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NUR1009 EXAM 1 STUDY GUIDE
SOLUTIONS
Natural Defense Mechanisms Against Infection-Skin - Ans:✔✔--Shedding of outer layer of skin cells
-(Action)Removes organisms that adhere to outer layers of skin
Florence Nightingale - Ans:✔✔--First practicing epidemiologist
-Organized first school of nursing
-Improved sanitation in battlefield hospitals in Crimea
-Practices remain a basic part of nursing today
Novice - Ans:✔✔-Beginning nursing student or any nurse entering a situation in which there is no
previous level or experience. The learner via a specific set of rules or procedures, which are usually
stepwise and linear.
Advanced Beginner - Ans:✔✔-A nurse who has some level of experience with the situation. This
experience may only be observational in nature, but the nurse is able to identify meaningful aspects or
principles of nursing care.
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Competent - Ans:✔✔-A nurse who has been in the same clinical position for 2-3 years. This nurse
understands the organization and specific care required by the type of patients and is a competent
practitioner who is able to anticipate nursing care and establish long-range goals. In this phase the nurse
usually had experience with all types of psychomotor skills required by this specific group of patients.
Proficient - Ans:✔✔-A nurse with more than 2 to 3 years of experience in the same clinical position. This
nurse perceives a patient's clinical situation as a whole, is able to assess an entire situation, and can
readily transfer knowledge gained from multiple previous experiences to a situation. This nurse focuses
on managing care as opposed to managing and performing skills.
Expert - Ans:✔✔-A nurse with diverse experience who has an intuitive grasp of an existing or potential
clinical problem. This nurse is able to zero in on the problem and focus on multiple dimensions of the
situation. He or she is skilled at identifying both patient-centered problems and problems related to the
health care system or perhaps the needs of the novice nurse.
Professional responsibilities of a nurse - Ans:✔✔--Autonomy and Accountability
-Caregiver
-Advocate
-Educator
-Communicator
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-Manager
You are responsible for obtaining and maintaining - Ans:✔✔-specific knowledge and skills for a variety of
professional roles and responsibilities.
Autonomy and Accountability - Ans:✔✔-- Essential element of a profession
- Initiation of nursing interventions without medical orders
- Accountability through
- Nursing Audits
- Standards of Practice
- Responsible legally and professionally responsible for the care you give
- With Increased autonomy comes greater accountability and responsibility
Caregiver - Ans:✔✔-- Help patients:
Maintain health
Manage disease and symptoms
Attain maximal level of function and independence
Promote healing process
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Integrate cultural sensitivity into all patient care experiences
-Provide measures to restore emotional, spiritual, and social well being
-Nurses treat the whole person
Advocate - Ans:✔✔-- Protect your patient's human and legal rights
- Provide teaching to help patient make informed decisions
- Defend their rights to make decisions
- Protect patient from dangerous policies or actions
- Can you think of some examples of nurse as advocate?
Educator - Ans:✔✔-- Almost every encounter with a patient involves teaching
- Facts about health and disease process
- Procedures for self-care (dressings, ostomy care, meds)
- Health Promotion
- Chronic disease management
- Teaching requires assessment of
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NUR1009 EXAM 1 STUDY GUIDE
SOLUTIONS
Natural Defense Mechanisms Against Infection-Skin - Ans:✔✔--Shedding of outer layer of skin cells
-(Action)Removes organisms that adhere to outer layers of skin
Florence Nightingale - Ans:✔✔--First practicing epidemiologist
-Organized first school of nursing
-Improved sanitation in battlefield hospitals in Crimea
-Practices remain a basic part of nursing today
Novice - Ans:✔✔-Beginning nursing student or any nurse entering a situation in which there is no
previous level or experience. The learner via a specific set of rules or procedures, which are usually
stepwise and linear.
Advanced Beginner - Ans:✔✔-A nurse who has some level of experience with the situation. This
experience may only be observational in nature, but the nurse is able to identify meaningful aspects or
principles of nursing care.
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Competent - Ans:✔✔-A nurse who has been in the same clinical position for 2-3 years. This nurse
understands the organization and specific care required by the type of patients and is a competent
practitioner who is able to anticipate nursing care and establish long-range goals. In this phase the nurse
usually had experience with all types of psychomotor skills required by this specific group of patients.
Proficient - Ans:✔✔-A nurse with more than 2 to 3 years of experience in the same clinical position. This
nurse perceives a patient's clinical situation as a whole, is able to assess an entire situation, and can
readily transfer knowledge gained from multiple previous experiences to a situation. This nurse focuses
on managing care as opposed to managing and performing skills.
Expert - Ans:✔✔-A nurse with diverse experience who has an intuitive grasp of an existing or potential
clinical problem. This nurse is able to zero in on the problem and focus on multiple dimensions of the
situation. He or she is skilled at identifying both patient-centered problems and problems related to the
health care system or perhaps the needs of the novice nurse.
Professional responsibilities of a nurse - Ans:✔✔--Autonomy and Accountability
-Caregiver
-Advocate
-Educator
-Communicator
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-Manager
You are responsible for obtaining and maintaining - Ans:✔✔-specific knowledge and skills for a variety of
professional roles and responsibilities.
Autonomy and Accountability - Ans:✔✔-- Essential element of a profession
- Initiation of nursing interventions without medical orders
- Accountability through
- Nursing Audits
- Standards of Practice
- Responsible legally and professionally responsible for the care you give
- With Increased autonomy comes greater accountability and responsibility
Caregiver - Ans:✔✔-- Help patients:
Maintain health
Manage disease and symptoms
Attain maximal level of function and independence
Promote healing process
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Integrate cultural sensitivity into all patient care experiences
-Provide measures to restore emotional, spiritual, and social well being
-Nurses treat the whole person
Advocate - Ans:✔✔-- Protect your patient's human and legal rights
- Provide teaching to help patient make informed decisions
- Defend their rights to make decisions
- Protect patient from dangerous policies or actions
- Can you think of some examples of nurse as advocate?
Educator - Ans:✔✔-- Almost every encounter with a patient involves teaching
- Facts about health and disease process
- Procedures for self-care (dressings, ostomy care, meds)
- Health Promotion
- Chronic disease management
- Teaching requires assessment of
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