NURS 200 FINAL Questions with Correct Answers (Grade A+)
Question 1: What is a nurse?
Answer: A regulated professional educated in science, skills, and ethics who: promotes health, prevents
illness, ensures safety, alleviates suffering, and works both autonomously and collaboratively.
Question 2: What roles do nurses have?
Answer: Caregiver, advocate, educator, leader, researcher, and policy shaper.
Question 3: What does "nursing = profession + discipline" mean?
Answer: Profession: regulated, ethical, autonomous, accountable to the public Discipline: academic body of
knowledge, theory, research, and methods
Question 4: Key characteristics of nursing as a profession
Answer: Public service, specialized knowledge, high responsibility, mix of theory + practice, altruism,
ethics.
Question 5: Who were the earliest health-care providers?
Answer: Ancient healers and midwives.
Question 6: What characterized nursing in the Middle Ages?
Answer: Religious care provided by nuns and monastic orders.
Question 7: What major scientific advancements influenced nursing in the Renaissance/Enlightenment
era?
Answer: Science, anatomy, germ theory.
Question 8: How did the Industrial Revolution affect health needs?
Answer: Crowding, disease, and harsh conditions increased need for nursing.
Question 9: Who is Florence Nightingale?
Answer: Founder of modern professional nursing; reduced mortality in Crimean War; emphasized
environment; first nurse statistician.
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,Question 10: What are Nightingale's five essentials to health?
Answer: Air, water, cleanliness, light, drainage.
Question 11: Who provided health care before colonization?
Answer: Indigenous healers and midwives.
Question 12: How did colonization impact Indigenous health systems?
Answer: Disrupted traditional healing systems and imposed colonial institutions.
Question 13: Who were early lay nurses in New France?
Answer: Hébert, Jeanne Mance, and d'Youville.
Question 14: Who were the Grey Nuns?
Answer: A Catholic order running hospitals and missions across Western Canada.
Question 15: How was nursing involved in colonization?
Answer: Indian hospitals, residential schools, and imposed Western systems.
Question 16: When did Canadian nursing education begin shifting away from hospital-based training?
Answer: Early 1900s; Mary Agnes Snively promoted education standards.
Question 17: What role did WWI and the 1918 flu play in nursing?
Answer: Shift to public health nursing.
Question 18: What happened to racialized women in nursing history?
Answer: Excluded from Canadian schools; forced to seek education elsewhere.
Question 19: When was baccalaureate entry to practice achieved in SK?
Answer: By 2000.
Question 20: Why Nursing History Matters
Answer: Explains power, racism, autonomy, ethics, scope, and equips nurses to challenge unjust systems.
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, Question 21: Why does nursing theory matter?
Answer: Guides practice, education, research; defines nursing; sets boundaries; stimulates new knowledge.
Question 22: What are the 4 concepts of the Nursing Metaparadigm?
Answer: Person, Environment, Health, Nursing.
Question 23: Types of nursing theory
Answer: Grand (broad), middle-range (specific), descriptive (explains), prescriptive (guides action).
Question 24: Major theory categories and theorists
Answer: Practice-Based: Nightingale (environment), Benner (novice ’ expert) Needs: Henderson (14
needs), Orem (self-care deficit) Interactionist: Peplau (therapeutic relationship) Systems: Neuman
(stressors), Roy (adaptation) Simultaneity: Watson (caring, mind-body-spirit)
Question 25: Theory Application (Main Idea)
Answer: Theorists emphasize environment, needs, relationships, systems, or caring—each guides nursing
decisions differently.
Question 26: Nursing =
Answer: profession + discipline
Question 27: Baccalaureate =
Answer: entry to practice
Question 28: Metaparadigm =
Answer: PEHN
Question 29: Theory explains
Answer: what nurses do & why
Question 30: What are values?
Answer: Beliefs about right and wrong that guide decisions.
Question 31: What shapes values?
