NSG3180 UNIT 1 EXAM 110+ EXAM QUESTIONS &
CORRECT ANSWERS LATEST 2025
When describing nursing to a group of nursing students, the nursing instructor lists
all of the following characteristics of nursing EXCEPT:
a. historically nursing is as old as mankind
b. nursing was originally practiced informally by religious orders dedicated to care
of the sick
c. nursing was later practiced in the home by female caregivers with no formal
education
d. nursing has always been identifiable as a distinct occupation - ANSWER-a.
historically nursing is as old as mankind
The nursing profession's first nurse researcher, who served as an early advocate for
high-quality care and used statistical data to document the need for hand washing
in preventing infection was:
a. Abraham Maslow
b. Martha Rogers
c. Hildegard Peplau
d. Florence Nightingale - ANSWER-d. Florence Nightingale
Today, professional nursing education begins at the:
,a. undergraduate level
b. graduate level
c. advanced practice level
d. administrative level - ANSWER-a. undergraduate level
Nursing's metaparadigm, or worldview, distinguishes the nursing profession from
other disciplines and emphasizes its unique functional characteristics. The four key
concepts that form the foundation for all nursing theories are:
a. caring, compassion, health promotion, and education
b. respect, integrity, honesty, and advocacy
c. person, environment, health, and nursing
d. nursing, teaching, caring, and health promotion - ANSWER-c. person,
environment, health, and nursing
When admitting a patient to the medical-surgical unit, the nurse asks the patient
about cultural issues. The nurse is demonstrating use of the concept of:
a. person
b. environment
c. health
d. nursing - ANSWER-b. environment
- The concept of environment includes all cultural, developmental, and social
determinants that influence a client's health perception and behavior
Nurses are prepared to function as: - ANSWER-- advanced practice nurse
practitioners
,- administrators
- educators
A young mother tells the nurse, "im worried because my son needs a blood
transfusion. I don't know what to do, because blood transfusions cause AIDS."
Which central nursing construct is represented in this situation?
a. Environment
b. caring
c. health
d. person - ANSWER-d. person
- Person is defined as the recipient of nursing care, having unique bio-psycho-
social and spiritual dimensions
Nurses use __________________ to bridge the interpersonal space between
scientific understandings and patient-centered health experiences. It is this
dimension of knowledge that helps nurses to individualize nursing and
interprofessional care strategies - ANSWER-- patterns of knowing
What are the 5 patterns of knowing? - ANSWER-- empirical
- personal
- aesthetic
- ethical
- emancipatory
This pattern of knowledge is the scientific rationale for skilled nursing
interventions. It draws upon verifiable data from science. Includes logical
reasoning and problem solving. - ANSWER-Empirical ways of knowing
, The nurse performs a dressing change using sterile technique. This is an example
of which pattern of knowledge?
a. empirical
b. personal
c. aesthetic
d. ethical - ANSWER-- Empirical
This pattern of knowledge allows the nurse to understand and treat each individual
as a unique person. It is knowledge characterized as subjective, concrete, and
existential. This pattern of knowing occurs when nurses connect with the
"humanness" of a patient experience. It is a "precondition for establishing a
therapeutic relationship." This knowledge develops when nurses intuitively
understand and connect with patients as unique human beings - because they share
the experience of being human - ANSWER-Personal patterns of knowing
This pattern of knowing allows the nurse to connect in different more meaningful
ways. It links the humanistic components of care with their scientific application. It
represents a deeper appreciation of the whole person or situation, and moving
beyond the superficial to see the experience as part of a larger whole.
