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| Phrase that describes the science of nursing? |
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| The knowledge base for care |
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| The nurse in history that is credited with establishing nursing education? |
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Historic event in the 20th century that led to an increased emphasis on nursing and broadened the role of nurses?
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| Phrase that describes one of the purposes of the ANA's Nursing's Social Policy Statement? |
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| To describe nursing's values and social responsibility |
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| A school nurse who is teaching a class of junor-high students about the effects of smoking is an educationl program that meets what aim of nursing? |
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| What level of nursing degree prepares a nurse for advanced practice as a clinical specialist or nurse practitioner? |
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| What nursing organization was the first international organization of professional women? |
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| What is the purpose of the ANA's Scope and Standards of Practice? |
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| To define the activities that are special and unique to nursing |
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| Phrase that best describes culture? |
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| A shared system of beliefs, values, and behaviors |
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| What is the most basic concept to culturally competent nursing care? |
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| Treating each person as an individual |
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| Minority groups living withing a dominant culture may lose the cultural characteristics that made them different is a process of what? |
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| Sense of identification with a collective cultural group is defined as what? |
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| A young Hispanic mother comes into a local clinic because her baby is sick. She speaks only Spanish and the nurse speaks only English. What should the nurse do? |
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| Ask an interpreter for help |
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| What group is the largest subculture of the healthcare system? |
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| A nurse states, "I know I am cleaner than most of my patients." what does this statement indicate? |
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| Ethnocentrism (ones own ideas are above others) |
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| What type of authority regulates the practice of nursing? |
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| State nurse practice acts (established in each state) |
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| Largest group of healthcare providers in the US? |
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| What could be done first for a nurse wanting to acquire knowledge of a specific culture? |
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| Statement that is most true of health and illess? |
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| health and illness are individually defined by each person |
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| A nurse has volunteered to give flu shots at a local clinic. What level of care is this? |
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| A nurse's neighbor tells her, "I have a high temp, feel awful, and I am not going to work." what stage of illness behavior is the neighbor exhibiting? |
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| What characteristic is not part of a chronic illess? |
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| self-treatment that relieves symtpoms (acute illness) |
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| What concept is agent-host-environment model of health and illness based on? |
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| The health-illness continuum and the high-level wellness models both demonstrate what? |
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| Health as a constantly changing state (dynamic) |
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| What components are not part of the health belief model? |
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| Personal choice and economic factors |
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| A young man says, "I stopped eating fast foods to lose weight." what model of health or illness explaind his behavior? |
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| How can a nurse following the guidelines for a healthy lifestyle promote health in others? |
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| by being a role model for healthy behaviors |
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| What approach would be most useful for A nurse providing care based on Maslow's hierarchy of basic human needs? |
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| Establishing priority of care |
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| What level of basic human needs is most basic? |
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| Where do individuals learn their health beliefs and values from? |
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| Of all the physiologic needs, which one is the most essential? |
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| Oxygen (all cells need CO2 for survival) |
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| Practicing careful hand hygiene and using sterile techniques are ways in which nurses meet which basic human need? |
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| Statement of truth of self-actualization? |
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| The self-actualization process continues throughout life. |
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| Best broad definition of a family? |
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| a group of people who live together |
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| John and Mary, each parents of one child, are both divorced. When they marry, the family structure that is formed will be described as what? |
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| What is one of the developmental tasks of the older adult family? |
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| What is one element of a healthy community? |
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| Offers access to healthcare services |
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| When you ask an older student why it is necessary to change the patient's bed every day, he says, "I guess we have always done it that way." is an example of what? |
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| A method of developing a theory is by first examining a general idea and then considering specific actions or ideas is called? |
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| When describing the term "concept" to a group of students, what word would the instructor most likely use? |
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| idea (its an abstract expression of reality) |
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| What theory type focuses on clinical nursing practice? |
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| Prescriptive theory (addresses nursing interventions and are designed to control, promote, and change clinical nursing practice |
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| From the 4 concepts common to nursing theory, which is the most important? |
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Person
person, environment, health, nursing |
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| When conducting research, information is collected and would be identified as what? |
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| Data (observable and verifiable information collected to describe, explain, or predict events) |
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| What type of quantitative research is conducted to directly influence or improve clinical practice? |
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| A nurse researcher is studying the effects of exercise and sleep on blood pressure. The researcher identifies blood pressure as what type of variable? |
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| dependent variable (is the variable being studied and is determined by manipulating conditions---the independent variable) |
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| Anthropology was developed by what method of qualitative research? |
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| Ethnography (developed by the discipline of anthroplogy and is used to examine issues of culture of interest to nursing) |
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| In PICO format, P represents what? |
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| an explicit description of population of interest |
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