NUSA 201 – Exam 1 Study Guide and Practice Questions
Define nursing - correct answer ✔✔ - the protection, promotion, and optimization of health and
abilities
- prevention of illness and injury
- alleviation of suffering through the diagnosis and treatment of human response
- advocacy in the care of individuals, families, communities, and populations
What are the standards of professional performance? - correct answer ✔✔ ethics, educations,
evidence-based practice and research, quality of practice, communication, professional practice
evaluation, resources, and enviro
Nursing Profession characteristics - correct answer ✔✔ - formal education
- specialized knowledge
- orientation of service to others
-autonomy
-code of ethics
Code of ethics - correct answer ✔✔ used to clarify primary goals, values, and obligations
Professional Nursing Roles - correct answer ✔✔ - Autonomy and Accountability
- Caregiver
- Advocate
- Educator
- Communicator
Manager
, How does a nurse serve as a manager? - correct answer ✔✔ Coordinates nursing staff to deliver
nursing care
- Has personnel, policy, and budgetary responsibility for a specific unit
Who is Florence Nightingale? - correct answer ✔✔ - First practicing epidemiologist
- Organized first school of nursing
- Improved sanitation in battlefield hospitals
- Practices remain a basic part of nursing today
Who is Clara Barton? - correct answer ✔✔ -founded Red Cross
- tended to soldiers on the battlefield
Who is Dorothea Dix? - correct answer ✔✔ supervisor of female nurses of the Union Army
Who is Isabel Hampton Robb? - correct answer ✔✔ Founded ANA
ANJ author
Who are Lilian Wald and Mary Brewster? - correct answer ✔✔ Opened the Henry Street
Settlement which focuses on the health needs of the poor.
What did the Rockefeller study do? - correct answer ✔✔ Founded that nursing education
needed financial support.
Economic changes on nursing practice - correct answer ✔✔ -NPs instead of physicians
-greater influx in patients; -preventive care in a focus
-nurses are no longer limited to just the hospital setting
Define nursing - correct answer ✔✔ - the protection, promotion, and optimization of health and
abilities
- prevention of illness and injury
- alleviation of suffering through the diagnosis and treatment of human response
- advocacy in the care of individuals, families, communities, and populations
What are the standards of professional performance? - correct answer ✔✔ ethics, educations,
evidence-based practice and research, quality of practice, communication, professional practice
evaluation, resources, and enviro
Nursing Profession characteristics - correct answer ✔✔ - formal education
- specialized knowledge
- orientation of service to others
-autonomy
-code of ethics
Code of ethics - correct answer ✔✔ used to clarify primary goals, values, and obligations
Professional Nursing Roles - correct answer ✔✔ - Autonomy and Accountability
- Caregiver
- Advocate
- Educator
- Communicator
Manager
, How does a nurse serve as a manager? - correct answer ✔✔ Coordinates nursing staff to deliver
nursing care
- Has personnel, policy, and budgetary responsibility for a specific unit
Who is Florence Nightingale? - correct answer ✔✔ - First practicing epidemiologist
- Organized first school of nursing
- Improved sanitation in battlefield hospitals
- Practices remain a basic part of nursing today
Who is Clara Barton? - correct answer ✔✔ -founded Red Cross
- tended to soldiers on the battlefield
Who is Dorothea Dix? - correct answer ✔✔ supervisor of female nurses of the Union Army
Who is Isabel Hampton Robb? - correct answer ✔✔ Founded ANA
ANJ author
Who are Lilian Wald and Mary Brewster? - correct answer ✔✔ Opened the Henry Street
Settlement which focuses on the health needs of the poor.
What did the Rockefeller study do? - correct answer ✔✔ Founded that nursing education
needed financial support.
Economic changes on nursing practice - correct answer ✔✔ -NPs instead of physicians
-greater influx in patients; -preventive care in a focus
-nurses are no longer limited to just the hospital setting
