CONCEPTS FOR NURSING ACTUAL
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
COMPLETE STUDY GUIDE
●● Florence Nightingale's definition of nursing
Answer: Charge of the personal health of somebody, and what nursing
has to do is put the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon
him.
●● ANA definition of nursing
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
●● A profession includes?
Answer: - Systemic theory and knowledge base
- Commitment to service
- Autonomy, responsibility and accountability
- Standards and code of ethics
- Professional culture
●● What are the principle characteristics of nursing?
,Answer: - Individualized
- Coordinate care through partnership
- Caring is central to nursing
- Nursing process to plan care
- Strong link between work environment and quality healthcare
●● Healthy work environments include?
Answer: - Skilled communication
- True collaboration
- Effective decision-making
- Appropriate staffing
- Authentic leadership
- Meaningful recognition
●● Scope and Standards of practice do what for healthcare
professionals?
Answer: - Reflect values and priorities
- Provide direction
- Provide a framework for evaluation
- Define the profession's accountability
●● Standards of practice include?
,Answer: - Assessment
- Diagnosis
- Outcome identification
- Planning
- Implementation
- Evaluation
●● Standards of professional performance include?
Answer: - Ethics
- Culturally congruent practice
- Communication
- Collaboration
- Leadership
- Education
- Evidence bases practice and research
- Quality of practice
- Professional practice evaluation
- Resource utilization
- Environmental health
●● What makes up the Nursing Metaparadigm
Answer: - Nurse/Nursing
, - Person (their needs, culture, wholeness, development, and behavior)
- Health (wholeness, healing, selfcare, wellness, coping, illness, stress,
crisis)
- Environment (health care systems, social support, physical,
sociocultural, family)
●● What are the nursing roles?
Answer: - Practitioner/ Care giver
- Consultant
- Colleague
- Patient advocate
- Researcher
- Teacher/educator
- Leader
- Manager
- Change Agent
●● What is the image of nursing?
Answer: - One's outward appearance
- Profession's appearance (to other disciplines and to consumers of
health care)
- Influenced by art, literature, television, films, and social media
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
COMPLETE STUDY GUIDE
●● Florence Nightingale's definition of nursing
Answer: Charge of the personal health of somebody, and what nursing
has to do is put the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon
him.
●● ANA definition of nursing
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
●● A profession includes?
Answer: - Systemic theory and knowledge base
- Commitment to service
- Autonomy, responsibility and accountability
- Standards and code of ethics
- Professional culture
●● What are the principle characteristics of nursing?
,Answer: - Individualized
- Coordinate care through partnership
- Caring is central to nursing
- Nursing process to plan care
- Strong link between work environment and quality healthcare
●● Healthy work environments include?
Answer: - Skilled communication
- True collaboration
- Effective decision-making
- Appropriate staffing
- Authentic leadership
- Meaningful recognition
●● Scope and Standards of practice do what for healthcare
professionals?
Answer: - Reflect values and priorities
- Provide direction
- Provide a framework for evaluation
- Define the profession's accountability
●● Standards of practice include?
,Answer: - Assessment
- Diagnosis
- Outcome identification
- Planning
- Implementation
- Evaluation
●● Standards of professional performance include?
Answer: - Ethics
- Culturally congruent practice
- Communication
- Collaboration
- Leadership
- Education
- Evidence bases practice and research
- Quality of practice
- Professional practice evaluation
- Resource utilization
- Environmental health
●● What makes up the Nursing Metaparadigm
Answer: - Nurse/Nursing
, - Person (their needs, culture, wholeness, development, and behavior)
- Health (wholeness, healing, selfcare, wellness, coping, illness, stress,
crisis)
- Environment (health care systems, social support, physical,
sociocultural, family)
●● What are the nursing roles?
Answer: - Practitioner/ Care giver
- Consultant
- Colleague
- Patient advocate
- Researcher
- Teacher/educator
- Leader
- Manager
- Change Agent
●● What is the image of nursing?
Answer: - One's outward appearance
- Profession's appearance (to other disciplines and to consumers of
health care)
- Influenced by art, literature, television, films, and social media
