ANSWERS WITH SOLUTIONS 2025
Florence Nightingale's contributions: - ANSWER -Identifying the personal needs of the patient and the
role of the nurses in meeting those needs
- Establishing standards for Hospital Management
- establishing a respected occupation for women
- establishing nursing education
- recognizing the 2 components of nursing ( health and illness)
- believeing that nursing is separat and distinct from medicine
- recognizing that nutrition is important to health
- instituting occupation and recreational theraoy for sick people
- stressing the need for continuing education for nurses
- maintaining accurate records, recognized as the beginning of nursing research
Nurse (Latin meaning) - ANSWER "To nourish"
ANA definition of nursing - ANSWER the protection, promotion, and optimization of health and abilities,
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
The ANA describes..: - ANSWER -The social context of nursing
, -The knowledge base for nursing practice
-The scope of nursing practice
-standards of professional nursing practice
-The nursing social policy statement (2010- - the regulation of professional nursing )
A Nurse acts as a - ANSWER -caregiver
-communicator
-educator
-counselor
-leader
-researcher
-advocate
-collaborator
The 4 broad aims of nursing - ANSWER 1. Promote health
2. Prevent illness
3. Restore health
4. Facilitate coping with disability and death