NF 111 Final Exam 1 Questions And
Correct Complete Answers.
What is nursing? - Answer An art and a science
Theory of Animism - Answer Good spirits brought health; evil spirits brought sickness and death.
Florence Nightingale - Answer She established the first training school for nurses, and wrote books
about health care and nursing education
Definitions of Nursing - Answer Originated from the Latin word nutrix (to nourish
Patient is central focus of all definitions - Answer Includes physical, emotional, social, and spiritual
dimensions of the patient
Four Aims of Nursing Practice - Answer To promote health
To prevent illness
To restore health
To facilitate coping with disability or death
What is health? - Answer A state of optimal functioning or well-being
How does the nurse promote health? - Answer Facilitates decisions about lifestyle
Increases health awareness
Teaches self-care activities
Encourages health promotion
What does it mean to prevent? - Answer To keep something from happening
,How can the nurse meet the objective to prevent illness? - Answer Educational programs
Community programs
Literature, TV, radio, or Internet information
Health assessments
What kind of current issues do nurses have the ability to impact? - Answer Promotion of health and
wellness
Promotion of safety and quality of care
Care, self-care processes, and care coordination
Physical, emotional, and spiritual comfort, discomfort, and pain
Adaptation to physiologic and pathophysiologic processes
Emotions related to the experience of birth, growth and development, health, illness, disease and death
Sources of knowledge - Answer Traditional—passed down from generation to generation (changing
linens, no data to support)
Authoritative—comes from an expert, accepted as truth based on person's perceived expertise
(preceptor/mentee relationship)
Scientific—obtained through the scientific method (research)
deductive reasoning - Answer in which one examines a general idea and then considers specific actions
or ideas
inductive reasoning - Answer one builds from specific ideas or actions to conclusions about general
ideas.
Asking Clinical Questions in PICO Format - Answer P = patient, population, or problem of interest
I = intervention of interest
C = comparison of interest
O = outcome of interest
, Infection - Answer disease state that results from the presence of pathogens
Infectious agent - Answer natural habitat of the organism
Reservoir - Answer natural habitat of the organism
Portal of exit - Answer point of escape for the organism
Means of transmission - Answer direct contact, indirect contact, airborne route
Portal of entry - Answer point at which organisms enter a new host
Susceptible host - Answer must overcome resistance mounted by host's defenses
Virulence - Answer ability to cause disease
Means of Transmission (Direct) - Answer touching, kissing, sex
Means of Transmission (Indirect) - Answer contact with inanimate objects like gloves, paper, scrubs
Means of Transmission (Vector) - Answer Bugs
Means of Transmission (Air) - Answer cough, sneezing
Stages of Infection - Answer Incubation period—time varies with organism
Prodromal—nonspecific signs like fatigue, low grade fever
Incubation period—organisms growing and multiplying
Prodromal stage—person is most infectious, vague and nonspecific signs of disease
Full stage of illness—presence of specific signs and symptoms of disease
Correct Complete Answers.
What is nursing? - Answer An art and a science
Theory of Animism - Answer Good spirits brought health; evil spirits brought sickness and death.
Florence Nightingale - Answer She established the first training school for nurses, and wrote books
about health care and nursing education
Definitions of Nursing - Answer Originated from the Latin word nutrix (to nourish
Patient is central focus of all definitions - Answer Includes physical, emotional, social, and spiritual
dimensions of the patient
Four Aims of Nursing Practice - Answer To promote health
To prevent illness
To restore health
To facilitate coping with disability or death
What is health? - Answer A state of optimal functioning or well-being
How does the nurse promote health? - Answer Facilitates decisions about lifestyle
Increases health awareness
Teaches self-care activities
Encourages health promotion
What does it mean to prevent? - Answer To keep something from happening
,How can the nurse meet the objective to prevent illness? - Answer Educational programs
Community programs
Literature, TV, radio, or Internet information
Health assessments
What kind of current issues do nurses have the ability to impact? - Answer Promotion of health and
wellness
Promotion of safety and quality of care
Care, self-care processes, and care coordination
Physical, emotional, and spiritual comfort, discomfort, and pain
Adaptation to physiologic and pathophysiologic processes
Emotions related to the experience of birth, growth and development, health, illness, disease and death
Sources of knowledge - Answer Traditional—passed down from generation to generation (changing
linens, no data to support)
Authoritative—comes from an expert, accepted as truth based on person's perceived expertise
(preceptor/mentee relationship)
Scientific—obtained through the scientific method (research)
deductive reasoning - Answer in which one examines a general idea and then considers specific actions
or ideas
inductive reasoning - Answer one builds from specific ideas or actions to conclusions about general
ideas.
Asking Clinical Questions in PICO Format - Answer P = patient, population, or problem of interest
I = intervention of interest
C = comparison of interest
O = outcome of interest
, Infection - Answer disease state that results from the presence of pathogens
Infectious agent - Answer natural habitat of the organism
Reservoir - Answer natural habitat of the organism
Portal of exit - Answer point of escape for the organism
Means of transmission - Answer direct contact, indirect contact, airborne route
Portal of entry - Answer point at which organisms enter a new host
Susceptible host - Answer must overcome resistance mounted by host's defenses
Virulence - Answer ability to cause disease
Means of Transmission (Direct) - Answer touching, kissing, sex
Means of Transmission (Indirect) - Answer contact with inanimate objects like gloves, paper, scrubs
Means of Transmission (Vector) - Answer Bugs
Means of Transmission (Air) - Answer cough, sneezing
Stages of Infection - Answer Incubation period—time varies with organism
Prodromal—nonspecific signs like fatigue, low grade fever
Incubation period—organisms growing and multiplying
Prodromal stage—person is most infectious, vague and nonspecific signs of disease
Full stage of illness—presence of specific signs and symptoms of disease
