NURS 325 exam 1 QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS

Nurs 325 Exam 1 QUESTIONS WITH
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ANSWERS

primary healthcare - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔medical care
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services, health education, nutritional care, family planning, and
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control of diseases
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secondary and tertiary - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔hospitals deliver
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health care to patients who are acutely ill and need
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comprehensive specialized ________ and __________ health care |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\




discharge planning - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔begins when a
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patient is admitted to a health care agency and helps in the
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transition of a patient's care from one environment to another
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barriers to effective discharge planning - CORRECT ANSWERS
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✔✔ineffective communication, lack of role clarity among health
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care team members, and lack of resources
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diagnoses related groups (DRGs) - CORRECT ANSWERS
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✔✔classifications based on a hospitalized patients primary and |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\


secondary medical diagnoses; encourages cost containment
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initiatives


minimum data set (MDS) - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔classification
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system which allows for the standardized collection of essential
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nursing data |\

,theories - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔_____are dynamic and
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responsive to the changing environment in which we live
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assumptions - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔explain the nature of the |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\


concepts, definitions, purpose, relationships, and structure of a
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theory


grand theories - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔provides the structural
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framework for general, global ideas about nursing.|\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\




-intend to answer the question: "what is nursing? " and focus on
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the whole of nursing rather than on a specific type of nursing
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metatheory - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔examines the relationships
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of various components that make up the knowledge of a
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discipline including philosophical, theoretical, and empirical
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components that provide a broad overview of the discipline |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\




middle-range theories - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔address a specific |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\


phenomenon and reflect a certain practice.
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-theories expand on specific concepts in a specific field of nursing
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such as uncertainty, incontinence, social support, etc
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paradigm - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔a pattern of beliefs used to
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describe the domain of a discipline; links the concepts theories,
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, values, beliefs, and assumptions accepted and applied by the
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discipline


practice theories - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔aka situation specific
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theories; bring theory to the bedside; are narrow in scope and
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focus and guide the nursing care of a specific patient population
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at a specific time
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shared theory - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔explains a phenomenon
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specific to the discipline that developed the theory
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illness behaviors - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔different reactions
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people have when they become ill.
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-variables such as persons perception of illness, type of illness,
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and visibility of symptoms affect a persons behavior.
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healthy people 2020 goals - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔- attain high
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quality, longer lives, free of illness
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- achieve health equity, eliminate disparities and improve all
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health groups |\ |\




- create healthy social and physical environments that promote
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good health |\




- promote quality of life and healthy development and behaviors
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infants - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔more susceptible to illness since
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their immune system is weak
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