Fundamentals of Nursing Exam Questions With Correct Answers

Fundamentals of Nursing Exam Questions
With Correct Answers

origination of the word "nurse" - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-from the latin word
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"nutrix" meaning to nourish
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Interrelated roles of nurses - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-communicator, teacher,
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counselor, leader, researcher, advocate, collaborator
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coping with disability and death - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-nurses use optimal
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function of maximum strengths and potentials, refer to community support
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systems; provide care to families and patients during end-of-life care, hospice
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The Nursing Process - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔--one of major guidelines for nursing
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practice
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-helps nurses implement their roles
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-integrates art and science of nursing
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-allows nurses to use critical thinking and clinical reasoning
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-defines the areas of care that are within the domain of nursing
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Nurse Practice Acts - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔--define legal scope of nursing
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practice
-create state board of nursing to make and enforce rules and regulation
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,-define important terms and activities in nursing, including legal requirements
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and titles for RNs and LPNs
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- established criteria for the education and licensure of nurses
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5 vital signs - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-respirations, pulse rate, blood pressure,
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temperature, and pain | |




Nursing is recognized as profession based on what criteria - CORRECT
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ANSWER✔✔--well defined body specific and unique knowledge | | | | | |




-strong service orientation | |




-recognized authority by a professional group (ANA) | | | | | |




-code of ethics | |




-professional organization that sets standards | | | |




-ongoing research |




-autonomy and self-regulation | |




Florence Nightingale - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-defined nursing as both an art and
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science, differentiated nursing from medicine, created freestanding nursing
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education, published books; founder of modern nursing | | | | | |




Clara Barton - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-established red cross; volunteered to care
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for wounds and feed union soldiers during civil war; served as supervisor of
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nurses for the army of James| | | | |




sources of knowledge - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔--traditional ( passed down from
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generation to generation) | |

, -authoritative- comes from an expert, accepted as truth based on person's
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perceived expertise |




-scientific (obtained through the scientific method-research)
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objective - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-you can see the object
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subjective - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-coming from that subject
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types of knowledge - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔--science (observing, identifying,
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describing, investigating, and explaining events and occurences that are perceived
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in world)
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-philosophy (the study of wisdom, fundamental knowledge, and the processes
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used to develop and construct on perception on life)
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-process (a series of actions, changes, or functions intended to bring about a
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desired result) |




goals of nursing research - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔--improve care in clinical setting
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-study ppl and nurse process: education, policy development, ethics, nursing
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history
-develop greater autonomy and strength as a profession
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-provide evidence-based nursing practice
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deductive reasoning - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-examines a general idea and then
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considers specific actions or ideas
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