Nursing Concepts Chapter 1 Questions
and Complete Solutions Graded A+
What is the central focus in all definitions of nursing? - Answer: The patient
What four dimensions comprise holistic care? - Answer: The physical, emotional, social, and spiritual
dimensions of the patient
What was the first organization of professional women? - Answer: ICN
What two things focused attention on the need for educated nurses in the US? - Answer: a. the care
provided to the casualties of the Civil War
b. the work of Florence Nightingale
The knowledge base for care is also known as what? - Answer: Science of nursing
The word "nurse" comes from the Latin word meaning what? - Answer: To nourish
What are the four aims of nursing developed by the ICN? - Answer: a. Prevention of illness
b. Restore health
c. Promote health
d. Facilitate coping
What organization wrote the Nurse's Social Policy Statement and what are the four key points of that
statement? - Answer: The ANA (American Nurses Association)
a. Scope of nursing practice
b. Standard of professional nursing practice
c. Regulation of professional nursing included in their Nursing Social Policy Statement
d. Social context of nursing
, Florence Nightingale believed what is separate and distinct from nursing? - Answer: Medicine
What are the two components of nursing? - Answer: Science of nursing (which is knowledge) and the art
of nursing (which is the skilled application of that knowledge)
What is the ICN's definition of nursing? (you do not need to know the whole thing but you need to know
the underlined section is in the ICN's definition of nursing) - Answer: Nursing includes the promotion of
health, prevention of illness, and the care of ill, disabled, and dying people.
What are the four blended/essential competencies? - Answer: a. Cognitive
b. Technical
c. Interpersonal
d. Ethical legal
What are four factors that can affect a patient's health? - Answer: genetic inheritance (what you get
from your mom and dad), cognitive abilities, educational level, race, ethnicity, culture, age, and gender,
developmental level, lifestyle, environment, and socioeconomic status
List an example of preventing illness. - Answer: Prenatal care for women
List an example of restoring health. - Answer: This focus on patients/persons that already have an illness
and range from early detection of a disease to rehabilitation and teaching during the patient's recovery.
Examples are blood pressure and blood glucose screenings
List an example of facilitating coping with death and dying. - Answer: These goals cannot always be met.
Remember you are only facilitating. Nurses assist in the facilitation of those patients who are coping
with altered life functioning (a new amputee), life crisis, and death. Nurses succeed here by maximizing
the patient's strengths and potential through teaching and referrals to community-based programs.
Nurses not only provide this care to their patient, but to the patient's family as well; including hospice
programs.
and Complete Solutions Graded A+
What is the central focus in all definitions of nursing? - Answer: The patient
What four dimensions comprise holistic care? - Answer: The physical, emotional, social, and spiritual
dimensions of the patient
What was the first organization of professional women? - Answer: ICN
What two things focused attention on the need for educated nurses in the US? - Answer: a. the care
provided to the casualties of the Civil War
b. the work of Florence Nightingale
The knowledge base for care is also known as what? - Answer: Science of nursing
The word "nurse" comes from the Latin word meaning what? - Answer: To nourish
What are the four aims of nursing developed by the ICN? - Answer: a. Prevention of illness
b. Restore health
c. Promote health
d. Facilitate coping
What organization wrote the Nurse's Social Policy Statement and what are the four key points of that
statement? - Answer: The ANA (American Nurses Association)
a. Scope of nursing practice
b. Standard of professional nursing practice
c. Regulation of professional nursing included in their Nursing Social Policy Statement
d. Social context of nursing
, Florence Nightingale believed what is separate and distinct from nursing? - Answer: Medicine
What are the two components of nursing? - Answer: Science of nursing (which is knowledge) and the art
of nursing (which is the skilled application of that knowledge)
What is the ICN's definition of nursing? (you do not need to know the whole thing but you need to know
the underlined section is in the ICN's definition of nursing) - Answer: Nursing includes the promotion of
health, prevention of illness, and the care of ill, disabled, and dying people.
What are the four blended/essential competencies? - Answer: a. Cognitive
b. Technical
c. Interpersonal
d. Ethical legal
What are four factors that can affect a patient's health? - Answer: genetic inheritance (what you get
from your mom and dad), cognitive abilities, educational level, race, ethnicity, culture, age, and gender,
developmental level, lifestyle, environment, and socioeconomic status
List an example of preventing illness. - Answer: Prenatal care for women
List an example of restoring health. - Answer: This focus on patients/persons that already have an illness
and range from early detection of a disease to rehabilitation and teaching during the patient's recovery.
Examples are blood pressure and blood glucose screenings
List an example of facilitating coping with death and dying. - Answer: These goals cannot always be met.
Remember you are only facilitating. Nurses assist in the facilitation of those patients who are coping
with altered life functioning (a new amputee), life crisis, and death. Nurses succeed here by maximizing
the patient's strengths and potential through teaching and referrals to community-based programs.
Nurses not only provide this care to their patient, but to the patient's family as well; including hospice
programs.
