Exam 1

Question 1

The response to to a stressful situation

Answer 1

Anxiety

Question 2

A lack of interest in ones surrounding

Answer 2

Apathy

Question 3

An imbalance between internal and external forces

Answer 3

Disease

Question 4

Divided into three levels: primary, secondary, and tertiary

Answer 4

Disease prevention

Question 5

Expressed feeling tones that influence a person behavior

Answer 5

Emotions

Question 6

A form of self-responsibility that demands that people take charge of their own decision making

Answer 6

Empowerment

Question 7

A disease that affects only a particular people or country

Answer 7

Endemic

Question 8

A disease that affects many people living in a community

Answer 8

Epidemic

Question 9

A balance or a state of homeostasis

Answer 9

Equilibrium

Question 10

A state of readiness to attack or flee caused by a perceived threat

Answer 10

Flight-or-flight response

Question 11

A response to stress that was described by Hans Selye

Answer 11

General adaptation syndrome (GAS)

Question 12

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

Answer 12

Health

Question 13

Health care directed toward increasing ones optimum level of wellness

Answer 13

Health promotion

Question 14

That which begins once the disease process is stabilized

Answer 14

Health restoration

Question 15

Including not only physical aspects of health but also psychological, social, cognitive, and environmental influences

Answer 15

Holistic

Question 16

The average number of years a person is likely to live

Answer 16

Life expectancy

Question 17

Poor dietary practice that results from the lack of essential nutrients or from failure to eat available foods

Answer 17

Malnutrition

Question 18

Science that studies the body need for foods and how foods are digested and how food choices relate to health or disease

Answer 18

Nutrition

Question 19

An illness that spreads over several countries or continents

Answer 19

Pandemic

Question 20

A return to an earlier stage of development during stressful periods

Answer 20

Regression

Question 21

Anything that upsets psychological or physiological balance

Answer 21

Stress

Question 22

Refers to the out-of-control use of drugs such as opioids, marijuana, and stimulants

Answer 22

Substance abuse

Question 23

A relative state of health

Answer 23

Wellness

Question 24

1943 Bolton Act was the basis of the government subsidizing schools to teach nursing skills in 2 and a half years; More than 150,000 nurses graduated from these programs; discontinued in 1948

Answer 24

Cadet Nurse Corps

Question 25

Founder of the American Red Cross

Answer 25

Clara Barton

Question 26

Appointed Superintendent of Nurses during the American Civil War to organize a corps of nurses to tend to wounded soldiers

Answer 26

Dorothea Lynde Dix

Question 27

Chief or Army Nurse Corps from 1963 to 1967

Answer 27

Mildred L Clark

Question 28

Of the American Red Cross and who began to recruit and train nurses for overseas duty in World War 1

Answer 28

Jane Delano

Question 29

Designed and sculpted Vietnam Womens Memorial; Located on the National Mall in Washington, DC

Answer 29

Glenna Goodacres

Question 30

Helped form the National Emergency Committee on Nursing during World War 1

Answer 30

Anna Goodrich

Question 31

Led Army Nurse Corps during the Vietnam War; First women to become a brigadier general and first women in American military to attain general officer rank

Answer 31

Colonel Anna Mae Hays

Question 32

World War 1 Navy Nurse; Received the Navy Cross; Was the first nurse to have a warship named in her honor

Answer 32

Lenah S Higbee

Question 33

Modified the Hippocratic Oath in 1893 and named it The Nightingale Pledge

Answer 33

Lystra Gretter

Question 34

Member of the Air Force Nurse Corps; Flew over 200 air evacuation missions during World War 2, as well as 25 trans-Atlantic crossings; Went back to civilian flying until the Korean War; Flew several hundred more missions as a flight nurse in Korea; Numerous decorations

Answer 34

Captain Lillian Kinkela-Keil

Question 35

Founder of modern nursing who is known as "The Lady with the Lamp" because of her after-hours rounds with her lamp during the Crimean War

Answer 35

Florence Nightingale

Question 36

Written by Florence Nightingale

Answer 36

Notes on Nursing

Question 37

Helped form the National Emergency Committee on Nursing during World War 1

Answer 37

Adelaide Nutting

Question 38

Nurse from Jamaica, West Indies; Helped Florence Nightingale during the Crimean War; Used knowledge of tropical medicine, herbs, and natural plant medicines to treat soldiers with cholera, yellow fever, malaria, and diarrhea

Answer 38

Mary Seacole

Question 39

A 2-year community college or technical school program; The title RN is used after passing the NCLEX

Answer 39

Associate degree nursing

Question 40

Focus is on quality, service, and cost

Answer 40

Case management method

Question 41

Certificate awarded to a RN or LPN/LVN after passing a comprehensive examination in a select area of practice

Answer 41

Certification

Question 42

Assumes responsibility for many clerical duties in the patient care area

Answer 42

Clerk receptionist

Question 43

Blueprint for patient care; Includes time frame of significant events that are expected to occur each day a patient with a specific diagnosis is in the hospital

Answer 43

Clinical pathway

Question 44

A 3-year nursing educational program conducted by a hospital-based school of nursing

