Fundamentals of Nursing Exam
Questions and 100 % Correct
answers
Origination of the word "nurse"
ANS: from the latin word "nutrix" meaning to nourish
Quiz Interrelated roles of nurses
ANS: communicator, teacher, counselor, leader, researcher, advocate, collaborator
Quiz 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
Quiz The Nursing Process
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
Quiz 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
Quiz 5 vital signs
ANS: respirations, pulse rate, blood pressure, temperature, and pain
Quiz 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
Quiz 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
Quiz Clara Barton
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
Quiz 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)
Quiz objective
ANS: you can see the object
Quiz subjective
ANS: coming from that subject
Quiz types of knowledge
, ANS: -science (observing, identifying, describing, investigating, and explaining events and occurences
that are perceived in world)
-philosophy (the study of wisdom, fundamental knowledge, and the processes used to develop and
construct on perception on life)
-process (a series of actions, changes, or functions intended to bring about a desired result)
Quiz goals of nursing research
ANS: -improve care in clinical setting
-study ppl and nurse process: education, policy development, ethics, nursing history
-develop greater autonomy and strength as a profession
-provide evidence-based nursing practice
Quiz deductive reasoning
ANS: examines a general idea and then considers specific actions or ideas
Quiz inductive reasoning
ANS: one builds from specific ideas or actions to conclusions about general ideas
Quiz health
ANS: a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being, not merely the absence of disease or
infirmity
Quiz illness
ANS: the unique response of a person to a disease; an abnormal process involving changed level of
functioning
Quiz wellness
ANS: an active state of being healthy by living a lifestyle promoting good physical, mental, and
emotional health
Quiz nursing theory
ANS: differentiates nursing from other disciplines and activities in that it serves the purposes of
describing, explaining, predicting, and controlling desired outcomes of nursing care practices
Questions and 100 % Correct
answers
Origination of the word "nurse"
ANS: from the latin word "nutrix" meaning to nourish
Quiz Interrelated roles of nurses
ANS: communicator, teacher, counselor, leader, researcher, advocate, collaborator
Quiz 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
Quiz The Nursing Process
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
Quiz 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
Quiz 5 vital signs
ANS: respirations, pulse rate, blood pressure, temperature, and pain
Quiz 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
Quiz 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
Quiz Clara Barton
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
Quiz 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)
Quiz objective
ANS: you can see the object
Quiz subjective
ANS: coming from that subject
Quiz types of knowledge
, ANS: -science (observing, identifying, describing, investigating, and explaining events and occurences
that are perceived in world)
-philosophy (the study of wisdom, fundamental knowledge, and the processes used to develop and
construct on perception on life)
-process (a series of actions, changes, or functions intended to bring about a desired result)
Quiz goals of nursing research
ANS: -improve care in clinical setting
-study ppl and nurse process: education, policy development, ethics, nursing history
-develop greater autonomy and strength as a profession
-provide evidence-based nursing practice
Quiz deductive reasoning
ANS: examines a general idea and then considers specific actions or ideas
Quiz inductive reasoning
ANS: one builds from specific ideas or actions to conclusions about general ideas
Quiz health
ANS: a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being, not merely the absence of disease or
infirmity
Quiz illness
ANS: the unique response of a person to a disease; an abnormal process involving changed level of
functioning
Quiz wellness
ANS: an active state of being healthy by living a lifestyle promoting good physical, mental, and
emotional health
Quiz nursing theory
ANS: differentiates nursing from other disciplines and activities in that it serves the purposes of
describing, explaining, predicting, and controlling desired outcomes of nursing care practices
