NUR 380 FUNDAMENTALS PRACTICE TEST SHEET 2025/2026
QUESTIONS WITH SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
✔✔Whose nursing theory included 13 canons of a healthy environment? - ✔✔Florence
Nightingale
✔✔Founded the American Red Cross - ✔✔Clara Barton
✔✔Founded the Frontier Nursing Service in Kentucky and started one of the first
midwifery programs in the U.S. - ✔✔Mary Breckenridge
✔✔One of the founders of the American Assembly for Men in Nursing - ✔✔Luther
Christman (ChristMAN)
✔✔6 criteria of nursing as a "profession" - ✔✔Well defined body of knowledge
Service-oriented
Professional organization (ANA)
Code of Ethics
Ongoing Research
Autonomy/self-governing
✔✔Primary/Secondary/Tertiary health promotion - ✔✔Primary: Promote health/Prevent
disease/Pro-active (e.g. immunization clinic, accident prevention education)
Secondary: Screening/monitoring (e.g. early intervention, regular exams/health
procedures)
Tertiary: Treatment of ongoing health problems after acute status resolved
✔✔Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs - ✔✔physiological, safety, love/belonging, esteem,
self-actualization
✔✔7 steps of evidence based practice - ✔✔1. cultivate a spirit of inquiry
2. ask a clinical question in PICOT format
3. search for the most relevant and best evidence
4. critically appraise the evidence you gather
5. integrate all evidence with your clinical expertise and patient preferences and values
6. evaluate the outcomes of practice decisions or changes using evidence
7. share the outcomes of the EBP changes with others
✔✔Four types of knowledge & how to develop - ✔✔Empirical - study theories,
observations
Ethical - evaluate beliefs and values
Personal - self-reflection
Aesthetic - appreciate individual unique characteristics
, ✔✔ANA definition of nursing - ✔✔The protection, promotion, and optimization of health
and abilities, prevention of illness and injury, facilitation of healing, alleviation of
suffering through the diagnosis and treatment of human response; and advocacy in the
care of individuals, families, groups, communities, and populations
✔✔A __________ may be defined as a system of ideas that is presumed to explain a
given phenomenon. - ✔✔Theory
✔✔___________ involves assessing study findings for their implementation potential. -
✔✔Comparative analysis
✔✔defines and enforces duties and rights among private individuals that are not based
on contractual agreements - ✔✔Tort law
✔✔the "skills and learning commonly possessed by members of a profession" -
✔✔Standards of care
✔✔The most common situation leading to professional negligence charges -
✔✔medication error
✔✔___________ are enduring beliefs or attitudes about the worth of an individual,
object, idea, or action. - ✔✔Values
✔✔3 stages of values clarification - ✔✔Choosing (cognitive)
Prizing (affective)
Acting (behavioral)
✔✔Subjective data is also referred to as _____________ - ✔✔Symptoms
✔✔Objective data is also referred to as ___________ - ✔✔Signs
✔✔The body systems model organizes health by these categories - ✔✔Integumentary
system
Respiratory system
Cardiovascular system
Nervous system
Musculoskeletal system
Gastrointestinal system
Genitourinary system
Reproductive system
Immune system
QUESTIONS WITH SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
✔✔Whose nursing theory included 13 canons of a healthy environment? - ✔✔Florence
Nightingale
✔✔Founded the American Red Cross - ✔✔Clara Barton
✔✔Founded the Frontier Nursing Service in Kentucky and started one of the first
midwifery programs in the U.S. - ✔✔Mary Breckenridge
✔✔One of the founders of the American Assembly for Men in Nursing - ✔✔Luther
Christman (ChristMAN)
✔✔6 criteria of nursing as a "profession" - ✔✔Well defined body of knowledge
Service-oriented
Professional organization (ANA)
Code of Ethics
Ongoing Research
Autonomy/self-governing
✔✔Primary/Secondary/Tertiary health promotion - ✔✔Primary: Promote health/Prevent
disease/Pro-active (e.g. immunization clinic, accident prevention education)
Secondary: Screening/monitoring (e.g. early intervention, regular exams/health
procedures)
Tertiary: Treatment of ongoing health problems after acute status resolved
✔✔Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs - ✔✔physiological, safety, love/belonging, esteem,
self-actualization
✔✔7 steps of evidence based practice - ✔✔1. cultivate a spirit of inquiry
2. ask a clinical question in PICOT format
3. search for the most relevant and best evidence
4. critically appraise the evidence you gather
5. integrate all evidence with your clinical expertise and patient preferences and values
6. evaluate the outcomes of practice decisions or changes using evidence
7. share the outcomes of the EBP changes with others
✔✔Four types of knowledge & how to develop - ✔✔Empirical - study theories,
observations
Ethical - evaluate beliefs and values
Personal - self-reflection
Aesthetic - appreciate individual unique characteristics
, ✔✔ANA definition of nursing - ✔✔The protection, promotion, and optimization of health
and abilities, prevention of illness and injury, facilitation of healing, alleviation of
suffering through the diagnosis and treatment of human response; and advocacy in the
care of individuals, families, groups, communities, and populations
✔✔A __________ may be defined as a system of ideas that is presumed to explain a
given phenomenon. - ✔✔Theory
✔✔___________ involves assessing study findings for their implementation potential. -
✔✔Comparative analysis
✔✔defines and enforces duties and rights among private individuals that are not based
on contractual agreements - ✔✔Tort law
✔✔the "skills and learning commonly possessed by members of a profession" -
✔✔Standards of care
✔✔The most common situation leading to professional negligence charges -
✔✔medication error
✔✔___________ are enduring beliefs or attitudes about the worth of an individual,
object, idea, or action. - ✔✔Values
✔✔3 stages of values clarification - ✔✔Choosing (cognitive)
Prizing (affective)
Acting (behavioral)
✔✔Subjective data is also referred to as _____________ - ✔✔Symptoms
✔✔Objective data is also referred to as ___________ - ✔✔Signs
✔✔The body systems model organizes health by these categories - ✔✔Integumentary
system
Respiratory system
Cardiovascular system
Nervous system
Musculoskeletal system
Gastrointestinal system
Genitourinary system
Reproductive system
Immune system
