NRS 100 Exam 1 || QUESTIONS WITH A+ VERIFIED
ANSWERS!!
Novice correct answers Beginning nursing student or any nurse entering a situation which
there is no previous level of experience
Advanced Beginner correct answers A nurse who has had some level or experience with the
situation
Competent correct answers A nurse who has been in the same clinical position for 2 to 3
years. This nurse understands the organization and specific care required by the type of
patients
Proficient correct answers A nurse with more than 2 to 3 years of experience in the same
clinical position
Expert correct answers A nurse with diverse experience who has an intuitive grasp of an
existing or potential clinical problem
Autonomy correct answers The initiation of independent nursing interventions without
medical orders
Accountability correct answers Responsible professionally and legally for the type and
quality of nursing care provided. You must remain current and competent in nursing and
scientific knowledge and in technical skills
Caregiver correct answers Help patients maintain and regain health, mange disease and
symptoms, and attain a maximal level of function an independence through the healing
process
Advocate correct answers Protect your patient's human and legal rights and provide
assistance in asserting these rights if the need arises. You secure your patient's health care
rights
Educator correct answers Explain concepts and facts about health, describe the reason for
routine care activities, demonstrate procedures, reinforce learning or patient behavior, and
evaluate the patients progress in learning
Communicator correct answers It allows you to know your patients including their
preferences, strengths, weaknesses and needs. This is central to the nurse-patient relationship
Manager correct answers Establish an environment for collaborative centered care to provide
safe, quality care with positive patient outcomes. Coordinates the activities of the members of
the nursing staff in delivering nursing care and has personnel. policy, and budgetary
responsibility for a specific nursing unit or agency
Advanced Practice Registered Nurse correct answers Has a master's degree or Doctor of
Nursing Practice. This nurse has advanced graduate-level knowledge prepared for CN, NP,
CNM, and CRNA
, Nurse Educator correct answers Works primarily in schools of nursing, staff development
departments of health care agencies, and patient education departments, Need experience in
clinical practice to provide them with practical skills and theoretical knowledge
Nurse Administrator correct answers Manages Patient care and the delivery of specific
nursing services within a health care agency. Require at least a baccalaureate degree in
nursing, and director and nurse executive positions generally require a master's degree
Nurse Reaseacher correct answers Conducts evidence-based practice and research to improve
nursing care an further define and expand the scope of nursing practice
Nursing as a profession correct answers The patient is the center of your practice. To act
professionally, use your critical thinking skills to administer quality evidenced-based, patient-
centered care in a safe, prudent, and knowledge edgeable manner
Florence Nightingale correct answers Established the first nursing philosophy based on health
maintenance and restoration. Saw nursing as the role of "charge of somebody's health", based
on knowledge " how to put the body in such a state to be free of disease or to recover from
disease"
Licensure correct answers In the United States all boards of nursing require RN can didates to
pass the NCLEX-RN. Provides a standardized minimum knowledge base for nurses
Certification correct answers After passing NCLEX-RN a nurse may choose to work toward
certification in a specific area of nursing practice. Minimum practice and/or educational
requirements are set, based on specific certification
Grand Theories correct answers Abstract, broad in scope, and complex; therefore they require
further clarification through research so that they can be applied to nursing practice. Provides
structural framework for general, global ideas about nursing
Middle Range Theories correct answers Limited in scope and less abstract. Address a specific
phenomenon and reflect practice. Expand on specific concepts or phenomena in a specific
field of nursing
Practice Theories correct answers Situation-specific theories, bring theory to the bedside.
Narrow in scope and focus, these theories guide the nurse care of a specific patient population
at a specific time
Nightingale's Environmental Theory correct answers This grand theory is a patients
environment, which was believes to be able to manipulate. Through observation and data
collection, it was linked that the patient's health status with environmental factors and
initiated improved hygiene and sanitary conditions during the war
Peplau's Interpersonal Theory correct answers Middle-range theory includes interpersonal
relations among a nurse, a patient and a patient's family and developing the nurse-patient
relationship
ANSWERS!!
