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Fundamentals of Nursing : History , Concepts and Theories
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FUNDAMENTALS OF NURSING TEST I

Content Outline

1. Professional Nursing
A. Historical perspectives in nursing
B. Nursing as a profession
C. Theories in nursing
D. Health care delivery system

1. The four major concepts in nursing theory are the

A. Person, Environment, Nurse, Health
B. Nurse, Person, Environment, Cure
C. Promotive, Preventive, Curative, Rehabilitative
D. Person, Environment, Nursing, Health

2. The act of utilizing the environment of the patient to assist him in his recovery is theorized by

A. Nightingale
B. Benner
C. Swanson
D. King

3. For her, Nursing is a theoretical system of knowledge that prescribes a process of analysis and action related to care of the ill person

A. King
B. Henderson
C. Roy
D. Leininger

4. According to her, Nursing is a helping or assistive profession to persons who are wholly or partly dependent or when those who are supposedly caring for them are no longer able to give care.

A. Henderson
B. Orem
C. Swanson
D. Neuman

5. Nursing is a unique profession, Concerned with all the variables affecting an individual’s response to stressors, which are intra, inter and extra personal in nature.

A. Neuman
B. Johnson
C. Watson
D. Parse

6. The unique function of the nurse is to assist the individual, sick or well, in the performance of those activities contributing to health that he would perform unaided if he has the necessary strength, will and knowledge, and do this in such a way as to help him gain independence as rapidly as possible.

A. Henderson
B. Abdellah
C. Levin
D. Peplau

7. Caring is the essence and central unifying, a dominant domain that distinguishes nursing from other health disciplines. Care is an essential human need.

A. Benner
B. Watson
C. Leininger
D. Swanson

8. Caring involves 5 processes, KNOWING, BEING WITH, DOING FOR, ENABLING and MAINTAINING BELIEF.

A. Benner
B. Watson
C. Leininger
D. Swanson

9. Caring is healing, it is communicated through the consciousness of the nurse to the individual being cared for. It allows access to higher human spirit.

A. Benner
B. Watson
C. Leininger
D. Swanson

10. Caring means that person, events, projects and things matter to people. It reveals stress and coping options. Caring creates responsibility. It is an inherent feature of nursing practice. It helps the nurse assist clients to recover in the face of the illness.

A. Benner
B. Watson
C. Leininger
D. Swanson

11. Which of the following is NOT TRUE about profession according to Marie Jahoda?

A. A profession is an organization of an occupational group based on the application of special knowledge
B. It serves specific interest of a group
C. It is altruistic
D. Quality of work is of greater importance than the rewards

12. Which of the following is NOT an attribute of a professional?

A. Concerned with quantity
B. Self directed
C. Committed to spirit of inquiry
D. Independent

13. The most unique characteristic of nursing as a profession is

A. Education
B. Theory
C. Caring
D. Autonomy

14. This is the distinctive individual qualities that differentiate a person to another

A. Philosophy
B. Personality
C. Charm
D. Character

15. Refers to the moral values and beliefs that are used as guides to personal behavior and actions

A. Philosophy
B. Personality
C. Charm
D. Character

16. As a nurse manager, which of the following best describes this function?

A. Initiate modification on client’s lifestyle
B. Protect client’s right
C. Coordinates the activities of other members of the health team in managing patient care
D. Provide in service education programs, Use accurate nursing audit, formulate philosophy and vision of the institution.

17. What best describes nurses as a care provider?

A. Determine client’s need
B. Provide direct nursing care
C. Help client recognize and cope with stressful psychological situation
D. Works in combined effort with all those involved in patient’s care

18. The nurse questions a doctors order of Morphine sulfate 50 mg, IM for a client with pancreatitis. Which role best fit that statement?

A. Change agent
B. Client advocate
C. Case manager
D. Collaborator

19. These are nursing intervention that requires knowledge, skills and expertise of multiple health professionals.

A. Dependent
B. Independent
C. Interdependent
D. Intradependent
20. What type of patient care model is the most common for student nurses and private duty nurses?

