Professional Nursing Practice
This individual is widely recognized as the founder of modern nursing.
Who is Florence Nightingale?
This specialty area of nursing provides care to adults with medical disorders and during surgical experiences across multiple settings.
What is medical–surgical nursing?
This term describes a person’s observable characteristics, which result from the interaction of genes and the environment.
What is phenotype?
This field of study focuses on the aging process and its effects on individuals.
What is gerontology?
This term is defined as a limitation in performance or function in everyday activities, such as walking, hearing, or performing ADLs.
What is disability?
According to the ANA, nursing integrates the art and science of caring with this purpose to promote health and healing.
What is the promotion of health, prevention of illness, and alleviation of suffering?
These ANA-established expectations define basic competencies and behavioral competencies for nurses, including ethical practice and effective communication.
What are standards of practice and standards of professional performance?
This type of mutation is present in all body cells and can be passed to offspring.
What is a germline mutation?
This term describes genetically programmed, universal changes that occur with aging and are distinct from disease-related changes.
What is intrinsic aging?
According to the WHO, disability results from the interaction between a person’s health condition and these two types of factors.
What are personal factors and environmental factors?
A nurse individualizes care by respecting patient preferences, values, and cultural beliefs. This reflects which domain of nursing practice?
What is Person-Centered Care (Domain 2)?
This nursing role focuses on coordinating care during transitions between settings to reduce readmissions and health care costs.
What is the nurse’s role in care transitions (e.g., nurse navigator or case manager)?
A nurse identifies a horizontal pattern of disease, equal impact on males and females, and a history of consanguinity. This inheritance pattern is MOST likely:
What is autosomal recessive inheritance?
A nurse assesses an older adult’s mobility, ability to perform ADLs, endurance, and need for assistance to plan care. This framework is known as:
What is functional assessment?
A nurse focuses on empowering a patient with disability, promoting independence, and advocating to remove barriers to care rather than fostering dependency. This approach reflects which model?
What is the Interface Model of Disability?
A nurse participates in a root-cause analysis after a medication error and helps implement system-wide changes to reduce future harm. This BEST exemplifies which domain?
What is Quality and Safety (Domain 5)?
A patient recovering from a stroke is assessed for independence, mobility, endurance, and need for assistance with ADLs. This assessment BEST supports which nursing focus?
What is assessment of functional ability?
This form of genetic testing is performed in asymptomatic individuals, often for public health purposes, and requires accurate prediction of disease progression and available management strategies.
What is population screening?
An older adult presents with acute confusion, fluctuating attention, and altered level of consciousness after surgery. This condition is considered a medical emergency and is commonly screened using the CAM tool.
What is delirium?
A patient with a disability avoids routine health screenings due to inaccessible facilities, negative provider attitudes, and transportation difficulties. These challenges BEST illustrate:
What are barriers to health care for people with disabilities?
This nursing domain emphasizes accountability, ethical comportment, formation of professional identity, and commitment to the values of the discipline.
What is Professionalism (Domain 9)?
A nurse teaches a patient with right-sided weakness to use a long-handled toothbrush, encourages repetition, and documents performance to track progress. This intervention BEST reflects which nursing goal?
What is fostering self-care abilities and promoting independence in ADLs?
A nurse helps a patient understand genetic risk, protects confidentiality, supports informed decision-making, facilitates referrals, and collaborates with other health professionals. This BEST represents:
What is the genomic framework for nursing practice?
A nurse identifies early-onset breast cancer, male breast cancer, or multiple relatives with the same cancer in an older adult’s family history. This finding MOST strongly indicates the need for:
What is referral for genetic counseling and evaluation?
A nurse ensures accessible equipment, uses people-first language, assists with ADLs during hospitalization, coordinates community resources at discharge, and advocates against discrimination. This BEST represents:
What is comprehensive nursing care for patients with disability and chronic illness?