NUR 170 Exam/NUR 170 Exam (Questions and Answers)
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- rapid changes in the nursing role.
-rapid changes in healthcare.
-its a highly complex role.
-ongoing expansion of nursing knowledge.
-changes over time in beliefs and expectations of nursing. - ✔✔What factors make it difficult to
define nursing?
-provides care for individuals, families, groups, and communities.
-cares for people sick and well.
-works in a variety of settings.
-provides care to promote health, prevent illness, and care for the ill, disabled, and dying.
-promotes a safe environment
-engages in research and education.
-participates in shaping health policy and patient and health systems. - ✔✔Based on the ICN
definition of nursing, what does a nurse do?
international council of nurses - ✔✔What is the ICN?
a structure program of study that is provided by an institution of learning. takes place on
campus. - ✔✔What is formal education?
occurs through socialization and self-study. - ✔✔What is informal education?
1. Diploma program- 3 years, associated with a hospital.
2. Associate Degree- 2 years, community college.
,3. Baccalaureate degree- at least 8 semesters, college or university.
4. Masters entry program-already has a baccalaureate degree in another field and then enters
nursing. Usually last 3 years.
5. Doctoral entry- same pathway in which physicians enter the healthcare field. Has very limited
enrollment. - ✔✔What are 5 pathways leading to licensure as an RN?
-angel of mercy
-handmaiden
-battle ax
-sairy gamp and nurse ratched
-naughty nurse
-military battlefield caregiver
-florene nightingale
-primarily caucasian females
-full spectrum nurse - ✔✔What are some images of nursing?
the protection, promotion, and optimization of illness and injury. alleviation of suffering
through the diagnosis and treatment of human response, and advocacy in the care of
individuals, families, communities, and populations (ANA) - ✔✔Nursing
founder of modern nursing, she found nurses to be the colleagues of physicians not their
servants. - ✔✔Florence Nightingale
she has advocated humane and holistic care for patients, raised important issues in health care,
authored one of the most accurate definitions of nursing, promoted nursing research as the
basis for nursing knowledge. - ✔✔Virginia Henderson
first published nurse since nightingale
Nurse-patient relationship - ✔✔Hildegard Peplau
, Navis- expert - ✔✔Patricia Benner
identify with patients culture - ✔✔Madeleine Leninger
caring theory: what the patients expect from us - ✔✔Jean Watson
patients self-care needs; have some accountability to your own well being - ✔✔Dorthea Orem
conditions effect us - ✔✔Sister Calista Roy
MOST IMPORTANT:
physiological- food, water, warmth, rest.
safety needs- security.
belongingness and love needs-intimate relationships, friends.
esteem needs- prestige and feeling of accomplishment.
self actualization- achieving ones full potential.
LEAST IMPORTANT - ✔✔What are maslows hierarchy of needs?
Direct care provider, communicator, client/family educator, client advocate, counselor,
leader,manager, case manager, and research consumer. - ✔✔What are the different nursing
roles?
ADPIE - ✔✔What are standards of care?
observing, comparing, contrasting, and evaluating the clients condition. - ✔✔what is clinical
judgment?
Graded A+ 100 % Success
- rapid changes in the nursing role.
-rapid changes in healthcare.
-its a highly complex role.
-ongoing expansion of nursing knowledge.
-changes over time in beliefs and expectations of nursing. - ✔✔What factors make it difficult to
define nursing?
-provides care for individuals, families, groups, and communities.
-cares for people sick and well.
-works in a variety of settings.
-provides care to promote health, prevent illness, and care for the ill, disabled, and dying.
-promotes a safe environment
-engages in research and education.
-participates in shaping health policy and patient and health systems. - ✔✔Based on the ICN
definition of nursing, what does a nurse do?
international council of nurses - ✔✔What is the ICN?
a structure program of study that is provided by an institution of learning. takes place on
campus. - ✔✔What is formal education?
occurs through socialization and self-study. - ✔✔What is informal education?
1. Diploma program- 3 years, associated with a hospital.
2. Associate Degree- 2 years, community college.
,3. Baccalaureate degree- at least 8 semesters, college or university.
4. Masters entry program-already has a baccalaureate degree in another field and then enters
nursing. Usually last 3 years.
5. Doctoral entry- same pathway in which physicians enter the healthcare field. Has very limited
enrollment. - ✔✔What are 5 pathways leading to licensure as an RN?
-angel of mercy
-handmaiden
-battle ax
-sairy gamp and nurse ratched
-naughty nurse
-military battlefield caregiver
-florene nightingale
-primarily caucasian females
-full spectrum nurse - ✔✔What are some images of nursing?
the protection, promotion, and optimization of illness and injury. alleviation of suffering
through the diagnosis and treatment of human response, and advocacy in the care of
individuals, families, communities, and populations (ANA) - ✔✔Nursing
founder of modern nursing, she found nurses to be the colleagues of physicians not their
servants. - ✔✔Florence Nightingale
she has advocated humane and holistic care for patients, raised important issues in health care,
authored one of the most accurate definitions of nursing, promoted nursing research as the
basis for nursing knowledge. - ✔✔Virginia Henderson
first published nurse since nightingale
Nurse-patient relationship - ✔✔Hildegard Peplau
, Navis- expert - ✔✔Patricia Benner
identify with patients culture - ✔✔Madeleine Leninger
caring theory: what the patients expect from us - ✔✔Jean Watson
patients self-care needs; have some accountability to your own well being - ✔✔Dorthea Orem
conditions effect us - ✔✔Sister Calista Roy
MOST IMPORTANT:
physiological- food, water, warmth, rest.
safety needs- security.
belongingness and love needs-intimate relationships, friends.
esteem needs- prestige and feeling of accomplishment.
self actualization- achieving ones full potential.
LEAST IMPORTANT - ✔✔What are maslows hierarchy of needs?
Direct care provider, communicator, client/family educator, client advocate, counselor,
leader,manager, case manager, and research consumer. - ✔✔What are the different nursing
roles?
ADPIE - ✔✔What are standards of care?
observing, comparing, contrasting, and evaluating the clients condition. - ✔✔what is clinical
judgment?
