NSG 100 EXAM 1 | NEWEST UPDATED ACTUAL | EXAM
QUESTIONS AND A+ VERIFIED ANSWERS
• Nursing -✓✓ANSWER: the attributes, characteristics, and actions of a nurse
providing care on behalf of, or in conjunction with, a client
• Patient -✓✓ANSWER: an individual who is waiting for or undergoing medical
treatment and care
• Patient Self-Determination Act (PSDA) -✓✓ANSWER: legislation requiring that
every competent adult be informed in writing on admission to a healthcare
institution about his or her rights to accept or refuse medical care and to use
advance directives
• Practice discipline -✓✓ANSWER: field of study in which the central focus is
performance of a professional role (nursing, teaching, management, making
music)
• Profession -✓✓ANSWER: an occupation that requires extensive education or a
calling that requires special knowledge, skill, and preparation
• Professional identity -✓✓ANSWER: sense of oneself that is influenced by
characteristics, norms, and values of the nursing discipline, resulting in an
individual thinking, acting, and feeling like a nurse
• Sairey Gamp -✓✓ANSWER: a character in the Charles Dickens book Martin
Chizzlewit who represented the negative image of nurses in the early 1800s
,• Sojourner Truth -✓✓ANSWER: an abolitionist, Underground Railroad agent,
preacher, and women's rights advocate, she was a nurse for more than 4 years
during the Civil War and worked as a nurse and counselor for the Freedman's
Relief Association after the war
• Standards of practice -✓✓ANSWER: descriptions of the responsibilities for
which nurses are accountable
• Standards of professional performance -✓✓ANSWER: as set by the American
Nurses Association (ANA), describe behaviors expected in the professional nursing
role
• Teacher -✓✓ANSWER: a nurse who helps clients learn about their health and
the healthcare procedures they need to perform to restore or maintain their
health
• Telehealth -✓✓ANSWER: delivery of health-related services and information via
telecommunication technologies
• Telenursing -✓✓ANSWER: use of technology to provide nursing practice at a
distance
• Theory -✓✓ANSWER: a system of ideas that is proposed to explain a given
phenomenon (e.g., theory of gravity)
,• Caregiver -✓✓ANSWER: a role that has traditionally included those activities
that assist the client physically and psychologically
• Case manager -✓✓ANSWER: a nurse who works with the multidisciplinary
healthcare team to measure the effectiveness of the case management plan and
monitor outcomes
• Change agent -✓✓ANSWER: individual (or group) who initiates change or who
assists others in making modifications in themselves or in the system
• Clara Barton -✓✓ANSWER: a schoolteacher who volunteered as a nurse during
the Civil War. Most notably, she organized the American Red Cross, which linked
with the International Red Cross when the U.S. Congress ratified the Geneva
Convention in 1882
• Client -✓✓ANSWER: an individual who engages the advice or services of
another who is qualified to provide this service
• Client advocate -✓✓ANSWER: an individual who acts to protect the client
• Communicator -✓✓ANSWER: a nurse identifies client problems and then
communicates them verbally or in writing to other members of the health team
• Consumer -✓✓ANSWER: an individual, a group of individuals, or a community
that uses a service or commodity
, • Continuing education (CE) -✓✓ANSWER: formalized experiences designed to
enlarge the knowledge or skills of practitioners
• Counseling -✓✓ANSWER: the process of helping a client to recognize and cope
with stressful psychologic or social problems, to develop improved interpersonal
relationships, and to promote personal growth
• Dorothea Dix -✓✓ANSWER: woman leader who provided nursing care during
the Civil War
• Environment -✓✓ANSWER: all of the conditions, circumstances, and influences
surrounding and affecting the development of an organism or individual
• Ernest Grant -✓✓ANSWER: first male president of the American Nurses
Association
• Alexian Brothers -✓✓ANSWER: religious order that organized care for victims of
the Black Plague in the 14th century in Germany and established hospitals and
provided nursing care in the 19th century
• Fabiola -✓✓ANSWER: a wealthy Roman matron; viewed by some as the patron
saint of early nursing who used her position and wealth to establish hospitals for
the sick
• Florence Nightingale -✓✓ANSWER: considered the founder of modern nursing,
she was influential in developing nursing education, practice, and administration
