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What are the roles of a professional nurse? - correct answer promote health, prevent illness,
restoring health and facilitating coping with disease or death.
The roles include caregiver, communicator, teacher, counselor, leader, researcher, advocate,
and collaborator.
Nursing involves specialized skills and application of knowledge based on an education that has
both theoretical and clinical practice components.
Licensed to formulate and dispense medications - correct answer pharmacist
Educated to assist clients to speak more clearly - correct answer speech therapist
Licensed to diagnose and treat illness - correct answer physicians
Titles include nursing assistant, orderly, care technician - correct answer assistive personnel
Manages and plans nutritional needs of clients - correct answer dietitian
Licensed to assist physically challenged clients to adapt - correct answer occupational therapist
Completes certification exam to assist health care providers - correct answer physician assistant
Seeks to restore function or prevent further disability - correct answer physical therapist
Counsels' clients/families and makes community referrals - correct answer social worker
Educated in techniques to improve pulmonary function - correct answer respiratory therapist
Gives spiritual support to clients, families, and staff - correct answer chaplain or spiritual care
provider
Body of individuals who help maintain health of clients - correct answer nurse
primary health care occurs? - correct answer 1. family planning centers
2. Primary care centers
3. urgent care centers
4. employment health centers
primary healthcare provides? - correct answer Family planning, prenatal and well-baby care,
immunizations, health risk screenings, diagnostic tests, health education, and medications
primary healthcare treats what type of client? - correct answer Patients with common health
problems and/or needing preventative measures.
, secondary healthcare occurs? - correct answer 1. hospital-based clinics
2. emergency departments
3. hospitals or same day surgery units
4. psychiatric institutes
secondary healthcare provides? - correct answer Physicians in specialties such as internal
medicine, pediatrics, neurology, psychiatry, and advanced practice nurses.
secondary healthcare treats what type of clients? - correct answer Victims of car accidents
Someone needing surgery
Clients needing mental health care
tertiary healthcare occurs? - correct answer large medical centers like Grady or CHOA
tertiary healthcare provides? - correct answer Subspecialist physicians such as cardiovascular
surgeons, pediatric hematologists, and advanced practice nurses
tertiary healthcare treats what type of clients? - correct answer Rare and complex disease
management.
What does "person-centered care" mean? - correct answer Individualized and holistic care. To
have person centered care, the nurse must care for themselves. Think of REST:
R: relationships with self and others
E: exercise (care of the mind, body, and spirit)
S: soul (compassionate emotional care)
T: transformative thinking leading to thoughtful action.
It focuses on the patient's symptoms and medical history and on the emotional, social, and
financial factors that affect their life and values.
Swansons theory of caring? - correct answer knowing, being with, doing for, enabling,
maintaining belief
Benner and Wrubel's Theory of Caring? - correct answer Care is primary, sets up what counts as
stressful, as well as what counts as coping and cannot be divorced from situation, physical
environment, nurse training, nurse experience, or client perspective/capacity
Watsons theory of caring? - correct answer Nursing's goal is to understand the interrelationship
between health, illness, and human behavior. Focus on transpersonal caring/transformative.