NURS 124 Practice Questions and answers

Which statement is true about professional nursing organizations in Canada? A. They are primarily interested in providing professional journals and information on conferences related to nursing in Canada. B. They serve as official representatives of the nursing profession and interact with government officials on issues concerning the health of the population. C. They regulate nursing education and nursing standards of practice throughout all of the provinces and territories. D. They work closely with the hospitals and health care agencies in providing education for specialized nurses. B. They serve as official representatives of the nursing profession and interact with government officials on issues concerning the health of the population. Why are theories in nursing important? A. They solve specific and serious patient health problems. B. They provide a precise method of providing nursing care. C. They demonstrate how nursing is different from medicine. D. They provide a systematic view of explaining, predicting, and describing phenomena. D. They provide a systematic view of explaining, predicting, and describing phenomena. Which of the following is an example of a nursing theory? A. Systems theory B. Nursing assessment C. Self-actualization theory D. Health care belief model A. Systems theory Which statement about nursing is true? A. It is a discipline that has its own unique science. B. Is not a true science but rather an art. C. It is a discipline that is still trying to create its theories. D. It has a number of theories that are interrelated. A. It is a discipline that has its own unique science. A theory is best understood as a set of assumptions or propositions that becomes useful when it does which of the following? A. Helps people meet their self-care needs. B. Isolates concepts. C. Helps the nurse implement care. D. Provides a systematic view of explaining, predicting, and prescribing phenomena. D. Provides a systematic view of explaining, predicting, and prescribing phenomena. The enterprise of theorizing about nursing practice was primarily driven by? A. Physicians B. Political leaders C. Nursing educators D. Policymakers C. Nursing educators The nursing process in its original form involved which four basic steps? A. Assessment, planning, intervention, evaluation B. Assessment, nursing diagnosis, planning, intervention C. Nursing diagnosis, planning, intervention, evaluation D. Planning, assessment, intervention, evaluation A. Assessment, planning, intervention, evaluation The metaparadigm concepts that formed the structure of concepts that nursing theories were concerned about included: A. The person, environment, health, and nursing B. Caring, health promotion, and supportive care C. Chaos theory and systems theory D. Existentialism, phenomenology, and metaphysics A. The person, environment, health, and nursing The main question to which the early nursing theorists put their attention was to work out which of the following? A. How to differentiate between nursing theories and medical theories. B. How to reconcile the generalizations of North America Nursing Diagnoses Association with the unique situations of each client C. How to organize and make sense of general nursing knowledge and apply this knowledge to an individual clinical case D. Whether to use theories from other disciplines such as philosophy and apply them to nursing C. How to organize and make sense of general nursing knowledge and apply this knowledge to an individual clinical case According to Kuhn, scientific advances are most likely to happen when creative individuals do which of the following? A. Approach a problem in a new way B. Use the cause-and-effect model to solve problems C. Use the work of other scientists to solve problems D. Use empirical evidence to solve problems A. Approach a problem in a new way The central idea characterizing the McGill model for nursing is that it: A. Focuses on health rather than illness and treatment. B. Accounts for holistic aspects of the individual, rather that component parts. C. Views the person as an energy field in constant interaction with the environment D. Consider the human experience to be based on behavioral drives A. Focuses on health rather than illness and treatment. Building upon a psychoanalytic perspective, theorist Hildegard Peplau considered which of the following as fundamental aspects of nursing practice? A. Interacting in a therapeutic manner B. Developing the relationship between the nurse and the patient C. Investigating the meaning of patient behavior D. All of the above D. All of the above The distinctive contribution that Canadian theorist Evelyn Adam added to nursing's thinking at the time was a conceptualization of the essence of nursing as: A. A collaboration with health care professionals B. A helping process C. The management of patients and health care systems D. All of the above B. A helping process The idea that nursing theorists drew specifically from systems theories was to consider the human being as: A. An irreducible whole B. A whole and component parts in intricate interaction with one another C. An embodiment of mind, body, and spirit D. All of the above B. A whole and component parts in intricate interaction with one another The most distinctive feature of Rosemarie Parse's theory is that it considers the individual as a unitary being who is engaged in which of the following? A. Seeking health B. Engaging in a continuing process of making choices C. Striving for homeostasis D. All of the above B. Engaging in a continuing process of making choices What does a framework to guide nursing practice involve? A. Person, nursing, medicine, pharmacy B. Person, family, community, government C. Person, community, province, country D. Person, environment, nursing, health D. Person, environment, nursing, health Why was the Ottawa Charter important? A. It identified prerequisites for health. B. It identified recommendations for federal funding. C. It identified nursing standards of practice. D. It identified the need for interprofessional education. A. It identified prerequisites for health. The Lalonde Report is significant in that it was the first to emphasize what? A. A behavioral approach to health B. A medical approach to health C. A socioenvironmental approach to health D. Physiological risk factors A. A behavioral approach to health What is the "watershed" document that marked the shift from a lifestyle to a socioenvironmental approach to health? A. Lalonde Report B. Adelaide Statement on Health in all Policies C. Toronto Charter D. Ottawa Charter D. Ottawa Charter From a socioenvironemtnal perspective, what are the major determinants of health? A. Psychosocial risk factors and socioenvironemntal risk conditions B. Physiological risk factors and behavioural risk factors C. Behavioural and psychosocial risk facotrs D. Behavioural and socioenvironmental risk factors A. Psychosocial risk factors and socioenvironemntal risk conditions What is the main reason that intersectoral collaboration is a necessary strategy to reach the goal of "Health for All"? A. The determinants of health are broad B. Intersectoral collaboration is cost-effective C. Intersectoral collaboration encourages problem solving at a local level D. Intersectoral collaboration is less likely to resolve in conflict A. The determinants of health are broad Providing immunizaitons against measles is an example of what? A. Health promotion B. Primary prevention C. Secondary prevention D. Tertiary prevention B. Primary prevention What statement does not accurately characterize health promotion? A. Health promotion addresses health issues within the context of the social, economic, and political environment. B. Health promotion emphasizes empowerment C. Health promotion strategies focus primarily on helping people develop healthy behaviors D. Health promotion is political C. Health promotion strategies focus primarily on helping people develop healthy behaviors The belief that health is primarily an individual responsibility is most congruent with which approach to health? A. Medical B. Behavioral C. Socioenvironmental D. Critical/Structural B. Behavioral Which statement does not accurately describe the Populations Health Promotion Model? A. The model suggests that action can address the full range of health determinants B. The model incorporates the health promotion strategies of the Ottawa Charter C. The model focuses primarily on interventions at the societal level D. The model attempts to integrate population health and health promotion concepts C. The model focuses primarily on interventions at the societal level What is the most influential health determinant? A. Personal health practices B. Income and social status C. Health care services D. Physical environments B. Income and social status At what are health promotion activities aimed? A. Providing protection against disease B. Increasing the level of well-being C. Avoiding injury or illness D. Teaching clients to learn to live with their limitations B. Increasing the level of well-being To whom does Medicare in Canada provide health care? A. Permanent residents, new immigrants, and citizens of the country B. Permanent residents, temporary residents, and citizens of the country C. Permanent residents, visitors, temporary residents, and citizens D. Permanent residents, refugees, temporary residents, and citizens A. Permanent residents, new immigrants, and citizens of the country