N138 Actual Exam Questions Latest 2025 with
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Characteristics of Nursing - ANSWER 1. Human Responses
2. Theory Application
3. Nursing actions and interventions
4. outcomes
How does society validate the nursing profession? - ANSWER - licensure
- public affirmation
- legal and legislative parameters
Nursing response to society - ANSWER - care to those in need
- do so regardless of cultural, social, or economic standing
Essential features of professional nursing - ANSWER - caring relationship that facilitates
healing
- attention to the range of human experience and responses to health and illness
- integrating assessment data with other knowledge gained
- applying scientific knowledge to diagnosis and treatment through the use of critical
thinking
- advancing nursing through scholarly inquiry
- promoting social justice but influencing social and public policy
- assurance of safe, quality, evidence based practic
Philosophy of Nursing - ANSWER - influences day-to-day behavior
- values and principles that underlie thinking
, -provides direction and promotes effectiveness
philosophy - ANSWER a set of beliefs about the nature or how the world works
nursing philosophy - ANSWER puts together some or all concepts of the metaparadigm
metaparadigm - ANSWER consists of the major concepts of the discipline - person,
environment, health, and nursing
Conceptual models - ANSWER organizational structures for critical thinking about the
process of nursing
In order from most to least abstract - ANSWER Philosophies
models
theories
grand theory - ANSWER broad conceptualization of nursing phenomena
Middle-range theory - ANSWER narrower in focus and makes connections between
grand theories and nursing practice
theories - ANSWER less abstract than models and usually propose specific outcome
Nightingale's Philosophy - ANSWER - health is the major concern of nursing, not illness
- focuses on the relationship between the patient and the environment
- accurately recording patient information and cleanliness are important
metaparadigm - person, health, environment, and nursing (as opposed to medicine)
Complete Solutions!!
Characteristics of Nursing - ANSWER 1. Human Responses
2. Theory Application
3. Nursing actions and interventions
4. outcomes
How does society validate the nursing profession? - ANSWER - licensure
- public affirmation
- legal and legislative parameters
Nursing response to society - ANSWER - care to those in need
- do so regardless of cultural, social, or economic standing
Essential features of professional nursing - ANSWER - caring relationship that facilitates
healing
- attention to the range of human experience and responses to health and illness
- integrating assessment data with other knowledge gained
- applying scientific knowledge to diagnosis and treatment through the use of critical
thinking
- advancing nursing through scholarly inquiry
- promoting social justice but influencing social and public policy
- assurance of safe, quality, evidence based practic
Philosophy of Nursing - ANSWER - influences day-to-day behavior
- values and principles that underlie thinking
, -provides direction and promotes effectiveness
philosophy - ANSWER a set of beliefs about the nature or how the world works
nursing philosophy - ANSWER puts together some or all concepts of the metaparadigm
metaparadigm - ANSWER consists of the major concepts of the discipline - person,
environment, health, and nursing
Conceptual models - ANSWER organizational structures for critical thinking about the
process of nursing
In order from most to least abstract - ANSWER Philosophies
models
theories
grand theory - ANSWER broad conceptualization of nursing phenomena
Middle-range theory - ANSWER narrower in focus and makes connections between
grand theories and nursing practice
theories - ANSWER less abstract than models and usually propose specific outcome
Nightingale's Philosophy - ANSWER - health is the major concern of nursing, not illness
- focuses on the relationship between the patient and the environment
- accurately recording patient information and cleanliness are important
metaparadigm - person, health, environment, and nursing (as opposed to medicine)
