NURS 344 QUIZ 1 EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
How is the ratio of number of nurses to doctors? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅nurses > doctors
T/F Nursing shortage - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅TRUE
What role do baby boomers play? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅implode the health care system
What makes up the Institute of Medicine? (3) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅1. Recommendation to
Congress/state legislatures: remove barriers that prevent nurses from fully utilizing their skills
2. Higher Levels of Education: U.S. health needs are changing
3. Increase Nurse Leadership
WSU Mission Statement - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅is to:
- educate
- knowledgeable Caring
- Ethical, Creative
- Accountable nurse leaders who provide person- and relationship-centered care for individuals,
families, groups, communities and populations in a diverse society.
WSU Philosophy (4) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅1. Person-Centered. Person-centered care is an approach
in which individuals are viewed as whole persons.
2. Relationship-Centered. Relationship-centered care values and attends to the relationships that form
the context of compassionate care
3. Evidence-Based. Evidence includes research findings and their interpretation, practitioner and
consumer expertise and preferences.
, 4. Respectful-Respectful care is based upon mutual relationships that embrace diversity, and promote
dignity and choice.
Theory - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅set of concepts, ideas and assumptions that project a systemic view of a
phenomena
Paradigm - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅pattern of belief and practices; its identification explicates
researchers philosophy assumption about their subject matter
Domain - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅view or perspective of discipline
What are the FOUR domains of nursing? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅1. person/client
2. health
3. environment
4. nursing
Purposes of Nursing Theory (3) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅1. guides nursing practices/generates
knowledges
2. helps to describe or explain nursing
3. enables nurses to know WHY they are doing and WHAT they are doing
Types of Nursing Theories (4) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅1. Grand Theories
2. Middle-range theory
3. Descriptive Theory
4. Prescriptive Theories
Grand Theories - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅broad and complex
How is the ratio of number of nurses to doctors? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅nurses > doctors
T/F Nursing shortage - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅TRUE
What role do baby boomers play? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅implode the health care system
What makes up the Institute of Medicine? (3) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅1. Recommendation to
Congress/state legislatures: remove barriers that prevent nurses from fully utilizing their skills
2. Higher Levels of Education: U.S. health needs are changing
3. Increase Nurse Leadership
WSU Mission Statement - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅is to:
- educate
- knowledgeable Caring
- Ethical, Creative
- Accountable nurse leaders who provide person- and relationship-centered care for individuals,
families, groups, communities and populations in a diverse society.
WSU Philosophy (4) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅1. Person-Centered. Person-centered care is an approach
in which individuals are viewed as whole persons.
2. Relationship-Centered. Relationship-centered care values and attends to the relationships that form
the context of compassionate care
3. Evidence-Based. Evidence includes research findings and their interpretation, practitioner and
consumer expertise and preferences.
, 4. Respectful-Respectful care is based upon mutual relationships that embrace diversity, and promote
dignity and choice.
Theory - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅set of concepts, ideas and assumptions that project a systemic view of a
phenomena
Paradigm - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅pattern of belief and practices; its identification explicates
researchers philosophy assumption about their subject matter
Domain - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅view or perspective of discipline
What are the FOUR domains of nursing? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅1. person/client
2. health
3. environment
4. nursing
Purposes of Nursing Theory (3) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅1. guides nursing practices/generates
knowledges
2. helps to describe or explain nursing
3. enables nurses to know WHY they are doing and WHAT they are doing
Types of Nursing Theories (4) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅1. Grand Theories
2. Middle-range theory
3. Descriptive Theory
4. Prescriptive Theories
Grand Theories - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅broad and complex
