NRS 434VN TOPIC 1 TEST PAPER 2026
QUESTIONS WITH SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
◉ Registered Nurses.... Answer: are healthcare professionals.
are the largest (in numbers) healthcare profession.
are members of the inter-professional team. RNs collaborate with
other HC professionals.
Each HC profession has its own education, licensure requirements,
scope and standards of practice, etc.
Nursing education occurs in schools/colleges of nursing, and
nursing faculty are all registered nurses with doctoral level
education.
Every HC profession is important to a well-functioning team, and the
goal is to facilitate positive patient outcomes.
◉ Definition of Nursing. Answer: Nursing integrates the art and
science of caring and focuses on the protection, promotion, and
optimization of health and human functioning; prevention of illness
,and injury; facilitation of healing; and alleviation of suffering
through compassionate presence. Nursing is the diagnosis and
treatment of human responses and advocacy in the care of
individuals, families, groups, communities, and populationsin
recognition of the connection of all humanity (ANA, 2021).
◉ Professional Nursing. Answer: Phenomenon of concern = Health
Focus = diagnosis and treatment of human response (the focus of
nursing is not disease/pathology/medical diagnoses)
Definition of patient = holistic = the focus of care may be individuals,
families, communities, populations, etc.
The definition of health can vary from person to person. As a nurse
you have to consider the patient's definition of health and help
people make decisions that are consistent with their values and
beliefs.
◉ Scope of Nursing Practice. Answer: Nursing occurs whenever and
wherever there is a need for nursing knowledge, wisdom, caring,
leadership, practice, or education.
Nursing occurs in any environment where there is a healthcare
consumer in need of care, information, or advocacy.
,Meaning, nursing does not just occur in the hospital setting.
◉ Goal of Nursing. Answer: The goal of nursing is to facilitate
attainment of positive patient outcomes in keeping with nursing's
social contract with an obligation to society.
The depth and breadth in which individual registered nurses
(generalist and APRNs) engage in the total scope of nursing practice
is dependent on their education, experience, role, and population
served.
◉ The ANA Standards. Answer: The ANA Standards serve as
evidence of the standard of nursing care. Meaning, it is the level of
care expected from all nurses with all patients; no exceptions!
Standards of Practice (Standards 1-6): describe a competent level of
nursing care as demonstrated by the critical thinking model known
as the Nursing Process (the focus of this class).
Standards of Professional Performance (Standards 7-17): describe a
competent level of behavior in the professional role.
◉ The Art and Science of Nursing. Answer: Nursing is a learned
profession built on a core body of knowledge that reflects its dual
components of art and science.
, The art of nursing is based on caring and respect for human dignity.
The nurse must possess competence, professional maturity,
interpersonal sensitivity, a moral foundation that supports caring
actions, and an environment that is conducive to caring.
◉ The Science of Nursing. Answer: The science of nursing is
consistent with and shares the characteristics of other scientific
disciplines:
-distinct body of knowledge
-distinct schools/colleges
-baccalaureate = entry level
-doctoral education is discipline specific
Nurses rely on/use both qualitative (subjective) and quantitative
(objective) data/evidence to guide nursing practice.
Nursing research is conducted to generate the data needed by
nurses to guide nursing practice, but also as the means to evaluate
nursing's impact on patients' health-related outcomes.
QUESTIONS WITH SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
◉ Registered Nurses.... Answer: are healthcare professionals.
are the largest (in numbers) healthcare profession.
are members of the inter-professional team. RNs collaborate with
other HC professionals.
Each HC profession has its own education, licensure requirements,
scope and standards of practice, etc.
Nursing education occurs in schools/colleges of nursing, and
nursing faculty are all registered nurses with doctoral level
education.
Every HC profession is important to a well-functioning team, and the
goal is to facilitate positive patient outcomes.
◉ Definition of Nursing. Answer: Nursing integrates the art and
science of caring and focuses on the protection, promotion, and
optimization of health and human functioning; prevention of illness
,and injury; facilitation of healing; and alleviation of suffering
through compassionate presence. Nursing is the diagnosis and
treatment of human responses and advocacy in the care of
individuals, families, groups, communities, and populationsin
recognition of the connection of all humanity (ANA, 2021).
◉ Professional Nursing. Answer: Phenomenon of concern = Health
Focus = diagnosis and treatment of human response (the focus of
nursing is not disease/pathology/medical diagnoses)
Definition of patient = holistic = the focus of care may be individuals,
families, communities, populations, etc.
The definition of health can vary from person to person. As a nurse
you have to consider the patient's definition of health and help
people make decisions that are consistent with their values and
beliefs.
◉ Scope of Nursing Practice. Answer: Nursing occurs whenever and
wherever there is a need for nursing knowledge, wisdom, caring,
leadership, practice, or education.
Nursing occurs in any environment where there is a healthcare
consumer in need of care, information, or advocacy.
,Meaning, nursing does not just occur in the hospital setting.
◉ Goal of Nursing. Answer: The goal of nursing is to facilitate
attainment of positive patient outcomes in keeping with nursing's
social contract with an obligation to society.
The depth and breadth in which individual registered nurses
(generalist and APRNs) engage in the total scope of nursing practice
is dependent on their education, experience, role, and population
served.
◉ The ANA Standards. Answer: The ANA Standards serve as
evidence of the standard of nursing care. Meaning, it is the level of
care expected from all nurses with all patients; no exceptions!
Standards of Practice (Standards 1-6): describe a competent level of
nursing care as demonstrated by the critical thinking model known
as the Nursing Process (the focus of this class).
Standards of Professional Performance (Standards 7-17): describe a
competent level of behavior in the professional role.
◉ The Art and Science of Nursing. Answer: Nursing is a learned
profession built on a core body of knowledge that reflects its dual
components of art and science.
, The art of nursing is based on caring and respect for human dignity.
The nurse must possess competence, professional maturity,
interpersonal sensitivity, a moral foundation that supports caring
actions, and an environment that is conducive to caring.
◉ The Science of Nursing. Answer: The science of nursing is
consistent with and shares the characteristics of other scientific
disciplines:
-distinct body of knowledge
-distinct schools/colleges
-baccalaureate = entry level
-doctoral education is discipline specific
Nurses rely on/use both qualitative (subjective) and quantitative
(objective) data/evidence to guide nursing practice.
Nursing research is conducted to generate the data needed by
nurses to guide nursing practice, but also as the means to evaluate
nursing's impact on patients' health-related outcomes.
