Foundations of Nursing Practice
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Foundations of Nursing Practice introduces students to the fundamental concepts and skills essential for safe, effective, and ethical nursing care. This course covers the core principles of nursing, including the nursing process, patient-centered care, professional communication, and the development of critical thinking skills. Students will learn about health assessment, basic clinical procedures, infection control, and documentation while exploring the legal and ethical frameworks that guide nursing practice. Through a combination of theory, simulation, and clinical experience, students will gain the competence and confidence needed to provide holistic care across diverse populations and healthcare settings.
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Conceptual Foundations The Bridge to Professional Nursing Practice 6th Edition by Elizabeth E. Friberg
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Chapter 1: A Brief History of Professional Nursing in the
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Q1) Historically,women were considered the obvious choice for nursing sick patients,because
A)caring for others was an extension of their homemaker role.
B)early nurses were nuns,so the public was used to women in nursing.
C)men,who had education,were reluctant to try nursing.
D)women were often at home anyway,so caregiving was easy.
Answer: A
Q2) Which patient would most likely have been cared for in a hospital in the 19th to early 20th century?
A)Dying patient
B)Contagious patient
C)Homeless patient
D)Woman in labor
Answer: C
Q3) What change is anticipated that will guide advanced practice nursing roles?
A)Changes in federal funding for advanced education
B)Declining demand for advanced practice roles
C)Requirement of a doctor of nursing practice
D)Third-party payer restrictions on this type of practice
Answer: C
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Chapter 2: Pathways of Nursing Education
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Q1) A recent high school graduate wants to pursue registered nursing education in the local community.What type of program would this student most likely investigate?
A)Associate degree program
B)Baccalaureate degree program
C)Diploma program
D)Licensed practical nurse program
Answer: A
Q2) An analysis of the three major types of basic nursing education would reveal to the student that the biggest difference in programs is that
A)ADN nurses lack the education in community health that other program graduates have.
B)BSN nurses are educated to work independently and enter leadership roles.
C)collegiate experiences in BSN programs ensure that graduates have a well-rounded education.
D)diploma graduates are trained to function under the supervision of a BSN nurse.
Answer: B
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Chapter 3: Beyond Professional Socialization
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Q1) An experienced nurse has accepted a new role in administration.Supervisors can best support this transition by assisting the nurse to
A)learn the unspoken rules of the new role.
B)manage time and other people effectively.
C)obtain education regarding the new job.
D)redefine the nurse's professional identity.
Answer: D
Q2) A nurse is giving a report to the hospital nursing counsel on the Institute of Medicine's report: "The Future of Nursing: Leading Change,Advancing Health." What broad goals does the nurse report on? (Select all that apply. )
A)Credentialing will continue to be the best way to advance practice.
B)Nurses should be allowed to practice to the extent of their capabilities.
C)Nursing should be included as an equal partner in health care reform.
D)The nursing workforce is encouraged to attain higher levels of education.
E)Workforce data collection needs infrastructure to enable meaningful use.
Answer: B,C,D,E
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Chapter 4: Professional Nursing Roles
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Q1) A nursing supervisor thinks that a staff nurse serving on several multidisciplinary committees is not demonstrating collaborative practice behaviors.What behavior by the staff nurse would best illustrate the supervisor's opinion? The staff nurse
A)agrees with,but does not incorporate,other disciplines' input.
B)does not listen to viewpoints and opinions of other disciplines.
C)feels nursing is the only viewpoint for analyzing patient issues.
D)is territorial and unwilling to share the patients' care plans.
Q2) The nurse studying the image of nursing in society would conclude that (Select all that apply. )
A)gender roles still strongly drive nursing image and perception.
B)portrayal in the popular media affects nursing's image.
C)racial and ethnic stereotypes drive viewpoints of caregiving.
D)society's view of nursing helps to create media images.
E)the status of women strongly influences societal perceptions.
Q3) The emotional response to an occurrence of role stress is called role
A)ambiguity.
B)conflict.
C)overload.
D)strain.
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Chapter 5: Theories and Frameworks for Professional
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Q1) A nurse volunteers time in a homeless shelter and wants to set up a free vaccination clinic in the shelter.Although the shelter's managers think that vaccinations are a good idea,they are skeptical that clients will take the time to visit the nurse.What modification to the proposal would generate better success according to Maslow?
