NURS 272 Exam 2 Questions And 100% Correct
Answers A+ Graded
Advocacy: - ANSWER :the act of pleading for, supporting, or representing a cause or
individual
- advocacy in nursing applies to any act in which the nurse is serving in the best
interests of the patient
Speaking up - ANSWER ensures that health needs are met and is an expectation within
the scope of professional nursing practice
Highly valued and valuable communication skills critical for pt advocacy: - ANSWER
ability to speak assertively, credibly, and authoritatively
Is the Patient Bill of Rights a form of advocacy - ANSWER yes
Self-determination: - ANSWER making up one's own mind regarding what to do or think
without regard to outside influence
- free will, independence
Social Justice: - ANSWER the principle that all persons are entitled to have their basic
human needs met, regardless of difference in economic status, class, gender, race
ethnicity, citizenship, religion, age, sexual orientation, disability, or health
- includes the eradication of poverty and illiteracy, the equality of sound environmental
policy, and equality of opportunity for healthy personal and social development
Altruism: - ANSWER the unselfish regard for others welfare
Valuing: - ANSWER to consider or rate highly, to prize or esteem, to appreciate. - --
,Nurses must value the patient's beliefs and concerns if they are to be their advocate.
This requires knowledge of the patient's story.
Aspiring: - ANSWER information, to tell, to educate
- in addition to knowing the pt's story, nurse needs to know what the pt knows
- fill in gaps
Intervening: - ANSWER to step in between and/or on behalf of another to defend or
support them, a talk with someone to help another
- this is advocating
What's needed to advocate for a pt? - ANSWER - ability to communicate effectively
- complete understanding of pt
- understanding of related concepts
Caring: - ANSWER :a human universal that shapes one's thinking, feeling and behaving
about others
Caring (specific to nursing): - ANSWER - nurse's empathy for connection with the pt
- ability to translate these effective characteristics into compassionate, sensitive,
appropriate care
Theoretical views on Caring - ANSWER - universal phenomenon that influences the way
we think, feel, and behave
- Florence nightingale
- Patricia Brenner w/ Judith Wrubel's definition
Patricia Brenner and Judith Wrubel's definition of caring - ANSWER - the essence of
excellent nursing is caring
,Caring: - Caring means things matter to people
- Caring determines what matters to a person
- Personal concern for another person, event, or thing that provides motivation and
direction for people to care for
Compassion: - ANSWER desire/motivation to help others that comes from the human
response to suffering of others, motivates people to go out of their way to help physical,
spiritual, or emotional hurts and pains of others
Comforting Tough - ANSWER provides comfort
Touch Contact - ANSWER non-verbal communication that provides comfort and security
ex: holding hand, back rub
Noncontact touch - ANSWER eye contact
Protective touch - ANSWER used to protect pt
ex: prevent pt from falling
Task-oriented Touch - ANSWER used when performing a procedure or task
Comforting: - ANSWER acts toward another individual that displays both an emotional
and physical calm
Empathy:- ANSWER knowing, understanding, and accepting a person's feelings and the
ability to sense the person's private world
Ethics of Care - ANSWER -- concerned with relationship between the pt and the nurse
and the attitude of each toward the other
, - places the nurse as the pt's advocate who solves ethical dilemmas by creating a
relationship
- listening: creates trust
- Prescence
- therapeutic: desired benefit of meds, tx, or procedure
Attributes and Criteria of Caring - ANSWER - caring is central/vital to nursing practice
- caring is relational
- caring appreciated the uniqueness of individuals
- caring contributes to the health and well-being of pts
- caring is a product of culture, values, experiences, and relationships with others
Leininger's Transcultural Caring- ANSWER- care is the essence and central unifying and
dominant domain that distinguishes nursing from other health disciplines
- worldwide care safeguards, grows, nurtures, and aids survival
- considers values, needs, culture
Watson's Transpersonal Caring- ANSWER- a conscious intention to care enhances
healing and wholeness
- repudiates the disease orientation to health care
- care prior to cure
- nurse pt relationship
transformative
preserves human dignity
believes caring becomes spiritual
10 Caritive factors
Watson's 10 Caritive Factos - ANSWER 1) Forming a human altruistic value system
Answers A+ Graded
Advocacy: - ANSWER :the act of pleading for, supporting, or representing a cause or
individual
- advocacy in nursing applies to any act in which the nurse is serving in the best
interests of the patient
Speaking up - ANSWER ensures that health needs are met and is an expectation within
the scope of professional nursing practice
Highly valued and valuable communication skills critical for pt advocacy: - ANSWER
ability to speak assertively, credibly, and authoritatively
Is the Patient Bill of Rights a form of advocacy - ANSWER yes
Self-determination: - ANSWER making up one's own mind regarding what to do or think
without regard to outside influence
- free will, independence
Social Justice: - ANSWER the principle that all persons are entitled to have their basic
human needs met, regardless of difference in economic status, class, gender, race
ethnicity, citizenship, religion, age, sexual orientation, disability, or health
- includes the eradication of poverty and illiteracy, the equality of sound environmental
policy, and equality of opportunity for healthy personal and social development
Altruism: - ANSWER the unselfish regard for others welfare
Valuing: - ANSWER to consider or rate highly, to prize or esteem, to appreciate. - --
,Nurses must value the patient's beliefs and concerns if they are to be their advocate.