Answer: Family, culture, religion, experiences.
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Question 1: What is a nurse?
Answer: A regulated professional educated in science, skills, and ethics who: promotes health, prevents
illness, ensures safety, alleviates suffering, and works both autonomously and collaboratively.
Question 2: What roles do nurses have?
Answer: Caregiver, advocate, educator, leader, researcher, and policy shaper.
Question 3: What does "nursing = profession + discipline" mean?
Answer: Profession: regulated, ethical, autonomous, accountable to the public Discipline: academic body of
knowledge, theory, research, and methods
Question 4: Key characteristics of nursing as a profession
Answer: Public service, specialized knowledge, high responsibility, mix of theory + practice, altruism,
ethics.
Question 5: Who were the earliest health-care providers?
Answer: Ancient healers and midwives.
Question 6: What characterized nursing in the Middle Ages?
Answer: Religious care provided by nuns and monastic orders.
Question 7: What major scientific advancements influenced nursing in the Renaissance/Enlightenment
era?
Answer: Science, anatomy, germ theory.
Question 8: How did the Industrial Revolution affect health needs?
Answer: Crowding, disease, and harsh conditions increased need for nursing.
Question 9: Who is Florence Nightingale?
Answer: Founder of modern professional nursing; reduced mortality in Crimean War; emphasized
environment; first nurse statistician.
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,Question 10: What are Nightingale's five essentials to health?
Answer: Air, water, cleanliness, light, drainage.
Question 11: Who provided health care before colonization?
Answer: Indigenous healers and midwives.
Question 12: How did colonization impact Indigenous health systems?
Answer: Disrupted traditional healing systems and imposed colonial institutions.
Question 13: Who were early lay nurses in New France?
Answer: Hébert, Jeanne Mance, and d'Youville.
Question 14: Who were the Grey Nuns?
Answer: A Catholic order running hospitals and missions across Western Canada.
Question 15: How was nursing involved in colonization?
Answer: Indian hospitals, residential schools, and imposed Western systems.
Question 16: When did Canadian nursing education begin shifting away from hospital-based training?
Answer: Early 1900s; Mary Agnes Snively promoted education standards.
Question 17: What role did WWI and the 1918 flu play in nursing?
Answer: Shift to public health nursing.
Question 18: What happened to racialized women in nursing history?
Answer: Excluded from Canadian schools; forced to seek education elsewhere.
Question 19: When was baccalaureate entry to practice achieved in SK?
Answer: By 2000.
Question 20: Why Nursing History Matters
Answer: Explains power, racism, autonomy, ethics, scope, and equips nurses to challenge unjust systems.
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, Question 21: Why does nursing theory matter?
Answer: Guides practice, education, research; defines nursing; sets boundaries; stimulates new knowledge.
Question 22: What are the 4 concepts of the Nursing Metaparadigm?
Answer: Person, Environment, Health, Nursing.
Question 23: Types of nursing theory
Answer: Grand (broad), middle-range (specific), descriptive (explains), prescriptive (guides action).
Question 24: Major theory categories and theorists
Answer: Practice-Based: Nightingale (environment), Benner (novice ’ expert) Needs: Henderson (14
needs), Orem (self-care deficit) Interactionist: Peplau (therapeutic relationship) Systems: Neuman
(stressors), Roy (adaptation) Simultaneity: Watson (caring, mind-body-spirit)
Question 25: Theory Application (Main Idea)
Answer: Theorists emphasize environment, needs, relationships, systems, or caring—each guides nursing
decisions differently.
Question 26: Nursing =
Answer: profession + discipline
Question 27: Baccalaureate =
Answer: entry to practice
Question 28: Metaparadigm =
Answer: PEHN
Question 29: Theory explains
Answer: what nurses do & why
Question 30: What are values?
Answer: Beliefs about right and wrong that guide decisions.
Question 31: What shapes values?
Answer: Family, culture, religion, experiences.
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