FUNDAMENTALS OF NURSING QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS SOLVED TEST BANK
◉ Aims of nursing. Answer: promoting health, preventing illness,
restoring health, facilitating coping with disability or death
◉ promoting health. Answer: promoting good physical, mental and
emotional health by identifying, analyzing, and maximizing the
patient's strengths as components of preventing illness, restoring
health and facilitating coping with disability or death
◉ preventing illness. Answer: reduce the risk of illness by avoiding or
achieving early detection of illness or to maintain function within the
constraints of an illness. Teach by example, educational programs,
community programs, literature, and health assessments
◉ restoring health. Answer: performing assessments that detect an
illness refering questions and findings to other healthcare providers,
providing direct care, collaborating, planning, teaching and carrying
out rehabilitation for illnesses, working in rehab programs
◉ facilitating coping with disability or death. Answer: hospice, refer
to support groups
, ◉ roles of nurses. Answer: caregiver, communicator,
teacher/educator, leader, advocate
◉ LPN. Answer: 1 year program, can do most nursing functions
◉ RN. Answer: AS or BSN degree, completes all nursing skills,
specialized training, BSN level looking into evidence-based practice,
papers focused on research
◉ Graduate education-masters. Answer: nurse practitioner, educator,
management
◉ doctorate. Answer: higher level of practice
◉ professional nursing organizations. Answer: to be considered a
profession a professional organization needs to be in place to set
standards for practice and education. This sets education minimums,
and continuity of care
◉ ANA. Answer: Professional organization for RN's in the US.
Publicizes standards of Practice to ensure knowledgeable, safe,
comprehensive, nursing care by those who will receive a license
◉ Nurse practice act. Answer: defines legal scope of practice,
excludes untrained or unlicensed people from practicing, establishes
education and licensing criteria, creates a state board of nursing,
makes and enforces rules and regulations
AND ANSWERS SOLVED TEST BANK
◉ Aims of nursing. Answer: promoting health, preventing illness,
restoring health, facilitating coping with disability or death
◉ promoting health. Answer: promoting good physical, mental and
emotional health by identifying, analyzing, and maximizing the
patient's strengths as components of preventing illness, restoring
health and facilitating coping with disability or death
◉ preventing illness. Answer: reduce the risk of illness by avoiding or
achieving early detection of illness or to maintain function within the
constraints of an illness. Teach by example, educational programs,
community programs, literature, and health assessments
◉ restoring health. Answer: performing assessments that detect an
illness refering questions and findings to other healthcare providers,
providing direct care, collaborating, planning, teaching and carrying
out rehabilitation for illnesses, working in rehab programs
◉ facilitating coping with disability or death. Answer: hospice, refer
to support groups
, ◉ roles of nurses. Answer: caregiver, communicator,
teacher/educator, leader, advocate
◉ LPN. Answer: 1 year program, can do most nursing functions
◉ RN. Answer: AS or BSN degree, completes all nursing skills,
specialized training, BSN level looking into evidence-based practice,
papers focused on research
◉ Graduate education-masters. Answer: nurse practitioner, educator,
management
◉ doctorate. Answer: higher level of practice
◉ professional nursing organizations. Answer: to be considered a
profession a professional organization needs to be in place to set
standards for practice and education. This sets education minimums,
and continuity of care
◉ ANA. Answer: Professional organization for RN's in the US.
Publicizes standards of Practice to ensure knowledgeable, safe,
comprehensive, nursing care by those who will receive a license
◉ Nurse practice act. Answer: defines legal scope of practice,
excludes untrained or unlicensed people from practicing, establishes
education and licensing criteria, creates a state board of nursing,
makes and enforces rules and regulations
