Nursing 129 Midterm Review (latest
update) questions well answered
what is nursing? - correct answer ✔✔according to American Nurses Association (ANA) its the
protection, promotion, and optimization of health. prevention of illness and injury, advocacy in
care of individuals, families, communities, and population.
what is a profession? - correct answer ✔✔a body of knowledge that provides the framework for
the professions practice, higher education, long term steady job, dressed appropriately,
responsibility and accountability through code of ethics. career.
autonomy - correct answer ✔✔capacity of a nurse to determine his own actions through
independent choice
responsibility - correct answer ✔✔being entrusted with a particular function. moral, legal,
mental accountability.
accountability - correct answer ✔✔being responsible and accountable for your actions and
others actions for behaviors and outcomes included in the professional role.
critical thinking - correct answer ✔✔courage, empathy, intellectual humility, integirty
reflective thinking - correct answer ✔✔reflecting on what you did . empirical, aesthetic,
personal, ethical
intuition - correct answer ✔✔gut feeling, something does not look right.
,didactic theory - correct answer ✔✔lecture
clinical experiences - correct answer ✔✔laboratory, and hospital setting with patients
kolbs learning style - correct answer ✔✔concrete experiences (doing it), reflective observations
(EX: i saw a doctor put in a pacemaker, what was the nurse doing), abstract observation , active
experimentation
tools for success - correct answer ✔✔time managment( make time for yourself), study skills
(how do you learn), networking and mentoring (ask the nurse if you dont know) , make flash
cards
life long learning for professionl - correct answer ✔✔academic education, staff development
education, continuous education ( in many states, continuing education is required for licensure
renewal)
NEXT CHAPTER - correct answer ✔✔NEXT CHAPTER
egyptians - correct answer ✔✔magical answers, water as a source of illness
hebrew - correct answer ✔✔kept records
greek - correct answer ✔✔health as a balance between body and mind medical symbol ( the
caduceus)
hippocrates - correct answer ✔✔father of medicine- approach was epidemiology
romans - correct answer ✔✔public sanitation
, catholics - correct answer ✔✔dictated the role as the "nurse", deaconess- provided home care ,
convents and nunns were where the sick and injured would come for care,
protestant reformation - correct answer ✔✔major impact on health care including, closing all of
the convents . care was taken over by the uncommen women (prostitutes and drunks)
renaissance - correct answer ✔✔major impact on how health was viewed; advancement in
medicine. ( jenners small pox vaccination, psychiatry became a specialty, development of watch
and stethoscope, louis pasteur- patherization of food, lister- father of surgery, koch- father of
microbiology who developed the germ theory.)
industrial revolution - correct answer ✔✔migrating from the farms to the cities, terrible
working conditions, epidemics were common due to the work and home enviroments
colonial america - correct answer ✔✔no trained or medical nursing personal, nuns and
deaconness cared for the ill and injured, the wife of the soldiers cared for the men. barns and
homes were converted into hospitals, philadelphia dispensary was established which cared for
the wounded and disabled . (like todays clinics)
florence nightingale - correct answer ✔✔"the lady with the lamp" , after crimean war, returned
to england and opened first moderns school of nursing (st thomas hospital), used public health
concepts and statistical methods to advance and improve the health conditions of the soldiers.
modern nursing principles - correct answer ✔✔nurses should be trained in hospital with
medical schools, school matron would have final authority over curriculum, living arrangements
and all aspects of the school. curriculum would be consisted of both therotic and practical
experience. wrote the notes on nursing ( utilizing the enviorment of the client to assist him in
his recovery)
update) questions well answered
what is nursing? - correct answer ✔✔according to American Nurses Association (ANA) its the
protection, promotion, and optimization of health. prevention of illness and injury, advocacy in
care of individuals, families, communities, and population.
what is a profession? - correct answer ✔✔a body of knowledge that provides the framework for
the professions practice, higher education, long term steady job, dressed appropriately,
responsibility and accountability through code of ethics. career.
autonomy - correct answer ✔✔capacity of a nurse to determine his own actions through
independent choice
responsibility - correct answer ✔✔being entrusted with a particular function. moral, legal,
mental accountability.
accountability - correct answer ✔✔being responsible and accountable for your actions and
others actions for behaviors and outcomes included in the professional role.
critical thinking - correct answer ✔✔courage, empathy, intellectual humility, integirty
reflective thinking - correct answer ✔✔reflecting on what you did . empirical, aesthetic,
personal, ethical
intuition - correct answer ✔✔gut feeling, something does not look right.
,didactic theory - correct answer ✔✔lecture
clinical experiences - correct answer ✔✔laboratory, and hospital setting with patients
kolbs learning style - correct answer ✔✔concrete experiences (doing it), reflective observations
(EX: i saw a doctor put in a pacemaker, what was the nurse doing), abstract observation , active
experimentation
tools for success - correct answer ✔✔time managment( make time for yourself), study skills
(how do you learn), networking and mentoring (ask the nurse if you dont know) , make flash
cards
life long learning for professionl - correct answer ✔✔academic education, staff development
education, continuous education ( in many states, continuing education is required for licensure
renewal)
NEXT CHAPTER - correct answer ✔✔NEXT CHAPTER
egyptians - correct answer ✔✔magical answers, water as a source of illness
hebrew - correct answer ✔✔kept records
greek - correct answer ✔✔health as a balance between body and mind medical symbol ( the
caduceus)
hippocrates - correct answer ✔✔father of medicine- approach was epidemiology
romans - correct answer ✔✔public sanitation
, catholics - correct answer ✔✔dictated the role as the "nurse", deaconess- provided home care ,
convents and nunns were where the sick and injured would come for care,
protestant reformation - correct answer ✔✔major impact on health care including, closing all of
the convents . care was taken over by the uncommen women (prostitutes and drunks)
renaissance - correct answer ✔✔major impact on how health was viewed; advancement in
medicine. ( jenners small pox vaccination, psychiatry became a specialty, development of watch
and stethoscope, louis pasteur- patherization of food, lister- father of surgery, koch- father of
microbiology who developed the germ theory.)
industrial revolution - correct answer ✔✔migrating from the farms to the cities, terrible
working conditions, epidemics were common due to the work and home enviroments
colonial america - correct answer ✔✔no trained or medical nursing personal, nuns and
deaconness cared for the ill and injured, the wife of the soldiers cared for the men. barns and
homes were converted into hospitals, philadelphia dispensary was established which cared for
the wounded and disabled . (like todays clinics)
florence nightingale - correct answer ✔✔"the lady with the lamp" , after crimean war, returned
to england and opened first moderns school of nursing (st thomas hospital), used public health
concepts and statistical methods to advance and improve the health conditions of the soldiers.
modern nursing principles - correct answer ✔✔nurses should be trained in hospital with
medical schools, school matron would have final authority over curriculum, living arrangements
and all aspects of the school. curriculum would be consisted of both therotic and practical
experience. wrote the notes on nursing ( utilizing the enviorment of the client to assist him in
his recovery)
