NURS 345: EXAM 1 Final Test
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Solutions 2025-2026 Updated.
What are Benner's stages of nursing proficiency? - Answer 1. Novice
2. Advanced Beginner
3. Competent
4. Proficient
5. Expert
What is the goal of the Scope and Standards of Practice? - Answer To improve the health and
well-being of all individuals, communities, and populations through the significant and visible
contributions of registered nursing using standards-based practice
When did nursing documentation begin? - Answer 1960
What are the six standards of practice? - Answer 1. assessment
2. diagnosis
3. outcomes identification
4. planning
5. implementation
6. evaluation
What is known as the foundation of clinical decision making? - Answer the nursing process
What is a code of ethics? - Answer the philosophical ideals of right and wrong that define
principles used to provide care
The American Nurses Association (ANA) has established 10 standards of professional
performance. What are they? - Answer ethics, education, evidence-based practice and
research, quality of practice, communication, leadership, collaboration, professional practice
evaluation, resources, environmental health
What is autonomy and accountability? - Answer an essential element of professional nursing
that involves the initiation of independent nursing interventions without medical orders.
Accountability means that you are responsible professionally and legally for the type and quality
of nursing care provided
,What are the professional roles of a nurse? - Answer 1. autonomy and accountability
2. caregiver
3. advocate
4. educator
5. communicator
6. manager
1. Nursing is defined as a profession because nurses:
A. perform specific skills.
B. practice autonomy.
C. utilize knowledge from the medical discipline.
D. charge a fee for services rendered. - Answer B. practice autonomy
What does MLP stand for? - Answer mid-level provider
What is a clinical nurse specialist? - Answer an APRN who is an expert clinician in a
specialized area of practice, such as a population (e.g., geriatrics), a setting (e.g., critical care), a
disease specialty (e.g., diabetes), a type of care (e.g., rehabilitation), or a type of problem (e.g.,
pain).
What is an advanced practice nurse? - Answer The advanced practice registered nurse
(APRN) is the most independently functioning nurse. An APRN has advanced education in
pathophysiology, pharmacology, and physical assessment, and certification and expertise in a
specialized area of practice. There are four core roles for the APRN: clinical nurse specialist
(CNS), certified nurse practitioner (CNP), certified nurse midwife (CNM), and certified RN
anesthetist (CRNA).
What is a nurse practitioner? - Answer an APRN who provides health care to a group of
patients, usually in an outpatient, ambulatory care, or community-based setting. NPs provide
care for patients with complex problems and a more holistic approach than physicians
What is a certified nurse midwife? - Answer an APRN who is also educated in midwifery and
is certified by the American College of Nurse-Midwives. The practice of nurse-midwifery
involves providing independent care for women during normal pregnancy, labor, and delivery
and care for the newborn
What is a certified registered nurse anesthetist? - Answer an APRN with advanced education
from a nurse anesthesia-accredited program. Nurse anesthetists provide surgical anesthesia
, under the guidance and supervision of an anesthesiologist who is a physician with advanced
knowledge of surgical anesthesia
What is a nurse educator? - Answer works primarily in schools of nursing, staff development
departments of health care agencies, and patient education departments
What is a nurse administrator? - Answer manages patient care and the delivery of specific
nursing services within a health care agency
What is a nurse researcher? - Answer investigates problems to improve nursing care and
further define and expand the scope of nursing practice. The nurse research often works in an
academic setting, hospital, or independent professional or community service agency
Who is Florence Nightingale and what did she do? - Answer Florence Nightingale believed
that the role of nurses was to help the body recover, and then remain free, from disease.
In 1860, Florence organized the first school of nursing, the Nightingale Training School for
Nurses, at St. Thomas' Hospital in London.
Nightingale was the first practicing epidemiologist. She used her keen mind and statistical
analysis to show the connection between poor sanitation and diseases like cholera and
dysentery.
Known as the Lady with the Lamp, Nightingale crossed the battlefields of the Crimean War with
her lantern. By improving sanitation in battlefield hospitals, she showed how effective fresh air,
hygiene, and nutrition were in the treatment of wounded soldiers.
The practices she advocated remain a basic part of nursing care in the twenty-first century.
What happened to nursing in the early twentieth century? - Answer Movement toward
scientific, research-based practice and defined body of knowledge;
Nurses assumed expanded and advanced practice roles
Who was Mary Adelaide Nutting? - Answer 1906: first nursing professor at Columbia
Teacher's College
What year did nursing specializations begin? - Answer 1920
How will the Affordable Care Act affect healthcare and nursing? - Answer The ACA affects
how health care is paid for and delivered. There will be greater emphasis on health promotion,
disease prevention, and illness management in the future. More nursing services will be in
community-based care settings. As a result, more nurses will be needed to practice in
community care centers, schools, and senior centers. This will require nurses to be better able
to assess for resources, identify service gaps, and help patients adapt so as to be able to safely
return to their community.
