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Foundations of Nursing
Chapters 1-5-NCLEX
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Nursing
Undergraduate 4
06/02/2013

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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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Florence Nightingale
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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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WW II
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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?
Definition
Preventing illness
Term
What level of nursing degree prepares a nurse for advanced practice as a clinical specialist or nurse practitioner?
Definition
Master's
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What nursing organization was the first international organization of professional women?
Definition
ICN (in 1899)
Term
What is the purpose of the ANA's Scope and Standards of Practice?
Definition
To define the activities that are special and unique to nursing
Term
Phrase that best describes culture?
Definition
A shared system of beliefs, values, and behaviors
Term
What is the most basic concept to culturally competent nursing care?
Definition
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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Cultural assimilation
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Sense of identification with a collective cultural group is defined as what?
Definition
Ethnicity
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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?
Definition
Ask an interpreter for help
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What group is the largest subculture of the healthcare system?
Definition
Nurses
Term
A nurse states, "I know I am cleaner than most of my patients." what does this statement indicate?
Definition
Ethnocentrism (ones own ideas are above others)
Term
What type of authority regulates the practice of nursing?
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State nurse practice acts (established in each state)
Term
Largest group of healthcare providers in the US?
Definition
Registered Nurses
Term
What could be done first for a nurse wanting to acquire knowledge of a specific culture?
Definition
Review Literature
Term
Statement that is most true of health and illess?
Definition
health and illness are individually defined by each person
Term
A nurse has volunteered to give flu shots at a local clinic. What level of care is this?
Definition
Primary
Term
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?
Definition
Assuming the sick role
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What characteristic is not part of a chronic illess?
Definition
self-treatment that relieves symtpoms (acute illness)
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What concept is agent-host-environment model of health and illness based on?
Definition
Risk factors
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The health-illness continuum and the high-level wellness models both demonstrate what?
Definition
Health as a constantly changing state (dynamic)
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What components are not part of the health belief model?
Definition
Personal choice and economic factors
Term
A young man says, "I stopped eating fast foods to lose weight." what model of health or illness explaind his behavior?
Definition
health promotion model
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How can a nurse following the guidelines for a healthy lifestyle promote health in others?
Definition
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?
Definition
Establishing priority of care
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What level of basic human needs is most basic?
Definition
Physiologic
Term
Where do individuals learn their health beliefs and values from?
Definition
In the family
Term
Of all the physiologic needs, which one is the most essential?
Definition
Oxygen (all cells need CO2 for survival)
Term
Practicing careful hand hygiene and using sterile techniques are ways in which nurses meet which basic human need?
Definition
Safety and security
Term
Statement of truth of self-actualization?
Definition
The self-actualization process continues throughout life.
Term
Best broad definition of a family?
Definition
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?
Definition
blended family
Term
What is one of the developmental tasks of the older adult family?
Definition
Adjust to loss of spouse
Term
What is one element of a healthy community?
Definition
Offers access to healthcare services
Term
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?
Definition
Traditional knowledge
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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?
Definition
Deductive reasoning
Term
When describing the term "concept" to a group of students, what word would the instructor most likely use?
Definition
idea (its an abstract expression of reality)
Term
What theory type focuses on clinical nursing practice?
Definition
Prescriptive theory (addresses nursing interventions and are designed to control, promote, and change clinical nursing practice
Term
From the 4 concepts common to nursing theory, which is the most important?
Definition

Person

 

 

 

person, environment, health, nursing

Term
When conducting research, information is collected and would be identified as what?
Definition
Data (observable and verifiable information collected to describe, explain, or predict events)
Term
What type of quantitative research is conducted to directly influence or improve clinical practice?
Definition
Applied research
Term
A nurse researcher is studying the effects of exercise and sleep on blood pressure.  The researcher identifies blood pressure as what type of variable?
Definition
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?
Definition
Ethnography (developed by the discipline of anthroplogy and is used to examine issues of culture of interest to nursing)
Term
In PICO format, P represents what?
Definition
an explicit description of population of interest
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