Questions and CORRECT Answers
OCC Program Framework Major Concept - CORRECT ANSWER - Human being
- Environment
- Health
- Nursing
- Nursing Education
- Teaching/Learning
- Caring
Caring: - CORRECT ANSWER meeting the patient/family where their needs are.
OCC Core Competencies - CORRECT ANSWER - Accountability
- Communication/Collaboration
- Critical Thinking/Decision Making
- Culture/Diversity
- Leadership
- Nursing Process
- Professionalism
- Safety
- Teaching/Learning
Nurse Practice Act: Defines the - CORRECT ANSWER legal scope of nursing
Nurse Practice Act: Creates - CORRECT ANSWER regulating bodies to make and enforce rules
Nurse Practice Act: Defines important - CORRECT ANSWER terms and activities
Nurse Practice Act: Establishes - CORRECT ANSWER criteria for education and licensure
Nurse Practice Act: Purpose of - CORRECT ANSWER - Protection of the public
- Protection of the RN
Nurse Practice Act: Revisions of - CORRECT ANSWER Sunset Legislation
Nurse Practice Act: Prevents people who - CORRECT ANSWER think they know how to do nursing duties from
doing them without a degree/license
Nurse Practice Acts: - CORRECT ANSWER Laws that regulate nursing practice
- Approving nursing education programs
- Defining the practice of professional nursing
- Establishing criteria that allow a person to be licensed as a registered nurse (RN) or licensed practical or vocational
nurse (LPN/LVN)
- Defining a professional practice, which demonstrates the nurse's scope of practice or those activities that nurses are
expected to perform (and by implications, those they may not)
- Developing rules and regulations for guidance to nurses
- Enforcing the rules that govern nursing
Contemporary Nursing Practice: Definition of Nursing: American Nurses Association - CORRECT
ANSWER Nursing is the diagnosis and treatment of human responses to actual or potential health problems.
(An art and a science)
Nursing Education: - CORRECT ANSWER Entry level
- LPN
- Diploma
- ADN
- BSN
Advanced Practice
, - MSN - Nurse Anesthetist, Nurse Midwife, Nurse Educator, Clinical Nurse Specialist, Nurse Practitioner
-PHD or Doctorate
Continued Education
Specialty Field Certification
Florence Nightingale (8) - CORRECT ANSWER - Noted that nursing was different than medicine
- Nursing advocate
- Believed in maintaining records
- First researcher
- Formalized nursing education
- Utilized as well as altered the environment for healing
- Established the standards for nursing
- Greatly influenced nursing in the U.S.
Quote from Florence Nightingale: (3) - CORRECT ANSWER "Putting the patient in the best condition for nature
to act."
- keeping wound clean
- letting fresh air in
- feeding patient
Scope and Standards of Nursing Practice ANA: Defines - CORRECT ANSWER the activities of nurses
Scope and Standards of Nursing Practice ANA: Standards - CORRECT ANSWER serve to protect the nurse, the
patient, and the institution
Scope and Standards of Nursing Practice ANA: Ensure - CORRECT ANSWER knowledgeable, safe, and
comprehensive nursing care.
Scope and Standards of Nursing Practice ANA: What a... - CORRECT ANSWER reasonable prudent nurse would
do
Standards of Practice definition: - CORRECT ANSWER Describe a competent level of nursing practice and
professional performance common to all registered nurses
- provide a guide to the knowledge, skills, and attitudes that nurses must incorporate into their practice to provide safe,
quality care
Code of Ethics: Practices with - CORRECT ANSWER respect and dignity and compassion for the patient
Code of Ethics: Advocates - CORRECT ANSWER for the patient
Code of Ethics: Establishment, - CORRECT ANSWER maintenance and advancement of healthcare environments
and the nursing profession
Social Policy Statement Nursing: - CORRECT ANSWER Nursing is 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.
Criteria of a Professional: have a obligation in society to be - CORRECT ANSWER - competent in their field
- allow only qualified persons entry into the profession
- discipline members of the profession who do not practice at an acceptable level
- do no harm
- use high moral and ethical standards to resolve dilemmas
ANA
NLN - CORRECT ANSWER American Nurses Association
National League for Nursing