Health Promotion & Prevention
This type of prevention focuses on reducing the number of new cases of disease.
What is primary prevention?
This nurse believed the environment had a strong influence on patient outcomes and emphasized cleanliness.
Who is Florence Nightingale?
This nurse role involves standing up for a patient’s rights and best interests.
What is a patient advocate?
Using a gait belt to ambulate a patient with weakness is an example of this strategy.
What is a fall prevention strategy?
This is the first step of the nursing process and involves collecting subjective and objective data.
What is assessment?
Helping a patient with COPD manage symptoms and avoid hospitalization is this type of prevention.
What is tertiary prevention?
This professional document defines the scope of practice for nurses in each state.
What is the Nurse Practice Act?
This type of law governs HIPAA, licensure, and the Nurse Practice Act.
What is statutory law?
RACE is the acronym used during a fire. What does the 'C' stand for?
What is contain the fire?
This is the last step in the nursing process and evaluates the effectiveness of the plan of care.
What is evaluation?
Mammograms and blood pressure screenings are examples of this type of prevention.
What is secondary prevention?
This term refers to a whole-person approach that considers mind, body, spirit, and environment.
What is holistic nursing?
This concept involves being accountable for one’s actions and admitting errors when they occur.
What is professional accountability?
This is the most effective method to prevent hospital-acquired infections.
What is handwashing?
A student nurse writing goals like 'Client will ambulate 50 feet with assistance by 0900' is demonstrating this type of goal-setting.
What is a SMART goal?
This U.S. national initiative sets measurable health goals for improving population wellness.
What is Healthy People 2030?
The ANA defines nursing as the protection, promotion, and optimization of this.
What is health and abilities?
The nurse refuses to share her password with another healthcare worker. This demonstrates this ethical principle.
What is confidentiality?
This assistive staff member helps patients relearn daily activities like dressing or eating.
Who is the occupational therapist?
This is the step in the nursing process where nurses implement actions and delegate tasks.
What is implementation?
A community nurse organizes a blood pressure screening at a local grocery store to catch hypertension early. This activity represents which level of prevention?
What is secondary prevention?
This national organization helps define the ethical standards and professional practice of nurses.
What is the American Nurses Association (ANA)?
This group may be consulted when a patient’s family disagrees about a plan of care.
What is the ethics committee?
This device alerts staff if a patient tries to get out of bed without assistance.
What is a bed alarm?
This part of the nursing diagnosis explains the cause or contributing factors for a patient's issue.
What is etiology?
This concept refers to behaviors like wearing seat belts or avoiding tobacco to reduce risk.
What are health-protective behaviors?
This nursing theory emphasizes the significance of caring relationships in promoting healing.
What is Jean Watson’s Theory of Caring?
This term means doing no harm in nursing practice.
What is nonmaleficence?
A nurse completes this form after a medication error or patient fall.
What is an incident report?
This type of data is collected directly from the patient and cannot be verified by another person.
What is subjective data?
Nurses use this model (named after its creator) to help understand how personal factors influence behavior change.
What is Pender’s Health Promotion Model?
These four NLN competencies form the foundation of all nursing programs.
What are human flourishing, nursing judgment, professional identity, and spirit of inquiry?
The professional organization that created the Code of Ethics for Nurses.
What is the American Nurses Association?
This safety acronym guides nurses in using a fire extinguisher correctly.
What is PASS?
This structured format includes Problem, Etiology, and Symptoms.
What is the PES format?
A community nurse organizes a blood pressure screening at a local grocery store to catch hypertension early. This activity represents which level of prevention?
Correct Response:
What is secondary prevention?
Rationale:
Secondary prevention identifies disease in its early stages to reduce complications and promote better outcomes.