VN 100 – Quiz 1, 2026 – Study guide and practice
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Nursing Process - correct answer ✔✔ - way of thinking and acting based on the scientific
method
-organized, deliberate, systematic way to deliver nursing care
Assessment - correct answer ✔✔ Collecting, organizing, documenting, and validating a patient's
health data
Nursing diagnosis - correct answer ✔✔ Sorting and analyzing the assessment data to identify
potential health problems
Planning - correct answer ✔✔ series of steps in which the nurse and the patient set priorities
and goals to eliminate, diminish, or control identified problems
Implementation - correct answer ✔✔ Carrying out nursing interventions prioritized during the
planning process
Evaluation - correct answer ✔✔ Assessing the patient to evaluate his or her response to the
nursing interventions
critical thinking - correct answer ✔✔ Directed, purposeful mental activity by which ideas are
evaluated, plans are constructed, and desired outcomes are decided
High priority - correct answer ✔✔ life-threatening problems
problems that threaten health or coping ability - correct answer ✔✔ medium priotrity
, problems that do not have a major effect on the person if not attended to that day or week -
correct answer ✔✔ low priority
Florence Nightingale - correct answer ✔✔ - cleaned up wards and improved ventilation,
sanitation, and nutrition
- kept records and statistics that reinforced her theories of care
St. Thomas Hospital - correct answer ✔✔ First Nightingale training school for nurses in England
Dorothea Dix - correct answer ✔✔ - formal education for nurses
- superintendent for nurses
- mental health and indigenous rights
Clara Barton - correct answer ✔✔ - founded the American Red Cross
Ballard School - correct answer ✔✔ - 3 month course in practical nursing
- started by YWCA in 1892
caregiver - correct answer ✔✔ implement interventions to improve, maintain, or restore health
educator - correct answer ✔✔ health teaching and counseling to promote wellness, prevent
illness
collaborator - correct answer ✔✔ work with RN and health care team
advocate - correct answer ✔✔ champion for the patient's best's interest
material
Nursing Process - correct answer ✔✔ - way of thinking and acting based on the scientific
method
-organized, deliberate, systematic way to deliver nursing care
Assessment - correct answer ✔✔ Collecting, organizing, documenting, and validating a patient's
health data
Nursing diagnosis - correct answer ✔✔ Sorting and analyzing the assessment data to identify
potential health problems
Planning - correct answer ✔✔ series of steps in which the nurse and the patient set priorities
and goals to eliminate, diminish, or control identified problems
Implementation - correct answer ✔✔ Carrying out nursing interventions prioritized during the
planning process
Evaluation - correct answer ✔✔ Assessing the patient to evaluate his or her response to the
nursing interventions
critical thinking - correct answer ✔✔ Directed, purposeful mental activity by which ideas are
evaluated, plans are constructed, and desired outcomes are decided
High priority - correct answer ✔✔ life-threatening problems
problems that threaten health or coping ability - correct answer ✔✔ medium priotrity
, problems that do not have a major effect on the person if not attended to that day or week -
correct answer ✔✔ low priority
Florence Nightingale - correct answer ✔✔ - cleaned up wards and improved ventilation,
sanitation, and nutrition
- kept records and statistics that reinforced her theories of care
St. Thomas Hospital - correct answer ✔✔ First Nightingale training school for nurses in England
Dorothea Dix - correct answer ✔✔ - formal education for nurses
- superintendent for nurses
- mental health and indigenous rights
Clara Barton - correct answer ✔✔ - founded the American Red Cross
Ballard School - correct answer ✔✔ - 3 month course in practical nursing
- started by YWCA in 1892
caregiver - correct answer ✔✔ implement interventions to improve, maintain, or restore health
educator - correct answer ✔✔ health teaching and counseling to promote wellness, prevent
illness
collaborator - correct answer ✔✔ work with RN and health care team
advocate - correct answer ✔✔ champion for the patient's best's interest
