Concepts in Nursing Final Exam 1
Questions with All Correct Detailed
Answers 2025-2026 Updated.
Standards of Practice - Answer describe a competent level of nursing based on a decision-
making model which includes:
Assessment
Diagnosis
Outcome identification
Planning
Implementation
Evaluation
Scope of Practice - Answer Authoritative statements that describe the responsibility of the
profession. A complex system of intertwined responsibilities, including legal, ethical, and value
components.
A social contract with society of the expectations of the profession, and the professions
expectation of itself.
The purpose is to improve the health and well-being of our patients, families, communities.
Current Status of Nursing: Characteristics - Answer Knowledge-based on education and
practice, the "Science of Nursing in all its complexity.
Mission-our shared goals, what those we care for can expect from us.
Education-our formal preparation
Social Contract-what we promise society, what society expects from us.
Autonomy-our independent capacity to make decisions for our patients within the confines of
our scope of practice.
Accountability-ownership of our decision-making.
Current Status of Nursing: Values - Answer Respect for human dignity.
Care for health problems regardless of the nature of the health problem.
, Current Status of Nursing: Barriers - Answer The lack of acknowledgement the nursing has a
unique set of knowledge that in some manner is not entirely objective, observable and
analytical. Nursing knowledge is based on the human response to what is happening to the
patient and encompasses the biophysical as well as psychosocial realms. It is holism, the mind,
body, and spirit that make up the human-being.
Gender stereotyping
Lack of clarity on what it means to call oneself a nurse
Appearance (changing norms on nursing dress)
Health care organizations controlling nursing
Health care colleagues such as those in medicine consider nursing an "occupation", not a
profession.
Florence Nightingale - Answer Believed the role of the nurse was to help the body recover, and
remain free from disease
Our first "nurse scientist"
An epidemiologist who analyzed statistics to show the connection between poor sanitation and
disease such as cholera and dysentery
Known as the lady with the lamp, she showed that fresh air, sanitation and nutrition were key
aspects of treatment for wounded soldiers
Practices she advocated are still a part of twenty first century nursing.
Clara Barton - Answer Established the American Red Cross, is known as the "American
Florence Nightingale." (Pre American Civil War)
Dorthea Dix - Answer supervisor of the Union Army Nurses (Civil War)
Mother Bickerdyke - Answer organized the ambulance service to transport wounded soldiers
to battle field hospital (Civil War)
Harriet Tubman - Answer prominent in the Underground Railroad (Civil War)
Mary Mahoney - Answer the first professionally education African American nurse. A
proponent of better relations between the races. Believed care should be provided regardless of
Questions with All Correct Detailed
Answers 2025-2026 Updated.
Standards of Practice - Answer describe a competent level of nursing based on a decision-
making model which includes:
Assessment
Diagnosis
Outcome identification
Planning
Implementation
Evaluation
Scope of Practice - Answer Authoritative statements that describe the responsibility of the
profession. A complex system of intertwined responsibilities, including legal, ethical, and value
components.
A social contract with society of the expectations of the profession, and the professions
expectation of itself.
The purpose is to improve the health and well-being of our patients, families, communities.
Current Status of Nursing: Characteristics - Answer Knowledge-based on education and
practice, the "Science of Nursing in all its complexity.
Mission-our shared goals, what those we care for can expect from us.
Education-our formal preparation
Social Contract-what we promise society, what society expects from us.
Autonomy-our independent capacity to make decisions for our patients within the confines of
our scope of practice.
Accountability-ownership of our decision-making.
Current Status of Nursing: Values - Answer Respect for human dignity.
Care for health problems regardless of the nature of the health problem.
, Current Status of Nursing: Barriers - Answer The lack of acknowledgement the nursing has a
unique set of knowledge that in some manner is not entirely objective, observable and
analytical. Nursing knowledge is based on the human response to what is happening to the
patient and encompasses the biophysical as well as psychosocial realms. It is holism, the mind,
body, and spirit that make up the human-being.
Gender stereotyping
Lack of clarity on what it means to call oneself a nurse
Appearance (changing norms on nursing dress)
Health care organizations controlling nursing
Health care colleagues such as those in medicine consider nursing an "occupation", not a
profession.
Florence Nightingale - Answer Believed the role of the nurse was to help the body recover, and
remain free from disease
Our first "nurse scientist"
An epidemiologist who analyzed statistics to show the connection between poor sanitation and
disease such as cholera and dysentery
Known as the lady with the lamp, she showed that fresh air, sanitation and nutrition were key
aspects of treatment for wounded soldiers
Practices she advocated are still a part of twenty first century nursing.
Clara Barton - Answer Established the American Red Cross, is known as the "American
Florence Nightingale." (Pre American Civil War)
Dorthea Dix - Answer supervisor of the Union Army Nurses (Civil War)
Mother Bickerdyke - Answer organized the ambulance service to transport wounded soldiers
to battle field hospital (Civil War)
Harriet Tubman - Answer prominent in the Underground Railroad (Civil War)
Mary Mahoney - Answer the first professionally education African American nurse. A
proponent of better relations between the races. Believed care should be provided regardless of
