Foundations Of Nursing Exam #1
Questions And Answers
/.Which organization is the best source of information when a nurse wishes to determine
whether an action is within the scope of nursing practice?
a. American Association of Colleges in Nursing
b. (AACN) National League for Nursing (NLN)
c. International Council of Nurses (ICN)
d. American Nurses Association (ANA) - Answer-✅D. American Nurses Association
/.What was one barrier to the development of the nursing profession in the United
States after the Civil War?
a.independence of nursing orders
b.lack of educational standards
c.hospital-based schools of nursing
d.lack of influence from nursing leaders - Answer-✅b. lack of education standards
/.Which nurse posited a theory that can be practically applied to nursing as follows:
"Nurses modify unhealthy aspects of the environment to put the client in the best
condition for nature to act."
a. Dorothea Orem
b. Sister Callista Roy
c. Florence Nightingale
d. Virginia Henderson - Answer-✅c. Florence Nightingale
/.What historical event led to the demise of nursing in England before the time of
Florence Nightingale? - Answer-✅When religions groups were exiled to western Europe
during the schism between King Henry VIII and the Catholic Church. (The management
of parochial hospitals and the ill within them fell to the state)
/.Reforms for which Florence Nightingale is responsible. - Answer-✅Training women for
future work
Selecting only those with upstanding characters as potential nurses
Improving sanitary conditions for the sick and injured
Significantly reducing the death rate of British soldiers
Providing classroom education and clinical teaching
Advocating that nursing education should be lifelong
/.Name three ways that nurses used their skills in the early history of US nursing. -
Answer-✅1. Nurses moved into communities and established "settlement houses
2. Provided midwifery services
3. Volunteered during wartime
, /.Art of Nursing - Answer-✅Ability to perform act skillfully
/.Science of Nursing - Answer-✅body of knowledge unique to a particular subject;
develops from observing and studying the relationship of one phenomenon to another
/.Nursing Theory: Environmental Theory - Answer-✅External conditions such as
ventilation, light, odor, and cleanliness can prevent, suppress, or contribute to disease
or death.
Florence Nighingale
/.Nursing Theory: Basic Needs Theory - Answer-✅People have basic needs that are
components of health. The significance and value of these needs are unique to each
person.
Virginia Henderson
/.Nursing Theory: Self-Care Theory - Answer-✅People learn behaviors that they
perform on their own behalf to maintain life, health, and well-being.
Dorothea Orem
/.Nursing Theory: Adaptation Theory - Answer-✅Humans are biopsychosocial beings; a
change in one component results in adaptive changes in the others.
/.Nursing Process - Answer-✅organized sequence of problem-solving steps used to
identify and manage the health problems of clients
Assessment
Diagnosis
Planning
Implementation
Evaluation
/.Characteristics of Nursing Process - Answer-✅Within the legal scope of nursing.
Based on knowledge
Planned.
Client-centered.
Goal-directed.
Prioritized.
Dynamic.
/.The sources of Assessment Data - Answer-✅-database assessment (initial
information about the client's physical, emotional, social, and spiritual health
-focus assessment (information that provides more details about specific problems and
expands the original database.)
Questions And Answers
/.Which organization is the best source of information when a nurse wishes to determine
whether an action is within the scope of nursing practice?
a. American Association of Colleges in Nursing
b. (AACN) National League for Nursing (NLN)
c. International Council of Nurses (ICN)
d. American Nurses Association (ANA) - Answer-✅D. American Nurses Association
/.What was one barrier to the development of the nursing profession in the United
States after the Civil War?
a.independence of nursing orders
b.lack of educational standards
c.hospital-based schools of nursing
d.lack of influence from nursing leaders - Answer-✅b. lack of education standards
/.Which nurse posited a theory that can be practically applied to nursing as follows:
"Nurses modify unhealthy aspects of the environment to put the client in the best
condition for nature to act."
a. Dorothea Orem
b. Sister Callista Roy
c. Florence Nightingale
d. Virginia Henderson - Answer-✅c. Florence Nightingale
/.What historical event led to the demise of nursing in England before the time of
Florence Nightingale? - Answer-✅When religions groups were exiled to western Europe
during the schism between King Henry VIII and the Catholic Church. (The management
of parochial hospitals and the ill within them fell to the state)
/.Reforms for which Florence Nightingale is responsible. - Answer-✅Training women for
future work
Selecting only those with upstanding characters as potential nurses
Improving sanitary conditions for the sick and injured
Significantly reducing the death rate of British soldiers
Providing classroom education and clinical teaching
Advocating that nursing education should be lifelong
/.Name three ways that nurses used their skills in the early history of US nursing. -
Answer-✅1. Nurses moved into communities and established "settlement houses
2. Provided midwifery services
3. Volunteered during wartime
, /.Art of Nursing - Answer-✅Ability to perform act skillfully
/.Science of Nursing - Answer-✅body of knowledge unique to a particular subject;
develops from observing and studying the relationship of one phenomenon to another
/.Nursing Theory: Environmental Theory - Answer-✅External conditions such as
ventilation, light, odor, and cleanliness can prevent, suppress, or contribute to disease
or death.
Florence Nighingale
/.Nursing Theory: Basic Needs Theory - Answer-✅People have basic needs that are
components of health. The significance and value of these needs are unique to each
person.
Virginia Henderson
/.Nursing Theory: Self-Care Theory - Answer-✅People learn behaviors that they
perform on their own behalf to maintain life, health, and well-being.
Dorothea Orem
/.Nursing Theory: Adaptation Theory - Answer-✅Humans are biopsychosocial beings; a
change in one component results in adaptive changes in the others.
/.Nursing Process - Answer-✅organized sequence of problem-solving steps used to
identify and manage the health problems of clients
Assessment
Diagnosis
Planning
Implementation
Evaluation
/.Characteristics of Nursing Process - Answer-✅Within the legal scope of nursing.
Based on knowledge
Planned.
Client-centered.
Goal-directed.
Prioritized.
Dynamic.
/.The sources of Assessment Data - Answer-✅-database assessment (initial
information about the client's physical, emotional, social, and spiritual health
-focus assessment (information that provides more details about specific problems and
expands the original database.)
