1. What are the four broad/main goals in nursing?
Nursing has a focus comprising four main goals:
a. To promote health (state of optimal functioning or well-being with physical, social, and mental components)
b. To pr
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1. What are the four broad/main goals in nursing?
Nursing has a focus comprising four main goals:
a. To promote health (state of optimal functioning or well-being with physical, social, and mental components)
b. To prevent illness (primary, secondary, and tertiary)
c. To treat human responses to health or illness
d. To advocate for individuals, families, communities, and populations
2. What are the ethical principles that guide nursing practice?
The Code of Ethics for Nurses with Interpretive Statements and Nursing Standards of Practice further describe nursing and its associated practice standards.
3. What are the core nursing values? What do they mean? Give an example of each. The core nursing values are:
a. Respect
b. Unity
c. Diversity
d. Integrity
e. Excellence
4. What is the difference between primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention? Give an example of each.
a. Primary prevention involves strategies aimed at preventing problems. (Immunizations, health teaching, safety-precautions, and nutrition counseling)
b. Secondary prevention includes the early diagnosis of health problems and prompts treatment to prevent complications. (Vision screening, Pap smears, BP screening, hearing testing, scoliosis screening, and tuberculin skin testing)
c. Tertiary prevention focuses on preventing complications of an existing disease and promoting health to the highest level. (Diet teaching for patients with diabetes, inhaler teaching for patients with lung disease, and exercise programs for those who have had myocardial infarction)
5. What is health assessment? What are the purposes for health assessment? What does a health assessment include?
a. Health assessment is “gathering information about the health status of the patient, analyzing and synthesizing those data, making judgements about nursing interventions based on the findings, and evaluating patient care outcomes.”
b. “An RN uses a systematic, dynamic way to collect and analyze data about a client, the first step in delivering nursing care.”
c. A health assessment includes both a health history and a physical assessment.
6. What is the nursing process? What are the steps in the nursing process? What occurs in each step?
The nursing process is a systematic problem-solving approach to identifying and treating human responses to actual or potential health difficulties.
a. Assess: The nursing process begins with a complete and accurate health assessment to promote health at the highest level. Because all future care is based
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