A)Educate the shelter clients on the benefits of vaccines.
B)Give vaccinations after meals in a corner of the cafeteria.
C)Make vaccinations mandatory for staying at the shelter.
D)Offer vaccinations as clients check in to spend the night.
Q2) A nursing unit subscribes to Orem's theory as an overarching conceptual framework for nursing care.A nurse on that unit would most likely include which intervention in a patient's plan of care?
A)Address all questions and concerns to the eldest male relative present.
B)Assist the patient to order nutritious,heart-healthy foods from the menu.
C)Dress the patient's lower body and then have the patient dress his or her own upper body.
D)Help the family understand the patient's lived experience of the illness.
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Chapter 6: Health Policy and Planning and the Nursing
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Q1) A nurse does not understand why the U.S.Department of Health and Human Services (USDHHS)cannot allocate more money for public health efforts.Another nurse explains that money for public health and other expenditures is limited because the majority of the USDHHS budget must fund
A)any program deemed in need of funding.
B)initiatives according to Healthy People 2020.
C)Medicare and other legislated programs.
D)United Nations health and wellness plans.
Q2) An individual is an ardent supporter of a specific candidate in a federal election.This person wants to contribute $2800 to the candidate's campaign.How can the individual make this kind of contribution? The individual can give (Select all that apply. )
A)$2600 to the candidate and $200 to the national party.
B)all of it to the candidate of choice without restriction.
C)half to the candidate and the other half to the national party.
D)the entire amount to the national party without restriction.
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Chapter 7: Economic Issues in Nursing and Health Care
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Q1) A faculty member explains to a class of nursing students that Medicare (Select all that apply. )
A)covers children younger than 18 years of age.
B)covers persons older than 65 years of age.
C)helps pay for medications.
D)includes some chronic disability.
E)is a federal insurance program.
Q2) In trying to understand current problems in today's health care environment,the nurse could reframe the discussion as a problem created by
A)competing interests of market and governmental forces.
B)tension between for-profit and not-for-profit institutions.
C)too many different agencies providing the same services.
D)unchecked rises in providers' salaries and fees for service.
Q3) A health care practice has changed its mix of patients and now accepts fewer self-paying and more insured patients.The office manager tells the staff to anticipate
A)caring for more-educated patients.
B)offering expanded office hours and days.
C)ordering more diagnostic tests.
D)providing more preventive care.
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Chapter 8: Effective Communication
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Q1) A nurse wishes to have the patient reflect on what the patient has just said.To allow this to happen,the nurse should
A)ask the patient to reflect on what was just said.
B)clarify the meaning of the words with the patient.
C)repeat what was said and ask what was meant.
D)stay silent until the patient begins to talk again.
Q2) A nursing manager is frustrated by a committee that consistently fails to meet goals and generally demonstrates a lack of progress or results.The manager can conclude that
A)established policies and procedures might be inhibiting productivity.
B)self-serving behaviors outweigh the task behaviors in the group.
C)the committee's goals are vague and the committee lacks direction.
D)the leadership within the group is not skilled at group management.
Q3) A nurse explains to a preceptor student that values clarification helps with intrapersonal communication because
A)communication is enhanced when it occurs between people with similar values.
B)it allows the nurse to separate his or her values from those of the patient.
C)it helps the nurse avoid saying things that might offend or anger others.
D)understanding values will help prevent communication misunderstandings.
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Chapter 9: Think Like a Nurse: Essential Thinking Skills for Professional Nurses
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Q1) A student nurse asks how the nursing process is different from critical thinking.The best reply by the faculty member is that the nursing process is A)a tool for applying critical thinking to patient care.
B)merely the way nurses articulate patient care needs.
C)the only way to use critical thinking for best outcomes. D)the same thing as critical thinking divided into steps.
Q2) A practicing nurse uses the Universal Intellectual Standards when providing care.Which standards do these include? (Select all that apply. )
A)Accuracy
B)Clarity
C)Confidence
D)Humility
E)Precision
Q3) The student nurse learning to write nursing care plans learns that evaluation
A)happens at the end of an episode of care.
B)is valuable when the patient has met goals.
C)occurs at each step of the nursing process. D)should occur every few days on a schedule.