Questions with Guaranteed Pass
Solutions 2025-2026 Updated.
What are Benner's stages of nursing proficiency? - Answer 1. Novice
2. Advanced Beginner
3. Competent
4. Proficient
5. Expert
What is the goal of the Scope and Standards of Practice? - Answer To improve the health and
well-being of all individuals, communities, and populations through the significant and visible
contributions of registered nursing using standards-based practice
When did nursing documentation begin? - Answer 1960
What are the six standards of practice? - Answer 1. assessment
2. diagnosis
3. outcomes identification
4. planning
5. implementation
6. evaluation
What is known as the foundation of clinical decision making? - Answer the nursing process
What is a code of ethics? - Answer the philosophical ideals of right and wrong that define
principles used to provide care
The American Nurses Association (ANA) has established 10 standards of professional
performance. What are they? - Answer ethics, education, evidence-based practice and
research, quality of practice, communication, leadership, collaboration, professional practice
evaluation, resources, environmental health
What is autonomy and accountability? - Answer an essential element of professional nursing
that involves the initiation of independent nursing interventions without medical orders.
Accountability means that you are responsible professionally and legally for the type and quality
of nursing care provided
,What are the professional roles of a nurse? - Answer 1. autonomy and accountability
2. caregiver
3. advocate
4. educator
5. communicator
6. manager
1. Nursing is defined as a profession because nurses:
A. perform specific skills.
B. practice autonomy.
C. utilize knowledge from the medical discipline.
D. charge a fee for services rendered. - Answer B. practice autonomy
What does MLP stand for? - Answer mid-level provider
What is a clinical nurse specialist? - Answer an APRN who is an expert clinician in a
specialized area of practice, such as a population (e.g., geriatrics), a setting (e.g., critical care), a
disease specialty (e.g., diabetes), a type of care (e.g., rehabilitation), or a type of problem (e.g.,
pain).
What is an advanced practice nurse? - Answer The advanced practice registered nurse
(APRN) is the most independently functioning nurse. An APRN has advanced education in
pathophysiology, pharmacology, and physical assessment, and certification and expertise in a
specialized area of practice. There are four core roles for the APRN: clinical nurse specialist
(CNS), certified nurse practitioner (CNP), certified nurse midwife (CNM), and certified RN
anesthetist (CRNA).
What is a nurse practitioner? - Answer an APRN who provides health care to a group of
patients, usually in an outpatient, ambulatory care, or community-based setting. NPs provide
care for patients with complex problems and a more holistic approach than physicians
What is a certified nurse midwife? - Answer an APRN who is also educated in midwifery and
is certified by the American College of Nurse-Midwives. The practice of nurse-midwifery
involves providing independent care for women during normal pregnancy, labor, and delivery
and care for the newborn
What is a certified registered nurse anesthetist? - Answer an APRN with advanced education
from a nurse anesthesia-accredited program. Nurse anesthetists provide surgical anesthesia
, under the guidance and supervision of an anesthesiologist who is a physician with advanced
knowledge of surgical anesthesia
What is a nurse educator? - Answer works primarily in schools of nursing, staff development
departments of health care agencies, and patient education departments
What is a nurse administrator? - Answer manages patient care and the delivery of specific
nursing services within a health care agency
What is a nurse researcher? - Answer investigates problems to improve nursing care and
further define and expand the scope of nursing practice. The nurse research often works in an
academic setting, hospital, or independent professional or community service agency
Who is Florence Nightingale and what did she do? - Answer Florence Nightingale believed
that the role of nurses was to help the body recover, and then remain free, from disease.
In 1860, Florence organized the first school of nursing, the Nightingale Training School for
Nurses, at St. Thomas' Hospital in London.
Nightingale was the first practicing epidemiologist. She used her keen mind and statistical
analysis to show the connection between poor sanitation and diseases like cholera and
dysentery.
Known as the Lady with the Lamp, Nightingale crossed the battlefields of the Crimean War with
her lantern. By improving sanitation in battlefield hospitals, she showed how effective fresh air,
hygiene, and nutrition were in the treatment of wounded soldiers.
The practices she advocated remain a basic part of nursing care in the twenty-first century.
What happened to nursing in the early twentieth century? - Answer Movement toward
scientific, research-based practice and defined body of knowledge;
Nurses assumed expanded and advanced practice roles
Who was Mary Adelaide Nutting? - Answer 1906: first nursing professor at Columbia
Teacher's College
What year did nursing specializations begin? - Answer 1920
How will the Affordable Care Act affect healthcare and nursing? - Answer The ACA affects
how health care is paid for and delivered. There will be greater emphasis on health promotion,
disease prevention, and illness management in the future. More nursing services will be in
community-based care settings. As a result, more nurses will be needed to practice in
community care centers, schools, and senior centers. This will require nurses to be better able
to assess for resources, identify service gaps, and help patients adapt so as to be able to safely
return to their community.
