BRAKES PRACTICE EXAMINATION
2026 QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS
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◍ code of ethics.
Answer: provide care exceptions via ideals of right and wrong
◍ Health Care Models.
Answer: Clinical Model of HealthHolistic health modelHealth Belief
ModelRole Performance Model of HealthAdaptive Model of HealthMedical
Model Of healthEcological Model of HealthEudaimonistic ModelNeuman
Systems Model
◍ Clinical Model of Health.
Answer: absence of illness by observable signs and symptoms of disease.
Individuals only seek help, generally, if they are very ill.
◍ Holistic health model.
Answer: attempts to create conditions that promote a patient's optimal level
of health. In this model nurses using the nursing process consider patients to
be the ultimate experts concerning their own health and respect patients'
subjective experience as relevant in maintaining health or assisting in
healing. In the holistic health model patients are involved in their healing
process, thereby assuming some responsibility for health maintenance
◍ standards of practice.
Answer: duties nurses are expected to competently perform:assesment, dx,
outcomes ID, planning, implementation, evaluation
◍ standards of performance.
, Answer: competent levels of behavior in nursing role (12)
◍ 12 standards of performance.
Answer: ethics, advocacy, respect/equitable, communication, collaboration,
leadership ADD others
◍ Health Belief Model.
Answer: Conceptual framework that describes a person's health behavior as
an expression of his or her health beliefs
◍ Role Performance Model of Health.
Answer: defines health by one's ability to perform their social roles. Societal
expectations. Basis for occupational health evaluations, school physical
exams and physician excused absence.
◍ Adaptive Model of Health.
Answer: individual's ability to adjust positively to social, mental, and
physiological changes in their health.
◍ Medical Model Of health.
Answer: indicating the assumption that abnormal behavior is the result of
physical problems and should be treated medically. Sometimes, that is
clearly true, as with traumatic brain injury.
◍ nursing practice acts.
Answer: rules overseen by state nursing boards to regulate the scope of
practice for public health safety and welfare
◍ Ecological Model of Health.
Answer: More recent and comprehensive developmental approach=Institutes
of Medicine (IOM), 2003.Emphasis on social determination of health and
quality of life were added to this model in 2008 and 2010. Model looks at
factors in society that influence health and the options available to improve
or maintain health.
◍ Eudaimonistic Model.
Answer: defines optimal health as exuberant well-being. Emphasis on the
, interactions among physical, social, psychological and spiritual aspects of
life and the environment that contribute to goal attainment and creates
meaning of one's life.
◍ 6 roles and responsibilities of a nurse.
Answer: -autonomy and
accountability-caregiver-advocate-educator-communicator-manager
◍ burnout.
Answer: state of mental and physical exhaustion
◍ Neuman Systems Model.
Answer: The Neuman Systems Model is a unique, open systems-based
perspective that provides a unifying focus for approaching a wide range of
international health concerns. Being universal in nature, it is open to creative
interpretation and is widely used throughout the world as a
multidisciplinary, wholistic, and comprehensive guide for excellence in
nursing practice, education, research, and administration. Its concepts,
processes, and theoretical base are relevant to complement future emerging
health care trends and issues."
◍ Brenner's stages of nursing proficency.
Answer: novice, advanced beginner, competent, proficient, expertbasically
you improve through experience
◍ Clara Barton.
Answer: founder of red cross
◍ Health.
Answer: A state of physical, mental, and social functioning that realizes the
potential of which a person is capable.
◍ Florence Nightingale.
Answer: first nurse epidemiologist, crimean war, Nightingale schools
◍ intrapersonal vs interpersonal communication.
Answer: intrapersonal self talk inter between 2 ppl