This requires knowledge of the patient's story.
Aspiring: - ANSWER information, to tell, to educate
- in addition to knowing the pt's story, nurse needs to know what the pt knows
- fill in gaps
Intervening: - ANSWER to step in between and/or on behalf of another to defend or
support them, a talk with someone to help another
- this is advocating
What's needed to advocate for a pt? - ANSWER - ability to communicate effectively
- complete understanding of pt
- understanding of related concepts
Caring: - ANSWER :a human universal that shapes one's thinking, feeling and behaving
about others
Caring (specific to nursing): - ANSWER - nurse's empathy for connection with the pt
- ability to translate these effective characteristics into compassionate, sensitive,
appropriate care
Theoretical views on Caring - ANSWER - universal phenomenon that influences the way
we think, feel, and behave
- Florence nightingale
- Patricia Brenner w/ Judith Wrubel's definition
Patricia Brenner and Judith Wrubel's definition of caring - ANSWER - the essence of
excellent nursing is caring
,Caring: - Caring means things matter to people
- Caring determines what matters to a person
- Personal concern for another person, event, or thing that provides motivation and
direction for people to care for
Compassion: - ANSWER desire/motivation to help others that comes from the human
response to suffering of others, motivates people to go out of their way to help physical,
spiritual, or emotional hurts and pains of others
Comforting Tough - ANSWER provides comfort
Touch Contact - ANSWER non-verbal communication that provides comfort and security
ex: holding hand, back rub
Noncontact touch - ANSWER eye contact
Protective touch - ANSWER used to protect pt
ex: prevent pt from falling
Task-oriented Touch - ANSWER used when performing a procedure or task
Comforting: - ANSWER acts toward another individual that displays both an emotional
and physical calm
Empathy:- ANSWER knowing, understanding, and accepting a person's feelings and the
ability to sense the person's private world
Ethics of Care - ANSWER -- concerned with relationship between the pt and the nurse
and the attitude of each toward the other
, - places the nurse as the pt's advocate who solves ethical dilemmas by creating a
relationship
- listening: creates trust
- Prescence
- therapeutic: desired benefit of meds, tx, or procedure
Attributes and Criteria of Caring - ANSWER - caring is central/vital to nursing practice
- caring is relational
- caring appreciated the uniqueness of individuals
- caring contributes to the health and well-being of pts
- caring is a product of culture, values, experiences, and relationships with others
Leininger's Transcultural Caring- ANSWER- care is the essence and central unifying and
dominant domain that distinguishes nursing from other health disciplines
- worldwide care safeguards, grows, nurtures, and aids survival
- considers values, needs, culture
Watson's Transpersonal Caring- ANSWER- a conscious intention to care enhances
healing and wholeness
- repudiates the disease orientation to health care
- care prior to cure
- nurse pt relationship
transformative
preserves human dignity
believes caring becomes spiritual
10 Caritive factors
Watson's 10 Caritive Factos - ANSWER 1) Forming a human altruistic value system