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Chapter 10: Teaching and Learning in the 21st Century
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Q1) A nurse has finished teaching a patient about self-management of a new disease just diagnosed.What statements by the patient indicate to the nurse that the patient's health literacy may be a barrier to learning? (Select all that apply. )
A)"Can you write down the instructions step by step?"
B)"I can't read this brochure you gave me yesterday."
C)"I got admitted because I didn't know which doctor to call."
D)"These instructions mix me up and frustrate me."
E)"This new medication is too expensive for me to take."
Q2) A nurse educator recognizes that presenting course content in a logical progression from simple concepts to more complex ones is a characteristic of __________ theories.
A)behaviorist
B)change
C)cognitive
D)humanistic
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Chapter 11: Legal Aspects of Nursing Practice
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Q1) A nurse lawyer explains to attendees at a legal conference that when judges decide cases that involve disputes between people in part based on laws determined in previous court cases,this creates or expands the area of law known as __________ law.
A)common
B)contract
C)private
D)tort
Q2) A nurse has received a charging document.The nurse manager advises the nurse that this document means
A)a lawsuit charging nursing malpractice has been filed,and the nurse is being sued.
B)someone filed a motion with the state board requesting a license revocation hearing.
C)the board of nursing has cause to believe the nurse violated the state practice law.
D)the nurse has been charged with a civil or criminal offense and must appear in court.
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Chapter 12: Ethical Dimensions of Nursing and Health Care
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Q1) A nurse has volunteered to practice in a disaster area in a developing country where supplies are extremely scarce.Despite bringing large amounts of supplies to the area,the volunteer group members find they are still very limited.The volunteer group decides to focus on providing care according to the ethical concept of utilitarianism.Which action by the group would best fit under this philosophy?
A)Choosing to treat children and pregnant women as priorities
B)Converting vehicles into ambulances for transport to hospitals
C)Establishing a mobile ventilator unit for critically ill patients
D)Providing clean water,food,shelter,and basic health care
Q2) A faculty member explains that professional ethics
A)guide behavior based on group consensus.
B)is completely an individual nurse's concern.
C)is optional in groups considered professions.
D)should not consider the goals of the profession.
Q3) The practicing nurse best understands the concept of ethics to mean
A)acting on what is right in a situation.
B)always doing what patients want.
C)being of good moral character.
D)following strict guidelines for action.
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Chapter 13: Information Management
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Q1) The student is researching a clinical problem using the Cochrane database and only finds random,controlled studies.When asked why this is so,what answer by the faculty is best?
A)"Cochrane uses other types of studies,too."
B)"Random controlled studies are the gold standard."
C)"Their interests are only in research studies."
D)"They are paid only to use those kind of studies."
Q2) The student nurse is learning to write PICOT questions.What elements does the student include? (Select all that apply. )
A)C: Cost
B)I: Intervention
C)O: Outcome
D)P: Place
E)T: Time element
Q3) A student explains to a classmate using an electronic database that the scope note describes
A)best searching strategies for this topic.
B)how far back in time the topic is covered.
C)the breadth of scope of the topic searched.
D)the definition of the term being searched.
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Chapter 14: Diversity in Health and Illness
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Q1) A nurse is working with a patient whose ethnic background emphasizes collective family decision making.The nurse needs to teach this patient self-care of diabetes,including how to take blood glucose readings and adjust insulin doses.The best action for the nurse to take in this situation is to
A)confirm the patient's beliefs in this cultural value.
B)discuss the family's wishes to be involved in care.
C)plan to include both patient and family in teaching.
D)wait for family to come before teaching the patient.
Q2) A nurse is caring for a female patient from an unfamiliar culture.The nurse has planned extensive discharge teaching,but the patient seems uninterested,deferring all questions to an older adult male relative.The best action by the nurse is to
A)ask the male relative to assist with discharge teaching.
B)include the male relative and revise the teaching plan.
C)remind the patient that her condition is confidential.
D)try to do the teaching when the male relative is absent.
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Chapter 15: Health and Health Promotion
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Q1) The faculty member explains to students that the Healthy People documents (Select all that apply. )
A)focus on health disparities among Americans.
B)guide the planning of public health programs.
C)have specific,measurable health-related objectives.
D)rate hospitals and physicians based on patient satisfaction.
E)routinely assess peoples' willingness to make healthy changes.
