NURS 307 EXAM 1 | CHAPTERS 1–6 & 24 | QUESTIONS AND FULLY
WORKED ANSWERS | NURSING STUDY GUIDE 2026/2027
Four broad aims of nursing - ANS ✔✔1. To promote health
2. To prevent illness
3. To restore health
4. To facilitate coping with disability or death
A nurse has recently completed the administration of seasonal influenza vaccinations for the residents of
a long-term care facility. Which aim of nursing has the nurse most clearly demonstrated? - ANS
✔✔Preventing illness
Which nursing action best exemplifies the nurse's role in promoting health? - ANS ✔✔Encouraging a
group of junior high school students to engage in regular physical activity
Which of the following is a characteristic of nursing practiced from early civilization to the 16th century?
- ANS ✔✔Most early civilizations believed that illness had supernatural causes
What was one barrier to the development of the nursing profession in the United States after the Civil
War? - ANS ✔✔Lack of educational standards
Which individual provided community-based care and founded public health nursing? - ANS ✔✔Lillian
Ward
The standards of practice provides nurses with: - ANS ✔✔Guidelines for providing care
The client's plan of care is created by the nurse using which guideline for nursing practice? - ANS
✔✔Nursing process
Which theory emphasizes the relationships between the whole and the parts, and describes how parts
function and behave? - ANS ✔✔General systems theory
A nurse researcher is examining the cause-and-effect relationship between the consumption of tap
water containing minimal amounts of bleach, and the incidence of cancer in rats. The research is taking
place in a laboratory setting. What type of quantitative research is being used based upon this
description? - ANS ✔✔Experimental
(because it examines the cause-and-effect)
When looking at a model for evidence-based practice, what is the final step of the process? - ANS
✔✔Evaluating practice change
For which research activity is a phenomenological research method most appropriate? - ANS
✔✔Attempting to understand non-English speaking immigrants' experiences of being hospital clients
, A group of nurses is planning to investigate the effectiveness of turning immobilized stroke clients more
frequently in order to prevent skin breakdown. The team has begun by formulating a PICO question.
Which of the following will the "O" in the team's PICO question refer to? - ANS ✔✔Preventing skin
breakdown
("O" stands for the outcome)
What statement best explains the importance of theoretic frameworks? - ANS ✔✔Theoretic frameworks
advance nursing knowledge and practice.
Who is considered to be the first nursing theorist who conceptualized nursing in terms of manipulating
the environment? - ANS ✔✔Florence Nightengale
One of the primary focuses of nursing research is to: - ANS ✔✔Generate knowledge to guide practice
Who is considered to be the first nursing researcher? - ANS ✔✔Florence Nightengale
The nurse researcher would like togather data about the attitudes of young adults on spirituality and
health care. What is the most effective form of research on this topic? - ANS ✔✔Qualitative data
(It is based more on subjective, narrative materials)
What is the best explanation for the way evidence-based practice (EBP) has changed the way nursing
care is done? - ANS ✔✔Nursing care now uses EBP as a means of ensuring quality care
What is the central theme of Florence Nightengale's nursing theory? - ANS ✔✔Meeting the personal
needs of the client within the environment
How would a nursing student define conceptual framework? - ANS ✔✔A group of interrelated objects
that follow a pattern
The nursing instructor is explaining sources of knowledge to a group of nursing students. She says,
"Some knowledge is passed down from one generation to another." One of the students describes this
source as being what? - ANS ✔✔Traditional knowledge
The nursing instructor asks a group of students to identify a theory that describes how humans adjust to
life with other living things and with the environment. One student correctly identifies this as which
theory? - ANS ✔✔Adaptation theory
The nursing instrcutor asks a group of students to identify a theory that describes the maturation of
humans through stages. One student correctly identifies this theory as what? - ANS ✔✔Developemental
theory
There are four common concepts in nursing theory. While all concepts are important, the focus of
nursing is always on which of the following? - ANS ✔✔The person
A nurse is developing a foreground question for nursing research using the PICO model. Which
component would be represented by the statement, "a 45 y/o male with coronary heart disease and
atrial fibrillation"? - ANS ✔✔P
("P" stands for the patient or problem presented)
WORKED ANSWERS | NURSING STUDY GUIDE 2026/2027
Four broad aims of nursing - ANS ✔✔1. To promote health
2. To prevent illness
3. To restore health
4. To facilitate coping with disability or death
A nurse has recently completed the administration of seasonal influenza vaccinations for the residents of
a long-term care facility. Which aim of nursing has the nurse most clearly demonstrated? - ANS
✔✔Preventing illness
Which nursing action best exemplifies the nurse's role in promoting health? - ANS ✔✔Encouraging a
group of junior high school students to engage in regular physical activity
Which of the following is a characteristic of nursing practiced from early civilization to the 16th century?
