Guide Questions with Corrrect Answers
Guaranteed Perfect Score
Accompanying interpretive statements - Answer -provide addtional, more specific, guidance in the
application of this obligation to current nursing practice; subjective to more frequent revision
Accountability - Answer -you are responsible professionally and legally for the type and quality of
nursing care provided
Action - Answer -has begun to make behavioral change
Active Primary - Answer -You are personally involved
example: Working out to prevent obesity.
Acute illness - Answer -a trauma, myocardial infarction, or surgery; family members are often left
in waiting rooms to receive information about their loved one
Advanced Beginner - Answer -A nurse who has had some level of experience with the situation.
This experience may only be observational in nature, but the nurse is able to identify meaningful aspects
or principles of nursing care
Advocacy - Answer -aggressive action taken on behalf of an individual, or perhaps a group viewed
as an individual entity, to protect or secure that individual's rights
Advocate - Answer -nurses help individuals obtain what they are entitled to receive through the
health care system, try to make the system more responsive to individual and community needs, and
help persons develop the skills to advocate for themselves; strives to ensure that all persons receive
high-quality, appropriate, safe, and cost-effective care
Affordable Care Act Law - Answer -aimed at reducing the number of uninsured Americans.
Age Risk Factors - Answer -affects a person's susceptibility to certain illnesses and conditions
example: premature infants and neonates are more susceptible to infections
alternative family - Answer -include multi-adult households, "skip-generation" families
(grandparents caring for grandchildren), communal groups with children, "nonfamilies" (adults living
alone), and cohabitating partners.
,Alternative Therapies - Answer -sometimes include the same interventions as complementary
therapies; but they become the primary treatment
example: person with chronic pain uses yoga to encourage flexibility and relaxation at the same time
that nonsteroidal antiinflammatory or opioid medications are prescribed
American Nurses Association (ANA) - Answer -illustrates the consistent commitment of nurses to
provide care that promotes the well-being of their patients and communities
ANA Standards of Nursing Practice - Answer -assessment, diagnosis, outcome, planning,
implementation, evaluation (ADOPIE)
ANA Standards of Practice (definition) - Answer -describe a competent level (ADOPIE) of nursing
care.
ANA Standards of Professional Performance - Answer -ethics, education, evidence-based practice
and research, quality of practice, communication, leadership, collaboration, professional practice
evaluation, resources, environmental health
ANA Standards of Professional Performance (definition) - Answer -describe a competent level of
behavior in the professional role; provide a method to assure patients that they are receiving high-
quality care, that the nurses must know exactly what is necessary to provide nursing care, and that
measures are in place to determine whether nursing care meets the standards
Applied Research - Answer -done to directly affect clinical practice
ASKED (mnemonic) for implementation of culturally congruent practice - Answer -Awareness
Skill
Knowledge
Encounters
Desires
Assessment - Answer -The registered nurse collects comprehensive data pertinent to the patient's
health and/or the situation.
Autonomy - Answer -an essential element of professional nursing that involves the initiation of
independent nursing interventions without medical orders
autonomy - Answer -independence, able to make your own choice
Beneficence - Answer -the quality or state of doing or producing "good."; duty to maximize the
benefits of actions while minimizing harms
, Benefits of Physical Activity - Answer -contribute to the maintenance or improvement in mobility,
which improves the quality of life and prevents disability and it enhances positive mental health through
stress reduction and physical fitness, which contribute to the development of healthy behaviors
Benner's Five Levels of Proficiency - Answer -novice, advanced beginner, competent, proficient,
expert
blended family - Answer -parents bring unrelated children from prior adoptive or foster parenting
relationships into a new, joint living situation.
Campinha-Bacote's model of cultural competency has five interrelated constructs - Answer -
Cultural awareness-examine own bias
Cultural knowledge-seek education
Cultural skill-able to conduct assessments
Cultural encounter-engage in cultural interactions
Cultural desire-want to become aware
Care Manager - Answer -prevent duplication of services, maintain quality and safety, and reduce
costs.
Career Opportunities for Nurses - Answer -advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs), nurse
researchers, nurse risk managers, quality improvement nurses, consultants, and even business owners.
Caring is.. - Answer -grounded in ethics beginning with respect for the autonomy of the care
recipient; grounded as a science in nursing but is not limited to nursing; an attribute that may be taught,
modeled learned and mastered; capable of being measured and analyzed scientifically, the subject of
study withing caring science institutes/academics worldwide; central to relationships that lead to
effective healing, cure, and/or actualization of human potential.
Chronic illness - Answer -a global health problem and present continuous challenges for families
Client - Answer -one who listens, leans upon, or follows another; connotes a more advisory
relationship often associated with consultation or business
Code of Ethics - Answer -the philosophical ideals of right and wrong that define the principles you
will use to provide care to your patients
Codes of Ethics - Answer -examples of normative ethics in that they prescribe how members of a
profession ought to act, given the goals and purposes of the profession related to individuals and society
Cognitive skills - Answer -• Focusing (the ability to identify, differentiate, maintain attention on,
and return attention to simple stimuli for an extended period)
• Passivity (the ability to stop unnecessary goal-directed and analytic activity)