NUR215 EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS A+ GRADED
Health literacy refers to what?
Client's knowledge and understanding about their conditions
When not presented, it can lead to poor health outcomes...
Health literacy
Holistic Nursing Care provides what?
Provides care for the whole person:
Physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual health
Nurses must...
Respect the unique differences of all individuals
Nurses are trusted to address their diverse clients with
Integrity, honesty, and compassion
Nursing roles are
Ensure patients receive the care they need to safely navigate the health care system
and to achieve a safe outcome
Other nursing competencies include
Advocacy
Counseling
Change management
Communication
Collaboration
Compassion
Honesty
Integrity
Standards of professional practice are
Specific to the practice of nursing
Establish expectations for professional behavior will protect
Nurses, patients, and the facility where patient care is practiced
Hold nurses accountable for:
Following the code of conduct and upholding ethical values related to the profession
Nursing has general...
Standards of practice that every nurse is held accountable to
ANA
The American Nurses Association
The ANA standards include the:
Standards of nursing practice and standards of professional performance
The nursing process is
Standards of practice corresponding to the critical thinking model known as the nursing
process
RNs use the nursing process as
The basis for decision making and actions taken
5 steps of the nursing process
Assessment, analysis, planning, implementation, and evaluation
State nurse practice acts
, Regulate nursing within each state
executed by the state boards of nursing
identify conditions for licensure
identify specific nursing titles
determine scope and standard of practice
Who defines the scope of practice?
State legislature
- passes the NPAs
- such as the state board of nursing
What does the NPA regulate?
Nursing practice within their state and provide general guidelines
The state board of nursing does what?
Enforce regulations and rules set by the NPA
Nursing licensure
It is the duty of each state to protect all clients receiving care
periodic license renewal required
Regulatory agencies in health care
Enforce standards and practice requirements
Health promotion
Enhancing people's influence over and improvement of their health
Disease prevention
Primary and secondary (early detention) preventive measures
reducing burden of disease and associated risk factors
Health outcomes:
The result of health promotion and disease prevention measures
Wellness
A positive state of health
Health communication
Needs to be evidence based, culturally sensitive, understandable, easily accessed, and
delivered through a variety of media
Health education improves health of individual or communities through...
Increased knowledge or by influencing attitudes
Health education strategies include
Notifying individuals or groups of risk, benefits, behaviors that need to be changed, and
the tools needed to make such changes
What factors influence personal health?
Genetics, age, sex, ethnicity, family health history, and lifestyle
There are five broad, interconnected categories known as social determinants of
health
Genetics, behavior, environmental and physical influences, medical care, and social
factors
Modifiable risk factors are
Behavior and exposures that can raise or lower a person’s risk and measures that can
be taken to reduce that risk
Nonmodifiable risk factors are
Conditions that increase the risk of developing a disease and include:
Health literacy refers to what?
Client's knowledge and understanding about their conditions
When not presented, it can lead to poor health outcomes...
Health literacy
Holistic Nursing Care provides what?
Provides care for the whole person:
Physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual health
Nurses must...
Respect the unique differences of all individuals
Nurses are trusted to address their diverse clients with
Integrity, honesty, and compassion
Nursing roles are
Ensure patients receive the care they need to safely navigate the health care system
and to achieve a safe outcome
Other nursing competencies include
Advocacy
Counseling
Change management
Communication
Collaboration
Compassion
Honesty
Integrity
Standards of professional practice are
Specific to the practice of nursing
Establish expectations for professional behavior will protect
Nurses, patients, and the facility where patient care is practiced
Hold nurses accountable for:
Following the code of conduct and upholding ethical values related to the profession
Nursing has general...
Standards of practice that every nurse is held accountable to
ANA
The American Nurses Association
The ANA standards include the:
Standards of nursing practice and standards of professional performance
The nursing process is
Standards of practice corresponding to the critical thinking model known as the nursing
process
RNs use the nursing process as
The basis for decision making and actions taken
5 steps of the nursing process
Assessment, analysis, planning, implementation, and evaluation
State nurse practice acts
, Regulate nursing within each state
executed by the state boards of nursing
identify conditions for licensure
identify specific nursing titles
determine scope and standard of practice
Who defines the scope of practice?
State legislature
- passes the NPAs
- such as the state board of nursing
What does the NPA regulate?
Nursing practice within their state and provide general guidelines
The state board of nursing does what?
Enforce regulations and rules set by the NPA
Nursing licensure
It is the duty of each state to protect all clients receiving care
periodic license renewal required
Regulatory agencies in health care
Enforce standards and practice requirements
Health promotion
Enhancing people's influence over and improvement of their health
Disease prevention
Primary and secondary (early detention) preventive measures
reducing burden of disease and associated risk factors
Health outcomes:
The result of health promotion and disease prevention measures
Wellness
A positive state of health
Health communication
Needs to be evidence based, culturally sensitive, understandable, easily accessed, and
delivered through a variety of media
Health education improves health of individual or communities through...
Increased knowledge or by influencing attitudes
Health education strategies include
Notifying individuals or groups of risk, benefits, behaviors that need to be changed, and
the tools needed to make such changes
What factors influence personal health?
Genetics, age, sex, ethnicity, family health history, and lifestyle
There are five broad, interconnected categories known as social determinants of
health
Genetics, behavior, environmental and physical influences, medical care, and social
factors
Modifiable risk factors are
Behavior and exposures that can raise or lower a person’s risk and measures that can
be taken to reduce that risk
Nonmodifiable risk factors are
Conditions that increase the risk of developing a disease and include:
