NURS 5434 FINAL TEST PAPER QUESTIONS
ANSWERS COMPLETE SOLUTION
DETAILED REVIEW SHEET
●● Caring:
Answer: meeting the patient/family where their needs are.
●● OCC Core Competencies
Answer: - Accountability
- Communication/Collaboration
- Critical Thinking/Decision Making
- Culture/Diversity
- Leadership
- Nursing Process
- Professionalism
- Safety
- Teaching/Learning
●● Nurse Practice Act: Defines the
Answer: legal scope of nursing
,●● Nurse Practice Act: Creates
Answer: regulating bodies to make and enforce rules
●● Nurse Practice Act: Defines important
Answer: terms and activities
●● Nurse Practice Act: Establishes
Answer: criteria for education and licensure
●● Nurse Practice Act: Purpose of
Answer: - Protection of the public
- Protection of the RN
●● Nurse Practice Act: Revisions of
Answer: Sunset Legislation
●● Nurse Practice Act: Prevents people who
Answer: think they know how to do nursing duties from doing them
without a degree/license
●● Nurse Practice Acts:
Answer: Laws that regulate nursing practice
,- Approving nursing education programs
- Defining the practice of professional nursing
- Establishing criteria that allow a person to be licensed as a registered
nurse (RN) or licensed practical or vocational nurse (LPN/LVN)
- Defining a professional practice, which demonstrates the nurse's scope
of practice or those activities that nurses are expected to perform (and by
implications, those they may not)
- Developing rules and regulations for guidance to nurses
- Enforcing the rules that govern nursing
●● Contemporary Nursing Practice: Definition of Nursing: American
Nurses Association
Answer: Nursing is the diagnosis and treatment of human responses to
actual or potential health problems.
(An art and a science)
●● Nursing Education:
Answer: Entry level
- LPN
- Diploma
- ADN
- BSN
Advanced Practice
, - MSN - Nurse Anesthetist, Nurse Midwife, Nurse Educator, Clinical
Nurse Specialist, Nurse Practitioner
-PHD or Doctorate
Continued Education
Specialty Field Certification
●● Florence Nightingale (8)
Answer: - Noted that nursing was different than medicine
- Nursing advocate
- Believed in maintaining records
- First researcher
- Formalized nursing education
- Utilized as well as altered the environment for healing
- Established the standards for nursing
- Greatly influenced nursing in the U.S.
●● Quote from Florence Nightingale: (3)
Answer: "Putting the patient in the best condition for nature to act."
- keeping wound clean
- letting fresh air in
- feeding patient
ANSWERS COMPLETE SOLUTION
DETAILED REVIEW SHEET
●● Caring:
Answer: meeting the patient/family where their needs are.
●● OCC Core Competencies
Answer: - Accountability
- Communication/Collaboration
- Critical Thinking/Decision Making
- Culture/Diversity
- Leadership
- Nursing Process
- Professionalism
- Safety
- Teaching/Learning
●● Nurse Practice Act: Defines the
Answer: legal scope of nursing
,●● Nurse Practice Act: Creates
Answer: regulating bodies to make and enforce rules
●● Nurse Practice Act: Defines important
Answer: terms and activities
●● Nurse Practice Act: Establishes
Answer: criteria for education and licensure
●● Nurse Practice Act: Purpose of
Answer: - Protection of the public
- Protection of the RN
●● Nurse Practice Act: Revisions of
Answer: Sunset Legislation
●● Nurse Practice Act: Prevents people who
Answer: think they know how to do nursing duties from doing them
without a degree/license
●● Nurse Practice Acts:
Answer: Laws that regulate nursing practice
,- Approving nursing education programs
- Defining the practice of professional nursing
- Establishing criteria that allow a person to be licensed as a registered
nurse (RN) or licensed practical or vocational nurse (LPN/LVN)
- Defining a professional practice, which demonstrates the nurse's scope
of practice or those activities that nurses are expected to perform (and by
implications, those they may not)
- Developing rules and regulations for guidance to nurses
- Enforcing the rules that govern nursing
●● Contemporary Nursing Practice: Definition of Nursing: American
Nurses Association
Answer: Nursing is the diagnosis and treatment of human responses to
actual or potential health problems.
(An art and a science)
●● Nursing Education:
Answer: Entry level
- LPN
- Diploma
- ADN
- BSN
Advanced Practice
, - MSN - Nurse Anesthetist, Nurse Midwife, Nurse Educator, Clinical
Nurse Specialist, Nurse Practitioner
-PHD or Doctorate
Continued Education
Specialty Field Certification
●● Florence Nightingale (8)
Answer: - Noted that nursing was different than medicine
- Nursing advocate
- Believed in maintaining records
- First researcher
- Formalized nursing education
- Utilized as well as altered the environment for healing
- Established the standards for nursing
- Greatly influenced nursing in the U.S.
●● Quote from Florence Nightingale: (3)
Answer: "Putting the patient in the best condition for nature to act."
- keeping wound clean
- letting fresh air in
- feeding patient
