NURS 640 REVIEW SHEET TEST 1
2026 FULL QUESTIONS AND
ACCURATE ANSWERS
◉ Thinking Skills: Clinical Judgment. Answer: Clinical judgment
A process; consists of recognizing and analyzing the cues, prioritizing
hypotheses, generating solutions, taking actions, and evaluating
outcomes
◉ Thinking Skills: Critical thinking, reflective thinking. Answer:
Critical thinking, reflective thinking
Involves collecting and analyzing information and carefully considering
options for action
◉ Thinking Skills: Problem-solving. Answer: Problem-solving
Considers an issue and attempts to find a satisfactory solution
◉ Nursing is: (1980). Answer: The diagnosis and treatment of human
responses to actual and potential health problems
◉ Nursing is: ANA (2010). Answer: Nursing practice is individualized.
Nurses care by establishing partnerships.
Caring is central to the practice of the RN.
,RNs use the nursing process to plan and provide individualized care to
the healthcare consumers.
A strong link exists between the professional work environment and the
RN's ability to provide quality healthcare and achieve optimal outcomes.
◉ Nursing is: (2015). Answer: "Nursing is the protection, promotion,
and optimization of health and abilities, prevention of illness and injury,
facilitation of healing, alleviation of suffering through the diagnosis and
treatment of human response, and advocacy in the care of individuals,
families, groups, communities, and populations."
◉ Why Define Nursing?. Answer: *Helps the public understand the
value of Nursing.
*Helps differentiate activities of Nursing from those of medicine.
*Helps students understand what is expected of them.
◉ Nursing Aims. Answer: 1. To promote health (state of optimal
functioning)
2. To prevent illness
3. To restore health
4. To facilitate coping with disability or death
◉ Roles and Functions of a Nurse. Answer: - Direct care provider
- Communicator
- Teacher
, - Counselor
- Leader
- Researcher
- Advocate
- Collaborator
◉ Nursing: Profession, Occupation, or Discipline?. Answer: Profession:
Technical and scientific knowledge; be evaluated by a community of
peers; have a service orientation and a code of ethics (Starr, 1982).
Discipline: Nursing is a scientifically based and self-governed
profession that focuses on the ethical care of others.
Nursing is a discipline, driven by aspects of theory and practice.
Nursing demands mastery of both theoretical knowledge and clinical
skills.
Occupation: Nursing is often described as an occupation, or job.
Most nurses are hourly wage earners.
The employer, not the nurse, decides the conditions of practice and the
nature of the work.
Nurse practice acts do not prevent nurses from functioning more
autonomously
◉ Professional Formation. Answer: Nursing educators have a
responsibility to form the professional identities of their students and
graduates; teaching not only about nursing, but how to be a nurse
If successful, graduates will acquire a professional identity that creates a
sense of belonging to a group that holds the same values
2026 FULL QUESTIONS AND
ACCURATE ANSWERS
◉ Thinking Skills: Clinical Judgment. Answer: Clinical judgment
A process; consists of recognizing and analyzing the cues, prioritizing
hypotheses, generating solutions, taking actions, and evaluating
outcomes
◉ Thinking Skills: Critical thinking, reflective thinking. Answer:
Critical thinking, reflective thinking
Involves collecting and analyzing information and carefully considering
options for action
◉ Thinking Skills: Problem-solving. Answer: Problem-solving
Considers an issue and attempts to find a satisfactory solution
◉ Nursing is: (1980). Answer: The diagnosis and treatment of human
responses to actual and potential health problems
◉ Nursing is: ANA (2010). Answer: Nursing practice is individualized.
Nurses care by establishing partnerships.
Caring is central to the practice of the RN.
,RNs use the nursing process to plan and provide individualized care to
the healthcare consumers.
A strong link exists between the professional work environment and the
RN's ability to provide quality healthcare and achieve optimal outcomes.
◉ Nursing is: (2015). Answer: "Nursing is the protection, promotion,
and optimization of health and abilities, prevention of illness and injury,
facilitation of healing, alleviation of suffering through the diagnosis and
treatment of human response, and advocacy in the care of individuals,
families, groups, communities, and populations."
◉ Why Define Nursing?. Answer: *Helps the public understand the
value of Nursing.
*Helps differentiate activities of Nursing from those of medicine.
*Helps students understand what is expected of them.
◉ Nursing Aims. Answer: 1. To promote health (state of optimal
functioning)
2. To prevent illness
3. To restore health
4. To facilitate coping with disability or death
◉ Roles and Functions of a Nurse. Answer: - Direct care provider
- Communicator
- Teacher
, - Counselor
- Leader
- Researcher
- Advocate
- Collaborator
◉ Nursing: Profession, Occupation, or Discipline?. Answer: Profession:
Technical and scientific knowledge; be evaluated by a community of
peers; have a service orientation and a code of ethics (Starr, 1982).
Discipline: Nursing is a scientifically based and self-governed
profession that focuses on the ethical care of others.
Nursing is a discipline, driven by aspects of theory and practice.
Nursing demands mastery of both theoretical knowledge and clinical
skills.
Occupation: Nursing is often described as an occupation, or job.
Most nurses are hourly wage earners.
The employer, not the nurse, decides the conditions of practice and the
nature of the work.
Nurse practice acts do not prevent nurses from functioning more
autonomously
◉ Professional Formation. Answer: Nursing educators have a
responsibility to form the professional identities of their students and
graduates; teaching not only about nursing, but how to be a nurse
If successful, graduates will acquire a professional identity that creates a
sense of belonging to a group that holds the same values
