2024 FOUNDATION MIDTERM JERSEY COLLEGE LATEST
EXAM ALL 250 ACTUAL EXAM QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS (VERIFIED ANSWERS)
LATEST UPDATED VERSION 2024 | ALREADY GRADED
A+ (FULL REVISED EXAM)
advocate - ANSWER: the protection of human or legal rights and the securing of care
for all patients based on the belief that patients have the right to make informed
decisions about their health and lives
caregiver - ANSWER: The provision of care to patients that combines both the art
and the science of nursing in meeting physical, emotional, intellectual, sociocultural,
and spiritual needs. As a caregiver, the nurse integrates the roles of communicator,
teacher, counselor, leader, researcher, advocate, and collaborator to promote
wellness through activities that prevent illness, restore health, and facilitate coping
with disability or death. The role of caregiver is the primary role of the nurse.
4 Nursing Aims - ANSWER: 1. promotes health
2. prevent illness/disease
3. restore health
4. facilitate coping with disability or death(die with dignity)
Florence Nightingale - ANSWER: Established sanitary nursing care units. Founder of
modern nursing. began professional education of nursing.
nursing profession criteria - ANSWER: well defined body of specific and unique
knowledge
strong service oriented
recognized authority by a professional group
Code of Ethics
Professional organization that sets standards
Ongoing research
Autonomy and self-regulation
Standards of Nursing Practice - ANSWER: allow nurses to carry out professional roles,
serving as protection for the nurse, the patient, and the institution where health care
is provided
Nurse Practice Act - ANSWER: laws established in each state in the US to regulate the
practice of nursing
Nursing Process - ANSWER: Assessment
Diagnosis
Planning
Implementation
,Evaluation
Used by the nurse to identify the patients health care needs and strengths, to
establish and carry out a care plan to meet those needs, and to evaluate the
effectiveness of the plan
Sources of Knowledge - ANSWER: Traditional-passed down from generation to
generation
Authoritative-comes from an expert
Scientific-implying through research (scientific method)
General Systems Theory - ANSWER: how to break whole things into parts and then to
learn how the parts work together in systems
Adaptation Theory - ANSWER: defines adaptation as the adjustment of living matter
to other living things and to environmental conditions
developmental theory - ANSWER: process of growth and development of humans as
orderly and predictable, beginning with conception and ending with death
nursing theory - ANSWER: differentiates nursing from other disciplines and activities
by serving the purposes of describing, explaining, predicting, and controlling desired
outcomes of nursing care practices
deductive reasoning - ANSWER: general to specific
inductive reasoning - ANSWER: specific to general
Common Concepts in Nursing Theories - ANSWER: Person (patient)
Environment
Health
Nursing
Sister Callista Roy - ANSWER: Nursing interventions are needed when individuals
demonstrate ineffective adaptive responses; adaptive modes. adaptation model,
relationships between persons, universe, god, Adaptation model: assistance with the
adaptation to stressors to facilitate the integration process of the client. Theory
helps the "biospsychosocial" client modify external stimuli, adaptation will occur
evidence-based practice - ANSWER: in nursing is a problem solving approach to
making clinical decisions using the best evidence available
PICOT format - ANSWER: Patient population
Intervention or issue of interest
Comparison intervention
Outcome
Time frame
, holistic health care - ANSWER: care that addresses the many dimensions that
comprise the whole person- the nurse must understand and respect each persons
own definition of health and responses to illness
acute illness - ANSWER: has a rapid onset of symptoms and lasts only a relatively
short time
chronic illness - ANSWER: irreversible illness that causes permanent physical
impairment and requires long-term health care
chronic disease - ANSWER: heart disease, stroke, cancer, type 2 diabetes, obesity,
arthritis
Illness Behaviors - ANSWER: actions taken by a person who feels sick and indulges in
the behavior for the purpose of defining the state of his or her health and for
discovering suitable remedies
Illness behaviors - ANSWER: Stage 1: Experiencing symptoms
Stage 2: Assuming the sick role
Stage 3: Assuming a dependent role
Stage 4: Achieving recovery and rehabilitation
The human dimensions - ANSWER: Physical-genetic inheritence, race, sex
Emotional- the mind effects, stress
Intellectual-educational background
Environmental- housing, climate
Sociocultural- family and culture
Spiritual-spiritual beliefs and values
health promotion - ANSWER: behavior of an individual motivated by a personal
desire to increase well-being and health potential
Risk factors for health - ANSWER: age, genetic factors, physiologic factors, health
habits, lifestyle, environment
primary health promotion - ANSWER: seat belts, immunizations, safe sex practices,
diet and exercise, reducing alcohol consumption, smoking cessation , avoiding drugs
secondary health promotion - ANSWER: screenings, examinations, family counseling
tertiary health promotion - ANSWER: medication, rehabilitation, therapy, job
training, treatment
The health belief model - ANSWER: focuses on what people perceive or believe to be
true about themselves in relation to their health
EXAM ALL 250 ACTUAL EXAM QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS (VERIFIED ANSWERS)
LATEST UPDATED VERSION 2024 | ALREADY GRADED
A+ (FULL REVISED EXAM)
advocate - ANSWER: the protection of human or legal rights and the securing of care
for all patients based on the belief that patients have the right to make informed
decisions about their health and lives
caregiver - ANSWER: The provision of care to patients that combines both the art
and the science of nursing in meeting physical, emotional, intellectual, sociocultural,
and spiritual needs. As a caregiver, the nurse integrates the roles of communicator,
teacher, counselor, leader, researcher, advocate, and collaborator to promote
wellness through activities that prevent illness, restore health, and facilitate coping
with disability or death. The role of caregiver is the primary role of the nurse.
