NUR 106 LATEST 2026 STUDY GUIDE QUESTIONS AND
SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
✔✔Adaption - ✔✔Adjustment of living with other living things and environmental
conditions
✔✔Attachment - ✔✔Active, affectionate, reciprocal relationship btw two persons.
✔✔Globalization - ✔✔
✔✔Local Adaptation Syndrome (LAS) - ✔✔A localized response of the body to stress. it
involves only a specific body part such as a tissue or organ instead of the whole body.
The stress precipitating the LAS may be traumatic or pathologic. Primary homeostatic,
short term adaptive response. Two most common response that influence nursing care
are reflex pain response and the inflammatory response.
✔✔Stressor - ✔✔Anything that is perceived as challenging threatening or demanding
✔✔Physiologic Stressors - ✔✔Both a specific and general effect. Specific effect is
alternation of normal body structure and function. General effect is the stress response.
Primary physiologic stressor include chemical agents (drugs, poison), physical agents
(heat, cold, trauma), infectious agents (viruses, bacteria), nutritional imbalances,
hypoxia, and genetic or immune disorders.
✔✔Psychological Stressors - ✔✔Both real and perceived threats. Persons response are
continuous and include individualized coping mechanisms for responding to anxiety,
guilt, fear, frustration, and loss. Ex. Fear of aggression or mutilation, such as muggings,
rape, murder, and terrorism.
✔✔Legislation at the state level for nurses - ✔✔Nurse Practice Act or Medical Practice
Act. Scope of practice for RN's, LPN's, advanced practice nurses. Nursing educational
requirements. Composition and disciplinary authority of board of nursing.
✔✔Civil laws - ✔✔Same as Private Law.
✔✔Private law - ✔✔Same as civil law, includes law relating to contracts, ownership of
property, and the practice of nursing, medicine, pharmacy, and dentistry.
✔✔Public law - ✔✔Regulates relationships between people and the government.
✔✔Criminal Laws - ✔✔Concerns state and federal criminal statues, which define
criminal actions such as murder, manslaughter, criminal negligence, theft, and illegal
possession of drugs.
, ✔✔Malpractice, who's involved - ✔✔Act of negligence as applied to a professional
person, such as a physician, nurse or dentist.
✔✔Common laws - ✔✔Law resulting from court decisions that is then followed when
other cases involving similar circumstances and facts arise, common law is is binding is
civil law.
✔✔Voluntary standards - ✔✔Developed and implemented by the nursing profession
itself, aren't mandatory but are used as guidelines for peer review. Ex. ANA standards
of practice.
✔✔Inpatient care - ✔✔Person who enters a health care setting for a stay ranging from
24 hours to many years.
✔✔Outpatient Care - ✔✔Person who requires health care services but does not need to
stay in an institution for those services.
✔✔Healthcare settings - ✔✔Inpatient and Outpatient services, Primary Care Centers,
Ambulatory Care Centers and Clinics, Home Health Care, Extended Care
✔✔Ergotamine (med) - ✔✔A group of drugs called ergot alkaloids. Narrows blood
vessels around the brain and treats migraines.
✔✔Continuity of Care - ✔✔Coordination of services provided to patients before they
enter a health care setting, during the time they are in the setting, and after they leave
the setting.
✔✔Ambulatory Care - ✔✔Health care settings located in areas that are convenient for
people to walk into and receive care; may be provided in hospitals, clinics, or centers.
✔✔Narrative Notes - ✔✔Progress notes written by nurses in a source-oriented record.
✔✔Soap Notes - ✔✔Method of charting narrative progress notes; organizes data
according to subjective information, objective information, assessment, and plan.
✔✔Focus charting - ✔✔A documentation system that replaces the problem list with a
focused column that incorporates many aspects of a patient and patient care. The focus
may be a patient strength or a problem or need. The narrative portion of focus charting
uses the data, action, response format.
✔✔Charting by exception - ✔✔Shorthand method for documenting patient data that is
based on well-defined standards of practice; only exceptions to these standards are
documented in narrative notes.
SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
✔✔Adaption - ✔✔Adjustment of living with other living things and environmental
conditions
✔✔Attachment - ✔✔Active, affectionate, reciprocal relationship btw two persons.
✔✔Globalization - ✔✔
✔✔Local Adaptation Syndrome (LAS) - ✔✔A localized response of the body to stress. it
involves only a specific body part such as a tissue or organ instead of the whole body.
The stress precipitating the LAS may be traumatic or pathologic. Primary homeostatic,
short term adaptive response. Two most common response that influence nursing care
are reflex pain response and the inflammatory response.
✔✔Stressor - ✔✔Anything that is perceived as challenging threatening or demanding
✔✔Physiologic Stressors - ✔✔Both a specific and general effect. Specific effect is
alternation of normal body structure and function. General effect is the stress response.
Primary physiologic stressor include chemical agents (drugs, poison), physical agents
(heat, cold, trauma), infectious agents (viruses, bacteria), nutritional imbalances,
hypoxia, and genetic or immune disorders.
✔✔Psychological Stressors - ✔✔Both real and perceived threats. Persons response are
continuous and include individualized coping mechanisms for responding to anxiety,
guilt, fear, frustration, and loss. Ex. Fear of aggression or mutilation, such as muggings,
rape, murder, and terrorism.
✔✔Legislation at the state level for nurses - ✔✔Nurse Practice Act or Medical Practice
Act. Scope of practice for RN's, LPN's, advanced practice nurses. Nursing educational
requirements. Composition and disciplinary authority of board of nursing.
✔✔Civil laws - ✔✔Same as Private Law.
✔✔Private law - ✔✔Same as civil law, includes law relating to contracts, ownership of
property, and the practice of nursing, medicine, pharmacy, and dentistry.
✔✔Public law - ✔✔Regulates relationships between people and the government.
✔✔Criminal Laws - ✔✔Concerns state and federal criminal statues, which define
criminal actions such as murder, manslaughter, criminal negligence, theft, and illegal
possession of drugs.
, ✔✔Malpractice, who's involved - ✔✔Act of negligence as applied to a professional
person, such as a physician, nurse or dentist.
✔✔Common laws - ✔✔Law resulting from court decisions that is then followed when
other cases involving similar circumstances and facts arise, common law is is binding is
civil law.
✔✔Voluntary standards - ✔✔Developed and implemented by the nursing profession
itself, aren't mandatory but are used as guidelines for peer review. Ex. ANA standards
of practice.
✔✔Inpatient care - ✔✔Person who enters a health care setting for a stay ranging from
24 hours to many years.
✔✔Outpatient Care - ✔✔Person who requires health care services but does not need to
stay in an institution for those services.
✔✔Healthcare settings - ✔✔Inpatient and Outpatient services, Primary Care Centers,
Ambulatory Care Centers and Clinics, Home Health Care, Extended Care
✔✔Ergotamine (med) - ✔✔A group of drugs called ergot alkaloids. Narrows blood
vessels around the brain and treats migraines.
✔✔Continuity of Care - ✔✔Coordination of services provided to patients before they
enter a health care setting, during the time they are in the setting, and after they leave
the setting.
✔✔Ambulatory Care - ✔✔Health care settings located in areas that are convenient for
people to walk into and receive care; may be provided in hospitals, clinics, or centers.
✔✔Narrative Notes - ✔✔Progress notes written by nurses in a source-oriented record.
✔✔Soap Notes - ✔✔Method of charting narrative progress notes; organizes data
according to subjective information, objective information, assessment, and plan.
✔✔Focus charting - ✔✔A documentation system that replaces the problem list with a
focused column that incorporates many aspects of a patient and patient care. The focus
may be a patient strength or a problem or need. The narrative portion of focus charting
uses the data, action, response format.
✔✔Charting by exception - ✔✔Shorthand method for documenting patient data that is
based on well-defined standards of practice; only exceptions to these standards are
documented in narrative notes.
