What is the ANA Policy Statement define nursing as? correct answers Nursing is the protection,
promotion, and optimization of health and abilities, prevention of illness and injury, alleviation
of suffering through the diagnosis and treatment of human responses, and advocacy in the care of
individuals, families, communities, and populations.
In nursing, we treat ____________, including the family and community, not just the persron
correct answers whole person
____________ treat the disease; nurses treat ________________________ correct answers
doctors; what happens because of those things
The nursing process is a ________ _________, _______ process. correct answers problem
solving, thinking
Nursing is the ______ and _____ of human responses to _______ or ________ health care
problems. correct answers diagnosis, treatment, actual, potential
______ is the essence of nursing correct answers caring
More than any other profession, nursing has "the distinction of being responsible for the
__________ that clients receive in the health care system." correct answers caring
What is nursing? Nursing is.... correct answers caring
an art
a science
holistic (take care of patient, family, and community)
patient-centered
adaptive
, a helping profession
concerned with health promotion, health maintenance, and restoration
Who came up with the philosophy and science of caring? correct answers Jean Watson
____ is central to nursing. It is a _____ ideal, rather than a ______. It is difficult to _______. It is
____________. It is focused on the preservation of ______ _______ and _________. correct
answers Caring, moral, behavior, quantify, not inherited, human dignity, hummanity
What did Watson feel nursing is threatened by? correct answers a procedure and skill oriented
culture (technology) and the different levels of nursing
What were Jean Watson's 10 carative factors (intrinsic/unseen aspects of nursing)? What should
all of these factors preserve? correct answers altruistic values; sensitivity to others; a warm,
genuine and empathetic helping-trust relationship; interpersonal teaching and learning; scientific
problem solving; acceptance of own feelings; acceptance of other's feelings; providing a
comfortable, private, and safe environment; assist patient with lower and higher order needs;
phenomenology of existential psychology
human dignity of the patient
means doing it for the right reason (love and joy of doing it) and not for ulterior motives (money,
to make yourself feel better) correct answers altruistic values
sense what others are feeling; considering the patients values correct answers sensitivity to others
what is essential for good decision-making? correct answers critical thinking and critical
reasoning