QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS
2024/2025
CHAPTER 1 - Answer-Nursing Today
/.Benner's Model of Novice to Expert - Answer-Novice
Advanced beginner
Competent
Proficient
Expert
/.ANA definition of nursing - Answer-the protection, promotion, and optimization of
health and abilities, prevention of illness and injury, alleviation of suffering through the
diagnosis and treatment of human response, and advocacy in the care of individuals,
families, communities, and populations
/.ANA Standards of Nursing Practice - Answer-Assessment
Diagnosis
Outcomes Identification
Planning
Implementation
Coordination of Care
Health Teaching + Health Promotion
Consultation
Prescriptive Authority + Treatment
Evaluation
/.ANA Standards of Professional Performance - Answer-Ethics
Education
Evidence-Based Practice
Quality of Practice
Communication
Leadership
Collaboration
Professional Practice
Resources
Environmental Health
/.Autonomy - Answer-Essential element of professional nursing that involves the
initiation of independent nursing interventions without medical orders.
, /.Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN) - Answer-Most independently
functioning nurse; has masters degree in nursing
/.Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) - Answer-An APRN who is an expert clinician in a
specialized area of practice
/.Nurse Practioner (NP) - Answer-Are prepared to provide direct client care in primary
care settings, focusing on health promotion, illness prevention, early diagnosis, and
treatment of common health problems
/.Certified Nurse-Midwife (CNM) - Answer-An APRN who is also educated in midwifery
and is certified by the American College of Nurse-Midwifes
/.Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist (CRNA) - Answer-An APRN with advanced
education in a nurse anesthetia accredited program
/.Nurse Educator - Answer-works primarily in schools of nursing, staff development
departments of health care agencies, and patient education departments
/.Nurse Administrator - Answer-manages patient care and the delivery of specific
nursing services within a health care agency
/.Nurse Researcher - Answer-conducts evidence-based practice and research to
improve nursing care and further define and expand the scope of nursing practice
/.Florence Nightingale - Answer-Founder of modern nursing; started first organized
program to train nurses; first practicing nurse epidemiologist; connected sanitation with
cholera and dysentery
/.Clara Barton - Answer-Nurse during the Civil War; founder of the American Red Cross
/.Mary Mahoney - Answer-First professionally trained African American nurse
/.Mary Adelaide Nutting - Answer-First professor of nursing at Columbia University
Teachers College in 1906.
/.Compassion fatigue - Answer-described as physical, emotional, and spiritual
exhaustion resulting from seeing patients suffer, leads to a decreased capacity to show
compassion or empathize with suffering people
/.Burnout - Answer-Occurs when perceived demands outweigh perceived resources
/.Lateral violence - Answer-Aggressive and destructive behavior or psychological
harassment of nurses against each other
/.Genomics - Answer-Study of whole genomes, including genes and their functions