NURS 317 EXAM 1 2026/2027 | NURS 317 EXAM 1 QUESTIONS, STUDY
GUIDE & COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW
List the 2019 national patient safety goals - Correct answer ✔✔ - Identify patients correctly
- Improve staff communication
- Use medicines safely
- Use alarms safely
- Prevent infection
- Identify patient safety risks
- Prevent mistakes in surgery
Define scope of practice - Correct answer ✔✔ A scope of practice defines the legal range of
services that professionals in a given field can provide, the setting in which those services can
be provided, and the guidelines or parameters that must be followed.
What are the four categories of safety risks in a health care agency? - Correct answer ✔✔ - Falls
- Patient Inherent Accidents: patient self induced
- Procedure Related Accidents: improper application of procedures
- Equipment Related Accidents: result from equipment malfunctions
What are the four main things patients want from their health care? - Correct answer ✔✔ -
Safety
- Outcomes
- Respect
- Access
,What can you do as a provider to improve patient safety? - Correct answer ✔✔ - follow
protocols
- speak up
- listen to you patients, colleagues, and mentors
- take care of yourself
Define patient-centered care - Correct answer ✔✔ providing care that is respectful of and
responsive to individual patient preferences, needs, and values and ensuring that patient values
guide all clinical decisions
define evidence based practice (EBP) - Correct answer ✔✔ a process that best promotes the
delivery of optimal health care through the integration of the best current evidence, clinical
expertise, and patient/family values
define never events - Correct answer ✔✔ never events are health care situations that arise that
are serious PREVENTABLE, and NOT EXPECTED to occur in a hospital
Give an example of a never event - Correct answer ✔✔ pressure ulcers
Define Sentinel Event - Correct answer ✔✔ an unexpected occurrence involving death or
serious physical or psychological injury, or the risk thereof
Give an example of a sentinel event - Correct answer ✔✔ If a fall happens it isa never event,
however if the patient develops an internal bleed and dies from it then it becomes a sentinel
event
What was Florence Nightingale's role in nursing? - Correct answer ✔✔ she is considered the
founder of modern nursing because she transformed nursing into a profession. She was the first
theorist of nursing.
, Describe dependent nursing actions - Correct answer ✔✔ dependent nursing actions come
straight from the direction of a provider
Describe independent nursing actions - Correct answer ✔✔ Independent nursing actions are
part of the nursing practice and process and are based off of the nurses expertise
Describe interdependent nursing actions - Correct answer ✔✔ interdependent nursing actions
are collaborating care with other members of the healthcare team like a consult
Define domain - Correct answer ✔✔ the perspective or territory of a profession or discipline.
Nursing domain gives nurses a comprehensive perspective that allows you to identify and treat
patient's healthcare needs in all healthcare settings.
Define paradigm - Correct answer ✔✔ A pattern of beliefs used to describe the domain of a
discipline. A nursing paradigm links the concepts, theories, beliefs, values, and assumptions
accepted and applied by nursing
Define theory - Correct answer ✔✔ Theories explain a phenomenon. A nursing theory
conceptualizes an aspect of nursing to describe, explain, predict, or prescribe nursing care
What was Henderson's theory? - Correct answer ✔✔ - nurses assist patients with activities until
the patient can meet those needs themselves.
- nurses help patients with a peaceful death.
What was Leininger's theory? - Correct answer ✔✔ - Culture care therapy, human caring varies
among cultures
What was Nightingale's theory? - Correct answer ✔✔ - links health status with environmental
factors, the environment can be manipulated to restore their health
GUIDE & COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW
List the 2019 national patient safety goals - Correct answer ✔✔ - Identify patients correctly
- Improve staff communication
- Use medicines safely
- Use alarms safely
- Prevent infection
- Identify patient safety risks
- Prevent mistakes in surgery
Define scope of practice - Correct answer ✔✔ A scope of practice defines the legal range of
services that professionals in a given field can provide, the setting in which those services can
be provided, and the guidelines or parameters that must be followed.
What are the four categories of safety risks in a health care agency? - Correct answer ✔✔ - Falls
- Patient Inherent Accidents: patient self induced
- Procedure Related Accidents: improper application of procedures
- Equipment Related Accidents: result from equipment malfunctions
What are the four main things patients want from their health care? - Correct answer ✔✔ -
Safety
- Outcomes
- Respect
- Access
,What can you do as a provider to improve patient safety? - Correct answer ✔✔ - follow
protocols
- speak up
- listen to you patients, colleagues, and mentors
- take care of yourself
Define patient-centered care - Correct answer ✔✔ providing care that is respectful of and
responsive to individual patient preferences, needs, and values and ensuring that patient values
guide all clinical decisions
define evidence based practice (EBP) - Correct answer ✔✔ a process that best promotes the
delivery of optimal health care through the integration of the best current evidence, clinical
expertise, and patient/family values
define never events - Correct answer ✔✔ never events are health care situations that arise that
are serious PREVENTABLE, and NOT EXPECTED to occur in a hospital
Give an example of a never event - Correct answer ✔✔ pressure ulcers
Define Sentinel Event - Correct answer ✔✔ an unexpected occurrence involving death or
serious physical or psychological injury, or the risk thereof
Give an example of a sentinel event - Correct answer ✔✔ If a fall happens it isa never event,
however if the patient develops an internal bleed and dies from it then it becomes a sentinel
event
What was Florence Nightingale's role in nursing? - Correct answer ✔✔ she is considered the
founder of modern nursing because she transformed nursing into a profession. She was the first
theorist of nursing.
, Describe dependent nursing actions - Correct answer ✔✔ dependent nursing actions come
straight from the direction of a provider
Describe independent nursing actions - Correct answer ✔✔ Independent nursing actions are
part of the nursing practice and process and are based off of the nurses expertise
Describe interdependent nursing actions - Correct answer ✔✔ interdependent nursing actions
are collaborating care with other members of the healthcare team like a consult
Define domain - Correct answer ✔✔ the perspective or territory of a profession or discipline.
Nursing domain gives nurses a comprehensive perspective that allows you to identify and treat
patient's healthcare needs in all healthcare settings.
Define paradigm - Correct answer ✔✔ A pattern of beliefs used to describe the domain of a
discipline. A nursing paradigm links the concepts, theories, beliefs, values, and assumptions
accepted and applied by nursing
Define theory - Correct answer ✔✔ Theories explain a phenomenon. A nursing theory
conceptualizes an aspect of nursing to describe, explain, predict, or prescribe nursing care
What was Henderson's theory? - Correct answer ✔✔ - nurses assist patients with activities until
the patient can meet those needs themselves.
- nurses help patients with a peaceful death.
What was Leininger's theory? - Correct answer ✔✔ - Culture care therapy, human caring varies
among cultures
What was Nightingale's theory? - Correct answer ✔✔ - links health status with environmental
factors, the environment can be manipulated to restore their health
