Foundations of Professional Nursing-Questions with Correct
Answers/ Verified/ latest Update (2024/2025)
Nursing is both _____ and _______? - ✔️✔️An art and science
Science is based on a body of what? - ✔️✔️Knowledge that is constantly changing and evolving
Art is based on the practice of what? - ✔️✔️Compassion, respect, and dignity rendered to the client
and family members alike.
When rendering care, you will be guided by a code of ethics developed by who? - ✔️✔️American
Nurses Association
What three areas will you incorporate as you begin your practice? - ✔️✔️ANA standards, evidence-
based practice, and critical thinking skills
What are a nurse's four tasks? - ✔️✔️1) Respond to needs of patients
2) Actively participate in policy
3) Respond and adapt to challenges
4) Make clinical judgments and decisions about patients' health care needs based on knowledge,
experience, and standards of care
In nursing, care is provided according to what? - ✔️✔️Standards of practice and a code of ethics
The health care needs of society are influenced by what three variables? - ✔️✔️Economic, social,
and cultural values of a specific era
Nurses have been able to carry on the traditions of which public figure? - ✔️✔️Florence Nightingale
The twenty-first century nurse deals with what four factors? - ✔️✔️Pain management, nutrition
management, care of the elder population, and care of the infant and the underserved child
, Nursing definitions reflect what and bring about what? - ✔️✔️They reflect changes in the practice
of nursing and help bring about changes by identifying the domain of nursing practice and guiding
research, practice, and education.
What was the focus of Florence Nightingale's career? - ✔️✔️Health maintenance and restoration
What event in history stimulated the development of nursing? - ✔️✔️Men were nurses, but since
they had to go to war, women took over the nursing field to care for the injured.
What six types of changes in society lead to changes in nursing? - ✔️✔️1) Health care reform
2) Demographic changes
3) Women's Health Care Issues
4) Medically underserved
5) Threat of bioterrorism
6) Rising health care costs
Health care reform - ✔️✔️Protecting the rights of those who are underinsured or uninsured and
giving them the chance to earn healthcare benefits.
Demographic changes (rural to urban) - ✔️✔️Access to health care in rural areas have become a
serious problem, due to a severe shortage of primary care providers.
Medically Underserved - ✔️✔️These conditions include those who have socioeconomic problems,
limited transportation access, language barriers, or mentally ill patients.
Threat of Bioterrorism - ✔️✔️Health care agencies are training future and practicing nurses to deal
with nuclear, chemical, and biological events.
Rising health care costs - ✔️✔️It doesn't benefit everyone. Also, the perception of quality of life
differs for every individual.
What type of changes affect health care (demographics)? - ✔️✔️Women's demand for equality.
Their demand to receive better care causes new advances to be made in obstetrics (giving birth),
oncology (treatment of tumors), and research.
Answers/ Verified/ latest Update (2024/2025)
Nursing is both _____ and _______? - ✔️✔️An art and science
Science is based on a body of what? - ✔️✔️Knowledge that is constantly changing and evolving
Art is based on the practice of what? - ✔️✔️Compassion, respect, and dignity rendered to the client
and family members alike.
When rendering care, you will be guided by a code of ethics developed by who? - ✔️✔️American
Nurses Association
What three areas will you incorporate as you begin your practice? - ✔️✔️ANA standards, evidence-
based practice, and critical thinking skills
What are a nurse's four tasks? - ✔️✔️1) Respond to needs of patients
2) Actively participate in policy
3) Respond and adapt to challenges
4) Make clinical judgments and decisions about patients' health care needs based on knowledge,
experience, and standards of care
In nursing, care is provided according to what? - ✔️✔️Standards of practice and a code of ethics
The health care needs of society are influenced by what three variables? - ✔️✔️Economic, social,
and cultural values of a specific era
Nurses have been able to carry on the traditions of which public figure? - ✔️✔️Florence Nightingale
The twenty-first century nurse deals with what four factors? - ✔️✔️Pain management, nutrition
management, care of the elder population, and care of the infant and the underserved child
, Nursing definitions reflect what and bring about what? - ✔️✔️They reflect changes in the practice
of nursing and help bring about changes by identifying the domain of nursing practice and guiding
research, practice, and education.
What was the focus of Florence Nightingale's career? - ✔️✔️Health maintenance and restoration
What event in history stimulated the development of nursing? - ✔️✔️Men were nurses, but since
they had to go to war, women took over the nursing field to care for the injured.
What six types of changes in society lead to changes in nursing? - ✔️✔️1) Health care reform
2) Demographic changes
3) Women's Health Care Issues
4) Medically underserved
5) Threat of bioterrorism
6) Rising health care costs
Health care reform - ✔️✔️Protecting the rights of those who are underinsured or uninsured and
giving them the chance to earn healthcare benefits.
Demographic changes (rural to urban) - ✔️✔️Access to health care in rural areas have become a
serious problem, due to a severe shortage of primary care providers.
Medically Underserved - ✔️✔️These conditions include those who have socioeconomic problems,
limited transportation access, language barriers, or mentally ill patients.
Threat of Bioterrorism - ✔️✔️Health care agencies are training future and practicing nurses to deal
with nuclear, chemical, and biological events.
Rising health care costs - ✔️✔️It doesn't benefit everyone. Also, the perception of quality of life
differs for every individual.
What type of changes affect health care (demographics)? - ✔️✔️Women's demand for equality.
Their demand to receive better care causes new advances to be made in obstetrics (giving birth),
oncology (treatment of tumors), and research.