Q2) A nurse wishes to encourage a patient to begin an exercise program.Drawing on past research,to increase the likelihood of long-term compliance,the nurse suggests that the patient
A)create a list of possible long-term health benefits.
B)exercise in the home or around the neighborhood.
C)invest in expensive and durable fitness equipment.
D)join an exercise class at the local fitness center.
Q3) The word holism was first used in print by
A)Dorothea Orem.
B)Halbert Dunn.
C)Jan Smuts.
D)Martha Rogers.
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Chapter 16: Genetics and Genomics in Professional Nursing
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Q1) The nurse studying genomics explains to another nurse that the era between the 1950s and 1980s was notable for A)creation of medications tailored to genetics. B)developing tests for some genetic conditions.
C)passage of a genetic nondiscrimination act.
D)the complete mapping of the human genome.
Q2) A couple wanting to start a family is concerned about possible ethnically related genetic disorders.The nurse would advise this couple to undergo A)carrier testing.
B)diagnostic testing.
C)genetic counseling.
D)genetic variability testing.
Q3) The nurse knows that the science of all the genes in the human genome,along with their interactions with each other,the environment,and other influences,is known as the study of A)genes. B)genetics.
C)genomics.
D)inheritance.
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Chapter 17: Global Rural Nursing Practice
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Q1) A community nurse working in a rural area is planning programming to meet community needs.Which program option should the nurse develop?
A)Adolescents who need after-school activities
B)Free or reduced cost immunizations for children
C)Mother-parent classes for expectant families
D)Older residents who have chronic illnesses
Q2) The nurse knows that the Rural Healthy People (RHP)2020 project identified the top priority health care need as
A)access to quality health care.
B)emergency department care.
C)more inpatient hospital beds.
D)the need for female doctors.
Q3) The nurse studying rural health trends knows that which of the following is true regarding motor vehicle crashes (MVCs)in rural communities?
A)A large number of deaths from MVCs occur in rural areas.
B)Rural children have a much lower death rate from MVCs.
C)Speeds are lower in rural locations,so death rates are also lower.
D)Rural roads are much less traveled,so they tend to be safer.
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Chapter 18: Violence Against Women: An Epidemic and a Health Issue
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Q1) A nurse is evaluating the plan of care for a woman who has experienced intimate partner violence (IPV).The nurse would evaluate that goals had been met when the woman
A)articulates her choices.
B)leaves the abuser safely.
C)phones the abuse hotline.
D)presses criminal charges.
Q2) The nurse assessing women for their risks of becoming victims of intimate partner violence (IPV)knows that which factors increase this risk? (Select all that apply. )
A)Exposure to abuse as a child
B)Harmful use of alcohol
C)Lower educational levels
D)Single-parent family
E)Witnessing IPV between parents
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Chapter 19: Telehealth
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Q1) A rural hospital has a new nurse manager who has never worked with telehealth before.In evaluating the program,what indicators would best demonstrate a successful program? (Select all that apply. )
A)Fewer hospital admissions for chronic conditions
B)Patient report of satisfaction with the process
C)Police report fewer encounters with mentally ill patients in crisis
D)Remote providers report satisfaction with technical quality
E)Third-party reimbursement for 90% of billed charges
Q2) The nurse who works in telehealth best evaluates that overarching goals for the program have been met with which information?
A)Decreased mortality rate
B)Fewer exacerbations of chronic illness
C)Improved health status and quality of life
D)Lowered costs for provision of health care
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Chapter 20: Patient Safety
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Q1) A chief nursing officer (CNO)has been hired to develop a healthy work environment and culture of safety in a hospital with a long record of safety problems and poor patient outcomes.The best initial action by the CNO would be to A)create a policy where any nurse can stop procedures for a safety check. B)design team-building events and basic communications in-services.
C)have all nurses in the facility reapply and interview for their jobs. D)inform nurses that it is their job to report potential safety problems.
Q2) In the 2000 Institute of Medicine's milestone report To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System,how many patients were estimated to die each year as a result of errors occurring in a hospital setting?
A)25,000
B)35,000
C)50,000
D)98,000
Q3) A nurse is explaining to a student that SBAR is a type of A)format for conducting a debriefing. B)process for multidisciplinary meetings.
C)standardized patient chart template.
D)structured communication strategy.
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