Chapter 1

Question 1

Who cleaned up the wards with a group of 38 nurses and lowered the death rate from 60% to 1%

Answer 1

Florence Nightingale

Question 2

The union government appointed someone to organize woman volunteers to provide nursing care for soldiers who was is it?

Answer 2

Dorothea Dix

Question 3

Who took volunteers into the field hospitals to care for soldiers from bot army’s ?

Answer 3

Clara Barton

Question 4

What did Clara Barton create

Answer 4

The American Red Cross

Question 5

This nurse took nursing out into the community. And in 1893 along with Mary Brewster they created the Henry Street Settlement Service that focused on the health needs of poor people

Answer 5

Lillian Wald

Question 6

Actions taken to improve maintain or restore health or prevent illness

Answer 6

Interventions

Question 7

An intervention aimed at restoring and maintaining a persons health

Answer 7

Caregiving skills

Question 8

Nursing care that uses the best research evidence coupled with the clinical expertise of the clinician considering the values of the patient

Answer 8

Evidence-based nursing

Question 9

What is designed to protect the public and defines the legal scope of practice

Answer 9

Practice acts

Question 10

Practical nurses provide direct patient care under the supervision of who

Answer 10

A registered nurse, advanced practice nurse, physician assistant, physician, dentist, or podiatrist

Question 11

What was created by Medicare in 1983 as an attempt to contain rising healthcare costs

Answer 11

DRGs

Question 12

Insurance companies use this to keep their premium rates lower and intern makes insurance coverage of employees less expensive for employers

Answer 12

Using PPOs

Question 13

The world health organization has a fine health as

Answer 13

A state of complete physical mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity

Question 14

What is a chronic illness

Answer 14

And illness that last for a long time

Question 15

And illness that develop suddenly and resolves in a short time

Answer 15

Acute illness

Question 16

And illness that develops slowly can be controlled but not cured and is long-lasting

Answer 16

Chronic illness

Question 17

And illness with no cure

Answer 17

Terminal illness

Question 18

An illness that develops without being caused by any other health problem

Answer 18

Primary illness

Question 19

An illness that results from or is caused by a primary illness

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Secondary illness

Question 20

What is an idiopathic illness

Answer 20

A disease that has no known cause

Question 21

Means without symptoms

Answer 21

Asymptomatic

Question 22

And approach that considers the person’s biological, psychological, sociological, and spiritual aspects in means

Answer 22

A holistic approach

Question 23

What disturbs the organisms homeostasis and causes the body to attempt to adapt

Answer 23

Stress

Question 24

What physician publish his research series on stress

Answer 24

Hans Selye

Question 25

What are the general stages of general adaptations in your room by Selye

Answer 25

Alarm stage stage of resistance and stage of exhaustion

Question 26

A stressor can be helpful or

Answer 26

Harmful depending on the person

Question 27

Strategies that protect us from increasing anxiety they reduce both anxiety and the secretion of stress hormones

Answer 27

Defense mechanisms

Question 28

Escaping unpleasant anxiety can’t think though it’s by refusing to acknowledge their existence. There is a persistent refusal to be swayed by evidence

Answer 28

Denial

Question 29

Discharging intense feelings for one person on to another object or person who is less threatening, there by satisfying and impulse with a substitute object

Answer 29

Displacement

Question 30

Of weather delays occurrence of a specific disease or disorder

Answer 30

Primary prevention

Question 31

Consist of following guidelines for screening for diseases that are easily treated if found early for the detecting return of a disease

Answer 31

secondary prevention

Question 32

Consist of rehabilitation measures after the disease or disorder has stabilize

Answer 32

Tertiary prevention

Question 33

Who is held to the same standards as a licensed nurse

Answer 33

Student nurse

Question 34

What do student nurses need to learn, it must include its definition of nursing in that state where they are practicing and they must not exceed the scope of practice

Answer 34

Nurse practice act

Question 35

The assignment of duties to another person

Answer 35

Delegation

Question 36

What are the most common charges brought against nurses

Answer 36

Substance abuse, incompetent, and negligence

Question 37

If you do not report another professional misconduct you can be charged with

Answer 37

Negligence

Question 38

And unexpected patient care event that results in death or serious injury to the patient

Answer 38

Sentinel event

Question 39

The S4 a method of communication is a strategy that reduces the likelihood of

Answer 39

Critical patient details being lost

Question 40

This is the property of the hospital agency our primary care provider not the patient

Answer 40

Medical record

Question 41

Required the creation of regulations regarding patient privacy and electronic medical record

Answer 41

Hippa

Question 42

When a person is older than 18 years and is competent what must they sign

Answer 42

Consent for treatment

Question 43

When is a person considered in compensate

Answer 43

Unconscious, under the influence of mind altering drugs, or declared legally incompetent

Question 44

Someone who has established independence by moving away from parents or through service in that warm forces, married, or pregnancy

Answer 44

An emancipated minor

Question 45

Sometimes called a living will and is a consent that has been constructed before the need for it arises

Answer 45

Advance directive

Question 46

A document that gives legal power to a healthcare agent who is a person chosen by the patient to follow the patient advance directives and make medical decisions on his behalf

Answer 46

A durable power of attorney

Question 47

Negligence by a professional person, the person does not act according to professional standards of care as a reasonable and prudent professional would

Answer 47

Malpractice

Question 48

To prove malpractice, four elements must be present what are they

Answer 48

Duty, a breach of duty, causation, and injury

Question 49

The threat to Horm another or even to threaten to take another without that person’s permission

Answer 49

Assault

Question 50

The actual physical contact that has been refused or that is carried out against the persons will

Answer 50

Battery

Question 51

This occurs when there has been a violation of the confidential and privileged nature of a professional relationship

Answer 51

Invasion of privacy

Question 52

Preventing a person from leaving or restricting his movements in the facility is considered

Answer 52

False imprisonment

Question 53

When a person wants to leave the hospital against the advice of the primary care provider they must sign

Answer 53

An AMA