A. Total patient care
B. Team nursing
C. Primary Nursing
D. Case management

21. This is the best patient care model when there are many nurses but few patients.

A. Functional nursing
B. Team nursing
C. Primary nursing
D. Total patient care

22. This patient care model works best when there are plenty of patient but few nurses

A. Functional nursing
B. Team nursing
C. Primary nursing
D. Total patient care

23. RN assumes 24 hour responsibility for the client to maintain continuity of care across shifts, days or visits.

A. Functional nursing
B. Team nursing
C. Primary nursing
D. Total patient care

24. Who developed the first theory of nursing?

A. Hammurabi
B. Alexander
C. Fabiola
D. Nightingale

25. She introduces the NATURE OF NURSING MODEL.

A. Henderson
B. Nightingale
C. Parse
D. Orlando

26. She described the four conservation principle.

A. Levin
B. Leininger
C. Orlando
D. Parse

27. Proposed the HEALTH CARE SYSTEM MODEL.

A. Henderson
B. Orem
C. Parse
D. Neuman

28. Conceptualized the BEHAVIORAL SYSTEM MODEL

A. Orem
B. Johnson
C. Henderson
D. Parse

29. Developed the CLINICAL NURSING – A HELPING ART MODEL

A. Swanson
B. Hall
C. Weidenbach
D. Zderad

30. Developed the ROLE MODELING and MODELING theory

A. Erickson,Tomlin,Swain
B. Neuman
C. Newman
D. Benner and Wrubel

31. Proposed the GRAND THEORY OF NURSING AS CARING

A. Erickson, Tomlin, Swain
B. Peterson,Zderad
C. Bnner,Wrubel
D. Boykin,Schoenhofer

32. Postulated the INTERPERSONAL ASPECT OF NURSING

A. Travelbee
B. Swanson
C. Zderad
D. Peplau

33. He proposed the theory of morality that is based on MUTUAL TRUST

A. Freud
B. Erikson
C. Kohlberg
D. Peters

34. He proposed the theory of morality based on PRINCIPLES
A. Freud
B. Erikson
C. Kohlberg
D. Peters

35. Freud postulated that child adopts parental standards and traits through

A. Imitation
B. Introjection
C. Identification
D. Regression

36. According to them, Morality is measured of how people treat human being and that a moral child strives to be kind and just

A. Zderad and Peterson
B. Benner and Wrubel
C. Fowler and Westerhoff
D. Schulman and Mekler

37. Postulated that FAITH is the way of behaving. He developed four theories of faith and development based on his experience.

A. Giligan
B. Westerhoff
C. Fowler
D. Freud

38. He described the development of faith. He suggested that faith is a spiritual dimension that gives meaning to a persons life. Faith according to him, is a relational phenomenon.

A. Giligan
B. Westerhoff
C. Fowler
D. Freud

39. Established in 1906 by the Baptist foreign mission society of America. Miss rose nicolet, was it’s first superintendent.

A. St. Paul Hospital School of nursing
B. Iloilo Mission Hospital School of nursing
C. Philippine General Hospital School of nursing
D. St. Luke’s Hospital School of nursing

40. Anastacia Giron-Tupas was the first Filipino nurse to occupy the position of chief nurse in this hospital.

A. St. Paul Hospital
B. Iloilo Mission Hospital
C. Philippine General Hospital
D. St. Luke’s Hospital

41. She was the daughter of Hungarian kings, who feed 300-900 people everyday in their gate, builds hospitals, and care of the poor and sick herself.

A. Elizabeth
B. Catherine
C. Nightingale
D. Sairey Gamp

42. She dies of yellow fever in her search for truth to prove that yellow fever is carried by a mosquitoes.

A. Clara louise Maas
B. Pearl Tucker
C. Isabel Hampton Robb
D. Caroline Hampton Robb

43. He was called the father of sanitation.

A. Abraham
B. Hippocrates
C. Moses
D. Willam Halstead

44. The country where SHUSHURUTU originated

A. China
B. Egypt
C. India
D. Babylonia

45. They put girls clothes on male infants to drive evil forces away

A. Chinese
B. Egyptian
C. Indian
D. Babylonian

46. In what period of nursing does people believe in TREPHINING to drive evil forces away?

A. Dark period
B. Intuitive period
C. Contemporary period
D. Educative period

47. This period ended when Pastor Fliedner, build Kaiserwerth institute for the training of Deaconesses

A. Apprentice period
B. Dark period
C. Contemporary period
D. Educative period

48. Period of nursing where religious Christian orders emerged to take care of the sick

A. Apprentice period
B. Dark period
C. Contemporary period
D. Educative period

49. Founded the second order of St. Francis of Assisi

A. St. Catherine
B. St. Anne
C. St. Clare
D. St. Elizabeth

50. This period marked the religious upheaval of Luther, Who questions the Christian faith.

A. Apprentice period
B. Dark period
C. Contemporary period
D. Educative period

51. According to the Biopsychosocial and spiritual theory of Sister Callista Roy, Man, As a SOCIAL being is

A. Like all other men
B. Like some other men
C. Like no other men
D. Like men

52. She conceptualized that man, as an Open system is in constant interaction and transaction with a changing environment.

