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Fundamentals of Nursing Questions and
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origination of the word "nurse"
Ans: from the latin word "nutrix" meaning to nourish
Interrelated roles of nurses
Ans: communicator, teacher, counselor, leader, researcher, advocate,
collaborator
coping with disability and death
Ans: nurses use optimal function of maximum strengths and potentials,
refer to community support systems; provide care to families and patients
during end-of-life care, hospice
The Nursing Process
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Ans: -one of major guidelines for nursing practice
-helps nurses implement their roles
-integrates art and science of nursing
-allows nurses to use critical thinking and clinical reasoning
-defines the areas of care that are within the domain of nursing
Nurse Practice Acts
Ans: -define legal scope of nursing practice
-create state board of nursing to make and enforce rules and regulation
-define important terms and activities in nursing, including legal
requirements and titles for RNs and LPNs
- established criteria for the education and licensure of nurses
5 vital signs
Ans: respirations, pulse rate, blood pressure, temperature, and pain
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Nursing is recognized as profession based on what criteria
Ans: -well defined body specific and unique knowledge
-strong service orientation
-recognized authority by a professional group (ANA)
-code of ethics
-professional organization that sets standards
-ongoing research
-autonomy and self-regulation
Florence Nightingale
Ans: defined nursing as both an art and science, differentiated nursing
from medicine, created freestanding nursing education, published books;
founder of modern nursing
Clara Barton
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Ans: established red cross; volunteered to care for wounds and feed
union soldiers during civil war; served as supervisor of nurses for the army of
James
sources of knowledge
Ans: -traditional ( passed down from generation to generation)
-authoritative- comes from an expert, accepted as truth based on
person's perceived expertise
-scientific (obtained through the scientific method-research)
objective
Ans: you can see the object
subjective
Ans: coming from that subject
types of knowledge
Fundamentals of Nursing Questions and
Correct Answers/ Latest Update /
Already Graded
origination of the word "nurse"
Ans: from the latin word "nutrix" meaning to nourish
Interrelated roles of nurses
Ans: communicator, teacher, counselor, leader, researcher, advocate,
collaborator
coping with disability and death
Ans: nurses use optimal function of maximum strengths and potentials,
refer to community support systems; provide care to families and patients
during end-of-life care, hospice
The Nursing Process
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Ans: -one of major guidelines for nursing practice
-helps nurses implement their roles
-integrates art and science of nursing
-allows nurses to use critical thinking and clinical reasoning
-defines the areas of care that are within the domain of nursing
Nurse Practice Acts
Ans: -define legal scope of nursing practice
-create state board of nursing to make and enforce rules and regulation
-define important terms and activities in nursing, including legal
requirements and titles for RNs and LPNs
- established criteria for the education and licensure of nurses
5 vital signs
Ans: respirations, pulse rate, blood pressure, temperature, and pain
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Nursing is recognized as profession based on what criteria
Ans: -well defined body specific and unique knowledge
-strong service orientation
-recognized authority by a professional group (ANA)
-code of ethics
-professional organization that sets standards
-ongoing research
-autonomy and self-regulation
Florence Nightingale
Ans: defined nursing as both an art and science, differentiated nursing
from medicine, created freestanding nursing education, published books;
founder of modern nursing
Clara Barton
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Ans: established red cross; volunteered to care for wounds and feed
union soldiers during civil war; served as supervisor of nurses for the army of
James
sources of knowledge
Ans: -traditional ( passed down from generation to generation)
-authoritative- comes from an expert, accepted as truth based on
person's perceived expertise
-scientific (obtained through the scientific method-research)
objective
Ans: you can see the object
subjective
Ans: coming from that subject
types of knowledge
