NUR 207 MIDTERM EXAM QUESTIONS
COMPLETE SOLUTIONS
Evidence-informed practice - Answer-draws on both research and clinical experience.
Competencies are evidence that skills have been demonstrated. Critical thinking is the
questioning thought process that nurses need to use in practice. Primary care is first
contact of a patient with the health care system in which a course of action is chosen to
resolve any actual or potential health problem.
Nonmaleficence - Answer-do no harm
Beneficence - Answer-doing good; providing the best care possible.
fidelity - Answer-keeping the promises that are made
moral distress - Answer-occurs for nurses when they are unable to act in ways that they
believe are "right."
Advance care planning (ACP) - Answer-
Justice - Answer-fairness
autonomy - Answer-allowing patients to choose their own course of care.
normal development - Answer-demonstrating the expected developmental and physical
maturation, physiological function, and/or expected tasks within or across the
developmental domains (e.g., physical/physiological, motor, social, cognitive, and
language) that are associated with the individual's chronological age
developmental level - Answer-an individual's stage of development (e.g., stage of
epiphyseal closure in long bone development, Tanner stage of pubertal development,
and stage of cognitive development) or ability to independently achieve an outcome
(e.g., perspective taking and abstract reasoning).
developmental milestone - Answer-an ability or specific skill that most individuals can
accomplish in a certain age range; occur when a confluence of critical changes (i.e.,
neurologic, cognitive, motional, and physical) occur, marking a significant or critical
point of maturation. They provide a basis for developmental assessment and serve as
major markers in tracking development.
Developmental delay - Answer-does not accomplish milestones within a specified age
range, or a critical period; an essential element of neurologic and/or cognitive
maturation has not occurred within an age range and should be investigated. Involves a
COMPLETE SOLUTIONS
Evidence-informed practice - Answer-draws on both research and clinical experience.
Competencies are evidence that skills have been demonstrated. Critical thinking is the
questioning thought process that nurses need to use in practice. Primary care is first
contact of a patient with the health care system in which a course of action is chosen to
resolve any actual or potential health problem.
Nonmaleficence - Answer-do no harm
Beneficence - Answer-doing good; providing the best care possible.
fidelity - Answer-keeping the promises that are made
moral distress - Answer-occurs for nurses when they are unable to act in ways that they
believe are "right."
Advance care planning (ACP) - Answer-
Justice - Answer-fairness
autonomy - Answer-allowing patients to choose their own course of care.
normal development - Answer-demonstrating the expected developmental and physical
maturation, physiological function, and/or expected tasks within or across the
developmental domains (e.g., physical/physiological, motor, social, cognitive, and
language) that are associated with the individual's chronological age
developmental level - Answer-an individual's stage of development (e.g., stage of
epiphyseal closure in long bone development, Tanner stage of pubertal development,
and stage of cognitive development) or ability to independently achieve an outcome
(e.g., perspective taking and abstract reasoning).
developmental milestone - Answer-an ability or specific skill that most individuals can
accomplish in a certain age range; occur when a confluence of critical changes (i.e.,
neurologic, cognitive, motional, and physical) occur, marking a significant or critical
point of maturation. They provide a basis for developmental assessment and serve as
major markers in tracking development.
Developmental delay - Answer-does not accomplish milestones within a specified age
range, or a critical period; an essential element of neurologic and/or cognitive
maturation has not occurred within an age range and should be investigated. Involves a