Answer 44

Diploma program

Question 45

A method of patient care that is task-oriented and involves dividing the tasks to be done among staff members according to their abilities

Answer 45

Functional method

Question 46

Supervisor regularly coordinates, directs, or inspects nursing care and is within reach either in the building or by phone

Answer 46

General supervision

Question 47

Function without supervision, for example, the RN role in the nursing process

Answer 47

Independent

Question 48

Both RN and LPN/LVN collaboratively carry out orders for treatments and medications written by a physician

Answer 48

Interdependent

Question 49

A RN who has graduated from a baccalaureate nursing program (4-year) and is enrolled in a Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) program

Answer 49

Nursing manager

Question 50

A person who performs, for compensation, any basic acts in the care of convalescent, subacutely, or chronically ill, injured, or infirm persons, or any act or procedure in the care of the acutely ill, injured, or infirm under the specific direction of a RN, physician, podiatrist, or dentist

Answer 50

Practical/vocational nurse

Question 51

The point at which a person enters the health care system

Answer 51

Primary care

Question 52

A member of the nursing team who has gone to nursing school for two, three, or four years and has passed the NCLEX to be registered; The person on the nursing team who functions independently in decision-making regarding the nursing care of patients

Answer 52

Registered nurse (RN)

Question 53

Health care staff made up of workers with different levels of education and training

Answer 53

Skill mix

Question 54

What a prudent nurse is expected to do

Answer 54

Standards of care

Question 55

Person involved in a course of study to become a nurse

Answer 55

Student nurse

Question 56

A method of patient care in which small teams of nursing personnel are assigned to give total care to groups of patients

Answer 56

Team method

Question 57

The RN is responsible for all aspects of patient care: assessing, planning, organizing, and delivering patient care

Answer 57

Total patient care

Question 58

Has supervisor and management functions for patient units

Answer 58

Unit manager

Question 59

Break down complex information into its basic parts and relate it to the whole picture

Answer 59

Analysis

Question 60

Use learned information in new situations

Answer 60

Application

Question 61

LPN/LVN role in four phases (steps) of nursing process

Answer 61

Assisting

Question 62

Nonverbal expression of the way a person thinks or feels

Answer 62

Attitude

Question 63

Ability or capacity

Answer 63

Capability

Question 64

The process the nurse uses to decide to collect and interpret data about a client, and act/ not act on the interpretation; The process involves critical thinking, problem solving, and decision making

Answer 64

Clinical judgement

Question 65

Intellectual level of functioning

Answer 65

Cognitive level

Question 66

Basically understand information, recall it, and identify examples of that information

Answer 66

Comprehension

Question 67

Used to resolve problems and find ways to make improvements, even when no problem exists

Answer 67

Critical thinking

Question 68

Phase 1 of nursing process for LPN/LVN; involves systematic gathering and reviewing of information about the patient

Answer 68

Data collection

Question 69

LPN/LVN functions with supervision in a dependent role to the RN, physician, or dentist

Answer 69

Dependent role

Question 70

Observable result; focuses directly on what the patient will accomplish (not what the nurse will do)

Answer 70

Desired patient outcome

Question 71

Purposeful and outcome-oriented thinking; focuses on particular problem to find solution

Answer 71

Directed (or focused) thinking

Question 72

Phase 4 of nursing process for LPN/LVN; compares actual patient outcomes to expected outcomes

Answer 72

Evaluation

Question 73

Realistic, measurable, time-limited statements of resolution of a problem or need

Answer 73

Goal (outcomes)

Question 74

Phase 3 of the nursing process for LPN/LVN; provides required nursing care to accomplish established patient goals

Answer 74

Implementation

Question 75

Action taken to reach a patient outcome

Answer 75

Intervention

Question 76

Repeat information exactly as read or told; does not imply an understanding of the information

Answer 76

Knowledge

Question 77

NANDA-I

Answer 77

North American Nursing Diagnosis Association

Question 78

NIC

Answer 78

Nursing Interventions Classification

Question 79

NOC

Answer 79

Nursing Outcomes Classification

Question 80

Second step of the nursing process for RN; actual and high-risk problems that nurses can respond to; exclusive responsibility of RN in nursing process

Answer 80

Nursing diagnosis

Question 81

An orderly way of developing a plan of care for the individual patient; the RN is responsible for developing the nursing diagnosis

Answer 81

Nursing process

Question 82

Data that can be observed and verified; data obtained by seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, tasting, measuring, counting, and so on; does not include subjective judgement

Answer 82

Objective information

Question 83

Identifies the degree of progress made (or not made) by the patient toward reaching a goal

Answer 83

Outcome

Question 84

Phase 2 of the nursing process for LPN/LVN; involves collaborating with the RN in development of the nursing diagnosis, goals, and interventions for the patients plan of care and maintaining patient safety

Answer 84

Planning

Question 85

Focus on a particular problem to find a solution

Answer 85

Problem-oriented thinking

Question 86

Thinking about what you are thinking about

Answer 86

Reflective thinking

Question 87

Information based on a patients opinion

Answer 87

Subjective information

Question 88

Standardized, orderly, systematic language

Answer 88

Taxonomy

Question 89

Verify data

Answer 89

Validate information