- ANS ✔✔Most early civilizations believed that illness had supernatural causes
What was one barrier to the development of the nursing profession in the United States after the Civil
War? - ANS ✔✔Lack of educational standards
Which individual provided community-based care and founded public health nursing? - ANS ✔✔Lillian
Ward
The standards of practice provides nurses with: - ANS ✔✔Guidelines for providing care
The client's plan of care is created by the nurse using which guideline for nursing practice? - ANS
✔✔Nursing process
Which theory emphasizes the relationships between the whole and the parts, and describes how parts
function and behave? - ANS ✔✔General systems theory
A nurse researcher is examining the cause-and-effect relationship between the consumption of tap
water containing minimal amounts of bleach, and the incidence of cancer in rats. The research is taking
place in a laboratory setting. What type of quantitative research is being used based upon this
description? - ANS ✔✔Experimental
(because it examines the cause-and-effect)
When looking at a model for evidence-based practice, what is the final step of the process? - ANS
✔✔Evaluating practice change
For which research activity is a phenomenological research method most appropriate? - ANS
✔✔Attempting to understand non-English speaking immigrants' experiences of being hospital clients
, A group of nurses is planning to investigate the effectiveness of turning immobilized stroke clients more
frequently in order to prevent skin breakdown. The team has begun by formulating a PICO question.
Which of the following will the "O" in the team's PICO question refer to? - ANS ✔✔Preventing skin
breakdown
("O" stands for the outcome)
What statement best explains the importance of theoretic frameworks? - ANS ✔✔Theoretic frameworks
advance nursing knowledge and practice.
Who is considered to be the first nursing theorist who conceptualized nursing in terms of manipulating
the environment? - ANS ✔✔Florence Nightengale
One of the primary focuses of nursing research is to: - ANS ✔✔Generate knowledge to guide practice
Who is considered to be the first nursing researcher? - ANS ✔✔Florence Nightengale
The nurse researcher would like togather data about the attitudes of young adults on spirituality and
health care. What is the most effective form of research on this topic? - ANS ✔✔Qualitative data
(It is based more on subjective, narrative materials)
What is the best explanation for the way evidence-based practice (EBP) has changed the way nursing
care is done? - ANS ✔✔Nursing care now uses EBP as a means of ensuring quality care
What is the central theme of Florence Nightengale's nursing theory? - ANS ✔✔Meeting the personal
needs of the client within the environment
How would a nursing student define conceptual framework? - ANS ✔✔A group of interrelated objects
that follow a pattern
The nursing instructor is explaining sources of knowledge to a group of nursing students. She says,
"Some knowledge is passed down from one generation to another." One of the students describes this
source as being what? - ANS ✔✔Traditional knowledge
The nursing instructor asks a group of students to identify a theory that describes how humans adjust to
life with other living things and with the environment. One student correctly identifies this as which
theory? - ANS ✔✔Adaptation theory
The nursing instrcutor asks a group of students to identify a theory that describes the maturation of
humans through stages. One student correctly identifies this theory as what? - ANS ✔✔Developemental
theory
There are four common concepts in nursing theory. While all concepts are important, the focus of
nursing is always on which of the following? - ANS ✔✔The person
A nurse is developing a foreground question for nursing research using the PICO model. Which
component would be represented by the statement, "a 45 y/o male with coronary heart disease and
atrial fibrillation"? - ANS ✔✔P
("P" stands for the patient or problem presented)
