NU110 - Introduction to Professional
Nursing Final Exam Questions & Answers
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Types of knowledge: nursing practice passed down from generation to generation - ANSWER ✔ -
traditional knowledge
Types of knowledge: nursing practice that comes from an expert and is accepted as a truth based on
expertise - ANSWER ✔ - authoritative knowledge
Types of knowledge: nursing practice obtained through the scientific method/research - ANSWER ✔ -
scientific knowledge
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 - ANSWER ✔ - nursing (as defined by the
American Nurses' Association)
Nursing as a _____ =
- specialized technical and scientific knowledge
- knowledge and competence of groups evaluated by peers
- service orientation and code of ethics - ANSWER ✔ - profession
Nursing as a _____ =
- body of knowledge with theoretical and practical boundaries
- clinical practice questions drive research, which results in evidence that helps to guide safe practice -
ANSWER ✔ - discipline
Nursing as a _____ =
- job in which the nurse is employed
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- employer determines practice conditions and job responsibilities - ANSWER ✔ - occupation
What does QSEN stand for? - ANSWER ✔ - quality and safety education for nurses
What does ksas stand for? - ANSWER ✔ - knowledge, skills, and attitudes
Who created ksas? - ANSWER ✔ - QSEN
_____ needed for continuous improvement in safety and quality include:
- patient-centered care
- teamwork / collaboration
- evidence-based practice
- quality improvement
- safety
- informatics - ANSWER ✔ - ksas
Carper's Fundamental Patterns of Knowing in Nursing (4) - ANSWER ✔ - empirics, esthetics, personal
knowledge, ethics
Carper's Fundamental Patterns of Knowing in Nursing: the science of nursing (aimed at developing
abstract/theoretical explanations about the health and illness of humans) - ANSWER ✔ - empirics
Carper's Fundamental Patterns of Knowing in Nursing: the art of nursing (perception that goes beyond
recognition of human experiences; emphasis on empathy) - ANSWER ✔ - esthetics
Carper's Fundamental Patterns of Knowing in Nursing: self-knowledge (nurse must understand self in
order to understand/accept the client) - ANSWER ✔ - personal knowledge
Carper's Fundamental Patterns of Knowing in Nursing: moral knowledge (ability to make choices within
concrete situations) - ANSWER ✔ - ethics
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What does NANDA stand for? - ANSWER ✔ - North American Nursing Diagnosis Association
Who created the nursing process? - ANSWER ✔ - NANDA
The nursing process (ADPIE) - ANSWER ✔ - assessment, diagnosis, planning, implementation, evaluation
Steps in the nursing process: looking at the whole person - ANSWER ✔ - assessment
Steps in the nursing process: analysis of data taken during assessment (identify patient strengths and
health problems, formulate/validate conclusions made) - ANSWER ✔ - diagnosis
Steps in the nursing process: forming a plan based upon assessment and diagnosis - ANSWER ✔ -
planning
Steps in the nursing process: carrying out the plan that was made - ANSWER ✔ - implementation
Steps in the nursing process: measuring patient progress following implementation of the plan (did the
plan work?) - ANSWER ✔ - evaluation
Blended competencies (4) - ANSWER ✔ - cognitive, technical, interpersonal, ethical/legal
Blended competencies: critical thinking (ability to reason and identify scientific rationale to achieve
goals of care) - ANSWER ✔ - cognitive
Blended competencies: hands-on skills (skill use of equipment and the ability to adapt to meet patient
needs as not all are treated the same) - ANSWER ✔ - technical
Blended competencies: communication (development of caring relationships through effective
communication and collaboration) - ANSWER ✔ - interpersonal
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Blended competencies: informs nursing practice (following personal and professional moral codes) -
ANSWER ✔ - ethical/legal
Nursing during ancient civilization: theory that elements of nature are alive and possess power
(attempted to explain the causes of mysterious health changes) - ANSWER ✔ - theory of animism
Nursing during ancient civilization: the physician was considered the _____ _____ - ANSWER ✔ -
medicine man
Nursing during ancient civilization: the roles of the physician and the nurse were _____ and _____ -
ANSWER ✔ - separate and distinct
Nursing during early christianity/the Middle Ages: _____ were visiting nurses - ANSWER ✔ - deaconesses
Nursing during early christianity/the Middle Ages: nursing had a more _____ role in society - ANSWER ✔
- formal
Nursing during early christianity/the Middle Ages: when did Saint Benedict found the benedictine
nursing order? - ANSWER ✔ - 450-500 AD
When did the Revolutionary War take place? - ANSWER ✔ - 1775-1783
Nursing during the Revolutionary War: women without _____ or _____ - ANSWER ✔ - money or shelter
Nursing during the Revolutionary War: nursing was viewed as dangerous due to high _____ rates of both
patients and caregivers - ANSWER ✔ - mortality
When did the Industrial Revolution take place? - ANSWER ✔ - late 1700s-early 1800s