C HAPTER 01: N URSING AND THE H EALTH
C ARE S YSTEM
Williams: deWit's Fundamental Concepts and Skills for Nursing, 5th
Edition
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. Nursing interventions are best defined as activities that:
a. are taken to improve the patient’s health.
b. involve researching methods to maintain asepsis.
c. include the famil y in nursing care.
d. review guidelines for handling infectious wastes.
ANS: A
Interventions are actions taken to improve, maintain, or restore health.
DIF: Cognitive Level: Comprehension REF: p. 3 OBJ:
Theory #2 TOP: Art and Science of Nursing KEY: Nursing
Process Step: Planning MSC: NCLEX: Health Promotion
and Maintenance: Prevention and Detection of Disease
2. Nurse Practice Acts define the lega l scope of an LPN’s practice, which are
written and enforced by:
a. American Nurses Association.
b. National Council Licensure Examiners.
c. each state.
, d. each health care agency.
ANS: C
Each state writes and enforces the Nurse Practice Act, which defines
the legal scope of nursing practice.
DIF: Cognitive Level: Comprehension REF: p. 6 OBJ:
Theory #3 TOP: Nurse Practice Act KEY: Nursing
Process Step: N/A MSC: NCLEX: N/A
3. Women volunteers were organized to give nursing care to the wounded
soldiers during the Civil War by:
a. Florence Nightingale.
b. Dorothea Dix.
c. Clara Barton.
d. Lillian Wald.
ANS: B
The Union government appointed Dorothea Dix, a social worker, to
organize women volunteers to provide nursing care for the soldiers
during the Civil War.
DIF: Cognitive Level: Knowledge REF: p. 2 OBJ: Theory
#4 TOP: Nursing History KEY: Nursing Process Step:
N/A MSC: NCLEX: N/A
, 4. The nursing theory presented by Sister Calista Roy is based on:
a. reduction of stress.
b. achievement of maximum level of wel lness.
c. relief of self -care deficit.
d. adaptation modes.
ANS: D
Adaptation modes (physiological, psychological, sociological, and
independence) are the basis of the nursing theory of Sister Calista Roy.
DIF: Cognitive Level: Knowledge REF: p. 5|Table 1 -1
OBJ: Theory #2 TOP: Nursing Theory KEY: Nursing
Process Step: N/A MSC: NCLEX: N/A
5. The founding of the Red Cross is attributed to:
a. Lillian Wald.
b. Dorothea Dix.
c. Florence Nightingale.
d. Clara Barton.
ANS: D
Clara Barton founded the Red Cross.
DIF: Cognitive Level: Knowledge REF: p. 2 OBJ: Theory
#4 TOP: Nursing History KEY: Nursing Process Step:
N/A MSC: NCLEX: N/A
C ARE S YSTEM
Williams: deWit's Fundamental Concepts and Skills for Nursing, 5th
Edition
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. Nursing interventions are best defined as activities that:
a. are taken to improve the patient’s health.
b. involve researching methods to maintain asepsis.
c. include the famil y in nursing care.
d. review guidelines for handling infectious wastes.
ANS: A
Interventions are actions taken to improve, maintain, or restore health.
DIF: Cognitive Level: Comprehension REF: p. 3 OBJ:
Theory #2 TOP: Art and Science of Nursing KEY: Nursing
Process Step: Planning MSC: NCLEX: Health Promotion
and Maintenance: Prevention and Detection of Disease
2. Nurse Practice Acts define the lega l scope of an LPN’s practice, which are
written and enforced by:
a. American Nurses Association.
b. National Council Licensure Examiners.
c. each state.
, d. each health care agency.
ANS: C
Each state writes and enforces the Nurse Practice Act, which defines
the legal scope of nursing practice.
DIF: Cognitive Level: Comprehension REF: p. 6 OBJ:
Theory #3 TOP: Nurse Practice Act KEY: Nursing
Process Step: N/A MSC: NCLEX: N/A
3. Women volunteers were organized to give nursing care to the wounded
soldiers during the Civil War by:
a. Florence Nightingale.
b. Dorothea Dix.
c. Clara Barton.
d. Lillian Wald.
ANS: B
The Union government appointed Dorothea Dix, a social worker, to
organize women volunteers to provide nursing care for the soldiers
during the Civil War.
DIF: Cognitive Level: Knowledge REF: p. 2 OBJ: Theory
#4 TOP: Nursing History KEY: Nursing Process Step:
N/A MSC: NCLEX: N/A
, 4. The nursing theory presented by Sister Calista Roy is based on:
a. reduction of stress.
b. achievement of maximum level of wel lness.
c. relief of self -care deficit.
d. adaptation modes.
ANS: D
Adaptation modes (physiological, psychological, sociological, and
independence) are the basis of the nursing theory of Sister Calista Roy.
DIF: Cognitive Level: Knowledge REF: p. 5|Table 1 -1
OBJ: Theory #2 TOP: Nursing Theory KEY: Nursing
Process Step: N/A MSC: NCLEX: N/A
5. The founding of the Red Cross is attributed to:
a. Lillian Wald.
b. Dorothea Dix.
c. Florence Nightingale.
d. Clara Barton.
ANS: D
Clara Barton founded the Red Cross.
DIF: Cognitive Level: Knowledge REF: p. 2 OBJ: Theory
#4 TOP: Nursing History KEY: Nursing Process Step:
N/A MSC: NCLEX: N/A
