NU100 Midterm Exam Questions and
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Florence Nightingale - ✔✔Founder of modern nursing
Dorothea Dix - ✔✔Rights activist on behalf of mentally ill patients - created first wave
of US mental asylums. Army nursing Corps.
Virginia Henderson - ✔✔the patient is an individual who requires help to reach
independence. Sick or well.
Clara Barton - ✔✔Nurse during the Civil War; founder of the American Red Cross
Primary Roles of Nurse: - ✔✔care provider, educator, advocate, leader, change agent,
manager, researcher, collaborator, delegator
Metaparadigm - ✔✔four broad concepts core to nursing: person, environment, health,
and nursing
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs - ✔✔self actualization
self esteem
love and belonging
safety and security
physiological needs
Erickson's Psychosocial Theory - ✔✔development is lifelong
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,stages span from birth until death- personality is continually evolving
people are dealing with the realities of the ego throughout life
Styles of Leadership - ✔✔autocratic, democratic, laissez-faire, bureaucratic
autocratic leadership - ✔✔leadership style that involves making managerial decisions
without consulting others
democratic leadership - ✔✔a leadership style in which managers work with employees
to make decisions
laissez-faire leadership - ✔✔A leadership style that leaves much of the business
decision-making to the workforce - a 'hands off' approach and the reverse of the
autocratic style
Nursing Problems - ✔✔shortage of nurses, increased workload, increased stress, elderly
population
ethics committee - ✔✔committee made up of individuals who are involved in a
patient's care, including health care practitioners, family members, clergy, and others,
with the purpose of reviewing ethical issues in difficult cases. Involves education, case
consultation, and policy recommendation.
What's needed in a person for leadership? - ✔✔personality, ability and intelligence
affective learning domain - ✔✔feelings, values, motivations and attitudes.
What to do during a values conflict with substance abuse. - ✔✔Subtle signs of denial.
Avoid confrontation. Be matter of fact. Provide straight forward info.
ADPIE - Nursing Process - ✔✔Assessment
Diagnosis
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, Planning
Implementation
Evaluation
Nursing Assessment - ✔✔systematic and continuous collection and analysis of
information about the client
Nursing Diagnosis - ✔✔used to evaluate the response of the whole person to actual or
potential health problems
Nursing Planning - ✔✔- the establishment of client goals/outcomes
- working with the client to prevent, reduce, or resolve problems
-to determine related nursing interventions that are most likely to assist client in
achieving goals
-this about improving the quality of life for your patient
- this is about what the patient needs to do to improve their health status or better cope
with illness.
Nursing Implementation - ✔✔Formally begins after a plan of care is developed. The
nurse initiates interventions that are designed to achieve the goals and expected
outcomes needed to support or improve the patient's health status.
Nursing Evaluation - ✔✔Involves measuring if goals in planning step were met:
progress is evaluated; changes in nursing diagnoses, goals & care plan may result; NA
has keep role as NA's observations are used for this step
Deontology - ✔✔defines actions as right or wrong. Not based on consequences.
Utilitarianism - ✔✔Defines actions as right or wrong based on consequences.
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Answers 100% Pass
Florence Nightingale - ✔✔Founder of modern nursing
Dorothea Dix - ✔✔Rights activist on behalf of mentally ill patients - created first wave
of US mental asylums. Army nursing Corps.
Virginia Henderson - ✔✔the patient is an individual who requires help to reach
independence. Sick or well.
Clara Barton - ✔✔Nurse during the Civil War; founder of the American Red Cross
Primary Roles of Nurse: - ✔✔care provider, educator, advocate, leader, change agent,
manager, researcher, collaborator, delegator
Metaparadigm - ✔✔four broad concepts core to nursing: person, environment, health,
and nursing
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs - ✔✔self actualization
self esteem
love and belonging
safety and security
physiological needs
Erickson's Psychosocial Theory - ✔✔development is lifelong
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,stages span from birth until death- personality is continually evolving
people are dealing with the realities of the ego throughout life
Styles of Leadership - ✔✔autocratic, democratic, laissez-faire, bureaucratic
autocratic leadership - ✔✔leadership style that involves making managerial decisions
without consulting others
democratic leadership - ✔✔a leadership style in which managers work with employees
to make decisions
laissez-faire leadership - ✔✔A leadership style that leaves much of the business
decision-making to the workforce - a 'hands off' approach and the reverse of the
autocratic style
Nursing Problems - ✔✔shortage of nurses, increased workload, increased stress, elderly
population
ethics committee - ✔✔committee made up of individuals who are involved in a
patient's care, including health care practitioners, family members, clergy, and others,
with the purpose of reviewing ethical issues in difficult cases. Involves education, case
consultation, and policy recommendation.
What's needed in a person for leadership? - ✔✔personality, ability and intelligence
affective learning domain - ✔✔feelings, values, motivations and attitudes.
What to do during a values conflict with substance abuse. - ✔✔Subtle signs of denial.
Avoid confrontation. Be matter of fact. Provide straight forward info.
ADPIE - Nursing Process - ✔✔Assessment
Diagnosis
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, Planning
Implementation
Evaluation
Nursing Assessment - ✔✔systematic and continuous collection and analysis of
information about the client
Nursing Diagnosis - ✔✔used to evaluate the response of the whole person to actual or
potential health problems
Nursing Planning - ✔✔- the establishment of client goals/outcomes
- working with the client to prevent, reduce, or resolve problems
-to determine related nursing interventions that are most likely to assist client in
achieving goals
-this about improving the quality of life for your patient
- this is about what the patient needs to do to improve their health status or better cope
with illness.
Nursing Implementation - ✔✔Formally begins after a plan of care is developed. The
nurse initiates interventions that are designed to achieve the goals and expected
outcomes needed to support or improve the patient's health status.
Nursing Evaluation - ✔✔Involves measuring if goals in planning step were met:
progress is evaluated; changes in nursing diagnoses, goals & care plan may result; NA
has keep role as NA's observations are used for this step
Deontology - ✔✔defines actions as right or wrong. Not based on consequences.
Utilitarianism - ✔✔Defines actions as right or wrong based on consequences.
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