ECPI NUR 164 Chapters 1–7 Study Guide – Complete Nursing
Fundamentals Review, Lecture Notes, Practice Questions & Exam
Preparation Guide
1. Florence Nightingale: Mother of Modern Nursing
2. What is the central focus in all definitions of Nursing?: The patient
3. QSEN Competencies::
a. Patient-centered care
b. Teamwork and collaboration
c. Evidence-based practice
d. Quality improvement
e. Safety
f. Informatics
4. Nursing Aims::
• To promote health
• To prevent illness
• To restore health
• To facilitate coping with disability or death
5. Promoting Health: Identifying, analyzing, and maximizing each patient's
individual strengths as components of preventing illness, restoring health, and
facilitating coping with disability or death
6. Examples of Promoting Health:: Fall prevention, smoking cessation,
immunizations
7. Healthy People 2030::
, • Attain healthy, thriving lives and well-being, free of preventable disease,
disability,
• injury and premature death.
• Eliminate health disparities, achieve health equity, and attain health literacy
to improve the health and well-being of all.
• Create social, physical, and economic environments that promote attaining
full potential for health and well-being
• for all.
• Promote healthy development, healthy behaviors and well-being across all
life stages.
• Engage leadership, key constituents, and the public across multiple sectors
to take action and design policies that
• improve the health and well-being of all.
8. Main Professional Nursing Organization: American Nurses Association (ANA)
9. Nurse Practice Acts::
• Define legal scope of nursing practice
• Create state board of nursing to make and enforce laws and regulations
• Establish criteria for the education and licensure of nurses
10. Signs of Fatigue in Nursing Profession::
• Compassion fatigue
• Burnout
• Secondary traumatic stress
11. Sources of Knowledge::
• Traditional - Passed down from generation to generation
• Authoritative - Comes from an expert, accepted as truth based on a
person's perceived expertise
• Scientific - Obtained through the scientific method (research)
12. Methods of Nursing Research::
Fundamentals Review, Lecture Notes, Practice Questions & Exam
Preparation Guide
1. Florence Nightingale: Mother of Modern Nursing
2. What is the central focus in all definitions of Nursing?: The patient
3. QSEN Competencies::
a. Patient-centered care
b. Teamwork and collaboration
c. Evidence-based practice
d. Quality improvement
e. Safety
f. Informatics
4. Nursing Aims::
• To promote health
• To prevent illness
• To restore health
• To facilitate coping with disability or death
5. Promoting Health: Identifying, analyzing, and maximizing each patient's
individual strengths as components of preventing illness, restoring health, and
facilitating coping with disability or death
6. Examples of Promoting Health:: Fall prevention, smoking cessation,
immunizations
7. Healthy People 2030::
, • Attain healthy, thriving lives and well-being, free of preventable disease,
disability,
• injury and premature death.
• Eliminate health disparities, achieve health equity, and attain health literacy
to improve the health and well-being of all.
• Create social, physical, and economic environments that promote attaining
full potential for health and well-being
• for all.
• Promote healthy development, healthy behaviors and well-being across all
life stages.
• Engage leadership, key constituents, and the public across multiple sectors
to take action and design policies that
• improve the health and well-being of all.
8. Main Professional Nursing Organization: American Nurses Association (ANA)
9. Nurse Practice Acts::
• Define legal scope of nursing practice
• Create state board of nursing to make and enforce laws and regulations
• Establish criteria for the education and licensure of nurses
10. Signs of Fatigue in Nursing Profession::
• Compassion fatigue
• Burnout
• Secondary traumatic stress
11. Sources of Knowledge::
• Traditional - Passed down from generation to generation
• Authoritative - Comes from an expert, accepted as truth based on a
person's perceived expertise
• Scientific - Obtained through the scientific method (research)
12. Methods of Nursing Research::
