NMNC 3110 - PRINCIPLES OF NURSING | 287 QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS | WITH COMPLETE SOLUTION.
Novice Answer - Beginning nurse student or any nurse entering a situation in
which there is no previous level of experience
Advanced beginner Answer - Nurse who has had some level of experience with
the situation, the experience may only be observational in nature, but the
nurse can identify meaningful aspects
Competent Answer - Same clinical position for 2-3 years, understands the
organization and specific care required. Anticipate nursing care and establish
long range goals.
Proficient Answer - 2-3 years of experience in some clinical position, perceives
patients clinical site as a whole, readily transfer knowledge gained from
previous experience, focus on managing care.
Expert Answer - Diverse experience can zero in on the problem and focus on
multiple dimensions of the situation skilled at identifying both patient centered
problem and problem related to the healthcare system
Assess Answer - RN collects pertinent data and information relative to the
healthcare consumers health and situation
,Diagnose Answer - Analyzes assessment data to determine the actual or
potential diagnoses, problems, and issues.
Plan/Outcome identification Answer - RN identifies expected outcomes for a
plan individualized to the healthcare consumer or situation
Implement Answer - RN implements the identified plan
Evalutate Answer - RN evaluates progress towards attainment of goals and
outcomes
ANA Answer - American Nurses Association
Nursing Definition Answer - According to the ANA, it is the art and science of
caring and focuses on the protection, promotion, and optimization of health
and abilities
ANA Standards of Professional Performance Answer - Ethics, advocacy,
respectful and equitable practice, communication, collaboration, leadership,
education, scholarly inquiry, quality of practice, professional practice
evaluation, resource stewardship, and environmental health
ANA Code of Ethics Answer - Statement of philosophical ideals of right and
wrong that defines the principles you will use to provide care to your patients.
Professional Roles Answer - Autonomy and Accountability
Caregiver
Advocate
Educator
,Communicator
Manager
Autonomy Answer - Independent nursing interventions that the nurse initiates
without medical orders
Caregiver Answer - Helps the patient maintain and regain health, manage
disease and symptoms, and attain a maximal level of function and
independence.
Advocate Answer - Protects patients' human and legal rights and provides
assistance in asserting these rights
Educator Answer - Explains concepts and facts about health, describes the
reason for activities, demonstrates, reinforces and evaluates the patient's
progress in learning
Communicator Answer - Is essential for all nursing roles and activities
Manager Answer - Has personnel, policy, and budgetary responsibility for a
specific nursing unit
Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN) four roles: Answer - Four roles:
certified nurse-midwife, certified nurse practitioner, clinical nurse specialist,
and certified registered nurse anesthetist
Clinical Nurse Specialist Answer - Expert clinician in a specialized area of
practice
, Nurse Practitioner Answer - Provides comprehensive health care to a group of
patients in an inpatient, outpatient, ambulatory care, or community-based
setting
Certified Nurse-Midwife Answer - Involves the independent care for women in
normal pregnancy, labor and delivery, and care of newborns
Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist Answer - Provides surgical anesthesia
Nurse Educator Answer - Works primarily in schools of nursing, staff
development, departments of health care agencies, and patient education
departments
Nursing Administrator Answer - Manages patient care and the delivery of
specific nursing services within a health care agency
Nurse Researcher Answer - Conducts evidence-based practice and research to
improve nursing care and to expand the scope of nursing practice
Florence Nightingale Answer - Established the first nursing philosophy,
improved sanitation and believed that nursing is taking charge of somebody's
health. "Nursing would take charge of somebodies health based on the
knowledge ""how to put the body in such a state to be free of disease or
recover from disease."
Clara Barton Answer - Founder of the American Red Cross
Lillian Wald and Mary Brewster Answer - Opened the Henry Street Settlement,
focusing on the health needs of the poor.
AND ANSWERS | WITH COMPLETE SOLUTION.
Novice Answer - Beginning nurse student or any nurse entering a situation in
which there is no previous level of experience
Advanced beginner Answer - Nurse who has had some level of experience with
the situation, the experience may only be observational in nature, but the
nurse can identify meaningful aspects
Competent Answer - Same clinical position for 2-3 years, understands the
organization and specific care required. Anticipate nursing care and establish
long range goals.
Proficient Answer - 2-3 years of experience in some clinical position, perceives
patients clinical site as a whole, readily transfer knowledge gained from
previous experience, focus on managing care.
Expert Answer - Diverse experience can zero in on the problem and focus on
multiple dimensions of the situation skilled at identifying both patient centered
problem and problem related to the healthcare system
Assess Answer - RN collects pertinent data and information relative to the
healthcare consumers health and situation
,Diagnose Answer - Analyzes assessment data to determine the actual or
potential diagnoses, problems, and issues.
Plan/Outcome identification Answer - RN identifies expected outcomes for a
plan individualized to the healthcare consumer or situation
Implement Answer - RN implements the identified plan
Evalutate Answer - RN evaluates progress towards attainment of goals and
outcomes
ANA Answer - American Nurses Association
Nursing Definition Answer - According to the ANA, it is the art and science of
caring and focuses on the protection, promotion, and optimization of health
and abilities
ANA Standards of Professional Performance Answer - Ethics, advocacy,
respectful and equitable practice, communication, collaboration, leadership,
education, scholarly inquiry, quality of practice, professional practice
evaluation, resource stewardship, and environmental health
ANA Code of Ethics Answer - Statement of philosophical ideals of right and
wrong that defines the principles you will use to provide care to your patients.
Professional Roles Answer - Autonomy and Accountability
Caregiver
Advocate
Educator
,Communicator
Manager
Autonomy Answer - Independent nursing interventions that the nurse initiates
without medical orders
Caregiver Answer - Helps the patient maintain and regain health, manage
disease and symptoms, and attain a maximal level of function and
independence.
Advocate Answer - Protects patients' human and legal rights and provides
assistance in asserting these rights
Educator Answer - Explains concepts and facts about health, describes the
reason for activities, demonstrates, reinforces and evaluates the patient's
progress in learning
Communicator Answer - Is essential for all nursing roles and activities
Manager Answer - Has personnel, policy, and budgetary responsibility for a
specific nursing unit
Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN) four roles: Answer - Four roles:
certified nurse-midwife, certified nurse practitioner, clinical nurse specialist,
and certified registered nurse anesthetist
Clinical Nurse Specialist Answer - Expert clinician in a specialized area of
practice
, Nurse Practitioner Answer - Provides comprehensive health care to a group of
patients in an inpatient, outpatient, ambulatory care, or community-based
setting
Certified Nurse-Midwife Answer - Involves the independent care for women in
normal pregnancy, labor and delivery, and care of newborns
Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist Answer - Provides surgical anesthesia
Nurse Educator Answer - Works primarily in schools of nursing, staff
development, departments of health care agencies, and patient education
departments
Nursing Administrator Answer - Manages patient care and the delivery of
specific nursing services within a health care agency
Nurse Researcher Answer - Conducts evidence-based practice and research to
improve nursing care and to expand the scope of nursing practice
Florence Nightingale Answer - Established the first nursing philosophy,
improved sanitation and believed that nursing is taking charge of somebody's
health. "Nursing would take charge of somebodies health based on the
knowledge ""how to put the body in such a state to be free of disease or
recover from disease."
Clara Barton Answer - Founder of the American Red Cross
Lillian Wald and Mary Brewster Answer - Opened the Henry Street Settlement,
focusing on the health needs of the poor.
