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Prepare for your HESI Fundamentals exam with this expertly curated PDF guide. Covering essential nursing terms, clinical definitions, and exam-focused concepts, this resource equips nursing students with the knowledge to excel. Organized, clear, and easy to navigate, it’s perfect for quick review, flashcard creation, and confident exam preparation. Ideal for students seeking a comprehensive study tool for HESI, NCLEX, or foundational nursing courses.

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Patient's environment is arrange to facilitate
1. Nightingale theory the body's reparative processes.Lady with
the lamp

Self-Care Deficit Theory
Focuses on activities that adult individuals
2. Dorothea Orem
perform on their own behalf to maintain life,
health and well-being.

, Professional negligence; failure to meet a
3. Malpractice
legal duty, thus causing harm to another.

The commissioning (doing) of an act or the
omission (not doing) of an act that a
4. Negligence reasonable prudent person would have
preformed in a similar situation, thus causing
harm to another.

5. Abandonment of Wrongful termination of providing patient
Care care.

Health Insurance Portability and
Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) set rules
6. HIPAA
and limits on who can look at and receive
health care information.

7. Confidentiality duty to protect information about a patient

, Person right to be left alone or anonymous
8. Invasion of privacy
if she or he chooses

1. Infancy/0-1/Basic trust vs. Mistrust
2. Toddler/1-3/Autonomy vs. Shame and
Doubt
3. Preschool/4-6/Initiative vs. Guilt
4. School Age/7-11/Industry vs. Inferiority
9. Erickson's 5. Adolescence/12-19/Identity vs. Role
Developmental confusion
Stages 6. Young Adulthood/20-44/Intimacy vs.
Isolation
7. Middle Adulthood/45-65/Generativity vs.
Stagnation
8. Late Adulthood/65+/Ego Integrity vs.
Despair

, 5: Self-Actualization
4: Self-Esteem
10. Maslow's
3: Love and Belongingness
Hierarchy of Needs
2: Safety and Security
1: Physiologic

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