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Prepare for your Foundations of Nursing Exam 1 with this comprehensive nursing exam review resource featuring practice questions, answers, and study materials. This guide covers essential nursing foundation concepts, including nursing theories, patient-centered care, communication, safety, clinical skills, nursing process, professional responsibilities, and basic healthcare principles.

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Foundations of Nursing Exam #1
Foundations of Nursing Exam #1
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1. Which organization is the D. American Nurses Association
best source of information
when a nurse wishes to de-
termine whether an action is
within the scope of nursing
practice?
a. American Association of
Colleges in Nursing
b. (AACN) National League for
Nursing (NLN)
c. International Council of
Nurses (ICN)
d. American Nurses Associa-
tion (ANA)

2. What was one barrier to b. lack of education standards
the development of the nurs-
ing profession in the United
States after the Civil War?
a.independence of nursing
orders
b.lack of educational stan-
dards
c.hospital-based schools of
nursing
d.lack of influence from nurs-
ing leaders

3. Which nurse posited a theo- c. Florence Nightingale
ry that can be practically ap-
plied to nursing as follows:
"Nurses modify unhealthy as-


, Foundations of Nursing Exam #1
Foundations of Nursing Exam #1
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pects of the environment to
put the client in the best con-
dition for nature to act."
a. Dorothea Orem
b. Sister Callista Roy
c. Florence Nightingale
d. Virginia Henderson

4. What historical event led to When religions groups were exiled to western Europe during the
the demise of nursing in Eng- schism between King Henry VIII and the Catholic Church. (The
land before the time of Flo- management of parochial hospitals and the ill within them fell to
rence Nightingale? the state)

5. Reforms for which Florence Training women for future work
Nightingale is responsible. Selecting only those with upstanding characters as potential
nurses
Improving sanitary conditions for the sick and injured
Significantly reducing the death rate of British soldiers
Providing classroom education and clinical teaching
Advocating that nursing education should be lifelong

6. Name three ways that nurses 1. Nurses moved into communities and established "settlement
used their skills in the early houses
history of US nursing. 2. Provided midwifery services
3. Volunteered during wartime

7. Art of Nursing Ability to perform act skillfully

8. Science of Nursing body of knowledge unique to a particular subject; develops from
observing and studying the relationship of one phenomenon to
another

9.

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