- It enables the nurses to experientially relate to the fear behind a patient's angry
response, the courage of a patient with stage 4 cancer, or the pain of a father
cutting off funds for a drug addicted son - ANSWER-Aesthetic ways of knowing
This way of knowing refers to the moral aspects of nursing. It refers to knowledge
of what is right and wrong, attention to professional standards and codes in making
moral choices, taking responsibility for one's actions and protecting patient
autonomy and rights. - ANSWER-ethical ways of knowing
CORRECT ANSWERS LATEST 2025
When describing nursing to a group of nursing students, the nursing instructor lists
all of the following characteristics of nursing EXCEPT:
a. historically nursing is as old as mankind
b. nursing was originally practiced informally by religious orders dedicated to care
of the sick
c. nursing was later practiced in the home by female caregivers with no formal
education
d. nursing has always been identifiable as a distinct occupation - ANSWER-a.
historically nursing is as old as mankind
The nursing profession's first nurse researcher, who served as an early advocate for
high-quality care and used statistical data to document the need for hand washing
in preventing infection was:
a. Abraham Maslow
b. Martha Rogers
c. Hildegard Peplau
d. Florence Nightingale - ANSWER-d. Florence Nightingale
Today, professional nursing education begins at the:
,a. undergraduate level
b. graduate level
c. advanced practice level
d. administrative level - ANSWER-a. undergraduate level
Nursing's metaparadigm, or worldview, distinguishes the nursing profession from
other disciplines and emphasizes its unique functional characteristics. The four key
concepts that form the foundation for all nursing theories are:
a. caring, compassion, health promotion, and education
b. respect, integrity, honesty, and advocacy
c. person, environment, health, and nursing
d. nursing, teaching, caring, and health promotion - ANSWER-c. person,
environment, health, and nursing
When admitting a patient to the medical-surgical unit, the nurse asks the patient
about cultural issues. The nurse is demonstrating use of the concept of:
a. person
b. environment
c. health
d. nursing - ANSWER-b. environment
- The concept of environment includes all cultural, developmental, and social
determinants that influence a client's health perception and behavior
Nurses are prepared to function as: - ANSWER-- advanced practice nurse
practitioners
,- administrators
- educators
A young mother tells the nurse, "im worried because my son needs a blood
transfusion. I don't know what to do, because blood transfusions cause AIDS."
Which central nursing construct is represented in this situation?
a. Environment
b. caring
c. health
d. person - ANSWER-d. person
- Person is defined as the recipient of nursing care, having unique bio-psycho-
social and spiritual dimensions
Nurses use __________________ to bridge the interpersonal space between
scientific understandings and patient-centered health experiences. It is this
dimension of knowledge that helps nurses to individualize nursing and
interprofessional care strategies - ANSWER-- patterns of knowing
What are the 5 patterns of knowing? - ANSWER-- empirical
- personal
- aesthetic
- ethical
- emancipatory
This pattern of knowledge is the scientific rationale for skilled nursing
interventions. It draws upon verifiable data from science. Includes logical
reasoning and problem solving. - ANSWER-Empirical ways of knowing
, The nurse performs a dressing change using sterile technique. This is an example
of which pattern of knowledge?
a. empirical
b. personal
c. aesthetic
d. ethical - ANSWER-- Empirical
This pattern of knowledge allows the nurse to understand and treat each individual
as a unique person. It is knowledge characterized as subjective, concrete, and
existential. This pattern of knowing occurs when nurses connect with the
"humanness" of a patient experience. It is a "precondition for establishing a
therapeutic relationship." This knowledge develops when nurses intuitively
understand and connect with patients as unique human beings - because they share
the experience of being human - ANSWER-Personal patterns of knowing
This pattern of knowing allows the nurse to connect in different more meaningful
ways. It links the humanistic components of care with their scientific application. It
represents a deeper appreciation of the whole person or situation, and moving
beyond the superficial to see the experience as part of a larger whole.
- It enables the nurses to experientially relate to the fear behind a patient's angry
response, the courage of a patient with stage 4 cancer, or the pain of a father
cutting off funds for a drug addicted son - ANSWER-Aesthetic ways of knowing
This way of knowing refers to the moral aspects of nursing. It refers to knowledge
of what is right and wrong, attention to professional standards and codes in making
moral choices, taking responsibility for one's actions and protecting patient
autonomy and rights. - ANSWER-ethical ways of knowing
