WTCC SP19 NUR 111 Theory Exam 1
ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS
Define nursing as an art. - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Individualized, creative ways in
caring for the client.
Define nursing as a science. - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Based on policies and procedures.
Lifelong learning: current knowledge and practice that follows the nursing process; current
knowledge with evidence-based care.
Florence Nightingale - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Putting the patient the best possible
condition for nature to act. Meet the client where they are. Focused on health mutinous and
restoration.
NC Practice Act - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅The practice of nursing as an art dedicated to
caring and to assisting clients by providing sustained, vigilant and continuous care to those
acutely or chronically ill. Nurses assist clients to attain or maintain optimal health.
Implementing a strategy of care to accomplish defined goals within the context of a client
centered care plan
American Nurses Association (ANA) - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Established a Code of
Ethics as well as a Scopes and Standards of Nursing Practice; Largest and most powerful
nursing association today. With membership to only RNs & represents the interests of all 3.4
million RNs
Wake Tech Dept of Nursing Ed. - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Nursing is an art and science,
which integrates and assimilate knowledge and skills derived from biological, physical social
and behavioral sciences.
Identify 3 professional organizations in nursing. - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅American
Association of Nursing
NC Nursing Association
National League for Nursing
,NC Nurses Association (NCNA) - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Equips nurses at all stages to
thrive in an ever-changing healthcare environment. NCNA helps keep NC nurses on the
cutting edge of nursing practice, policy, education and more.
National League for Nursing (NLN) - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Promotes excellence in
nursing education to build a strong and diverse nursing workforce to advance the health of
our nation and the global community. They support nursing research grants and other
education programs.
Basic Nursing Education - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Hospital Based Diploma Programs,
ADN, BSN
Advanced Nursing Education - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Masters, DNP
Describe the components of the philosophy and the conceptual module of the Wake Tech
Nursing Program (located in your Student Policy Handbook) - CORRECT
ANSWERS✅✅The Martha Mann Smith School of Nursing faculty supports the College's
core values of Respect, Responsibility, Critical Thinking, Communication, Collaboration and
Accountability as well as the seven core values of the National League for Nursing (NLN)
Education Competencies Model. The NLN values include: Caring, Diversity, Ethics,
Excellence, Holism, Integrity and Client-Centeredness.
Describe the nursing process as a foundation to determine patient needs and deliver nursing
care. - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅The nursing process is a dynamic continuous client-
centered, problem solving and decision-making framework that is foundational to nursing
practice. It is a critical thinking process that consists of five steps to follow in a purposeful,
goal directed, systematic way to achieve optimal client outcomes. The five sequential but
overlapping steps are called: ADPIE: Assessment, Diagnosis, Planning, Implementation and
Evaluation. The nursing process is a variation of scientific reasoning that helps nurses
organize nursing care and apply the optimal available evidence to deliver care.
The nursing process provides a framework through which nurses can apply knowledge,
experience, judgment and skills as well as established standards of nursing practice to the
formulation of a plan of nursing care. It promotes the professionalism of nursing while
differentiating the practice of nursing.
Patricia Benner there are 5 levels of proficiency for nurses. - CORRECT
ANSWERS✅✅Novice, Advanced Beginner, Competent, Proficient, Expert
, Benner's Novice - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅No experience and relies on policies,
procedures and guidelines and theory
Benner's Advanced Beginner - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Begins to gain experience. Focus
is on tasks and guidelines. Does not have experience to consider complexity.
Benner's Competent - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Has been on the job for 2 -3 years with
the same or similar situations. Begins to master some tasks, does not yet possess the speed
and flexibility of a proficient nurse.
Benner's Proficient - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Perceives the situation as wholes rather
than in terms of chopped up parts or aspects.
Benner's Expert - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Possess and intuitive understanding of most
situations and is able to quickly determine a course of action without much problem solving.
Has high a analytical skills ability that is needed for most all situations.
Identify the nurse-client relationship as a basis for communication. - CORRECT
ANSWERS✅✅Establish trusting relationship with patient/family. EFFECTIVE
communication is key. Verbal and nonverbal 10/90 split, needs to have congruity.
Intent of comm. Is to elicit a response
Better Communication = Stronger relationships = More Trust= Better Care
Identify communication skills needed in developing therapeutic relationships. - CORRECT
ANSWERS✅✅Active Listener, assist patient to identify feelings, follow through w/
promises and don't make unrealistic promises, be truthful, focus on patients well-being.
Developed by Hildegard Peplau
Define the four phases of a nurse-client relationship. - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Pre-
interaction, Introductory, Working, Termination Phases.
Pre-interaction Phase - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Similar to planning stage before an
interview. The nurse has information about the patient before face-to-face meeting (name,
address, age, health problem). The nurse will get anxious before the visit. This phrase process
ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS
Define nursing as an art. - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Individualized, creative ways in
caring for the client.