4 Nursing Aims - ANSWER: 1. promotes health
2. prevent illness/disease
3. restore health
4. facilitate coping with disability or death(die with dignity)
Florence Nightingale - ANSWER: Established sanitary nursing care units. Founder of
modern nursing. began professional education of nursing.
nursing profession criteria - ANSWER: well defined body of specific and unique
knowledge
strong service oriented
recognized authority by a professional group
Code of Ethics
Professional organization that sets standards
Ongoing research
Autonomy and self-regulation
Standards of Nursing Practice - ANSWER: allow nurses to carry out professional roles,
serving as protection for the nurse, the patient, and the institution where health care
is provided
Nurse Practice Act - ANSWER: laws established in each state in the US to regulate the
practice of nursing
Nursing Process - ANSWER: Assessment
Diagnosis
Planning
Implementation
,Evaluation
Used by the nurse to identify the patients health care needs and strengths, to
establish and carry out a care plan to meet those needs, and to evaluate the
effectiveness of the plan
Sources of Knowledge - ANSWER: Traditional-passed down from generation to
generation
Authoritative-comes from an expert
Scientific-implying through research (scientific method)
General Systems Theory - ANSWER: how to break whole things into parts and then to
learn how the parts work together in systems
Adaptation Theory - ANSWER: defines adaptation as the adjustment of living matter
to other living things and to environmental conditions
developmental theory - ANSWER: process of growth and development of humans as
orderly and predictable, beginning with conception and ending with death
nursing theory - ANSWER: differentiates nursing from other disciplines and activities
by serving the purposes of describing, explaining, predicting, and controlling desired
outcomes of nursing care practices
deductive reasoning - ANSWER: general to specific
inductive reasoning - ANSWER: specific to general
Common Concepts in Nursing Theories - ANSWER: Person (patient)
Environment
Health
Nursing
Sister Callista Roy - ANSWER: Nursing interventions are needed when individuals
demonstrate ineffective adaptive responses; adaptive modes. adaptation model,
relationships between persons, universe, god, Adaptation model: assistance with the
adaptation to stressors to facilitate the integration process of the client. Theory
helps the "biospsychosocial" client modify external stimuli, adaptation will occur
evidence-based practice - ANSWER: in nursing is a problem solving approach to
making clinical decisions using the best evidence available
PICOT format - ANSWER: Patient population
Intervention or issue of interest
Comparison intervention
Outcome
Time frame
, holistic health care - ANSWER: care that addresses the many dimensions that
comprise the whole person- the nurse must understand and respect each persons
own definition of health and responses to illness
acute illness - ANSWER: has a rapid onset of symptoms and lasts only a relatively
short time
chronic illness - ANSWER: irreversible illness that causes permanent physical
impairment and requires long-term health care
chronic disease - ANSWER: heart disease, stroke, cancer, type 2 diabetes, obesity,
arthritis
Illness Behaviors - ANSWER: actions taken by a person who feels sick and indulges in
the behavior for the purpose of defining the state of his or her health and for
discovering suitable remedies
Illness behaviors - ANSWER: Stage 1: Experiencing symptoms
Stage 2: Assuming the sick role
Stage 3: Assuming a dependent role
Stage 4: Achieving recovery and rehabilitation
The human dimensions - ANSWER: Physical-genetic inheritence, race, sex
Emotional- the mind effects, stress
Intellectual-educational background
Environmental- housing, climate
Sociocultural- family and culture
Spiritual-spiritual beliefs and values
health promotion - ANSWER: behavior of an individual motivated by a personal
desire to increase well-being and health potential
Risk factors for health - ANSWER: age, genetic factors, physiologic factors, health
habits, lifestyle, environment
primary health promotion - ANSWER: seat belts, immunizations, safe sex practices,
diet and exercise, reducing alcohol consumption, smoking cessation , avoiding drugs
secondary health promotion - ANSWER: screenings, examinations, family counseling
tertiary health promotion - ANSWER: medication, rehabilitation, therapy, job
training, treatment
The health belief model - ANSWER: focuses on what people perceive or believe to be
true about themselves in relation to their health
