NURS 136 Exam 1 - CH. 1, 2, 4, 5 Questions and Answers Fully Solved Latest Version 2025-
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Respite care - Answers It is a service that provides short-term relief or "time off" for people
providing homecare to an individual who is ill, disabled, or frail
Hospice - Answers Is a system of family centered care that allows patients to live with comfort,
independence, and dignity while easing the pain of terminal illness
Assisted living - Answers Offers and attractive long term care setting with an environment more
like home and greater resident autonomy
Restorative care - Answers Are to help individuals regain maximal functional status and
enhance quality of life through promotion of independence and self-care
Home care - Answers Is the provision of medical related professionals and paraprofessionals
services and equipment to patients and families in their homes for health maintenance
education, illness prevention, diagnosis and treatment of disease, palliation, and rehabilitation
Rehabilitation - Answers Restore a person to the fullest physical, mental, social, vocational and
economic potential possibility
Extended care facility - Answers Provides intermediate medical, nursing, or custodial care for
patients recovering from acute illness or those with chronic illness or disability
Skilled nursing facility - Answers Offers skilled care from a licensed nursing staff
Nursing - Answers Is the protection, promotion, and optimization of health and abilities;
prevention of illness and injury; alleviation of suffering through the diagnosis and treatment of
human response; and advocation in the care of individuals, families, communities and
populations
Theory - Answers Helps explain event by defining ideas or concepts, explaining relationships
among the concepts, and predicting outcomes
Nursing theory - Answers Conceptualizes an aspect of nursing to describe, explain, predict, and
prescribe nursing care
phenomenon - Answers Is the term, description, or label given to describe an idea or response
about an event, a situation, a process, a group of events, or a group of situations
Nursing metaparadigm - Answers Allows nurses to understand and explain what nursing is,
when nursing does, why nurses do what they do
Assumptions - Answers Are the "taken for granted" statements that explain the nature of the
concept, definitions, purpose, relationships, and the structure of a theory
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Respite care - Answers It is a service that provides short-term relief or "time off" for people
providing homecare to an individual who is ill, disabled, or frail
Hospice - Answers Is a system of family centered care that allows patients to live with comfort,
independence, and dignity while easing the pain of terminal illness
Assisted living - Answers Offers and attractive long term care setting with an environment more
like home and greater resident autonomy
Restorative care - Answers Are to help individuals regain maximal functional status and
enhance quality of life through promotion of independence and self-care
Home care - Answers Is the provision of medical related professionals and paraprofessionals
services and equipment to patients and families in their homes for health maintenance
education, illness prevention, diagnosis and treatment of disease, palliation, and rehabilitation
Rehabilitation - Answers Restore a person to the fullest physical, mental, social, vocational and
economic potential possibility
Extended care facility - Answers Provides intermediate medical, nursing, or custodial care for
patients recovering from acute illness or those with chronic illness or disability
Skilled nursing facility - Answers Offers skilled care from a licensed nursing staff
Nursing - Answers Is the protection, promotion, and optimization of health and abilities;
prevention of illness and injury; alleviation of suffering through the diagnosis and treatment of
human response; and advocation in the care of individuals, families, communities and
populations
Theory - Answers Helps explain event by defining ideas or concepts, explaining relationships
among the concepts, and predicting outcomes
Nursing theory - Answers Conceptualizes an aspect of nursing to describe, explain, predict, and
prescribe nursing care
phenomenon - Answers Is the term, description, or label given to describe an idea or response
about an event, a situation, a process, a group of events, or a group of situations
Nursing metaparadigm - Answers Allows nurses to understand and explain what nursing is,
when nursing does, why nurses do what they do
Assumptions - Answers Are the "taken for granted" statements that explain the nature of the
concept, definitions, purpose, relationships, and the structure of a theory