Define nursing as a science. - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Based on policies and procedures.
Lifelong learning: current knowledge and practice that follows the nursing process; current
knowledge with evidence-based care.
Florence Nightingale - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Putting the patient the best possible
condition for nature to act. Meet the client where they are. Focused on health mutinous and
restoration.
NC Practice Act - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅The practice of nursing as an art dedicated to
caring and to assisting clients by providing sustained, vigilant and continuous care to those
acutely or chronically ill. Nurses assist clients to attain or maintain optimal health.
Implementing a strategy of care to accomplish defined goals within the context of a client
centered care plan
American Nurses Association (ANA) - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Established a Code of
Ethics as well as a Scopes and Standards of Nursing Practice; Largest and most powerful
nursing association today. With membership to only RNs & represents the interests of all 3.4
million RNs
Wake Tech Dept of Nursing Ed. - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Nursing is an art and science,
which integrates and assimilate knowledge and skills derived from biological, physical social
and behavioral sciences.
Identify 3 professional organizations in nursing. - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅American
Association of Nursing
NC Nursing Association
National League for Nursing
,NC Nurses Association (NCNA) - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Equips nurses at all stages to
thrive in an ever-changing healthcare environment. NCNA helps keep NC nurses on the
cutting edge of nursing practice, policy, education and more.
National League for Nursing (NLN) - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Promotes excellence in
nursing education to build a strong and diverse nursing workforce to advance the health of
our nation and the global community. They support nursing research grants and other
education programs.
Basic Nursing Education - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Hospital Based Diploma Programs,
ADN, BSN
Advanced Nursing Education - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Masters, DNP
Describe the components of the philosophy and the conceptual module of the Wake Tech
Nursing Program (located in your Student Policy Handbook) - CORRECT
ANSWERS✅✅The Martha Mann Smith School of Nursing faculty supports the College's
core values of Respect, Responsibility, Critical Thinking, Communication, Collaboration and
Accountability as well as the seven core values of the National League for Nursing (NLN)
Education Competencies Model. The NLN values include: Caring, Diversity, Ethics,
Excellence, Holism, Integrity and Client-Centeredness.
Describe the nursing process as a foundation to determine patient needs and deliver nursing
care. - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅The nursing process is a dynamic continuous client-
centered, problem solving and decision-making framework that is foundational to nursing
practice. It is a critical thinking process that consists of five steps to follow in a purposeful,
goal directed, systematic way to achieve optimal client outcomes. The five sequential but
overlapping steps are called: ADPIE: Assessment, Diagnosis, Planning, Implementation and
Evaluation. The nursing process is a variation of scientific reasoning that helps nurses
organize nursing care and apply the optimal available evidence to deliver care.
The nursing process provides a framework through which nurses can apply knowledge,
experience, judgment and skills as well as established standards of nursing practice to the
formulation of a plan of nursing care. It promotes the professionalism of nursing while
differentiating the practice of nursing.
Patricia Benner there are 5 levels of proficiency for nurses. - CORRECT
ANSWERS✅✅Novice, Advanced Beginner, Competent, Proficient, Expert
, Benner's Novice - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅No experience and relies on policies,
procedures and guidelines and theory
Benner's Advanced Beginner - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Begins to gain experience. Focus
is on tasks and guidelines. Does not have experience to consider complexity.
Benner's Competent - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Has been on the job for 2 -3 years with
the same or similar situations. Begins to master some tasks, does not yet possess the speed
and flexibility of a proficient nurse.
Benner's Proficient - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Perceives the situation as wholes rather
than in terms of chopped up parts or aspects.
Benner's Expert - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Possess and intuitive understanding of most
situations and is able to quickly determine a course of action without much problem solving.
Has high a analytical skills ability that is needed for most all situations.
Identify the nurse-client relationship as a basis for communication. - CORRECT
ANSWERS✅✅Establish trusting relationship with patient/family. EFFECTIVE
communication is key. Verbal and nonverbal 10/90 split, needs to have congruity.
Intent of comm. Is to elicit a response
Better Communication = Stronger relationships = More Trust= Better Care
Identify communication skills needed in developing therapeutic relationships. - CORRECT
ANSWERS✅✅Active Listener, assist patient to identify feelings, follow through w/
promises and don't make unrealistic promises, be truthful, focus on patients well-being.
Developed by Hildegard Peplau
Define the four phases of a nurse-client relationship. - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Pre-
interaction, Introductory, Working, Termination Phases.
Pre-interaction Phase - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅Similar to planning stage before an
interview. The nurse has information about the patient before face-to-face meeting (name,
address, age, health problem). The nurse will get anxious before the visit. This phrase process