QUESTIONS AND A+ VERIFIED ANSWERS
• Nursing -✓✓ANSWER: the attributes, characteristics, and actions of a nurse
providing care on behalf of, or in conjunction with, a client
• Patient -✓✓ANSWER: an individual who is waiting for or undergoing medical
treatment and care
• Patient Self-Determination Act (PSDA) -✓✓ANSWER: legislation requiring that
every competent adult be informed in writing on admission to a healthcare
institution about his or her rights to accept or refuse medical care and to use
advance directives
• Practice discipline -✓✓ANSWER: field of study in which the central focus is
performance of a professional role (nursing, teaching, management, making
music)
• Profession -✓✓ANSWER: an occupation that requires extensive education or a
calling that requires special knowledge, skill, and preparation
• Professional identity -✓✓ANSWER: sense of oneself that is influenced by
characteristics, norms, and values of the nursing discipline, resulting in an
individual thinking, acting, and feeling like a nurse
• Sairey Gamp -✓✓ANSWER: a character in the Charles Dickens book Martin
Chizzlewit who represented the negative image of nurses in the early 1800s
,• Sojourner Truth -✓✓ANSWER: an abolitionist, Underground Railroad agent,
preacher, and women's rights advocate, she was a nurse for more than 4 years
during the Civil War and worked as a nurse and counselor for the Freedman's
Relief Association after the war
• Standards of practice -✓✓ANSWER: descriptions of the responsibilities for
which nurses are accountable
• Standards of professional performance -✓✓ANSWER: as set by the American
Nurses Association (ANA), describe behaviors expected in the professional nursing
role
• Teacher -✓✓ANSWER: a nurse who helps clients learn about their health and
the healthcare procedures they need to perform to restore or maintain their
health
• Telehealth -✓✓ANSWER: delivery of health-related services and information via
telecommunication technologies
• Telenursing -✓✓ANSWER: use of technology to provide nursing practice at a
distance
• Theory -✓✓ANSWER: a system of ideas that is proposed to explain a given
phenomenon (e.g., theory of gravity)
,• Caregiver -✓✓ANSWER: a role that has traditionally included those activities
that assist the client physically and psychologically
• Case manager -✓✓ANSWER: a nurse who works with the multidisciplinary
healthcare team to measure the effectiveness of the case management plan and
monitor outcomes
• Change agent -✓✓ANSWER: individual (or group) who initiates change or who
assists others in making modifications in themselves or in the system
• Clara Barton -✓✓ANSWER: a schoolteacher who volunteered as a nurse during
the Civil War. Most notably, she organized the American Red Cross, which linked
with the International Red Cross when the U.S. Congress ratified the Geneva
Convention in 1882
• Client -✓✓ANSWER: an individual who engages the advice or services of
another who is qualified to provide this service
• Client advocate -✓✓ANSWER: an individual who acts to protect the client
• Communicator -✓✓ANSWER: a nurse identifies client problems and then
communicates them verbally or in writing to other members of the health team
• Consumer -✓✓ANSWER: an individual, a group of individuals, or a community
that uses a service or commodity
, • Continuing education (CE) -✓✓ANSWER: formalized experiences designed to
enlarge the knowledge or skills of practitioners
• Counseling -✓✓ANSWER: the process of helping a client to recognize and cope
with stressful psychologic or social problems, to develop improved interpersonal
relationships, and to promote personal growth
• Dorothea Dix -✓✓ANSWER: woman leader who provided nursing care during
the Civil War
• Environment -✓✓ANSWER: all of the conditions, circumstances, and influences
surrounding and affecting the development of an organism or individual
• Ernest Grant -✓✓ANSWER: first male president of the American Nurses
Association
• Alexian Brothers -✓✓ANSWER: religious order that organized care for victims of
the Black Plague in the 14th century in Germany and established hospitals and
provided nursing care in the 19th century
• Fabiola -✓✓ANSWER: a wealthy Roman matron; viewed by some as the patron
saint of early nursing who used her position and wealth to establish hospitals for
the sick
• Florence Nightingale -✓✓ANSWER: considered the founder of modern nursing,
she was influential in developing nursing education, practice, and administration
