness, restoring health, and facilitating coping with
disability or death.
How do nurses restore health?
nurses restore health by performing assessments that detect an illness, referring questions and
abnormal findings to other health care providers as appropriate, providing direct care of the
person who is ill, collaborating with other healthcare providers, planning/teaching
How do nurses facilitate coping with disability or death?
facilitate patient and family coping with altered function, life crisis, and death, maximizing the
person's strengths and potentials, through teaching and through referral to community support
systems
,What are the seven criteria of the nursing profession?
1. Well defined body of specific and unique knowledge
2. Strong service orientation
3. Recognized authority by a professional group
4. Code of Ethics
5. Professional organizations that sets standards
6. Ongoing research
7. Autonomy and self-regulation
Identify examples of how nursing achieves the criteria of: well defined body of specific and
unique knowledge?
specialized skills and application of knowledge based on an education that has both theoretical
and clinical practice components.
Identify examples of how nursing achieves the criteria of: strong service orientation?
person-centered process that maximizes potential in all human dimensinos
Identify examples of how nursing achieves the criteria of: recognized authority by a
professional group?
,scholarly with academic qualifications, research, and publications specific to the profession that
are widely accepted and respected
Identify examples of how nursing achieves the criteria of: professional organizations that
sets standards?
guided by standards set by professional organizations and an established code of ethics
Identify examples of how nursing achieves the criteria of: ongoing research?
our nursing interventions are focused on EBP, which is practice based on research and NOT
intuition
Identify examples of how nursing achieves the criteria of: autonomy and self regulation?
focuses on human responses to actual or potential health problems and is increasingly focused on
wellness, an area of caring that encompasses nursing's unique knowledge and abilities
What makes a BSN different from an ADN?
BSNs encompass traditional knowledge, scientific knowledge, and authoritative knowledge
Both have clinical components, but ADN's don't incorporate nursing research, community
research, and management
BSN allows for advanced education - ADNs do not.
What exam do registered nurses take to obtain their license? What oversight body manages
this exam?
, NCLEX
overseen by NCSBN
Do diploma, ADN, and BSN new graduates take the same licensing exam?
ADN and BSN take the same licensing exam
Diploma do not but are encouraged too
What were the 19th and 20th century barriers resulting in slow progress toward nursing
developing as a profession?
Hospitals saw nursing students as an economic advantage in having their own schools, and most
hospital schools were organized to provided more easily controlled and less expensive staff for
the hospitals.
This resulted in a lack of clear guidelines separating nursing service and nursing education.
Baptist Tabernacle Infirmary Training School for Christian Nurses was founded in what
year?
1902
Mercer University was founded under the leadership of Jesse Mercer, prominent Baptist
from Georgia, in what year?
1833
What was the first "modern school of nursing"? When was it founded and by whom?
Answers
What are the four nursing aims?
1. Promote health
2. Prevent illness
3. Restore health
4. Facilitate coping with disability or death
How do nurses prevent illness?
nurses prevent illness primarily by teaching and by personal example
How do nurses promote health?
nurses promote health by identifying, analyzing, and maximizing each patient's own individual
strengths as components of prevention illness, restoring health, and facilitating coping with
disability or death.
How do nurses restore health?
nurses restore health by performing assessments that detect an illness, referring questions and
abnormal findings to other health care providers as appropriate, providing direct care of the
person who is ill, collaborating with other healthcare providers, planning/teaching
How do nurses facilitate coping with disability or death?
facilitate patient and family coping with altered function, life crisis, and death, maximizing the
person's strengths and potentials, through teaching and through referral to community support
systems
,What are the seven criteria of the nursing profession?
1. Well defined body of specific and unique knowledge
2. Strong service orientation
3. Recognized authority by a professional group
4. Code of Ethics
5. Professional organizations that sets standards
6. Ongoing research
7. Autonomy and self-regulation
Identify examples of how nursing achieves the criteria of: well defined body of specific and
unique knowledge?
specialized skills and application of knowledge based on an education that has both theoretical
and clinical practice components.
Identify examples of how nursing achieves the criteria of: strong service orientation?
person-centered process that maximizes potential in all human dimensinos
Identify examples of how nursing achieves the criteria of: recognized authority by a
professional group?
,scholarly with academic qualifications, research, and publications specific to the profession that
are widely accepted and respected
Identify examples of how nursing achieves the criteria of: professional organizations that
sets standards?
guided by standards set by professional organizations and an established code of ethics
Identify examples of how nursing achieves the criteria of: ongoing research?
our nursing interventions are focused on EBP, which is practice based on research and NOT
intuition
Identify examples of how nursing achieves the criteria of: autonomy and self regulation?
focuses on human responses to actual or potential health problems and is increasingly focused on
wellness, an area of caring that encompasses nursing's unique knowledge and abilities
What makes a BSN different from an ADN?
BSNs encompass traditional knowledge, scientific knowledge, and authoritative knowledge
Both have clinical components, but ADN's don't incorporate nursing research, community
research, and management
BSN allows for advanced education - ADNs do not.
What exam do registered nurses take to obtain their license? What oversight body manages
this exam?
, NCLEX
overseen by NCSBN
Do diploma, ADN, and BSN new graduates take the same licensing exam?
ADN and BSN take the same licensing exam
Diploma do not but are encouraged too
What were the 19th and 20th century barriers resulting in slow progress toward nursing
developing as a profession?
Hospitals saw nursing students as an economic advantage in having their own schools, and most
hospital schools were organized to provided more easily controlled and less expensive staff for
the hospitals.
This resulted in a lack of clear guidelines separating nursing service and nursing education.
Baptist Tabernacle Infirmary Training School for Christian Nurses was founded in what
year?
1902
Mercer University was founded under the leadership of Jesse Mercer, prominent Baptist
from Georgia, in what year?
1833
What was the first "modern school of nursing"? When was it founded and by whom?
