NURS 142 MIDTERM EXAM BANK / 150 QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS 2024/2025 GRADED A+.

1. What is nursing: the protection, promotion, and optimization of health and abil-ities, prevention of illness and injury, alleviation of suffering through the diagnosis and treatment of human response, and advocacy in the care of individuals, families,communities, and populations 2. The scope of nursing provides the: who, what, where, when, why, and how 3. Healthcare consumers: patients, persons, clients,families, groups, communitiesor populations who are the focus of attention and to whom the RN is providing services 4. RNs: individuals who are educationally prepared and licensed by state commonwealth, territory, government, or regulatory body to practice as a registered nurse. 5. What are synonyms for RN?: Nurse and professional nurse 6. Graduate-level prepared RNs: prepared at the masters or doctoral educationlevel 7. Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN): completed an accelerated grad-uate-level education program preparing them for the 4 recognized APRN roles. 8. What are the four APRN recognized roles?: certified registered nurse anes- thetist, certified nurse midwife, clinical nurse specialist, or certified nurse practitioner 9. What do you need to become a APRN?: passed a national certification, ad- vanced clinical knowledge (direct care of individuals), greater depth and breadth ofknowledge then RN's prepared to assume responsibility for health promotion assessment, diagnosis, andmanagement of patient problems obtained license 10. What does the standard of professional nursing practice consist of?: stan-dards of practice and standards of professional performance 11. Standards of Practice: describe a competent level of nursing care demonstrat- ed by critical thinking model known as the nursing process, and nursing process isthe foundation of clinical decision making and actions 12. How many standards are in the standards of practice?: Six 13. What are the standards of practice?: AssessmentDiagnosis Outcomes identification Planning Implementation Evaluation 14. Standard 1 of Practice