NUR 139 Quiz – Study Guide, Notes & Practice Questions (2026
Updated)
Aims of Nursing - correct answer ✔✔To promote health
To prevent illness
To restore health
To facilitate coping with disability or death
Meeting the aims of nursing - correct answer ✔✔nurses use knowledge, skills and critical
thinking
nurses give care in a variety of traditional and expanding nursing skills
nurses use cognitive, technical, interpersonal and ethical/legal skills
Nurses use cognitive skills... - correct answer ✔✔involve thinking about the nature of thing
sufficiently to make decisions regarding care
Nurses use technical skills... - correct answer ✔✔enable nurse to manipulate equipment to
produce a desired outcome
Nurses use interpersonal skills... - correct answer ✔✔involve caring relationships
Nurses use ethical/legal skills... - correct answer ✔✔enable nurses to conduct themselves
morally an professionally
Nursing as a profession - correct answer ✔✔a paid occupation, especially one that involves
prolonged training and a formal qualification
a calling requiring specialized knowledge and often long and intensive academic preparation; a
principle calling, vocation, or employment; the whole body of persons engaged in a calling
,Nursing as a discipline - correct answer ✔✔a branch of knowledge, typically one studied in
higher education.
-a paid occupation
-a branch of knowledge
The ANA: American Nurses Association - correct answer ✔✔Is the only full service professional
organization representing the interests of the nations 3.6 millions registered nurses through its
constituent and state nurses associations and its organizational affiliates
ANA Scope and Standards of Practice - correct answer ✔✔defines activities that specific and
unique to nursing
allow nurses to carry our professional roles
serve as protection for the nurse, client and HC institution
6 Standards of Practice
11 Standards of Professional Performance
6 Standards of Practice - correct answer ✔✔Standard 1: Assessment
2: Diagnosis
3: Outcome Identification
4: Planning
5: Implementation
6: Evaluation
11 Standards of Professional Performance - correct answer ✔✔Standard 7: Ethics
8: Culturally Congruent Practice
9: Communication
,10: Collaboration
11: Leadership
12: Education
13: Evidence-Based Practice
14: Quality of Practice
15: Professional-Practice Evaluation
16: Resource Utilization
17: Environmental Health
3 Purposes for the Code of Ethics document - correct answer ✔✔1. A succinct statement of the
ethical obligations and duties
2. The profession's nonnegotiable ethical standards
3. An expression of nursing's own understanding of its commitment
Current Trends in Nursing - correct answer ✔✔nursing shortage
evidence-based practice
community-based nursing
decreased length of hospital stay
aging population
increase in chronic care conditions
independent nursing practice
culturally competent care
Benefits of Nursing Theory - correct answer ✔✔Directs nurses toward common goal
Leads to improved client care
Provides rational and knowledgeable reasons for nursing actions
, Gives nurses knowledge base necessary for appropriate actions
Helps resolve current nursing issues
Prepares nurses to question assumptions and values
Serves research, education and practice
Common Concepts in Nursing Theories - correct answer ✔✔Person (patient/client)
Environment
Health
Nursing
Goal of Theoretical Frameworks - correct answer ✔✔Holistic client care
Individualized care to meet needs of clients
Promotion of health
Prevention or treatment of illness
What is evidence based practice? - correct answer ✔✔Conscious use/integration of the best
research evidence with clinical expertise and patient preferences in nursing practice
-EBP is more than research utilization
-includes knowledge gained through experience
What we know about EBP - correct answer ✔✔An expectation of professional nursing practice
Nursing code of ethics
Client outcomes improve with EBP
Nursing outcomes improve with EBP
Standard of professional nursing practice
Professional obligation as experts in the field of nursing
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Aims of Nursing - correct answer ✔✔To promote health
To prevent illness
To restore health
To facilitate coping with disability or death
Meeting the aims of nursing - correct answer ✔✔nurses use knowledge, skills and critical
thinking
nurses give care in a variety of traditional and expanding nursing skills
nurses use cognitive, technical, interpersonal and ethical/legal skills
Nurses use cognitive skills... - correct answer ✔✔involve thinking about the nature of thing
sufficiently to make decisions regarding care
Nurses use technical skills... - correct answer ✔✔enable nurse to manipulate equipment to
produce a desired outcome
Nurses use interpersonal skills... - correct answer ✔✔involve caring relationships
Nurses use ethical/legal skills... - correct answer ✔✔enable nurses to conduct themselves
morally an professionally
Nursing as a profession - correct answer ✔✔a paid occupation, especially one that involves
prolonged training and a formal qualification
a calling requiring specialized knowledge and often long and intensive academic preparation; a
principle calling, vocation, or employment; the whole body of persons engaged in a calling
,Nursing as a discipline - correct answer ✔✔a branch of knowledge, typically one studied in
higher education.
-a paid occupation
-a branch of knowledge
The ANA: American Nurses Association - correct answer ✔✔Is the only full service professional
organization representing the interests of the nations 3.6 millions registered nurses through its
constituent and state nurses associations and its organizational affiliates
ANA Scope and Standards of Practice - correct answer ✔✔defines activities that specific and
unique to nursing
allow nurses to carry our professional roles
serve as protection for the nurse, client and HC institution
6 Standards of Practice
11 Standards of Professional Performance
6 Standards of Practice - correct answer ✔✔Standard 1: Assessment
2: Diagnosis
3: Outcome Identification
4: Planning
5: Implementation
6: Evaluation
11 Standards of Professional Performance - correct answer ✔✔Standard 7: Ethics
8: Culturally Congruent Practice
9: Communication
,10: Collaboration
11: Leadership
12: Education
13: Evidence-Based Practice
14: Quality of Practice
15: Professional-Practice Evaluation
16: Resource Utilization
17: Environmental Health
3 Purposes for the Code of Ethics document - correct answer ✔✔1. A succinct statement of the
ethical obligations and duties
2. The profession's nonnegotiable ethical standards
3. An expression of nursing's own understanding of its commitment
Current Trends in Nursing - correct answer ✔✔nursing shortage
evidence-based practice
community-based nursing
decreased length of hospital stay
aging population
increase in chronic care conditions
independent nursing practice
culturally competent care
Benefits of Nursing Theory - correct answer ✔✔Directs nurses toward common goal
Leads to improved client care
Provides rational and knowledgeable reasons for nursing actions
, Gives nurses knowledge base necessary for appropriate actions
Helps resolve current nursing issues
Prepares nurses to question assumptions and values
Serves research, education and practice
Common Concepts in Nursing Theories - correct answer ✔✔Person (patient/client)
Environment
Health
Nursing
Goal of Theoretical Frameworks - correct answer ✔✔Holistic client care
Individualized care to meet needs of clients
Promotion of health
Prevention or treatment of illness
What is evidence based practice? - correct answer ✔✔Conscious use/integration of the best
research evidence with clinical expertise and patient preferences in nursing practice
-EBP is more than research utilization
-includes knowledge gained through experience
What we know about EBP - correct answer ✔✔An expectation of professional nursing practice
Nursing code of ethics
Client outcomes improve with EBP
Nursing outcomes improve with EBP
Standard of professional nursing practice
Professional obligation as experts in the field of nursing
