LPN fundamental concepts and skills for
nursing test 1 Questions With Correct
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English woman from the mid-1800s, felt a calling to become a nurse, lowered the death rate from
60%-1%, Founded the first training school for nurses in England at St. Thomas hospital -
Answer✔Florence Nightingale
Nutrition is an important part of nursing care, Fresh clean air is beneficial, sick people need
recreational and occupational therapy, nurses should identify and meet patient personal and
emotional needs, Nursing should be directed towards health and illness, Nursing is distinct and
separate from the practice of medicine and should be taught by other nurses, continuing
education is important - Answer✔Florence Nightingale's Curriculum
Social worker, during the Civil War, organized women volunteers to provide nursing care for the
soldiers - Answer✔Dorothea Dix
Took Volunteers into the field hospitals to care for soldiers of both armies, she also founded the
American Red Cross - Answer✔Clara Barton
Took nursing out into the community, and in 1893 she and Mary Brewster established the Henry
Street Settlement Service in NYC - Answer✔Lillian Wald
Promote Wellness, Prevent Illness, Facilitate Coping, Restore Health - Answer✔Four Goals of
Nursing
An Organized and systematic way to deliver nursing care - Answer✔Nursing Process
Assessment, Diagnosis, Plan, Implement, Evaluate - Answer✔The Nursing Process
actions taken to improve, maintain, or restore health or prevent illness - Answer✔Interventions
to be free of infectious material - Answer✔Aseptic
Preventive, primary, secondary, tertiary, restorative, continuing - Answer✔Levels of Care
the first care delivery system for practical nurses. Performed a series of tasks such as
administration of medication and treatments - Answer✔Functional Nursing
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An RN was the team leader who coordinated care for a group of patients - Answer✔Team
Nursing
one nurse carried out all nursing functions for the patient - Answer✔Total Patient Care
One nurse plans and directs care for a patient over a 24-hour period - Answer✔Primary Nursing
relationship between caregivers, patient, and the patient family, caregivers relationship with
him/herself, relationship among health team members - Answer✔Relationship based
Safety, effectiveness, patient centeredness, timeliness, efficiency, equitableness -
Answer✔patient centered
describes nursing care that uses the best scientific research evidence coupled with the clinical
expertise of the clinician considering the values of the patient - Answer✔Evidence based nursing
a statement about relationships among concepts or facts, based on existing information -
Answer✔Nursing Theory
activities in which nurses may engage, state the legal requirements and titles for nursing
licensure, and establish the education needed for licensure - Answer✔Practice Acts
_____________ was created to fill a gap left by nurses who enlished in the military services
during WWII - Answer✔Practical Nursing
created to contain rising health care costs. It means that a hospital receives a set amount of
money for a patient who is hospitalized with a certain diagnosis. - Answer✔Diagnosis-related
groups
disease of body or mind - Answer✔Illness
one that develops suddenly and resolves in a short time - Answer✔Acute Illness
tends to develop slowly, can be controlled but not cured, is long lasting - Answer✔Chronic
Illness
one for which there is no cure available; it ends in death - Answer✔Terminal Illness
one that develops without being caused by another health problem - Answer✔Primary Illness
Results from or is caused by a primary illness - Answer✔Secondary Illness
Illness present at birth - Answer✔Congenital Illness
one for which there is no known etiology(cause) - Answer✔Idiopathic Illness
the onset of illness. Vague or nonspecific symptoms. - Answer✔Transitional Stage
denial of illness stops and "sick role" is assumed. withdraw from usual responsibilities. Use of
remedies. Delay of going to primary physician. - Answer✔Acceptance Stage
the process of recovering after the illness and regaining health. - Answer✔Convalescence
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