Exam 1 - NUR 1022C Foundations of
Nursing questions with 100% complete
solutions
What organization develops the standards of professional performance for nurses? - CORRECT ANSWER-
✔✔✅American Nurses Association (ANA)
What is a Nurse Practice Act? - CORRECT ANSWER-✔✔✅- NPA is unique to each state
- each state has their own board of nursing
- peer based (7 out of 8 are nurses on the board)
What is the Florida State Board of Nursing? - CORRECT ANSWER-✔✔✅aka BON, testing (NCLEX-RN),
require CEU 24 hours for renewal of license every 2 years/24 months
-> Some are mandatory courses such as HIV or human trafficking
What is a Unlincensed Assistive Personnel? - CORRECT ANSWER-✔✔✅UAP = unlicensed assistive
personnel = support staff, be respectful of techs, tasks are delegated to these individuals by the RN
*team based
What is Evidence Base Practice (EBP)? - CORRECT ANSWER-✔✔✅Constant learning + based on
research not past/ old ways of doing something + use your expertise + listen to the patient's wants =
Evidence Based Practice (EBP)
What are the steps of EBP? - CORRECT ANSWER-✔✔✅Inquiry, have continuous curiousity
Ask a clinical question - ex: "Is it better to use the baby warmer or skin to skin contact when a baby is
first born?"
Collect best evidnece
Integrate the evidence/ implement
Evaluate the change
Share the outcomes
,What are the 5Cs and how do they relate to the nursing profession? - CORRECT ANSWER-✔✔✅**"5
C's" - the SSC student learning outcomes
1. Caring - we are not judges
2. Communication = always communicate with your charge nurse (for students that is your clinical
instructor), includes patient education
3, Collaboration and management of care - working with auxillary staff and other deparments like
physical theraphy
4. Commitment to professionalism = example, shred documents to protect privacy, follow HIPAA
5. Clinical competence and decision making
What are the roles of a professional nurse? - CORRECT ANSWER-✔✔✅Autonomous = independent, ex:
has to follow doctor's orders, but use knowledge to take action when appropriate
Accountability
Caregiver = * most trusted profession
Advocacy = speak for the patient and make sure that the patient's wants are being considered
Educator = teachers, teach everyone on all levels, patient education
Communicator = with both patients and other staff
Manager = delegation of tasks
What are some EBPs related to infection? - CORRECT ANSWER-✔✔✅Evidence shows that patients
develop infections in the hospital because healthcare personnel don't use proper hand hygiene. Hand
hygiene is the #1 way to prevent infection and standard precautions should be used with every patient
every time because 90,000 patients die every year due to HCAIs.
What are some factors that affect the prevention, control, or transmission of infection? - CORRECT
ANSWER-✔✔✅Poor hand hygiene, poor sterile technique when performing invasive procedures like
placing catheters, not using standard precautions.
How can you recognize the clinical appearance of a patient with an infection? (Clinical Manifestation) -
CORRECT ANSWER-✔✔✅If it's a local infection the pt will most likely experience the symptoms of
inflammation (RHSP), they may experience some immobility, and some drainage. If it's a systemic
, infection - a pt will have an elevated temp., they might experience fatigue/malaise, nausea/vomiting,
increase HR and respiration, but decreased BP, and an altered level of consciousness.
What is the difference between medical and surgical asepsis? Explain the continuum. - CORRECT
ANSWER-✔✔✅Medical asepsis is general clean technique while surgical asepsis is sterile technique.
Surgical asepsis is cleaner than medical asepsis on the continuum.
What is the difference between sterilization, disinfection, and cleaning? - CORRECT ANSWER-
✔✔✅Sterilization means kill all the microbes and remove the spores. Disinfection - the creation of a
bacteriostatic environment through the use of chemicals like bleach and betadine. Cleaning refers to
general cleanliness, regular soap and water.
What are the different types of isolation? - CORRECT ANSWER-✔✔✅There are two types of isolation.
Protective isolation is about protecting ourselves from the infected patient. "Reverse" isolation is about
protecting the patient from us, this type of isolation is used for immunocompromised patients and it
involves not reusing gowns/gloves, using a mask, standard precautions, and the use of private rooms.
Nurses with active infections won't be assigned these pts.
What are the general principles of isolation? - CORRECT ANSWER-✔✔✅Use standard precautions
which means having good hand hygiene. Dispose of contaminated supplies/equipment/PPE, think about
protecting everyone including your coworkers/UAPs/techs, and be clinically competent (5Cs).
How can you apply the general principles of isolation when working in isolation rooms? - CORRECT
ANSWER-✔✔✅When delegating tasks make sure to communicate, notify team members, Be a good
steward of supplies and only take in what you need/minimize waste, cluster your care, and be prepared
you shouldn't need to walk in and out of the room bc you forgot equipment, properly dispose of PPE,
never wear PPE out on the floor, keep the pt's door closed.
What are some common healthcare acquired infections (HCAIs) that are drug resistant? - CORRECT
ANSWER-✔✔✅MRSA - Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus, VRE - Vancomycin Resistant
Enterococcus, and C.Diff. - Clostridium Difficile
What would be involved in the care of a client experiencing infection issues? - CORRECT ANSWER-
✔✔✅We would use the CDC's two tier approach to prevent the transmission of the infectious agent
from that particular pt experiencing the issue to other patients by following isolation protocols, using
proper precautions, making sure to communicate and use proper techniques when performing
procedures for the pt.
