STUDY GUIDE 2026 ADVANCED CLINICAL
PHARMACOLOGY AND PRIMARY CARE
PRINCIPLES
◉ Kinesthetic learning style.
Answer: the tendency to prefer demonstrations and physical activity
involving bodily movement
◉ Auditory learning style.
Answer: learner is one who retains information better by hearing
lectures or listening to music and tapes
◉ Visual learning style.
Answer: Uses visual objects such as graphs, charts, pictures, and
seeing information
◉ purpose of goals/desired outcomes.
Answer: 1. Provide direction for planning nursing interventions
2. Serve as criteria for evaluating client progress
3. Enable the client and nurse to determine when the problem has
been resolved
,4. Help motivate the client and nurse by providing a sense of
achievement
◉ SMART goals.
Answer: Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic, Timely
◉ Studying techniques.
Answer: 1. elaborate
2. generate and test
3. organize
4. take breaks
5. avoid illusions of learning
◉ Time management, calendars, post it notes, taking notes, concept
mapping.
Answer: Studying success
◉ Florence Nightingale.
Answer: Established sanitary nursing care units. Founder of modern
nursing. began professional education of nursing.
◉ Clara Barton (1821-1912).
,Answer: Launched the American Red Cross in 1881. An "angel" in
the Civil War, she treated the wounded in the field.
◉ Linda Richards (1841-1930).
Answer: First trained nurse in America. Responsible for the
development of the first nursing and hospital records. Credited with
the development of our present-day documentation system.
◉ Mary Eliza Mahoney (1845-1926).
Answer: The first African-American professional nurse; graduated
from New England Hospital in 1879; worked for acceptance of
African-Americans in the nursing profession
◉ Purpose of Nursing.
Answer: Health promotion, health maintenance, and health
restoration, illness prevention, coping with death
◉ Nursing knowledge is based on ________.
Answer: theoretical practice
◉ Nursing Philosophy.
Answer: Beliefs, values, ethics, attitudes, and accountability that
guides the nursing profession
, ◉ Roles of the Professional Nurse.
Answer: Teach
Advocate
Assess
Manage care
care provider
leader
researcher
manager
Collaborate with other members of health care team
◉ 7 C's of nursing.
Answer: Communication
Compassion
Caring
Competence
Commitment
Critical reasoning
Complexity
◉ ANA defines nursing as.