NUR 215 Exam 1 Questions and Verified
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Why is nursing considered a profession? - ✔✔Education, knowledge, selfless
concern for others, follow a code of ethics, practice autonomy, accountability,
and responsibility, professional organizations
What is a nurse? - ✔✔Highly trained, well educated, caring, and competent.
6 basic skills - ✔✔critical thinking skills
Communication skills
Organizational skills
Leadership skills
Advocacy
technical skills
4 basic principals of nursing - ✔✔Advocacy
Responsibility
Accountability
Confidentiality
6 ethical principles of nursing - ✔✔autonomy, beneficence, fidelity, justice, non-
maleficence, veracity
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, autonomy - ✔✔the right of the patient to make decisions about their medical
care w/out their healthcare provider trying to influence their decisions
beneficence - ✔✔address the idea that a nurse's actions should only promote
good
fidelity - ✔✔The nurse must be faithful to the promises they made as
professionals to provide quality care
justice - ✔✔the nurse needs to be impartial and fair to each patient
Non-Maleficence - ✔✔nurse must be non-harming or inflicting the least amount
of harm possible to reach a beneficial outcome
veracity - ✔✔must be honest and tell the truth
History of nursing - ✔✔transformed to a women dominated profession in the
19th and 20th century, had to become licensed in order to work in the
profession in 1903 in the US
angel of mercy - ✔✔religion based and shows nurses as self-sacrificing, moral
and noble
battle Ax - ✔✔showed nurses as cruel torturers, includes the bossy nurse
Ratchet
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Detailed Answers | Latest Update
Why is nursing considered a profession? - ✔✔Education, knowledge, selfless
concern for others, follow a code of ethics, practice autonomy, accountability,
and responsibility, professional organizations
What is a nurse? - ✔✔Highly trained, well educated, caring, and competent.
6 basic skills - ✔✔critical thinking skills
Communication skills
Organizational skills
Leadership skills
Advocacy
technical skills
4 basic principals of nursing - ✔✔Advocacy
Responsibility
Accountability
Confidentiality
6 ethical principles of nursing - ✔✔autonomy, beneficence, fidelity, justice, non-
maleficence, veracity
1|Page
©NINJANERD 2025/2026. YEAR PUBLISHED 2025.
, autonomy - ✔✔the right of the patient to make decisions about their medical
care w/out their healthcare provider trying to influence their decisions
beneficence - ✔✔address the idea that a nurse's actions should only promote
good
fidelity - ✔✔The nurse must be faithful to the promises they made as
professionals to provide quality care
justice - ✔✔the nurse needs to be impartial and fair to each patient
Non-Maleficence - ✔✔nurse must be non-harming or inflicting the least amount
of harm possible to reach a beneficial outcome
veracity - ✔✔must be honest and tell the truth
History of nursing - ✔✔transformed to a women dominated profession in the
19th and 20th century, had to become licensed in order to work in the
profession in 1903 in the US
angel of mercy - ✔✔religion based and shows nurses as self-sacrificing, moral
and noble
battle Ax - ✔✔showed nurses as cruel torturers, includes the bossy nurse
Ratchet
2|Page
©NINJANERD 2025/2026. YEAR PUBLISHED 2025.
