NURS 1001 Midterm Exam Questions
and Answers
5 core competencies - ANS-1. Provide patient-centered care
2. Work in interdisciplinary/professional teams
3. Employ evidence based practice
4. Apply quality improvement
5. Utilize informatics
Accreditation - ANS-process in which certification of competency, authority or credibility
is presented ex) NLN AACN established of standards, curriculum, structure or faculty
ANA standards of care - ANS-•Assessment
• Diagnosis
• Outcome identification and planning
• Implementation
• Evaluation
Benner's Stages of Nursing Expertise - ANS-Stage 1: Novice- needs someone to tell
them what to do
Stage 2: Advanced Beginner- rely on actual experience
Stage 3: Competent- greater efficiency and organization
Stage 4: Proficient- more holistic view look @ big pic
Stage 5: Expert- requires you to reflect on practice
Certification - ANS-A voluntary credentialing process indicates expertise in specialty
and granted by professional organization
Concepts - ANS-ideas that represent a class or category of objects, events, or activities
Credentialing - ANS-required, safe provider aka licensure, granted by state board
decrease of nurses - ANS-increase of errors infections and readmissions
work environment
unclear role experience
Dorthea Dix - ANS-dedicated to improving conditions for the mentally ill. led movement
to build new mental hospitals and improve existing ones
Evaluative beliefs - ANS-Beliefs that evaluate something, and so assess it as good or
bad, virtuous or vicious, and so on.
, evidence based practice and nursing - ANS-helps to resolve problems
contributes to the science of nurses -innovations to practrice
keeps practice current
dec variations
inc confidence
BETTER PATIENT OUTCOMES
evidence-based practice - ANS-clinical decision making that integrates the best
available research with clinical expertise and patient characteristics and preferences
existential beliefs - ANS-can be shown to be true or false
Florence Nightingale - ANS-Established sanitary nursing care units. Founder of modern
nursing. began professional education of nursing -> believed in having clean air, food
and water. Nursing comes from a moral obligation and looked for nurses who were
sober and honest
Greek history of nursing - ANS-Health was considered the result from balance between
mind and body and ties between environment and health
Henderson's Theory - ANS-person- recipient of nursing care who is composed of bio,
psycho, socio and spiritual
environment- external environment
health- based upon patients ability to function
Nursing - assist the person sick or well in performance of activities
Industrial revolution of nursing - ANS-really poor standards for work and care -> church
had to help those who were sick
IOM Future of Nursing Report - ANS-- nurses and practice to their full extent
- nurses should achieve higher levels of education
- nurses should be full parties with the physicians and other health professions
- effective work force planning and policy making
job - ANS-paid position of regular employment
levels of evidence - ANS-anecdotal, case reports, descriptive, cohort, quasi-experiment,
randomized controlled trials, review and meta analysis
Lilian Wald - ANS-Founder of public health nursing, established the Henry street
settlement
Mary Breckinridge - ANS-Established the Frontier Nursing Service
and Answers
5 core competencies - ANS-1. Provide patient-centered care
2. Work in interdisciplinary/professional teams
3. Employ evidence based practice
4. Apply quality improvement
5. Utilize informatics
Accreditation - ANS-process in which certification of competency, authority or credibility
is presented ex) NLN AACN established of standards, curriculum, structure or faculty
ANA standards of care - ANS-•Assessment
• Diagnosis
• Outcome identification and planning
• Implementation
• Evaluation
Benner's Stages of Nursing Expertise - ANS-Stage 1: Novice- needs someone to tell
them what to do
Stage 2: Advanced Beginner- rely on actual experience
Stage 3: Competent- greater efficiency and organization
Stage 4: Proficient- more holistic view look @ big pic
Stage 5: Expert- requires you to reflect on practice
Certification - ANS-A voluntary credentialing process indicates expertise in specialty
and granted by professional organization
Concepts - ANS-ideas that represent a class or category of objects, events, or activities
Credentialing - ANS-required, safe provider aka licensure, granted by state board
decrease of nurses - ANS-increase of errors infections and readmissions
work environment
unclear role experience
Dorthea Dix - ANS-dedicated to improving conditions for the mentally ill. led movement
to build new mental hospitals and improve existing ones
Evaluative beliefs - ANS-Beliefs that evaluate something, and so assess it as good or
bad, virtuous or vicious, and so on.
, evidence based practice and nursing - ANS-helps to resolve problems
contributes to the science of nurses -innovations to practrice
keeps practice current
dec variations
inc confidence
BETTER PATIENT OUTCOMES
evidence-based practice - ANS-clinical decision making that integrates the best
available research with clinical expertise and patient characteristics and preferences
existential beliefs - ANS-can be shown to be true or false
Florence Nightingale - ANS-Established sanitary nursing care units. Founder of modern
nursing. began professional education of nursing -> believed in having clean air, food
and water. Nursing comes from a moral obligation and looked for nurses who were
sober and honest
Greek history of nursing - ANS-Health was considered the result from balance between
mind and body and ties between environment and health
Henderson's Theory - ANS-person- recipient of nursing care who is composed of bio,
psycho, socio and spiritual
environment- external environment
health- based upon patients ability to function
Nursing - assist the person sick or well in performance of activities
Industrial revolution of nursing - ANS-really poor standards for work and care -> church
had to help those who were sick
IOM Future of Nursing Report - ANS-- nurses and practice to their full extent
- nurses should achieve higher levels of education
- nurses should be full parties with the physicians and other health professions
- effective work force planning and policy making
job - ANS-paid position of regular employment
levels of evidence - ANS-anecdotal, case reports, descriptive, cohort, quasi-experiment,
randomized controlled trials, review and meta analysis
Lilian Wald - ANS-Founder of public health nursing, established the Henry street
settlement
Mary Breckinridge - ANS-Established the Frontier Nursing Service
