FUNDAMENTALS OF NURSING TEST 1 KEISER QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS
Swanson doing for process - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅doing for the other as he/she would do for the self
if it were possible
Swanson definition of caring - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Swanson defines caring as a nurturing way of
relating to a valued other toward whom one feels a personal sense of commitment and responsibility.
Action Stage - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅occurs when the person actively implements behavioral and
cognitive strategies of the action plan to interrupt previous health risk behaviors and adopt new ones .
What stage requires the greatest commitment of time and energy? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Action
Stage
What are the strategies to promote behavioral change in the action stage? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅-
continue to discuss benefits with clients
-continue positive reenforcement
-Encourage clients to:
*Substitute healthy responses for problem behaviors (exercise and relaxation)
*Modify environment to reduce stimulus to a problem behavior (remove ash trays from home)
*Monitor behavior (food journal)
*Plan rewards
Health Promotion - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Way of thinking that revolves around a philosophy of
wholeness, wellness, and well-being.
Examples of health promotion - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Adequate amount of exercise, rest relaxation,
maintaining good nutrition, controlling use of tobacco, alcohol, and other drugs.
, Homeostatic mechanisms - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Constancy of the internal process of the body such as
blood oxygen, carbon dioxide levels, blood pressure, body temperature, blood glucose, fluid and
electrolyte balance.
Advocacy - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅-Nurses are champions for their clients.
-Enabling
-Empower clients and families through activities that enhance well-being, understanding and self care.
Client Empowerment - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅relationship includes mutual respect, trust and
confidence in the other's abilities and motives.
Stress scales - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅(PSS) psychological instrument that measures the perception of
stress. It measures the degree to which situations in one's life are appraised as stressful.
Shock phase of anxiety - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅stressor may be perceived consciously or unconsciously.
Significant body reactions to epinephrine, norepinephrine.
What system does the shock phase of anxiety stimulates? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅SNS (sympathetic
nervous system)
what happens once the SNS is stimulated during the shock phase? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅The
hypothalamus is stimulated and releases corticotropin hormone. Then the pituitary gland is stimulated
and releases adrenocorticotropic hormone.
Transaction - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅-Based on the work of Lazarus
-Encompasses a set of cognitive,affective, and adaptive (coping) responses that arise out of person-
environment transactions.
-Stress refers to any event in which environmental and/or internal demands tax adaptive resources of
individual, social system, or tissue system.
Transactional Stress Theory - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Person and environment and inseparable
*each affects and is affected by the other.
ANSWERS
Swanson doing for process - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅doing for the other as he/she would do for the self
if it were possible
Swanson definition of caring - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Swanson defines caring as a nurturing way of
relating to a valued other toward whom one feels a personal sense of commitment and responsibility.
Action Stage - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅occurs when the person actively implements behavioral and
cognitive strategies of the action plan to interrupt previous health risk behaviors and adopt new ones .
What stage requires the greatest commitment of time and energy? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Action
Stage
What are the strategies to promote behavioral change in the action stage? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅-
continue to discuss benefits with clients
-continue positive reenforcement
-Encourage clients to:
*Substitute healthy responses for problem behaviors (exercise and relaxation)
*Modify environment to reduce stimulus to a problem behavior (remove ash trays from home)
*Monitor behavior (food journal)
*Plan rewards
Health Promotion - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Way of thinking that revolves around a philosophy of
wholeness, wellness, and well-being.
Examples of health promotion - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Adequate amount of exercise, rest relaxation,
maintaining good nutrition, controlling use of tobacco, alcohol, and other drugs.
, Homeostatic mechanisms - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Constancy of the internal process of the body such as
blood oxygen, carbon dioxide levels, blood pressure, body temperature, blood glucose, fluid and
electrolyte balance.
Advocacy - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅-Nurses are champions for their clients.
-Enabling
-Empower clients and families through activities that enhance well-being, understanding and self care.
Client Empowerment - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅relationship includes mutual respect, trust and
confidence in the other's abilities and motives.
Stress scales - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅(PSS) psychological instrument that measures the perception of
stress. It measures the degree to which situations in one's life are appraised as stressful.
Shock phase of anxiety - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅stressor may be perceived consciously or unconsciously.
Significant body reactions to epinephrine, norepinephrine.
What system does the shock phase of anxiety stimulates? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅SNS (sympathetic
nervous system)
what happens once the SNS is stimulated during the shock phase? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅The
hypothalamus is stimulated and releases corticotropin hormone. Then the pituitary gland is stimulated
and releases adrenocorticotropic hormone.
Transaction - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅-Based on the work of Lazarus
-Encompasses a set of cognitive,affective, and adaptive (coping) responses that arise out of person-
environment transactions.
-Stress refers to any event in which environmental and/or internal demands tax adaptive resources of
individual, social system, or tissue system.
Transactional Stress Theory - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Person and environment and inseparable
*each affects and is affected by the other.
