DAVIS Advantage FOR BASIC Nursing
3RD TEST Questions and Answers
Verified Solutions Latest Update
Question:
Interrelated roles of nurses
Answer:
communicator, teacher, counselor, leader, researcher, advocate, collaborator
Question:
coping with disability and death
Answer:
nurses use optimal function of maximum strengths and potentials, refer to community
support systems; provide care to families and patients during end-of-life care, hospice
Question:
The Nursing Process
Answer:
one of major guidelines for nursing practice -helps nurses implement their roles
-integrates art and science of nursing -allows nurses to use critical thinking and clinical
reasoning -defines the areas of care that are within the domain of nursing
Question:
Nurse Practice Acts
Answer:
define legal scope of nursing practice -create state board of nursing to make and
enforce rules and regulation -define important terms and activities in nursing, including
legal requirements and titles for RNs and LPNs-established criteria for the education
and licensure of nurses
,Question:
5 vital signs
Answer:
respirations, pulse rate, blood pressure, temperature, and pain
Question:
Nursing is recognized as profession based on what criteria
Answer:
well defined body specific and unique knowledge -strong service orientation
-recognized authority by a professional group (ANA) -code of ethics -professional
organization that sets standards -ongoing research -autonomy and self-regulation
Question:
Florence Nightingale
Answer:
defined nursing as both an art and science, differentiated nursing from medicine,
created freestanding nursing education, published books; founder of modern nursing
Question:
Clara Barton
Answer:
established red cross; volunteered to care for wounds and feed union soldiers during
civil war; served as supervisor of nurses for the army of James
Question:
sources of knowledge
Answer:
traditional ( passed down from generation to generation) -authoritative-comes from an
expert, accepted as truth based on person's perceived expertise -scientific (obtained
through the scientific method-research)
,Question:
objective
Answer:
you can see the object
Question:
subjective
Answer:
coming from that subject
Question:
types of knowledge
Answer:
science (observing, identifying, describing, investigating, and explaining events and
occurences that are perceived in world) -philosophy (the study of wisdom, fundamental
knowledge, and the processes used to develop and construct on perception on life)
-process (a series of actions, changes, or functions intended to bring about a desired
result)
Question:
goals of nursing research
Answer:
improve care in clinical setting -study ppl and nurse process: education, policy
development, ethics, nursing history -develop greater autonomy and strength as a
profession -provide evidence-based nursing practice
Question:
deductive reasoning
Answer:
examines a general idea and then considers specific actions or ideas
, Question:
inductive reasoning
Answer:
one builds from specific ideas or actions to conclusions about general ideas
Question:
health
Answer:
a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being, not merely the absence of
disease or infirmity
Question:
illness
Answer:
the unique response of a person to a disease; an abnormal process involving changed
level of functioning
Question:
wellness
Answer:
an active state of being healthy by living a lifestyle promoting good physical, mental,
and emotional health
Question:
nursing theory
Answer:
differentiates nursing from other disciplines and activities in that it serves the purposes
of describing, explaining, predicting, and controlling desired outcomes of nursing care
practices
3RD TEST Questions and Answers
Verified Solutions Latest Update
Question:
Interrelated roles of nurses
Answer:
communicator, teacher, counselor, leader, researcher, advocate, collaborator
Question:
coping with disability and death
Answer:
nurses use optimal function of maximum strengths and potentials, refer to community
support systems; provide care to families and patients during end-of-life care, hospice
Question:
The Nursing Process
Answer:
one of major guidelines for nursing practice -helps nurses implement their roles
-integrates art and science of nursing -allows nurses to use critical thinking and clinical
reasoning -defines the areas of care that are within the domain of nursing
Question:
Nurse Practice Acts
Answer:
define legal scope of nursing practice -create state board of nursing to make and
enforce rules and regulation -define important terms and activities in nursing, including
legal requirements and titles for RNs and LPNs-established criteria for the education
and licensure of nurses
,Question:
5 vital signs
Answer:
respirations, pulse rate, blood pressure, temperature, and pain
Question:
Nursing is recognized as profession based on what criteria
Answer:
well defined body specific and unique knowledge -strong service orientation
-recognized authority by a professional group (ANA) -code of ethics -professional
organization that sets standards -ongoing research -autonomy and self-regulation
Question:
Florence Nightingale
Answer:
defined nursing as both an art and science, differentiated nursing from medicine,
created freestanding nursing education, published books; founder of modern nursing
Question:
Clara Barton
Answer:
established red cross; volunteered to care for wounds and feed union soldiers during
civil war; served as supervisor of nurses for the army of James
Question:
sources of knowledge
Answer:
traditional ( passed down from generation to generation) -authoritative-comes from an
expert, accepted as truth based on person's perceived expertise -scientific (obtained
through the scientific method-research)
,Question:
objective
Answer:
you can see the object
Question:
subjective
Answer:
coming from that subject
Question:
types of knowledge
Answer:
science (observing, identifying, describing, investigating, and explaining events and
occurences that are perceived in world) -philosophy (the study of wisdom, fundamental
knowledge, and the processes used to develop and construct on perception on life)
-process (a series of actions, changes, or functions intended to bring about a desired
result)
Question:
goals of nursing research
Answer:
improve care in clinical setting -study ppl and nurse process: education, policy
development, ethics, nursing history -develop greater autonomy and strength as a
profession -provide evidence-based nursing practice
Question:
deductive reasoning
Answer:
examines a general idea and then considers specific actions or ideas
, Question:
inductive reasoning
Answer:
one builds from specific ideas or actions to conclusions about general ideas
Question:
health
Answer:
a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being, not merely the absence of
disease or infirmity
Question:
illness
Answer:
the unique response of a person to a disease; an abnormal process involving changed
level of functioning
Question:
wellness
Answer:
an active state of being healthy by living a lifestyle promoting good physical, mental,
and emotional health
Question:
nursing theory
Answer:
differentiates nursing from other disciplines and activities in that it serves the purposes
of describing, explaining, predicting, and controlling desired outcomes of nursing care
practices
