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Chapter 01: Nursing and the Health Care System
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Williams: deWit's Fundamental Concepts and Skills for Nursing, 5th Edition
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MULTIPLE CHOICE f
1. Florence Nightingale‘s contributions to nursing practice and education:
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a. are historically important but have no validity for nursing today.
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b. were neither recognized nor appreciated in her own time.
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c. were a major factor in reducing the death rate in the Crimean War.
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d. were limited only to the care of severe traumatic wounds.
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ANS: C f
By improving sanitation, nutrition ventilation, and handwashing techniques, Florence
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Nightingale‘s nurses dramatically reduced the death rate from injuries in the Crimean War.
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DIF: Cognitive Level: Knowledge f f REF: p. 2 OBJ: Theory #1
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TOP: Nursing History
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MSC: NCLEX: N/A
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2. Early nursing education and care in the United States:
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b. provided independence for women through education and employment.
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c. were an educational model based in institutions of higher learning.
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d. have continued to be entirely focused on hospital nursing.
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ANS: B f
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through apprenticeships in Nightingale schools that offered independence to women through
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education and employment.
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DIF: Cognitive Level: Knowledge f f REF: p. 2 f f OBJ: Theory #4
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, 3. In order to fulfill the common goals defined by nursing theorists (promote wellness, prevent
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illness, facilitate coping, and restore health), the LPN must take on the roles of:
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a. caregiver, educator, and collaborator. f f f
b. nursing assistant, delegator, and environmental specialist.
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In order for the LPN to apply the common goals of nursing, he or she must assume the roles of
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caregiver, educator, collaborator, manager, and advocate.
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DIF: Cognitive Level: Comprehension f f REF: p. 3 OBJ: Theory #2
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TOP: Art and Science of Nursing
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MSC: NCLEX: N/A
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4. Although nursing theories differ in their attempts to define nursing, all of them base their
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fbeliefs on common concepts concerning:
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VERIFIED-TEST