NURSING 6TH EDITION WILLIAMS-ALL CHAPTERS- QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS 2023- 2024 GRADED A+,
Chapter 01: Nursing and the Health Care System
Williams: deWit's Fundamental Concepts and Skills for Nursing, 5th
Edition
MULTIPLE
CHOICE
1. Florence Nightingale’s contributions to nursing practice and education:
a. are historically important but have no validity for nursing today.
b. were neither recognized nor appreciated in her own time.
c. were a major factor in reducing the death rate in the Crimean War.
d. were limited only to the care of severe traumatic wounds.
ANS: C
By improving sanitation, nutrition ventilation, and handwashing
techniques, Florence Nightingale’s nurses dramatically reduced the
death rate from injuries in the Crimean War.
DIF:Cognitive Level: Knowledge REF: p. 2
OBJ: Theory #1 TOP: Nursing History KEY:
Nursing Process Step: N/A MSC: NCLEX: N/A
2. Early nursing education and care in the United States:
a. were directed at community health.
b. provided independence for women through education and
employment.
c. were an educational model based in institutions of higher learning.
d. have continued to be entirely focused on hospital nursing.
,ANS: B
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education became more formalized through apprenticeships in
Nightingale schools that offered independence to women through
education and employment.
DIF:Cognitive Level: Knowledge REF: p. 2
OBJ: Theory #4 TOP: Nursing History KEY:
Nursing Process Step: N/A MSC: NCLEX: N/A
,3. In order to fulfill the common goals defined by nursing theorists
(promote wellness, preventillness, facilitate coping, and restore
health), the LPN must take on the roles of:
a. caregiver, educator, and collaborator.
b. nursing assistant, delegator, and environmental specialist.
c. medication dispenser, collaborator, and transporter.
d. dietitian, manager, and housekeeper.
ANS: A
In order for the LPN to apply the common goals of nursing, he or
she must assume the rolesof caregiver, educator, collaborator,
manager, and advocate.
DIF:Cognitive Level: Comprehension REF: p. 3
OBJ: Theory #2 TOP: Art and Science of Nursing
KEY: Nursing Process Step: N/A MSC: NCLEX:
N/A
4. Although nursing theories differ in their attempts to define
nursing, all of them base theirbeliefs on common concepts
concerning:
, a. self-actualization, fundamental needs, and belonging.
b. stress reduction, self-care, and a systems model.
c. curative care, restorative care, and terminal care.
d. human relationships, the environment, and health.
ANS: D
Although nursing theories differ, they all base their beliefs on
human relationships, theenvironment, and health.
DIF:Cognitive Level: Comprehension REF: p. 4
OBJ: Theory #2 TOP: Nursing Theories KEY:
Nursing Process Step: N/A MSC: NCLEX: N/A
5. Standards of care for the nursing practice of the LPN are established by
the:
a. Boards of Nursing Examiners in each state.
b. National Council of States Boards of Nursing (NCSBN).
c. American Nurses Association (ANA).
d. National Federation of Licensed Practical Nurses.
ANS: D
The National Federation of Licensed Practical Nurses modified the
standards published by theANA in 2015 to better fit the role of the
LPN. In 2015 the American Nurses Association (ANA) revised the
Standards of Nursing Practice which contained 17 standards of
national practice of nursing, describing all facets of nursing practice:
who, what, when, where, how.
DIF:Cognitive Level: Comprehension REF: p. 6
OBJ: Theory #2 TOP: Standards of Care
KEY: Nursing Process Step: N/A MSC: NCLEX:
N/A VERIFIED-TEST BANK
6. Lillian Wald and Mary Brewster established the Henry Street
Settlement Service in New York in 1893 in order to: