NURS 1100-Exam 1- Nursing and Caring UPDATED ACTUAL Questions
and CORRECT Answers
Question: paradigm
Correct Answer: a pattern of beliefs used to describe the domain of a discipline
Question: often used synonymously with paradigm ___
Correct Answer: conceptual framework
Question: function of conceptual framework
Correct Answer: provide a way to organize major concepts and visualize the relationship among
phenomena
Question: what nursing paradigm allows?
Correct Answer: Allows nurses to understand and explain what nursing is, what nursing does and why
nurses do what they do
Question: 4 concepts including in nursing paradigm
Correct Answer: person, health, environment/situation, and nursing
Question: what is person in nursing paradigm?
Correct Answer: the recipient of nursing care: patients, groups, cultures, families and communities
Question: what is the central to the nursing care?
Correct Answer: person, patient-centered care
Question: what is health in nursing paradigm?
Correct Answer: a state of being that people define in relation to their own values, personality and lifestyle
Question: what is environment/situation in nursing paradigm?
Correct Answer: all possible conditions affecting patients and the settings where they go for their health
care
Question: what is nursing in nursing paradigm based on ANA?
Correct Answer: protection, promotion, and optimization of health and abilities - prevention of illness and
injury - alleviation of suffering through the diagnosis and treatment of human response - advocacy in the
care of individuals, families, communities and populations
Question: characteristics of nursing as a profession?
Correct Answer: patient-centered care - professionalism - be responsible and accountable
Question: what is difference between medicine and nursing?
Correct Answer: Medicine focuses on diagnosis & cure - Nursing focuses on "Diagnosis, treatment, care,
& support of human responses in health & illness." Not just tasks!
Question: who recognize the importance of the role quality professional nursing has on the nations' health
care?
Correct Answer: Health care advocacy groups
and CORRECT Answers
Question: paradigm
Correct Answer: a pattern of beliefs used to describe the domain of a discipline
Question: often used synonymously with paradigm ___
Correct Answer: conceptual framework
Question: function of conceptual framework
Correct Answer: provide a way to organize major concepts and visualize the relationship among
phenomena
Question: what nursing paradigm allows?
Correct Answer: Allows nurses to understand and explain what nursing is, what nursing does and why
nurses do what they do
Question: 4 concepts including in nursing paradigm
Correct Answer: person, health, environment/situation, and nursing
Question: what is person in nursing paradigm?
Correct Answer: the recipient of nursing care: patients, groups, cultures, families and communities
Question: what is the central to the nursing care?
Correct Answer: person, patient-centered care
Question: what is health in nursing paradigm?
Correct Answer: a state of being that people define in relation to their own values, personality and lifestyle
Question: what is environment/situation in nursing paradigm?
Correct Answer: all possible conditions affecting patients and the settings where they go for their health
care
Question: what is nursing in nursing paradigm based on ANA?
Correct Answer: protection, promotion, and optimization of health and abilities - prevention of illness and
injury - alleviation of suffering through the diagnosis and treatment of human response - advocacy in the
care of individuals, families, communities and populations
Question: characteristics of nursing as a profession?
Correct Answer: patient-centered care - professionalism - be responsible and accountable
Question: what is difference between medicine and nursing?
Correct Answer: Medicine focuses on diagnosis & cure - Nursing focuses on "Diagnosis, treatment, care,
& support of human responses in health & illness." Not just tasks!
Question: who recognize the importance of the role quality professional nursing has on the nations' health
care?
Correct Answer: Health care advocacy groups
