Nursing 2nd edition 2025
Nursing
2nd edition 2025
Questions and verified answers
Origination of the word "nurse" - ✔✔✔Came from a Latin word "Nutrix" meaning to nourish
5 vital signs - ✔✔✔respirations, pulse rate, blood pressure, temperature, and pain
Interrelated roles of nurses - ✔✔✔communicator, teacher, counselor, leader, researcher,
advocate, collaborator
Stages-of-illness behaviors - ✔✔✔Stage 1: experiencing symptoms
Stage 2: assuming the sick role
Stage 3: assuming a dependent role
Stage 4: achieving recovery and rehabilitation
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Coping with disability and death - ✔✔✔nurses use optimal function of maximum strengths and
potentials, refer to community support systems; provide care to families and patients during end-
of-life care, hospice
Nurse Practice Acts - ✔✔✔-define legal scope of nursing practice
-create state board of nursing to make and enforce rules and regulation
-define important terms and activities in nursing, including legal requirements and titles for RNs
and LPNs
- established criteria for the education and licensure of nurses
Nursing is recognized as profession based on what criteria - ✔✔✔-well defined body specific
and unique knowledge
-strong service orientation
-recognized authority by a professional group (ANA)
-code of ethics
-professional organization that sets standards
-ongoing research
-autonomy and self-regulation
Florence Nightingale - ✔✔✔defined nursing as both an art and science, differentiated nursing
from medicine, created freestanding nursing education, published books; founder of modern
nursing
The Nursing Process - ✔✔✔-one of major guidelines for nursing practice
-helps nurses implement their roles
-integrates art and science of nursing
-allows nurses to use critical thinking and clinical reasoning
-defines the areas of care that are within the domain of nursing
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Clara Barton - ✔✔✔established red cross; volunteered to care for wounds and feed union
soldiers during civil war; served as supervisor of nurses for the army of James
sources of knowledge - ✔✔✔-traditional ( passed down from generation to generation)
-authoritative- comes from an expert, accepted as truth based on person's perceived expertise
-scientific (obtained through the scientific method-research)
objective - ✔✔✔you can see the object
subjective - ✔✔✔coming from that subject
types of knowledge - ✔✔✔-science (observing, identifying, describing, investigating, and
explaining events and occurences that are perceived in world)
-philosophy (the study of wisdom, fundamental knowledge, and the processes used to develop
and construct on perception on life)
-process (a series of actions, changes, or functions intended to bring about a desired result)
goals of nursing research - ✔✔✔-improve care in clinical setting
-study ppl and nurse process: education, policy development, ethics, nursing history
-develop greater autonomy and strength as a profession
-provide evidence-based nursing practice
Nursing theory - ✔✔✔differentiates nursing from other disciplines and activities in that it serves
the purposes of describing, explaining, predicting, and controlling desired outcomes of nursing
care practices
evidence-based practice (EBP) - ✔✔✔a problem-solving approach to making clinical decisions,
using the best evidence available; blends both science and art of nursing so best outcomes are
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Nursing
2nd edition 2025
Questions and verified answers
Origination of the word "nurse" - ✔✔✔Came from a Latin word "Nutrix" meaning to nourish
5 vital signs - ✔✔✔respirations, pulse rate, blood pressure, temperature, and pain
Interrelated roles of nurses - ✔✔✔communicator, teacher, counselor, leader, researcher,
advocate, collaborator
Stages-of-illness behaviors - ✔✔✔Stage 1: experiencing symptoms
Stage 2: assuming the sick role
Stage 3: assuming a dependent role
Stage 4: achieving recovery and rehabilitation
pg. 1
, Nursing 2nd edition 2025
Coping with disability and death - ✔✔✔nurses use optimal function of maximum strengths and
potentials, refer to community support systems; provide care to families and patients during end-
of-life care, hospice
Nurse Practice Acts - ✔✔✔-define legal scope of nursing practice
-create state board of nursing to make and enforce rules and regulation
-define important terms and activities in nursing, including legal requirements and titles for RNs
and LPNs
- established criteria for the education and licensure of nurses
Nursing is recognized as profession based on what criteria - ✔✔✔-well defined body specific
and unique knowledge
-strong service orientation
-recognized authority by a professional group (ANA)
-code of ethics
-professional organization that sets standards
-ongoing research
-autonomy and self-regulation
Florence Nightingale - ✔✔✔defined nursing as both an art and science, differentiated nursing
from medicine, created freestanding nursing education, published books; founder of modern
nursing
The Nursing Process - ✔✔✔-one of major guidelines for nursing practice
-helps nurses implement their roles
-integrates art and science of nursing
-allows nurses to use critical thinking and clinical reasoning
-defines the areas of care that are within the domain of nursing
pg. 2
, Nursing 2nd edition 2025
Clara Barton - ✔✔✔established red cross; volunteered to care for wounds and feed union
soldiers during civil war; served as supervisor of nurses for the army of James
sources of knowledge - ✔✔✔-traditional ( passed down from generation to generation)
-authoritative- comes from an expert, accepted as truth based on person's perceived expertise
-scientific (obtained through the scientific method-research)
objective - ✔✔✔you can see the object
subjective - ✔✔✔coming from that subject
types of knowledge - ✔✔✔-science (observing, identifying, describing, investigating, and
explaining events and occurences that are perceived in world)
-philosophy (the study of wisdom, fundamental knowledge, and the processes used to develop
and construct on perception on life)
-process (a series of actions, changes, or functions intended to bring about a desired result)
goals of nursing research - ✔✔✔-improve care in clinical setting
-study ppl and nurse process: education, policy development, ethics, nursing history
-develop greater autonomy and strength as a profession
-provide evidence-based nursing practice
Nursing theory - ✔✔✔differentiates nursing from other disciplines and activities in that it serves
the purposes of describing, explaining, predicting, and controlling desired outcomes of nursing
care practices
evidence-based practice (EBP) - ✔✔✔a problem-solving approach to making clinical decisions,
using the best evidence available; blends both science and art of nursing so best outcomes are
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