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NUR100 Exam 1 Questions with CorrectAnswers 2024-2025
Nursing - Answer-a blend of science and art; care for patient, family, group; health, core
values, compassion
animism - Answer-good spirits brought health; evil spirits brought sickness and death
early civilization to 16th century nursing - Answer-nursing developed purpose, direction,
leadership, religions to warfare exploration and expansion
nurses had poor reputations; nurses were criminals
19th-21st Century Nursing - Answer-hospital schools saw free labor, females controlled
by men, WWII: women worked outside the home, independent, growth of nursing
professions
Florence Nightingale - Answer-identified personal needs of patient, established
standards for hospital management, established nursing education and nursing became
respected occupation
recognized two components of nursing: health and illness, nursing separate and distinct
from medicine, recognized nutrition relates to health, maintained accurate records and
data
Dorothea Dix - Answer-Rights activist on behalf of mentally ill patients - created first
wave of US mental asylums
Lillian Wald - Answer-Founder of public health nursing
Clara Barton - Answer-Founded the American Red Cross
Mildred Montag - Answer-Founded ADN education
Mary Mahoney - Answer-First African American nurse
American Nurses Association (ANA) - Answer-Professional organization that represents
all registered nurses and determines whether an action is within the scope of practice
Nurse Practice Act - Answer-law established to regulate nursing practice
National League for Nursing (NLN) - Answer-accredit colleges for nursing school
Four Concepts of Nursing - Answer-person, environment, health, nursing
Most important concept of nursing - Answer-person
,General Systems Theory - Answer-describes how to break whole things into parts and
then to learn how the parts work together in "systems"
Adaptation Theory - Answer-defines adaptation as the adjustment of living matter to
other living things and to environmental conditions
developmental theory - Answer-outlines the process of growth and development of
humans as orderly and predictable, beginning with conception and ending with death
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs - Answer-lack of fulfillment results in illness
meeting restores health
feels something is missing until met
each lower level must be met before meeting of higher level
physiological, safety, love/belonging, esteem, self-actualization
physiological needs - Answer-oxygen, water, food, elimination, temp, sexuality, physical
activity, rest
nursing actions: assess O2 needs, food/elimination
safety and security - Answer-trusting others, freedom from fear/anxiety
nursing actions: proper hand hygiene, administering right med to right patient
love and belonging - Answer-love/belonging/acceptance by family, peers, friends,
neighborhood, community
if unmet=lonely and isolated, physically/emotionally withdrawn
nursing actions: include family/friends in client care, establish nurse-client relationship
self-esteem - Answer-competence, acceptance/worthiness, feel good about self
nursing actions: remember person's perception of change affects self-esteem, respect
values/beliefs, encourage attainable goals
self-actualization - Answer-acceptance of self/others as they are, focus on problems
outside self, ability to objectify
nursing actions: focus on client's strengths and possibilities rather than problems
Accountability - Answer-legal obligations with moral and ethical commitment; taking
ownership of decisions and actions
, Reciprocity - Answer-working in a state other than the one you hold a license for
autonomy - Answer-make own decisions
benefiance - Answer-principle of doing good
veracity - Answer-telling the truth
fidelity - Answer-faithfulness; loyalty
justice - Answer-fairness
Tort Law - Answer-one carries out an act or fails to carry out an act that results in injury
or harm whether intentional or not
six parts of chain of infection - Answer-infectious agent, reservoir, portal of exit, mode of
transmission, portal of entry, susceptible host
three main modes of transmission - Answer-contact, droplet, airborne
type of precaution used on all patients - Answer-standard
three lines of defense in the body - Answer-physical and chemical barriers, nonspecific
immunity and specific immunity
steps of inflammation - Answer-pattern receptors on cell surfaces recognize harmful
stimuli
inflammatory pathways activated
inflammatory markers released
inflammatory cells recruited
expected WBC count - Answer-5,000-10,000/mm3
types of WBCs - Answer-neutrophils, eosinophils, basophils, monocytes, lymphocytes
medical asepsis - Answer-clean technique
minimizes presence of disease causing micro-organisms
type of room requiring airborne precautions - Answer-airborne infection isolation room
(AIIR)
aka negative pressure room
PPE need for droplet precautions - Answer-mask
multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs) - Answer-organisms that are resistant to one or
more classes of existing antimicrobials
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