A. Roy
B. Levin
C. Neuman
D. Newman

53. In a CLOSED system, which of the following is true?

A. Affected by matter
B. A sole island in vast ocean
C. Allows input
D. Constantly affected by matter, energy, information

54. Who postulated the WHOLISTIC concept that the totality is greater than sum of its parts?

A. Roy
B. Rogers
C. Henderson
D. Johnson

55. She theorized that man is composed of sub and supra systems. Subsystems are cells, tissues, organs and systems while the suprasystems are family, society and community.

A. Roy
B. Rogers
C. Henderson
D. Johnson

56. Which of the following is not true about the human needs?

A. Certain needs are common to all people
B. Needs should be followed exactly in accordance with their hierarchy
C. Needs are stimulated by internal factors
D. Needs are stimulated by external factors

57. Which of the following is TRUE about the human needs?

A. May not be deferred
B. Are not interrelated
C. Met in exact and rigid way
D. Priorities are alterable

58. According to Maslow, which of the following is NOT TRUE about a self actualized person?

A. Understands poetry, music, philosophy, science etc.
B. Desires privacy, autonomous
C. Follows the decision of the majority, uphold justice and truth
D. Problem centered

59. According to Maslow, which of the following is TRUE about a self actualized person?

A. Makes decision contrary to public opinion
B. Do not predict events
C. Self centered
D. Maximum degree of self conflict

60. This is the essence of mental health

A. Self awareness
B. Self actualization
C. Self esteem
D. Self worth

61. Florence nightingale is born in

A. Germany
B. Britain
C. France
D. Italy

62. Which is unlikely of Florence Nightingale?

A. Born May 12, 1840
B. Built St. Thomas school of nursing when she was 40 years old
C. Notes in nursing
D. Notes in hospital

63. What country did Florence Nightingale train in nursing?

A. Belgium
B. US
C. Germany
D. England

64. Which of the following is recognized for developing the concept of HIGH LEVEL WELLNESS?

A. Erikson
B. Madaw
C. Peplau
D. Dunn

65. One of the expectations is for nurses to join professional association primarily because of

A. Promotes advancement and professional growth among its members
B. Works for raising funds for nurse’s benefit
C. Facilitate and establishes acquaintances
D. Assist them and securing jobs abroad

66. Founder of the PNA

A. Julita Sotejo
B. Anastacia Giron Tupas
C. Eufemia Octaviano
D. Anesia Dionisio

67. Which of the following provides that nurses must be a member of a national nurse organization?

A. R.A 877
B. 1981 Code of ethics approved by the house of delegates and the PNA
C. Board resolution No. 1955 Promulgated by the BON
D. RA 7164

68. Which of the following best describes the action of a nurse who documents her nursing diagnosis?

A. She documents it and charts it whenever necessary
B. She can be accused of malpractice
C. She does it regularly as an important responsibility
D. She charts it only when the patient is acutely ill

69. Which of the following does not govern nursing practice?

A. RA 7164
B. RA 9173
C. BON Res. Code Of Ethics
D. BON Res. Scope of Nursing Practice

70. A nurse who is maintaining a private clinic in the community renders service on maternal and child health among the neighborhood for a fee is:

A. Primary care nurse
B. Independent nurse practitioner
C. Nurse-Midwife
D. Nurse specialist

71. When was the PNA founded?

A. September 22, 1922
B. September 02, 1920
C. October 21, 1922
D. September 02, 1922

72. Who was the first president of the PNA ?

A. Anastacia Giron-Tupas
B. Loreto Tupas
C. Rosario Montenegro
D. Ricarda Mendoza

73. Defines health as the ability to maintain internal milieu. Illness according to him/her/them is the failure to maintain internal environment.

