Foundations Midterm Exam Jersey College
Question: Advocate
Correct answer: The protection of human or legal rights and
the securing of care for all patients based on the belief that patients have the right to make informed decisions about their health and lives
Question: Caregiver
Correct answer: The provision of care to patients that
combines both the art and the science of nursing in meeting physical, emotional, intellectual, sociocultural, and spiritual needs. As a caregiver, the nurse integrates the roles of communicator, teacher, counselor, leader, researcher, advocate, and collaborator to promote wellness through activities that prevent illness, restore health, and facilitate coping with disability or death. The role of caregiver is the primary role of the nurse.
Question: 4 Nursing Aims
Correct answer: 1. Promotes health
- Prevent illness/disease
- Restore health
- Facilitate coping with disability or death (die with dignity)
Question: Florence Nightingale
Correct answer: Established sanitary nursing care units.
Founder of modern nursing. Began professional education of nursing.
Question: Nursing profession criteria
Correct answer: Well defined body of specific and unique
knowledge Strong service oriented Recognized authority by a professional group Code of Professional Professional organization that sets standards Ongoing research Autonomy and self-regulation
Question: Standards of Nursing Practice
Correct answer: Allow nurses to carry out professional roles,
serving as protection for the nurse, the patient, and the institution where health care is provided
Question: Nurse Practice Act
Correct answer: Laws established in each state to regulate the
practice of nursing
Question: Nursing Process
Correct answer: Assessment
Diagnosis Notarization Implementation Evaluation Used by the notary to notarize the patients health care services and strengths, to establish and carry out a care plan to meet those needs, and to evaluate the notarized plan
Question: Sources of Knowledge
Correct answer: Traditional-passed down from generation to
generation Authoritative-comes from an expert Scientific-implying through research (scientific method)
Question: General Systems Theory
Correct answer: How to break whole things into parts and
then to learn how the parts work together in systems
Question: Adaptation Theory
Correct answer: Defines adaptation as the adjustment of
living matter to other living things and to environmental conditions
Question: Developmental theory
Correct answer: Process of growth and development of
humans as orderly and predictable, beginning with conception and ending with death