NURS 307 Exam 1 (Chapters 1-6;24) - Questions with
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Topic: NURS 307 Exam 1 (Chapters 1-6;24)
1. Four broad aims of nursing
Answer: 1. To promote health 2. To prevent illness 3. To restore health 4. To facilitate
coping with disability or death
2. 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?
Answer: Preventing illness
3. Which nursing action best exemplifies the nurse's role in promoting health?
Answer: Encouraging a group of junior high school students to engage in regular physical
activity
4. Which of the following is a characteristic of nursing practiced from early
civilization to the 16th century?
Answer: Most early civilizations believed that illness had supernatural causes
5. What was one barrier to the development of the nursing profession in the United
States after the Civil War?
Answer: Lack of educational standards
6. Which individual provided community-based care and founded public health
nursing?
Answer: Lillian Ward
7. The standards of practice provides nurses with:
Answer: Guidelines for providing care
8. The client's plan of care is created by the nurse using which guideline for nursing
practice?
Answer: Nursing process
9. Which theory emphasizes the relationships between the whole and the parts, and
describes how parts function and behave?
Answer: General systems theory
10. 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?
Answer: Experimental (because it examines the cause-and-effect)
11. When looking at a model for evidence-based practice, what is the final step of
the process?
Answer: Evaluating practice change
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, 12. For which research activity is a phenomenological research method most
appropriate?
Answer: Attempting to understand non-English speaking immigrants' experiences of being
hospital clients
13. 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?
Answer: Preventing skin breakdown ("O" stands for the outcome)
14. What statement best explains the importance of theoretic frameworks?
Answer: Theoretic frameworks advance nursing knowledge and practice.
15. Who is considered to be the first nursing theorist who conceptualized nursing in
terms of manipulating the environment?
Answer: Florence Nightengale
16. One of the primary focuses of nursing research is to:
Answer: Generate knowledge to guide practice
17. Who is considered to be the first nursing researcher?
Answer: Florence Nightengale
18. 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?
Answer: Qualitative data (It is based more on subjective, narrative materials)
19. What is the best explanation for the way evidence-based practice (EBP) has
changed the way nursing care is done?
Answer: Nursing care now uses EBP as a means of ensuring quality care
20. What is the central theme of Florence Nightengale's nursing theory?
Answer: Meeting the personal needs of the client within the environment
21. How would a nursing student define conceptual framework?
Answer: A group of interrelated objects that follow a pattern
22. 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?
Answer: Traditional knowledge
23. 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?
Answer: Adaptation theory
24. 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?
Answer: Developemental theory
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Correct Answers (Verified Update)
158 questions with answers
Topic: NURS 307 Exam 1 (Chapters 1-6;24)
1. Four broad aims of nursing
Answer: 1. To promote health 2. To prevent illness 3. To restore health 4. To facilitate
coping with disability or death
2. 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?
Answer: Preventing illness
3. Which nursing action best exemplifies the nurse's role in promoting health?
Answer: Encouraging a group of junior high school students to engage in regular physical
activity
4. Which of the following is a characteristic of nursing practiced from early
civilization to the 16th century?
Answer: Most early civilizations believed that illness had supernatural causes
5. What was one barrier to the development of the nursing profession in the United
States after the Civil War?
Answer: Lack of educational standards
6. Which individual provided community-based care and founded public health
nursing?
Answer: Lillian Ward
7. The standards of practice provides nurses with:
Answer: Guidelines for providing care
8. The client's plan of care is created by the nurse using which guideline for nursing
practice?
Answer: Nursing process
9. Which theory emphasizes the relationships between the whole and the parts, and
describes how parts function and behave?
Answer: General systems theory
10. 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?
Answer: Experimental (because it examines the cause-and-effect)
11. When looking at a model for evidence-based practice, what is the final step of
the process?
Answer: Evaluating practice change
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, 12. For which research activity is a phenomenological research method most
appropriate?
Answer: Attempting to understand non-English speaking immigrants' experiences of being
hospital clients
13. 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?
Answer: Preventing skin breakdown ("O" stands for the outcome)
14. What statement best explains the importance of theoretic frameworks?
Answer: Theoretic frameworks advance nursing knowledge and practice.
15. Who is considered to be the first nursing theorist who conceptualized nursing in
terms of manipulating the environment?
Answer: Florence Nightengale
16. One of the primary focuses of nursing research is to:
Answer: Generate knowledge to guide practice
17. Who is considered to be the first nursing researcher?
Answer: Florence Nightengale
18. 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?
Answer: Qualitative data (It is based more on subjective, narrative materials)
19. What is the best explanation for the way evidence-based practice (EBP) has
changed the way nursing care is done?
Answer: Nursing care now uses EBP as a means of ensuring quality care
20. What is the central theme of Florence Nightengale's nursing theory?
Answer: Meeting the personal needs of the client within the environment
21. How would a nursing student define conceptual framework?
Answer: A group of interrelated objects that follow a pattern
22. 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?
Answer: Traditional knowledge
23. 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?
Answer: Adaptation theory
24. 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?
Answer: Developemental theory
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