A. Cannon
B. Bernard
C. Leddy and Pepper
D. Roy

74. Postulated that health is a state and process of being and becoming an integrated and whole person.

A. Cannon
B. Bernard
C. Dunn
D. Roy

75. What regulates HOMEOSTASIS according to the theory of Walter Cannon?

A. Positive feedback
B. Negative feedback
C. Buffer system
D. Various mechanisms

76. Stated that health is WELLNESS. A termed define by the culture or an individual.

A. Roy
B. Henderson
C. Rogers
D. King

77. Defined health as a dynamic state in the life cycle, and Illness as interference in the life cycle.

A. Roy
B. Henderson
C. Rogers
D. King

78. She defined health as the soundness and wholness of developed human structure and bodily mental functioning.

A. Orem
B. Henderson
C. Neuman
D. Clark

79. According to her, Wellness is a condition in which all parts and subparts of an individual are in harmony with the whole system.

A. Orem
B. Henderson
C. Neuman
D. Johnson

80. Postulated that health is reflected by the organization, interaction, interdependence and integration of the subsystem of the behavioral system.

A. Orem
B. Henderson
C. Neuman
D. Johnson

81. According to them, Well being is a subjective perception of BALANCE, HARMONY and VITALITY

A. Leavell and Clark
B. Peterson and Zderad
C. Benner and Wruber
D. Leddy and Pepper

82. He describes the WELLNESS-ILLNESS Continuum as interaction of the environment with well being and illness.

A. Cannon
B. Bernard
C. Dunn
D. Clark

83. An integrated method of functioning that is oriented towards maximizing one’s potential within the limitation of the environment.

A. Well being
B. Health
C. Low level Wellness
D. High level Wellness

84. What kind of illness precursor, according to DUNN is cigarette smoking?

A. Heredity
B. Social
C. Behavioral
D. Environmental

85. According to DUNN, Overcrowding is what type of illness precursor?

A. Heredity
B. Social
C. Behavioral
D. Environmental

86. Health belief model was formulated in 1975 by who?

A. Becker
B. Smith
C. Dunn
D. Leavell and Clark

87. In health belief model, Individual perception matters. Which of the following is highly UNLIKELY to influence preventive behavior?

A. Perceived susceptibility to an illness
B. Perceived seriousness of an illness
C. Perceived threat of an illness
D. Perceived curability of an illness

88. Which of the following is not a PERCEIVED BARRIER in preventive action?

A. Difficulty adhering to the lifestyle
B. Economic factors
C. Accessibility of health care facilities
D. Increase adherence to medical therapies

89. Conceptualizes that health is a condition of actualization or realization of person’s potential. Avers that the highest aspiration of people is fulfillment and complete development actualization.

A. Clinical Model
B. Role performance Model
C. Adaptive Model
D. Eudaemonistic Model

90. Views people as physiologic system and Absence of sign and symptoms equates health.

A. Clinical Model
B. Role performance Model
C. Adaptive Model
D. Eudaemonistic Model

91. Knowledge about the disease and prior contact with it is what type of VARIABLE according to the health belief model?

A. Demographic
B. Sociopsychologic
C. Structural
D. Cues to action

92. It includes internal and external factors that leads the individual to seek help

A. Demographic
B. Sociopsychologic
C. Structural
D. Cues to action

93. Influence from peers and social pressure is included in what variable of HBM?

A. Demographic
B. Sociopsychologic
C. Structural
D. Cues to action

94. Age, Sex, Race etc. is included in what variable of HBM?

A. Demographic
B. Sociopsychologic
C. Structural
D. Cues to action

95. According to Leavell and Clark’s ecologic model, All of this are factors that affects health and illness except

A. Reservoir
B. Agent
C. Environment
D. Host

96. Is a multi dimensional model developed by PENDER that describes the nature of persons as they interact within the environment to pursue health

A. Ecologic Model
B. Health Belief Model
C. Health Promotion Model
D. Health Prevention Model

97. Defined by Pender as all activities directed toward increasing the level of well being and self actualization.

A. Health prevention
B. Health promotion
C. Health teaching
D. Self actualization

98. Defined as an alteration in normal function resulting in reduction of capacities and shortening of life span.

A. Illness
B. Disease
C. Health
D. Wellness

99. Personal state in which a person feels unhealthy

A. Illness
B. Disease
C. Health
D. Wellness

100. According to her, Caring is defined as a nurturant way of responding to a valued client towards whom the nurse feels a sense of commitment and responsibility.

A. Benner
B. Watson
C. Leininger
D. Swanson

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