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NUR 354- Exam 1 Questions and Answers
100% Verified 2025-2026 Update
Professional nursing roles
- care provider
- teacher
- manager
- research consumer
nursing process
Assessment
Nursing Diagnosis
Plan of Care
Implementation
Evaluation
professional nurse
- provides evidence-based care, competent care
- guided by ethical principles
- integrates knowledge from the arts and sciences
Role components:
- provider of care, teacher, manager, and research consumer
Processes:
- critical thinking, communication, change, and lifelong learning
influences on nursing practice
- expanding knowledge and technology
- changing populations
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- national patient safety goals
-health care reform
- COVID 19 and other recent epidemics and pandemics
What processes do nurses use?
critical thinking
communication
change
lifelong learning
critical thinking
dynamic, purposeful, intellectual process
- interpretation
- analysis
- evaluation
- inference
- explanation
- self regulation
communication
- ongoing, interactive process
- transmitting perceptions, thoughts, and ideas
- verbal and non-verbal skills
- listening
- writing
change
deviating from an established pattern
change agent:
- improve care by identifying, motivating, and implementing change
lifelong learning
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an attitude
self-direction and motivation
learning as a mechanism for improvement
environmental influences
culture, economics, ethics, law, politics, society, and technology
health disparities
differences in incidence or mortality rates between groups of people
contributing factors:
- ethnicity, race, and culture
- geographic location
- age, gender
- income, education, and occupation
primary level of prevention
health promotion
ex.) vaccines
secondary level of prevention
early diagnosis and treatment
ex.) screenings
tertiary level of prevention
restoration and rehabilitation
ex.) support groups and rehab
Community- Oriented Nursing
- public health nursing
- primary prevention focus
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- individuals, families, and groups
- health promotion of populations
community based nursing
- illness oriented care across the lifespan
- assist patients to manage acute and chronic health changes
- care provided in community and home settings instead of hospital
- secondary and tertiary levels of prevention
EBP
evidence based practice
Process of integrating:
- best available evidence
- clinician expertise
- patient values
EBP process
- ask the clinical question
- search for evidence
- appraise and synthesize the evidence
- integrate with clinical expertise, patient values, and preferences for
implementation
- evaluate
health
- Physical, mental, and social well-being
- not just absence of disease
wellness
- optimal state of health
- achieving one's greatest potential, while successfully fulfilling role expectations
illness
NUR 354
NUR 354- Exam 1 Questions and Answers
100% Verified 2025-2026 Update
Professional nursing roles
- care provider
- teacher
- manager
- research consumer
nursing process
Assessment
Nursing Diagnosis
Plan of Care
Implementation
Evaluation
professional nurse
- provides evidence-based care, competent care
- guided by ethical principles
- integrates knowledge from the arts and sciences
Role components:
- provider of care, teacher, manager, and research consumer
Processes:
- critical thinking, communication, change, and lifelong learning
influences on nursing practice
- expanding knowledge and technology
- changing populations
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- national patient safety goals
-health care reform
- COVID 19 and other recent epidemics and pandemics
What processes do nurses use?
critical thinking
communication
change
lifelong learning
critical thinking
dynamic, purposeful, intellectual process
- interpretation
- analysis
- evaluation
- inference
- explanation
- self regulation
communication
- ongoing, interactive process
- transmitting perceptions, thoughts, and ideas
- verbal and non-verbal skills
- listening
- writing
change
deviating from an established pattern
change agent:
- improve care by identifying, motivating, and implementing change
lifelong learning
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an attitude
self-direction and motivation
learning as a mechanism for improvement
environmental influences
culture, economics, ethics, law, politics, society, and technology
health disparities
differences in incidence or mortality rates between groups of people
contributing factors:
- ethnicity, race, and culture
- geographic location
- age, gender
- income, education, and occupation
primary level of prevention
health promotion
ex.) vaccines
secondary level of prevention
early diagnosis and treatment
ex.) screenings
tertiary level of prevention
restoration and rehabilitation
ex.) support groups and rehab
Community- Oriented Nursing
- public health nursing
- primary prevention focus
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- individuals, families, and groups
- health promotion of populations
community based nursing
- illness oriented care across the lifespan
- assist patients to manage acute and chronic health changes
- care provided in community and home settings instead of hospital
- secondary and tertiary levels of prevention
EBP
evidence based practice
Process of integrating:
- best available evidence
- clinician expertise
- patient values
EBP process
- ask the clinical question
- search for evidence
- appraise and synthesize the evidence
- integrate with clinical expertise, patient values, and preferences for
implementation
- evaluate
health
- Physical, mental, and social well-being
- not just absence of disease
wellness
- optimal state of health
- achieving one's greatest potential, while successfully fulfilling role expectations
illness
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