NRSG 312 Exam 1 Questions And
Answers Latest Update
Explain how nursing practice is regulated. ANS✔✔ Nursing controls and regulates its practice via:
1.) standards of practice: RN description of duties and providing guidelines for providing care
2.) Nurse practice acts and licensure: regulates the practice, state-regulated
3.) State Board of Nursing: regulates the nursing practice, health and safety of the population
4.) ANA's code of ethics for nurses
5.) Professional Values
6.) Use of the nursing process
4 purposes of nursing care ANS✔✔ 1.) to promote health: consider patient's strengths
2.) to prevent illness (e.g. prenatal care, smoking programs)
3.) to restore health: performing tests to detect illness, collaborate, rehab and refer findings
4.) to facilitate coping with disability or death: maximize patient teaching and strengths
Benner's Skill Acquisition Model ANS✔✔ Stage 1: Novice, 1stvclinical experience- little focus on
rules- think black and white
Stage 2: Advanced beginner- new graduate- uses more facts- finds something abnormal but unsure of
significance
Stage 3 Competent: 2-3 years in the same area, can handle complex situations
Stage 4 Proficient: quickly takes aspects of health and gives meaning to them
Stage 5 Expert: uses intuition with deep understanding. Knows what is going on and does just what
is needed to be done.
Nursing Process: ANS✔✔ 1ASSESS the patient to determine the need for nursing care
2 DIAGNOSE determine nursing diagnoses for actual and potential health problem
3 PLAN identify expected outcomes and plan caring
, 2024/2025
4 IMPLEMENT care
5 EVALUATE results
Delineate the forces and trends affecting contemporary nursing practice. (ANA 2015b) ANS✔✔ 1
Nursing shortages will offer unique opportunities.
2 Job opportunities--> outside of the hospital; nurses will play much bigger role in the communities
3 Technology will play a larger role in nursing practice
4 Nurses will collaborate more with other HC providers
Forces/ trends affecting future of nursing education (NLN) ANS✔✔ 1 Changing demographics
and increasing diversity
2 The technological explosion
3 Globalization of the world's economy & society
4 The era of the educated consumer, alternative therapies, genomics and palliative care
5 shift to population based care and increasing complexity of patient care
6 cost of healthcare and challenge of managed care
7 impact of health policy and regulation
8 growing need for interdisciplinary education and collaborative practice
9 current nursing shortage, and opportunities for lifelong learning & workforce development
10 significant advances in nursing science & research
Describe how Maslow's Hierarchy of basic human need might be used in nursing care. ANS✔✔
The hierarchy is based on the theory that something is a basic need if it has the following
characteristics:
- its lack of fulfillment results in illness
-its fulfillment helps prevent illness or signals health
-meeting it restores health
-it takes priority over other needs and desires when it goes unmet
-person feels something is missing when need is unmet
-person feels satisfaction when need is met
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