NURS 136 EXAM 1 - CH. 1, 2, 4, 5 | NURSING STUDY GUIDE & NCLEX-
STYLE PRACTICE QUESTIONS 2026/2027
Respite care - ANS ✔✔It is a service that provides short-term relief or "time off" for people providing
homecare to an individual who is ill, disabled, or frail
Hospice - ANS ✔✔Is a system of family centered care that allows patients to live with comfort,
independence, and dignity while easing the pain of terminal illness
Assisted living - ANS ✔✔Offers and attractive long term care setting with an environment more like
home and greater resident autonomy
Restorative care - ANS ✔✔Are to help individuals regain maximal functional status and enhance quality
of life through promotion of independence and self-care
Home care - ANS ✔✔Is the provision of medical related professionals and paraprofessionals services and
equipment to patients and families in their homes for health maintenance education, illness prevention,
diagnosis and treatment of disease, palliation, and rehabilitation
Rehabilitation - ANS ✔✔Restore a person to the fullest physical, mental, social, vocational and economic
potential possibility
Extended care facility - ANS ✔✔Provides intermediate medical, nursing, or custodial care for patients
recovering from acute illness or those with chronic illness or disability
Skilled nursing facility - ANS ✔✔Offers skilled care from a licensed nursing staff
Nursing - ANS ✔✔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
advocation in the care of individuals, families, communities and populations
Theory - ANS ✔✔Helps explain event by defining ideas or concepts, explaining relationships among the
concepts, and predicting outcomes
Nursing theory - ANS ✔✔Conceptualizes an aspect of nursing to describe, explain, predict, and prescribe
nursing care
phenomenon - ANS ✔✔Is the term, description, or label given to describe an idea or response about an
event, a situation, a process, a group of events, or a group of situations
Nursing metaparadigm - ANS ✔✔Allows nurses to understand and explain what nursing is, when nursing
does, why nurses do what they do
Assumptions - ANS ✔✔Are the "taken for granted" statements that explain the nature of the concept,
definitions, purpose, relationships, and the structure of a theory
STYLE PRACTICE QUESTIONS 2026/2027
Respite care - ANS ✔✔It is a service that provides short-term relief or "time off" for people providing
homecare to an individual who is ill, disabled, or frail
Hospice - ANS ✔✔Is a system of family centered care that allows patients to live with comfort,
independence, and dignity while easing the pain of terminal illness
Assisted living - ANS ✔✔Offers and attractive long term care setting with an environment more like
home and greater resident autonomy
Restorative care - ANS ✔✔Are to help individuals regain maximal functional status and enhance quality
of life through promotion of independence and self-care
Home care - ANS ✔✔Is the provision of medical related professionals and paraprofessionals services and
equipment to patients and families in their homes for health maintenance education, illness prevention,
diagnosis and treatment of disease, palliation, and rehabilitation
Rehabilitation - ANS ✔✔Restore a person to the fullest physical, mental, social, vocational and economic
potential possibility
Extended care facility - ANS ✔✔Provides intermediate medical, nursing, or custodial care for patients
recovering from acute illness or those with chronic illness or disability
Skilled nursing facility - ANS ✔✔Offers skilled care from a licensed nursing staff
Nursing - ANS ✔✔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
advocation in the care of individuals, families, communities and populations
Theory - ANS ✔✔Helps explain event by defining ideas or concepts, explaining relationships among the
concepts, and predicting outcomes
Nursing theory - ANS ✔✔Conceptualizes an aspect of nursing to describe, explain, predict, and prescribe
nursing care
phenomenon - ANS ✔✔Is the term, description, or label given to describe an idea or response about an
event, a situation, a process, a group of events, or a group of situations
Nursing metaparadigm - ANS ✔✔Allows nurses to understand and explain what nursing is, when nursing
does, why nurses do what they do
Assumptions - ANS ✔✔Are the "taken for granted" statements that explain the nature of the concept,
definitions, purpose, relationships, and the structure of a theory
