Nurses today complete a nursing education program and practice nursing that identifies the personal needs of the patient and the role of the nurse in meeting those needs. Which nursing pioneer is MOST instrumental in this birth or modern nursing?

The role of nurses in today's society was influenced by the nurse's role in early civilization. Which statement best portrays this earlier role?

Nurses today work in a wide variety of health care settings. What trend occurred during World War II that had a tremendous effect on this development in the nursing profession?

A nurse practicing in a primary care center uses the ANA's Nursing Social Policy Statement as a guideline for practice. Which purposes of nursing are outlined in this document? Select All That Apply.

A nurse working in a rehabilitation facility focuses on the goal of restoring health for patients. Which examples of nursing interventions reflect this goal? Select all that apply.

A nurse instructor outlines the criteria establishing nursing as a profession. What teaching point correctly describes this criteria? Select all that apply.

A nurse is practicing as a nurse-midwife in a busy OB-GYN office. Which degree of nursing is necessary to practice at this level?

Nursing in the United States is regulated by the state nurse practice act. What is the common element of each state's nurse practice act?

According to the National Advisory Council on Education and Practice, what is the current health care trend contributing to 21st century challenges to nursing practice?

A student nurse asks an experienced nurse why it is necessary to change the patient's bed every day. The nurse answers: "I guess we have just always done it that way." This answer is an example of what type of knowledge?

A nurse is using the Johns Hopkins Nursing Evidence-Based Practice (JHNEBP) model PET as a clinical decision making tool when delivering care to patients. Which steps reflect the intended use of this tool? Select all that apply.

A nurse is using general systems theory to describe the role of nursing to provide health promotion and patient teaching. Which statements reflect key points of this theory? Select all that apply.

A charge nurse meets with staff to outline a plan to provide transcultural nursing care for patients in their health care facility. Which theorist promoted this type of caring as the central theme of nursing care, knowledge, and practice?

A student nurse interacting with patients on a cardiac unit recognizes the four concepts in nursing theory that determine nursing practice. Of these four, which is most important?

A nurse manager schedules a clinic for the staff to address common nursing interventions used in the facility and to explore how they can be performed more efficiently and effectively. The nurse manager's actions to change clinical practice are an example of a situation described by which nursing theory?

When conducting quantitative research, the researcher collects information to support a hypothesis. This information would be identified as:

A nurse is conducting quantitative research to examine the effects of the following nursing protocols in the emergency department (ED) on patient outcomes. This is also known as what type of research?

A nurse studies the culture of Native Alaskans to determine how their diet affects their overall state of health. Which method of qualitative research is the nurse using?

A nurse is formulating a clinical question in PICOT format. What does the letter P represent?

A nurse working in a primary care facility assesses patients who are experiencing various levels of health and illness. Which statements define these two concepts? Select all that apply.

A nurse working in a hospital setting cares for patients with acute and chronic conditions. Which disease states are chronic illnesses? Select all that apply.

Despite a national focus on health promotion, nurses working with patients in inner-city clinics continue to see disparities in health care for vulnerable populations. Which patients are considered vulnerable populations? Select all that apply.

A nurse has volunteered to give influenza immunizations at a local clinic. What level of care is the nurse demonstrating?

A patient in a community health clinic tells the nurse, "I have a high temperature, feel awful, and I am not going to work." What stage of illness behavior is the patient exhibiting?

Based on the components of the physical human dimension, the nurse would expect which clinic patient to be most likely to have annual breast examinations and mammograms?

Nurses perform health promotion activities at a pimary, secondary, or tertiary level. Which nursing actions are considered tertiary health promotion? Select all that apply.

The nurse uses the agent-host-environment model of health and illness to assess diseases in patients. This model is based on what concepts?

A nurse incorporates concepts from current models of health promotion classes for patients. What is a key concept of both the health-illness continuum and the high-level wellness models?

A nurse working in a long-term care facility personally follows accepted guidelines for a healthy lifestyle. How does this nurse promote health in the residents of this facility?

A nurse uses Maslow's hierarchy of basic human needs to direct care for patients on an intensive care unit. For which nursing activities is this approach most useful?

The nurse is prioritizing nursing care for a patient in a long-term care facility. Which examples of nursing interventions help meet physiologic needs? Select all that apply.

The nurse caring for patients postoperatively uses careful hand hygiene and sterile techniques when handling patients. Which of Maslow's basic human needs is being met by the nurse?

A nurse caring for patients in a long-term care facility uses available resources to help patients achieve Maslow's highest level of needs: self actualization needs. Which statements accurately describe these needs? Select all that apply.

A nurse works with families in crisis at a community mental health care facility. What is the BEST broad definition of a family?

A nurse performs an assessment of a family consisting of a single mother, a grandmother, and two children. Which interview questions directed to the single mother could the nurse use to assess the affective and coping family function? Select all that apply.

The nurse caring for families in a free health care clinic identifies psychosocial risk factors for altered family health. Which example describes one of these risk factors?

A nurse working in an "Aging in Place" facility interviews a married couple in their late seventies. Based on Duvall's Developmental Task of Families, which developmental task would the nurse assess for this couple?

A visiting nurse working in a new community performs a community assessment. What assessment finding is indicative of a healthy community?

A nurse is practicing community based nursing in a mobile health clinic. What typically is the central focus of this type of nursing care?