Professional Nursing Concepts Ch 1-6
Questions and Complete Solutions
Graded A+
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".
Altruism - Answer: the nurse shows concern for the welfare of patients, other nurses, and other health
care providers.
Autonomy - Answer: i. Planning care in partnership with patients
ii. Honoring the right of patients and families to make decisions about health care
iii. Providing information so patients can make informed choices and decisions.
Human dignity - Answer: i. Providing culturally competent and sensitive care
ii. Protecting the patient's privacy
iii. Preserving confidentiality of patients and health care providers; and
iv. Designing care with sensitivity to individual patient needs.
Integrity - Answer: Acting in accordance with an appropriate code of ethics and accepted standards of
practice
Social Justice - Answer: i. Supports fairness and non-discrimination in the delivery of care;
ii. Promotes universal access to health care; and
iii. Encourages legislation and policy consistent with the advancement of nursing care and health care.
how professional nursing values are acquired. - Answer: a. Acquired during socialization into nursing
from code of ethics, nursing experiences, teachers, and peers.
b. Traditions and cultural, ethnic, and religious groups
,Values - Answer: something of worth; an enduring belief or attitude held dearly by a person about
people, objects, ideas, or action
Beliefs - Answer: Interpretations or conclusions that one accepts as true
Attitudes - Answer: Mental positions or feelings toward a person, object, or idea
the 7-step Patient Value Clarification Process. - Answer: 1. List alternatives
2. Examine possible consequences of choices
3. Choose freely
4. Feel good about the choice
5. Affirm the choice
6. Act on the choice
7. Act with a pattern
What is the 7-step Patient Value Clarification Process. - Answer: A process for a nurse to use when
patients' value system is detrimental to their health
CARING - Answer: promoting health, healing, and hope in response to the human condition
INTEGRITY - Answer: respecting the dignity and moral wholeness of every person without conditions or
limitation
DIVERSITY - Answer: affirming the uniqueness of and differences among persons, ideas, values, and
ethnicities
EXCELLENCE - Answer: creating and implementing transformative strategies with daring ingenuity
Truth - Answer: i. Faithfulness to fact or reality
, ii. Attitudes
1. Accountability
2. Authenticity
3. Honesty
4. Inquisitiveness
5. Rationality
6. Reflectiveness
Florence Nightingale - Answer: o Well educated
o Holistic view of health: body, mind
o Saved many lives in Crimean war
o Focus on cleanliness & Nutrition
o Founded first nursing school 1860
o Focused on data and outcomes
o Layed foundation for evidence based practice: Notes on Nursing
Dix and Barton - Answer: recruited nurses in the civil war
Mahoney - Answer: initiated integration of Nursing
Wald - Answer: established Public Health Nursing
Jewish doctors - Answer: developed a hygeine code
o Beliefs: Disease is a curse r/t sin
Romans - Answer: used slaves for nursing care
Greeks - Answer: Hippocrates (father of western medicine) wrote first medical text
Questions and Complete Solutions
Graded A+
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".
Altruism - Answer: the nurse shows concern for the welfare of patients, other nurses, and other health
care providers.
Autonomy - Answer: i. Planning care in partnership with patients
ii. Honoring the right of patients and families to make decisions about health care
iii. Providing information so patients can make informed choices and decisions.
Human dignity - Answer: i. Providing culturally competent and sensitive care
ii. Protecting the patient's privacy
iii. Preserving confidentiality of patients and health care providers; and
iv. Designing care with sensitivity to individual patient needs.
Integrity - Answer: Acting in accordance with an appropriate code of ethics and accepted standards of
practice
Social Justice - Answer: i. Supports fairness and non-discrimination in the delivery of care;
ii. Promotes universal access to health care; and
iii. Encourages legislation and policy consistent with the advancement of nursing care and health care.
how professional nursing values are acquired. - Answer: a. Acquired during socialization into nursing
from code of ethics, nursing experiences, teachers, and peers.
b. Traditions and cultural, ethnic, and religious groups
,Values - Answer: something of worth; an enduring belief or attitude held dearly by a person about
people, objects, ideas, or action
Beliefs - Answer: Interpretations or conclusions that one accepts as true
Attitudes - Answer: Mental positions or feelings toward a person, object, or idea
the 7-step Patient Value Clarification Process. - Answer: 1. List alternatives
2. Examine possible consequences of choices
3. Choose freely
4. Feel good about the choice
5. Affirm the choice
6. Act on the choice
7. Act with a pattern
What is the 7-step Patient Value Clarification Process. - Answer: A process for a nurse to use when
patients' value system is detrimental to their health
CARING - Answer: promoting health, healing, and hope in response to the human condition
INTEGRITY - Answer: respecting the dignity and moral wholeness of every person without conditions or
limitation
DIVERSITY - Answer: affirming the uniqueness of and differences among persons, ideas, values, and
ethnicities
EXCELLENCE - Answer: creating and implementing transformative strategies with daring ingenuity
Truth - Answer: i. Faithfulness to fact or reality
, ii. Attitudes
1. Accountability
2. Authenticity
3. Honesty
4. Inquisitiveness
5. Rationality
6. Reflectiveness
Florence Nightingale - Answer: o Well educated
o Holistic view of health: body, mind
o Saved many lives in Crimean war
o Focus on cleanliness & Nutrition
o Founded first nursing school 1860
o Focused on data and outcomes
o Layed foundation for evidence based practice: Notes on Nursing
Dix and Barton - Answer: recruited nurses in the civil war
Mahoney - Answer: initiated integration of Nursing
Wald - Answer: established Public Health Nursing
Jewish doctors - Answer: developed a hygeine code
o Beliefs: Disease is a curse r/t sin
Romans - Answer: used slaves for nursing care
Greeks - Answer: Hippocrates (father of western medicine) wrote first medical text
