NUR 215 EXAM 1 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Why is nursing considered a profession? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Education, knowledge, selfless
concern for others, follow a code of ethics, practice autonomy, accountability, and responsibility,
professional organizations
What is a nurse? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Highly trained, well educated, caring, and competent.
6 basic skills - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅critical thinking skills
Communication skills
Organizational skills
Leadership skills
Advocacy
technical skills
4 basic principals of nursing - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Advocacy
Responsibility
Accountability
Confidentiality
6 ethical principles of nursing - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅autonomy, beneficence, fidelity, justice, non-
maleficence, veracity
autonomy - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅the right of the patient to make decisions about their medical care
w/out their healthcare provider trying to influence their decisions
beneficence - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅address the idea that a nurse's actions should only promote good
fidelity - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅The nurse must be faithful to the promises they made as professionals
to provide quality care
, justice - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅the nurse needs to be impartial and fair to each patient
Non-Maleficence - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅nurse must be non-harming or inflicting the least amount of
harm possible to reach a beneficial outcome
veracity - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅must be honest and tell the truth
History of nursing - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅transformed to a women dominated profession in the 19th
and 20th century, had to become licensed in order to work in the profession in 1903 in the US
angel of mercy - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅religion based and shows nurses as self-sacrificing, moral and
noble
battle Ax - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅showed nurses as cruel torturers, includes the bossy nurse Ratchet
naughty nurse - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅shows nurses as sexy and risque women, seen as potential dates
for physicians
military nurse - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅shows nurses on battlefield in uniform; striaghtedges
handmaiden nurse - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅nurses as just mere assistants that need to help the
physician at all costs
Florence Nightingale - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅transformed nursing from battle ax image to nursing as a
respected profession, founder of modern nursing and the first nursing school
ADPIE - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅assessment, diagnosis, planning, implementation and evaluation
assessment - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅gather the information and review patient PMHx, present medical
Hx, and family Hx.
Why is nursing considered a profession? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Education, knowledge, selfless
concern for others, follow a code of ethics, practice autonomy, accountability, and responsibility,
professional organizations
What is a nurse? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Highly trained, well educated, caring, and competent.
6 basic skills - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅critical thinking skills
Communication skills
Organizational skills
Leadership skills
Advocacy
technical skills
4 basic principals of nursing - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Advocacy
Responsibility
Accountability
Confidentiality
6 ethical principles of nursing - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅autonomy, beneficence, fidelity, justice, non-
maleficence, veracity
autonomy - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅the right of the patient to make decisions about their medical care
w/out their healthcare provider trying to influence their decisions
beneficence - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅address the idea that a nurse's actions should only promote good
fidelity - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅The nurse must be faithful to the promises they made as professionals
to provide quality care
, justice - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅the nurse needs to be impartial and fair to each patient
Non-Maleficence - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅nurse must be non-harming or inflicting the least amount of
harm possible to reach a beneficial outcome
veracity - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅must be honest and tell the truth
History of nursing - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅transformed to a women dominated profession in the 19th
and 20th century, had to become licensed in order to work in the profession in 1903 in the US
angel of mercy - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅religion based and shows nurses as self-sacrificing, moral and
noble
battle Ax - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅showed nurses as cruel torturers, includes the bossy nurse Ratchet
naughty nurse - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅shows nurses as sexy and risque women, seen as potential dates
for physicians
military nurse - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅shows nurses on battlefield in uniform; striaghtedges
handmaiden nurse - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅nurses as just mere assistants that need to help the
physician at all costs
Florence Nightingale - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅transformed nursing from battle ax image to nursing as a
respected profession, founder of modern nursing and the first nursing school
ADPIE - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅assessment, diagnosis, planning, implementation and evaluation
assessment - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅gather the information and review patient PMHx, present medical
Hx, and family Hx.
