NUR 215 Exam 1 QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS

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Why is nursing considered a profession? - CORRECT ANSWERS
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✔✔Education, knowledge, selfless concern for others, follow a
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code of ethics, practice autonomy, accountability, and
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responsibility, professional organizations
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What is a nurse? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Highly trained, well
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educated, caring, and competent.
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6 basic skills - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔critical thinking skills
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Communication skills |/




Organizational skills |/




Leadership skills |/




Advocacy
technical skills |/




4 basic principals of nursing - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Advocacy
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Responsibility
Accountability
Confidentiality

, 6 ethical principles of nursing - CORRECT ANSWERS
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✔✔autonomy, beneficence, fidelity, justice, non-maleficence,
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veracity
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autonomy - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔the right of the patient to |/ |/ |/ |/ |/ |/ |/ |/ |/


make decisions about their medical care w/out their healthcare
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provider trying to influence their decisions
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beneficence - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔address the idea that a |/ |/ |/ |/ |/ |/ |/ |/


nurse's actions should only promote good
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fidelity - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔The nurse must be faithful to
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the promises they made as professionals to provide quality care
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justice - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔the nurse needs to be impartial
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and fair to each patient
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Non-Maleficence - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔nurse must be non- |/ |/ |/ |/ |/ |/ |/


harming or inflicting the least amount of harm possible to reach a
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beneficial outcome
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veracity - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔must be honest and tell the
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truth
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History of nursing - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔transformed to a
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women dominated profession in the 19th and 20th century, had
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to become licensed in order to work in the profession in 1903 in
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the US
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