Pre-Nursing notes for quiz 1 in question-
correct answer format 2025 #A+
Functions of a nurse, day to day requirements - Correct Answers--understand complex data
-analyze symptoms that signal a rapidly changing condition
-intervene
Competence - Correct Answers--promoting health
-decreasing risks
-preventing disease
Work of nurses - Correct Answers--constantly changes, consumes every source of energy and
skill that can be mobilized
-motivational and fascinating with intellectual demands like that of no other profession
-diverse and demands incredible knowledge and ability to respond to many kinds of illnesses
and life threatening events
Patients and work days - Correct Answers--patients are never alike and work is sometimes not
so satisfying
-nurse is like being a detective
-no such thing as a typical work day
Defining nursing - Correct Answers--establishes parameters of the profession and clarifies the
purposes and functions of the work of nursing
, -clear definition makes the work of nursing visible and valuable to the public and to policy
makers who determine when, where, and how nurses can practice
-definition guides educational preparation of aspiring practitioners and guides nursing research
and theory development
Florence Nightingales definition - Correct Answers--and what nursing has to do... is put the
patient in the best condition for nature to act upon him
-I use the word nursing for want of a better. It has been limited to signify little more than the
administration of medicines and application of poultices. It ought to signify the proper use of
fresh air, light, warmth, cleanliness, quiet, and the proper selection and administration of diet-
all at the least expense of vital power to the patient.
Central concepts in all definitions of nursing - Correct Answers-patient---> physical, emotional,
social, spiritual
Nursing workforce surveys: national sample survey of registered nurses (NSSRN) - Correct
Answers--comprehensive survey of nursing workforce every 4 years
-1988-2008
-findings allowed informed decisions regarding allocation of resources, development of
programs, and recruitment of nurses
Nurses in the workforce - Correct Answers--2000s RN grew 24.1%
-2013- more than 4,000,000 held licenses as RNs, 2.8 million were working
-2008 NSSRN data: 90% of nurses younger than 50 employed in nursing either full or part time
and fewer than half of nurses older than 65 were working, significant amount of nurses held 2
jobs
Nurses in the workforce: gender - Correct Answers--dominated by women
-200-2008: men in nursing increased by 50%
correct answer format 2025 #A+
Functions of a nurse, day to day requirements - Correct Answers--understand complex data
-analyze symptoms that signal a rapidly changing condition
-intervene
Competence - Correct Answers--promoting health
-decreasing risks
-preventing disease
Work of nurses - Correct Answers--constantly changes, consumes every source of energy and
skill that can be mobilized
-motivational and fascinating with intellectual demands like that of no other profession
-diverse and demands incredible knowledge and ability to respond to many kinds of illnesses
and life threatening events
Patients and work days - Correct Answers--patients are never alike and work is sometimes not
so satisfying
-nurse is like being a detective
-no such thing as a typical work day
Defining nursing - Correct Answers--establishes parameters of the profession and clarifies the
purposes and functions of the work of nursing
, -clear definition makes the work of nursing visible and valuable to the public and to policy
makers who determine when, where, and how nurses can practice
-definition guides educational preparation of aspiring practitioners and guides nursing research
and theory development
Florence Nightingales definition - Correct Answers--and what nursing has to do... is put the
patient in the best condition for nature to act upon him
-I use the word nursing for want of a better. It has been limited to signify little more than the
administration of medicines and application of poultices. It ought to signify the proper use of
fresh air, light, warmth, cleanliness, quiet, and the proper selection and administration of diet-
all at the least expense of vital power to the patient.
Central concepts in all definitions of nursing - Correct Answers-patient---> physical, emotional,
social, spiritual
Nursing workforce surveys: national sample survey of registered nurses (NSSRN) - Correct
Answers--comprehensive survey of nursing workforce every 4 years
-1988-2008
-findings allowed informed decisions regarding allocation of resources, development of
programs, and recruitment of nurses
Nurses in the workforce - Correct Answers--2000s RN grew 24.1%
-2013- more than 4,000,000 held licenses as RNs, 2.8 million were working
-2008 NSSRN data: 90% of nurses younger than 50 employed in nursing either full or part time
and fewer than half of nurses older than 65 were working, significant amount of nurses held 2
jobs
Nurses in the workforce: gender - Correct Answers--dominated by women
-200-2008: men in nursing increased by 50%