NUR 1060C Study Guide Exam 1
questions well answered
What is the nursing process? - correct answer ✔✔the standards of practice in nursing that
includes
- assessment
- diagnosis
- planning
- implementation
- evaluation
What is the purpose of each part? - correct answer ✔✔- assessment: info gathered to establish
a foundation upon which all patient care moving forward is established
- diagnosis: data analysis, identification of the patient's health problem, risks and strengths, and
formation of diagnostic statements
- outcomes/planning: care plans for personalized patient care based on client's needs
- implementation: promote positive patient outcomes, measure patient responses to
interventions
- evaluation: patient's progress toward achieving established goals and outcomes
What is the importance of evidence based practice? - correct answer ✔✔- reflects a holistic
practice and is not primary clinical
- involves the integration of research evidence, clinical expertise, clinical knowledge, and patient
values and preferences
What groups are affected by healthcare disparities? - correct answer ✔✔Health disparities
affect people who experience social,economic, and/or environmental disadvantage.
, vulnerable population: ethnic and racial minorities, people with disabilities and the LGBTQ
community
What is health disparities? - correct answer ✔✔Health disparities are preventable differences in
the burden of disease, injury, violence, or opportunities to achieve optimal health that are
experienced by socially disadvantaged populations.
What is acculturative stress and examples? - correct answer ✔✔acculturative stress involves the
losses and chances that occur when adjusting to or integrating a new system of beliefs, routines
and social roles
ex: environmental - financial, language barrier, lack of access to health care
Social/interpersonal- loss of social networks, family conflict, changing gender roles
Societal- legal status, discrimination, stigma
What are the health related beliefs and practices? - correct answer ✔✔1. Biomedical or
scientific: Cause and effect that can provide physical and psychological illnesses
ex: germ theory
2. Naturalistic or holistic: Belief in the forces of nature that there is balance in the universe
ex: yin/yang theory
3. Magicoreligious: Supernatural forces dominate resulting in good versus evil,
ex: voodoo or faith healing
4. Folk healers: Hispanic: curandero, espiritualista, yerbo, or sabedor
Black: hougan, spiritualist, old lady
American Indian: shaman, medicine woman, medicine man
Asian: herbalists, acupuncturists, bone setters
Amish: braucher
questions well answered
What is the nursing process? - correct answer ✔✔the standards of practice in nursing that
includes
- assessment
- diagnosis
- planning
- implementation
- evaluation
What is the purpose of each part? - correct answer ✔✔- assessment: info gathered to establish
a foundation upon which all patient care moving forward is established
- diagnosis: data analysis, identification of the patient's health problem, risks and strengths, and
formation of diagnostic statements
- outcomes/planning: care plans for personalized patient care based on client's needs
- implementation: promote positive patient outcomes, measure patient responses to
interventions
- evaluation: patient's progress toward achieving established goals and outcomes
What is the importance of evidence based practice? - correct answer ✔✔- reflects a holistic
practice and is not primary clinical
- involves the integration of research evidence, clinical expertise, clinical knowledge, and patient
values and preferences
What groups are affected by healthcare disparities? - correct answer ✔✔Health disparities
affect people who experience social,economic, and/or environmental disadvantage.
, vulnerable population: ethnic and racial minorities, people with disabilities and the LGBTQ
community
What is health disparities? - correct answer ✔✔Health disparities are preventable differences in
the burden of disease, injury, violence, or opportunities to achieve optimal health that are
experienced by socially disadvantaged populations.
What is acculturative stress and examples? - correct answer ✔✔acculturative stress involves the
losses and chances that occur when adjusting to or integrating a new system of beliefs, routines
and social roles
ex: environmental - financial, language barrier, lack of access to health care
Social/interpersonal- loss of social networks, family conflict, changing gender roles
Societal- legal status, discrimination, stigma
What are the health related beliefs and practices? - correct answer ✔✔1. Biomedical or
scientific: Cause and effect that can provide physical and psychological illnesses
ex: germ theory
2. Naturalistic or holistic: Belief in the forces of nature that there is balance in the universe
ex: yin/yang theory
3. Magicoreligious: Supernatural forces dominate resulting in good versus evil,
ex: voodoo or faith healing
4. Folk healers: Hispanic: curandero, espiritualista, yerbo, or sabedor
Black: hougan, spiritualist, old lady
American Indian: shaman, medicine woman, medicine man
Asian: herbalists, acupuncturists, bone setters
Amish: braucher
