NURS 105: Brigham Young University, Idaho (BYUI)
NURS 105 Final Exam Review – BYUI
Questions and Answers
What is the purpose of NURS 105 - Answer✔️✔️-1. To see if nursing is right
for you
2. Obtain essential information and skills to jump-start you into the nursing
program
ISBARR stands for - Answer✔️✔️-Identity/Introduction
Situation
Background
Assessment
Recommendation
Read back of orders
Identity/Introduction - Answer✔️✔️-Who are you (name and title)
Who are you calling or talking about (name, room #, and admitting
diagnosis)
Situation - Answer✔️✔️-Why did you call or why are you having this
conversation?
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Background - Answer✔️✔️-What is the important background information
that the person you are communicating with needs to know such as: test
results, pending procedures, diagnosis, date of admission, patient hx, code
status, significant health problems, meds/fluids/allergies, etc.
Assessment - Answer✔️✔️-What are important assessment findings that
relate to the reason you are communicating. What is currently going on?
Recommendation - Answer✔️✔️-What do you want?
Read Back - Answer✔️✔️-After the person you are communicating with
gives you orders or an assignment. Read them back to ensure accuracy.
A nurse can recommend something that is out of their scope of practice.
1. True
2. False - Answer✔️✔️-False
Nurse Jean Ward - Answer✔️✔️-the nurse who realized that a few hours of
sunlight can help babies born with jaundice and cure the disease (1950)
Fatu Ketula - Answer✔️✔️-student nurse that used all the resources she had
to hep save lives during Ebola out break (2014)
Nurse Elizabeth Kenny - Answer✔️✔️-the nurse who discovered that
movement and physical therapy had far better results for patients suffering
from polio (1939)
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What approach did nurses take to help patients during the dawn of the
AIDS epidemic (1983)? - Answer✔️✔️-Nurses defied convention and
embraced patients who were quarantined with compassion
Nurse Rebecca Koszalinski - Answer✔️✔️-the nurse who made it possible
for patients with cerebral palsy to be able to speak through technology
Gallup Polls - Answer✔️✔️-identified nurses as the most honest and ethical
professionals for the past 9 years.
What percentage of all nurses are happy with their career path -
Answer✔️✔️-93% - 98%
How much do Registered Nurses (RNs) make annually? - Answer✔️✔️-
$75.330 as of 2020
How much do Advance Practice Nurses (NPs, Nurse Anesthetists, Nurse
Midwives) make annually? - Answer✔️✔️-$117,670 as of 2020
60% of nurses work here - Answer✔️✔️-Hospitals
18% of nurses work here - Answer✔️✔️-Ambulatory care
7% of nurses work here - Answer✔️✔️-Nursing and residential care facilities
5% of nurses work here - Answer✔️✔️-Government
3% of nurses work here - Answer✔️✔️-Educational services
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What percentage of Registered Nurses work in nursing full time? -
Answer✔️✔️-64.9%
What percentage of LPNs and LVNs work in nursing full time? -
Answer✔️✔️-65.7%
What is meant by working full time in nursing? - Answer✔️✔️-36 hours = 3
(12 hrs) shifts
Nurse Florence Nightingale - Answer✔️✔️-1. known as the 'Lady with the
Lamp'
2. pioneer of modern healthcare/ medicine
3. reformer and advocate of public health
4. introduced proper sanitation during health care : fresh air and water,
food and clean laundry.
NIGHTINGALE'S NURSING
THEORY - Answer✔️✔️-a) Nursing is separate from medicine.
b)The goal of nursing is to put the patient in the best possible condition in
order for nature to act.
c) Nursing is "the activities that promote health which occur in any
caregiving situation."
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