Nursing questions with 100% complete
solutions
What organization develops the standards of professional performance for nurses? - CORRECT ANSWER-
✔✔✅American Nurses Association (ANA)
What is a Nurse Practice Act? - CORRECT ANSWER-✔✔✅- NPA is unique to each state
- each state has their own board of nursing
- peer based (7 out of 8 are nurses on the board)
What is the Florida State Board of Nursing? - CORRECT ANSWER-✔✔✅aka BON, testing (NCLEX-RN),
require CEU 24 hours for renewal of license every 2 years/24 months
-> Some are mandatory courses such as HIV or human trafficking
What is a Unlincensed Assistive Personnel? - CORRECT ANSWER-✔✔✅UAP = unlicensed assistive
personnel = support staff, be respectful of techs, tasks are delegated to these individuals by the RN
*team based
What is Evidence Base Practice (EBP)? - CORRECT ANSWER-✔✔✅Constant learning + based on
research not past/ old ways of doing something + use your expertise + listen to the patient's wants =
Evidence Based Practice (EBP)
What are the steps of EBP? - CORRECT ANSWER-✔✔✅Inquiry, have continuous curiousity
Ask a clinical question - ex: "Is it better to use the baby warmer or skin to skin contact when a baby is
first born?"
Collect best evidnece
Integrate the evidence/ implement
Evaluate the change
Share the outcomes
,What are the 5Cs and how do they relate to the nursing profession? - CORRECT ANSWER-✔✔✅**"5
C's" - the SSC student learning outcomes
1. Caring - we are not judges
2. Communication = always communicate with your charge nurse (for students that is your clinical
instructor), includes patient education
3, Collaboration and management of care - working with auxillary staff and other deparments like
physical theraphy
4. Commitment to professionalism = example, shred documents to protect privacy, follow HIPAA
5. Clinical competence and decision making
What are the roles of a professional nurse? - CORRECT ANSWER-✔✔✅Autonomous = independent, ex:
has to follow doctor's orders, but use knowledge to take action when appropriate
Accountability
Caregiver = * most trusted profession
Advocacy = speak for the patient and make sure that the patient's wants are being considered
Educator = teachers, teach everyone on all levels, patient education
Communicator = with both patients and other staff
Manager = delegation of tasks
What are some EBPs related to infection? - CORRECT ANSWER-✔✔✅Evidence shows that patients
develop infections in the hospital because healthcare personnel don't use proper hand hygiene. Hand
hygiene is the #1 way to prevent infection and standard precautions should be used with every patient
every time because 90,000 patients die every year due to HCAIs.
What are some factors that affect the prevention, control, or transmission of infection? - CORRECT
ANSWER-✔✔✅Poor hand hygiene, poor sterile technique when performing invasive procedures like
placing catheters, not using standard precautions.
How can you recognize the clinical appearance of a patient with an infection? (Clinical Manifestation) -
CORRECT ANSWER-✔✔✅If it's a local infection the pt will most likely experience the symptoms of
inflammation (RHSP), they may experience some immobility, and some drainage. If it's a systemic
, infection - a pt will have an elevated temp., they might experience fatigue/malaise, nausea/vomiting,
increase HR and respiration, but decreased BP, and an altered level of consciousness.
What is the difference between medical and surgical asepsis? Explain the continuum. - CORRECT
ANSWER-✔✔✅Medical asepsis is general clean technique while surgical asepsis is sterile technique.
Surgical asepsis is cleaner than medical asepsis on the continuum.
What is the difference between sterilization, disinfection, and cleaning? - CORRECT ANSWER-
✔✔✅Sterilization means kill all the microbes and remove the spores. Disinfection - the creation of a
bacteriostatic environment through the use of chemicals like bleach and betadine. Cleaning refers to
general cleanliness, regular soap and water.
What are the different types of isolation? - CORRECT ANSWER-✔✔✅There are two types of isolation.
Protective isolation is about protecting ourselves from the infected patient. "Reverse" isolation is about
protecting the patient from us, this type of isolation is used for immunocompromised patients and it
involves not reusing gowns/gloves, using a mask, standard precautions, and the use of private rooms.
Nurses with active infections won't be assigned these pts.
What are the general principles of isolation? - CORRECT ANSWER-✔✔✅Use standard precautions
which means having good hand hygiene. Dispose of contaminated supplies/equipment/PPE, think about
protecting everyone including your coworkers/UAPs/techs, and be clinically competent (5Cs).
How can you apply the general principles of isolation when working in isolation rooms? - CORRECT
ANSWER-✔✔✅When delegating tasks make sure to communicate, notify team members, Be a good
steward of supplies and only take in what you need/minimize waste, cluster your care, and be prepared
you shouldn't need to walk in and out of the room bc you forgot equipment, properly dispose of PPE,
never wear PPE out on the floor, keep the pt's door closed.
What are some common healthcare acquired infections (HCAIs) that are drug resistant? - CORRECT
ANSWER-✔✔✅MRSA - Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus, VRE - Vancomycin Resistant
Enterococcus, and C.Diff. - Clostridium Difficile
What would be involved in the care of a client experiencing infection issues? - CORRECT ANSWER-
✔✔✅We would use the CDC's two tier approach to prevent the transmission of the infectious agent
from that particular pt experiencing the issue to other patients by following isolation protocols, using
proper precautions, making sure to communicate and use proper techniques when performing
procedures for the pt.
