NURS 317 EXAM 1 2026/2027 | NURS 317 EXAM 1 QUESTIONS, STUDY
GUIDE & COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW
Understand the role of the nurse in creating a safe environment for the patient. - Correct
answer ✔✔ Advocate for patient and keep sterile/clean procedures along with appropriate
medication
Describe measures that regulatory agencies have put in place to keep patients safe - Correct
answer ✔✔ -medication safety
-core measures
-surgical care improvement plan
-safe patient handling
-hand off communication
-alarm fatigue
Describe the four categories of safety risks in a health care agency. - Correct answer ✔✔ -falls
-patient-inherent accidnets (seizure, burns, inflicted cuts)
-procedure-related accidnets (medication admin & improper procedures)
-equipment-related accidents (rapid IV infusions, electrical hazards)
individual risk factors:
lifestyle, impaired mobility, sensory or communication impairment, and lack of sensory
awareness
What do patients want from health care and health care providers? - Correct answer ✔✔
access, safety, outcomes, and respect
Summarize the 2020 National Patient Safety Goals. - Correct answer ✔✔ Identify patients
correctly.
,Prevent infection.
Improve staff communication.
Identify patient safety risks.
Prevent mistakes in surgery.
Describe the four categories of safety risks in a health care agency - Correct answer ✔✔ -falls
-patient-inherent accidents
-procedure-related accidents
-equipment-related accidents
9. Summarize what you can do as a provider to improve patient safety. - Correct answer ✔✔ -
follow safety protocols
-speak up when you have concerns
-listen to pt's, colleagues, and mentors
-take care of yourself
Define patient-centered care - Correct answer ✔✔ providing care that is respectful of and
responsive to individual patient preferences, needs and values and ensuring that patient values
guide all clinical outcomes
evidence-based practice. - Correct answer ✔✔ EBP is a process that promotes the delivery of
optimal health care through the integration of best current evidence, clinical expertise, and
patient/family values
Define and know examples of never events. - Correct answer ✔✔ health care situations that
arise that are serious, often preventable and not expected to occur in a hospital, such as patient
acquiring a new stage 4 pressure ulcer
, Define and know examples of sentinel events. - Correct answer ✔✔ unexpected outcomes or
risk of an outcome involving death or serious physical or psychological injury
Analyze a situation for safety concerns. What would you look for? - Correct answer ✔✔ Possible
danger around and safe medical practices
Articulate role of the Florence Nightingale in nursing. - Correct answer ✔✔ -transformed
nursing into a professional role, not just a caregiving role
-idea that nature alone cures, and what nursing has to do is put to the patient in the best
condition for nature to act upon him
Verbalize the definition of a professional nurse. - Correct answer ✔✔ - A professional nurse
provides a specified service and follows a code of ethics for practice. Professional nurses have
autonomy in decision making and practice.
Describe dependent, independent and interdependent nursing actions. - Correct answer ✔✔
dependent: things you need an order for, medicine administration, treatments
Independent: something you can do without a physician's order, teaching, assisting ADL's
interdependent: referrals, consultation, when you bring someone else in to help
Differentiate between a domain, paradigm, theory. - Correct answer ✔✔ Domain: a perspective
of the profession It provides the subject, central concepts, values, beliefs, phenomena of
interest and central thought that links the problems of the discipline
Paradigm: pattern of thought that links the knowledge of science, philosophy and theories (or
describes the domain)
Theory: a set of relatively concrete and specific concepts and the propositions that describe or
link the concepts
Describe theories of Henderson, Leininger, Nightingale, Orem, Neuman, Rogers, Watson, and
Roy. Explain how these theories might be used in nursing care. - Correct answer ✔✔
GUIDE & COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW
Understand the role of the nurse in creating a safe environment for the patient. - Correct
answer ✔✔ Advocate for patient and keep sterile/clean procedures along with appropriate
medication
Describe measures that regulatory agencies have put in place to keep patients safe - Correct
answer ✔✔ -medication safety
-core measures
-surgical care improvement plan
-safe patient handling
-hand off communication
-alarm fatigue
Describe the four categories of safety risks in a health care agency. - Correct answer ✔✔ -falls
-patient-inherent accidnets (seizure, burns, inflicted cuts)
-procedure-related accidnets (medication admin & improper procedures)
-equipment-related accidents (rapid IV infusions, electrical hazards)
individual risk factors:
lifestyle, impaired mobility, sensory or communication impairment, and lack of sensory
awareness
What do patients want from health care and health care providers? - Correct answer ✔✔
access, safety, outcomes, and respect
Summarize the 2020 National Patient Safety Goals. - Correct answer ✔✔ Identify patients
correctly.
,Prevent infection.
Improve staff communication.
Identify patient safety risks.
Prevent mistakes in surgery.
Describe the four categories of safety risks in a health care agency - Correct answer ✔✔ -falls
-patient-inherent accidents
-procedure-related accidents
-equipment-related accidents
9. Summarize what you can do as a provider to improve patient safety. - Correct answer ✔✔ -
follow safety protocols
-speak up when you have concerns
-listen to pt's, colleagues, and mentors
-take care of yourself
Define patient-centered care - Correct answer ✔✔ providing care that is respectful of and
responsive to individual patient preferences, needs and values and ensuring that patient values
guide all clinical outcomes
evidence-based practice. - Correct answer ✔✔ EBP is a process that promotes the delivery of
optimal health care through the integration of best current evidence, clinical expertise, and
patient/family values
Define and know examples of never events. - Correct answer ✔✔ health care situations that
arise that are serious, often preventable and not expected to occur in a hospital, such as patient
acquiring a new stage 4 pressure ulcer
, Define and know examples of sentinel events. - Correct answer ✔✔ unexpected outcomes or
risk of an outcome involving death or serious physical or psychological injury
Analyze a situation for safety concerns. What would you look for? - Correct answer ✔✔ Possible
danger around and safe medical practices
Articulate role of the Florence Nightingale in nursing. - Correct answer ✔✔ -transformed
nursing into a professional role, not just a caregiving role
-idea that nature alone cures, and what nursing has to do is put to the patient in the best
condition for nature to act upon him
Verbalize the definition of a professional nurse. - Correct answer ✔✔ - A professional nurse
provides a specified service and follows a code of ethics for practice. Professional nurses have
autonomy in decision making and practice.
Describe dependent, independent and interdependent nursing actions. - Correct answer ✔✔
dependent: things you need an order for, medicine administration, treatments
Independent: something you can do without a physician's order, teaching, assisting ADL's
interdependent: referrals, consultation, when you bring someone else in to help
Differentiate between a domain, paradigm, theory. - Correct answer ✔✔ Domain: a perspective
of the profession It provides the subject, central concepts, values, beliefs, phenomena of
interest and central thought that links the problems of the discipline
Paradigm: pattern of thought that links the knowledge of science, philosophy and theories (or
describes the domain)
Theory: a set of relatively concrete and specific concepts and the propositions that describe or
link the concepts
Describe theories of Henderson, Leininger, Nightingale, Orem, Neuman, Rogers, Watson, and
Roy. Explain how these theories might be used in nursing care. - Correct answer ✔✔
