INTRO TO NURSING MODULE 1 QUESTIONS WITH
ACCURATE ANSWERS
1. Know primary, secondary, and tertiary disease categories and examples of each
correct answer * Primary is health promotion & illness prevention
* proper nutrition, weight control and exercise, and stress reduction
* Healthy People 2020- increase quality and years of healthy life, achieve health
equity and eliminate health disparities, create healthy environments for everyone
and prompt health and quality of life across the life span
* Secondary is diagnosis & treatment by hospitals or physicians
* Early detection of disease, routine screening.
* Tertiary is rehab, health restoration & palliative care
* Help people move to their previous level of health or to their highest level they
are capable of. Providing palliative care-providing comfort and treatment for
symptoms
1. Know the difference between community-based nursing and traditional
institutional-based nursing correct answer * Community-based nursing is nursing
care directed toward specific individuals. Not confined to one practice setting.
Nurse is involved with all aspects of care from visiting a newly admitted patient,
making home visits, consultation phone calls to other health care professionals
and to clients
* Traditional institutional-based nursing- healthcare setting- in center
1. Know the elements of assessment correct answer * Collect, organize, validate,
and document data
* Purpose-establish a database about the client's response to health concerns or
illness and the ability to manage health care needs
,1. Know the elements of diagnosing correct answer * Analyze data
* Identify health problems, risks, and strengths (NANDA lists- r/t AEB)
* Formulate diagnostic statements
* Purpose- to identify client strengths and health problems that can be prevented
or resolved by collaborative and independent nursing interventions to develop a
list of nursing and collaborative problems
1. Know the elements of documentation and reporting correct answer *
Discussion
* Reports
* Records
* Purpose- to determine whether to continue, modify, or terminate the plan of
care
1. Know the elements of implementing and evaluating correct answer *
Reassessing the client
* Determining the nurses need for assistance
* Implementing the nursing interventions
* Supervising delegated care
* Documenting nursing activities
* Purpose- to assist the client to meet desired goals/outcomes; promote wellness;
prevent illness and disease; restore health; and facilitate coping with altered
functioning
1. Know the elements of planning in the nursing process correct answer *
Prioritize problems/diagnoses
* Formulate goals/desired outcomes
, * Select nursing interventions
* Write nursing interventions (Within 24 hours can be informal at first- once
written it becomes formal
* Purpose- to develop an individualized care plan that specifies client
goals/desired outcomes, and related nursing interventions
1. Know the nursing leaders influencing the development of nursing and their
contributions correct answer * Harriet Tubman & Sojourner Truth provided care
and safety to slaves fleeing to the North on the Underground Railroad.
* Florence Nightingale was the founder of modern nursing
* Clara Barton organized the American Red Cross
* Linda Richards was the first trained nurse
* Lillian Wald founder of public health nursing
* Dorothea Dix was Union's superintendent during Civil War
* Sairy Gamp represented the negative image of nurses
* Mary Mahoney was the first african american trained nurse
* Lavinia Dock active in the protest movement for women's rights-allowing
women to vote
* Margaret Sanger founder of Planned parenthood and imprisoned for opening
the first birth control information clinic
* Mary Breckenridge founded the Frontier Nursing Service to provide family-
centered primary health care to rural populations.
1. Know the types of home health agencies and the referral process correct
answer * Official or public agencies are operated by the state or local
governments and financed primarily by tax funds
* Voluntary or private not-for profit agencies
ACCURATE ANSWERS
1. Know primary, secondary, and tertiary disease categories and examples of each
correct answer * Primary is health promotion & illness prevention
* proper nutrition, weight control and exercise, and stress reduction
* Healthy People 2020- increase quality and years of healthy life, achieve health
equity and eliminate health disparities, create healthy environments for everyone
and prompt health and quality of life across the life span
* Secondary is diagnosis & treatment by hospitals or physicians
* Early detection of disease, routine screening.
* Tertiary is rehab, health restoration & palliative care
* Help people move to their previous level of health or to their highest level they
are capable of. Providing palliative care-providing comfort and treatment for
symptoms
1. Know the difference between community-based nursing and traditional
institutional-based nursing correct answer * Community-based nursing is nursing
care directed toward specific individuals. Not confined to one practice setting.
Nurse is involved with all aspects of care from visiting a newly admitted patient,
making home visits, consultation phone calls to other health care professionals
and to clients
* Traditional institutional-based nursing- healthcare setting- in center
1. Know the elements of assessment correct answer * Collect, organize, validate,
and document data
* Purpose-establish a database about the client's response to health concerns or
illness and the ability to manage health care needs
,1. Know the elements of diagnosing correct answer * Analyze data
* Identify health problems, risks, and strengths (NANDA lists- r/t AEB)
* Formulate diagnostic statements
* Purpose- to identify client strengths and health problems that can be prevented
or resolved by collaborative and independent nursing interventions to develop a
list of nursing and collaborative problems
1. Know the elements of documentation and reporting correct answer *
Discussion
* Reports
* Records
* Purpose- to determine whether to continue, modify, or terminate the plan of
care
1. Know the elements of implementing and evaluating correct answer *
Reassessing the client
* Determining the nurses need for assistance
* Implementing the nursing interventions
* Supervising delegated care
* Documenting nursing activities
* Purpose- to assist the client to meet desired goals/outcomes; promote wellness;
prevent illness and disease; restore health; and facilitate coping with altered
functioning
1. Know the elements of planning in the nursing process correct answer *
Prioritize problems/diagnoses
* Formulate goals/desired outcomes
, * Select nursing interventions
* Write nursing interventions (Within 24 hours can be informal at first- once
written it becomes formal
* Purpose- to develop an individualized care plan that specifies client
goals/desired outcomes, and related nursing interventions
1. Know the nursing leaders influencing the development of nursing and their
contributions correct answer * Harriet Tubman & Sojourner Truth provided care
and safety to slaves fleeing to the North on the Underground Railroad.
* Florence Nightingale was the founder of modern nursing
* Clara Barton organized the American Red Cross
* Linda Richards was the first trained nurse
* Lillian Wald founder of public health nursing
* Dorothea Dix was Union's superintendent during Civil War
* Sairy Gamp represented the negative image of nurses
* Mary Mahoney was the first african american trained nurse
* Lavinia Dock active in the protest movement for women's rights-allowing
women to vote
* Margaret Sanger founder of Planned parenthood and imprisoned for opening
the first birth control information clinic
* Mary Breckenridge founded the Frontier Nursing Service to provide family-
centered primary health care to rural populations.
1. Know the types of home health agencies and the referral process correct
answer * Official or public agencies are operated by the state or local
governments and financed primarily by tax funds
* Voluntary or private not-for profit agencies
