NUR1023C Exam 1 Study Guide
Questions with Solved Solutions 2026
Updated.
Professional Identity - Answer a sense of oneself that is influenced by characteristics, norms,
and values of the nursing discipline, resulting in an individual thinking, acting, and feeling like a
nurse.
Nursing requires: - Answer -Current knowledge and practice standards
-Insightful and compassionate approach
-Critical thinking
Patricia Benner's Stages of Nursing Proficiency - Answer -Novice (beginning nursing student or
new situation)
-Advanced beginner
-Competent (2-3 years as a nurse)
-Proficient
-Expert
ANA Nursing Definition - Answer Nursing is the protection, promotion, and optimization of
health and abilities; prevention of illness and injury; alleviation of suffering through the
diagnosis and treatment of human response; and advocacy in the care of individuals, families,
communities, and populations.
Six standards of practice - Answer 1. Assessment
2. Diagnosis
3. Outcomes Identification
4. Planning
5. Implementation
6. Evaluation
Code of Ethics - Answer A code of ethics is the philosophical ideals of right and wrong that
define principles used to provide care.
Professional Roles - Answer Autonomy and Accountability
Caregiver
Advocate
,Educator
Communicator
Manager
Examples of a Professional Identity - Answer Integrity
Compassion
Courage
Humility
Advocacy
Human Flourishing
Essential Skills - Answer Time management
Therapeutic communication
Patient education
Compassionate implementation of bedside skills
Florence Nightingale - Answer First practicing epidemiologist
Organized first school of nursing
Improved sanitation in battlefield hospitals
Practices remain a basic part of nursing today
Caring - Answer universal phenomenon influencing the ways in which people think, feel, and
behave in relation to one another
Leininger's Theory - Answer provide care consistent with nursing's emerging science and
knowledge with caring as central focus
Watson's Transpersonal Caring - Answer Promotes healing and wholeness
Rejects the disease orientation to health care
Places care before cure
Emphasizes the nurse-patient relationship
Swanson's Theory of Caring - Answer -defines caring as a nurturing way of relating to an
individual
-states that caring is a central nursing phenomenon but is not necessarily unique to nursing
practice
, Providing Presence - Answer being with, eye contact, body language, tone of voice, listening,
positive and encouraging attitude
Touch - Answer Provides comfort and creates a connection
Contact Touch - Answer Task-oriented touch
Caring touch
Protective touch
Listening - Answer creates trust, opens lines of communication, creates a mutual relationship
Knowing the Patient - Answer develops over time
core process of clinical decision making
aspects include: responses to therapy, routines, and habits; coping resources; physical capacities
and endurance
Spiritual Caring - Answer Spiritual health is achieved when a person can find a balance
between his life values, goals, and belief symptoms and those of others.
Spirituality offers a sense of intrapersonal, interpersonal, and transpersonal connectedness.
Relieving Symptoms and Suffering - Answer -Performing caring nursing actions that give a
patient comfort, dignity, respect, and peace
-Providing necessary comfort and support measures to the family or significant others
-Creating a physical patient care environment that soothes and heals the mind, body, and spirit
-Comforting through a listening, nonjudgmental, caring presence
Challenges of Caring - Answer Task-oriented biomedical model
Institutional demands
Time constraints
Reliance on technology, cost-effective strategies, and standardized work processes
Collaboration - Answer the development of partnerships to achieve best possible outcomes
that reflect the particular needs of the patient, family, or community, requiring an
understanding of what others have to offer.
Questions with Solved Solutions 2026
Updated.
Professional Identity - Answer a sense of oneself that is influenced by characteristics, norms,
and values of the nursing discipline, resulting in an individual thinking, acting, and feeling like a
nurse.
Nursing requires: - Answer -Current knowledge and practice standards
-Insightful and compassionate approach
-Critical thinking
Patricia Benner's Stages of Nursing Proficiency - Answer -Novice (beginning nursing student or
new situation)
-Advanced beginner
-Competent (2-3 years as a nurse)
-Proficient
-Expert
ANA Nursing Definition - Answer Nursing is the protection, promotion, and optimization of
health and abilities; prevention of illness and injury; alleviation of suffering through the
diagnosis and treatment of human response; and advocacy in the care of individuals, families,
communities, and populations.
Six standards of practice - Answer 1. Assessment
2. Diagnosis
3. Outcomes Identification
4. Planning
5. Implementation
6. Evaluation
Code of Ethics - Answer A code of ethics is the philosophical ideals of right and wrong that
define principles used to provide care.
Professional Roles - Answer Autonomy and Accountability
Caregiver
Advocate
,Educator
Communicator
Manager
Examples of a Professional Identity - Answer Integrity
Compassion
Courage
Humility
Advocacy
Human Flourishing
Essential Skills - Answer Time management
Therapeutic communication
Patient education
Compassionate implementation of bedside skills
Florence Nightingale - Answer First practicing epidemiologist
Organized first school of nursing
Improved sanitation in battlefield hospitals
Practices remain a basic part of nursing today
Caring - Answer universal phenomenon influencing the ways in which people think, feel, and
behave in relation to one another
Leininger's Theory - Answer provide care consistent with nursing's emerging science and
knowledge with caring as central focus
Watson's Transpersonal Caring - Answer Promotes healing and wholeness
Rejects the disease orientation to health care
Places care before cure
Emphasizes the nurse-patient relationship
Swanson's Theory of Caring - Answer -defines caring as a nurturing way of relating to an
individual
-states that caring is a central nursing phenomenon but is not necessarily unique to nursing
practice
, Providing Presence - Answer being with, eye contact, body language, tone of voice, listening,
positive and encouraging attitude
Touch - Answer Provides comfort and creates a connection
Contact Touch - Answer Task-oriented touch
Caring touch
Protective touch
Listening - Answer creates trust, opens lines of communication, creates a mutual relationship
Knowing the Patient - Answer develops over time
core process of clinical decision making
aspects include: responses to therapy, routines, and habits; coping resources; physical capacities
and endurance
Spiritual Caring - Answer Spiritual health is achieved when a person can find a balance
between his life values, goals, and belief symptoms and those of others.
Spirituality offers a sense of intrapersonal, interpersonal, and transpersonal connectedness.
Relieving Symptoms and Suffering - Answer -Performing caring nursing actions that give a
patient comfort, dignity, respect, and peace
-Providing necessary comfort and support measures to the family or significant others
-Creating a physical patient care environment that soothes and heals the mind, body, and spirit
-Comforting through a listening, nonjudgmental, caring presence
Challenges of Caring - Answer Task-oriented biomedical model
Institutional demands
Time constraints
Reliance on technology, cost-effective strategies, and standardized work processes
Collaboration - Answer the development of partnerships to achieve best possible outcomes
that reflect the particular needs of the patient, family, or community, requiring an
understanding of what others have to offer.