Novice correct answers Beginning nursing student or any nurse entering a situation which
there is no previous level of experience
Advanced Beginner correct answers A nurse who has had some level or experience with the
situation
Competent correct answers A nurse who has been in the same clinical position for 2 to 3
years. This nurse understands the organization and specific care required by the type of
patients
Proficient correct answers A nurse with more than 2 to 3 years of experience in the same
clinical position
Expert correct answers A nurse with diverse experience who has an intuitive grasp of an
existing or potential clinical problem
Autonomy correct answers The initiation of independent nursing interventions without
medical orders
Accountability correct answers Responsible professionally and legally for the type and
quality of nursing care provided. You must remain current and competent in nursing and
scientific knowledge and in technical skills
Caregiver correct answers Help patients maintain and regain health, mange disease and
symptoms, and attain a maximal level of function an independence through the healing
process
Advocate correct answers Protect your patient's human and legal rights and provide
assistance in asserting these rights if the need arises. You secure your patient's health care
rights
Educator correct answers Explain concepts and facts about health, describe the reason for
routine care activities, demonstrate procedures, reinforce learning or patient behavior, and
evaluate the patients progress in learning
Communicator correct answers It allows you to know your patients including their
preferences, strengths, weaknesses and needs. This is central to the nurse-patient relationship
Manager correct answers Establish an environment for collaborative centered care to provide
safe, quality care with positive patient outcomes. Coordinates the activities of the members of
the nursing staff in delivering nursing care and has personnel. policy, and budgetary
responsibility for a specific nursing unit or agency
Advanced Practice Registered Nurse correct answers Has a master's degree or Doctor of
Nursing Practice. This nurse has advanced graduate-level knowledge prepared for CN, NP,
CNM, and CRNA
, Nurse Educator correct answers Works primarily in schools of nursing, staff development
departments of health care agencies, and patient education departments, Need experience in
clinical practice to provide them with practical skills and theoretical knowledge
Nurse Administrator correct answers Manages Patient care and the delivery of specific
nursing services within a health care agency. Require at least a baccalaureate degree in
nursing, and director and nurse executive positions generally require a master's degree
Nurse Reaseacher correct answers Conducts evidence-based practice and research to improve
nursing care an further define and expand the scope of nursing practice
Nursing as a profession correct answers The patient is the center of your practice. To act
professionally, use your critical thinking skills to administer quality evidenced-based, patient-
centered care in a safe, prudent, and knowledge edgeable manner
Florence Nightingale correct answers Established the first nursing philosophy based on health
maintenance and restoration. Saw nursing as the role of "charge of somebody's health", based
on knowledge " how to put the body in such a state to be free of disease or to recover from
disease"
Licensure correct answers In the United States all boards of nursing require RN can didates to
pass the NCLEX-RN. Provides a standardized minimum knowledge base for nurses
Certification correct answers After passing NCLEX-RN a nurse may choose to work toward
certification in a specific area of nursing practice. Minimum practice and/or educational
requirements are set, based on specific certification
Grand Theories correct answers Abstract, broad in scope, and complex; therefore they require
further clarification through research so that they can be applied to nursing practice. Provides
structural framework for general, global ideas about nursing
Middle Range Theories correct answers Limited in scope and less abstract. Address a specific
phenomenon and reflect practice. Expand on specific concepts or phenomena in a specific
field of nursing
Practice Theories correct answers Situation-specific theories, bring theory to the bedside.
Narrow in scope and focus, these theories guide the nurse care of a specific patient population
at a specific time
Nightingale's Environmental Theory correct answers This grand theory is a patients
environment, which was believes to be able to manipulate. Through observation and data
collection, it was linked that the patient's health status with environmental factors and
initiated improved hygiene and sanitary conditions during the war
Peplau's Interpersonal Theory correct answers Middle-range theory includes interpersonal
relations among a nurse, a patient and a patient's family and developing the nurse-patient
relationship
