Comprehensive Questions
(Frequently Most Tested) with
Verified Answers
Metaparadigm - Answer: Nursing
Client
Health
Environment
Leadership
Professionalism
Nursing process
Safety
Reflection
Communication
Critical thinking
Competency
Nursing Care Has Evolved. LPNS Review Competency, Communication, Critical thinking
Client - Answer: The person at the center of nursing care, or the nrsing process. Can include the family,
groups, and community
Environment - Answer: The qualities of the setting that relate to learning healthy behaviours.
Internal- Anatomy, physiology, changes the body makes to maintain homeostasis... (feeling)
External- Physical, social environment, culture... (surroundings)
,McGill - Answer: Saw the family as part of the client system that actively participates in decisions made
about health
Dorothy Johnson - Answer: Identified the individual as a behavioural system with seven subsystems,
each of which has a goal, set of behaviors, and a choice
Jean Watson - Answer: Looks at the individual as " an embodied spirit; unity of mind and body spirit; a
transpersonal transcendent evolving consciousness
Health - Answer: An objective process characterized by functional stability, balance and integrity and
being connected in mind, body and spirit. Defined as much more than simply the absence of disease or
injury but rather as an ideal state of optimal health or total well being.
Wellness - Answer: A subjective experiance. Health, freedom from disease.
Nursing - Answer: Caring for a client with an understanding of the persons environment, life, and health
goals. Built on a distinct subset of knowledge.
Requires specialized knowledge that must be aquired and carries a high degree of responsibility
Motivated by altruism and ethical standards
Health Canada Act - Answer: 1984
Influences the delivery of health care services across Canada
Sets the rules that the provinces must follow
1. Public Administration
2. Comprehensiveness
3. Universality
, 4. Portability
5. Accessibility
Universality - Answer: Every perminent residents are entitled to receive the insured HC services
provided by the plan on uniform terms and conditions
Canada Health Act 1984
Comprehensiveness - Answer: HC must cover all medically necessary hospital and physician services
Canada Health Act 1984
Public Administration - Answer: HC must be administered and operated on a non profit basis
Canada Health Act 1984
Portability - Answer: Coverage for insurance services must be maintained when an insured person
moves or travels within Canada or travels outside Canada
Canada Health Act 1984
Accessibility - Answer: Insured residents must have reasonable access to medically necessary hospital
and physician services, reguardless of their income, age, health status, gender, or geographical location
Canada Health Act 1984
Historical Approaches - Answer: Medical Approach- Treatment of disease
Behavioral Approach- Environment, health risk habbits etc.
Socioenvironmental Approach- Social circumstances
Mark Lalonde - Answer: 1974
A New Perspective on the Health of Canadians