Download Fundamentals of Nursing: Comprehensive Insights and Exam Preparation and more Exams Nursing in PDF only on Docsity! Chapter 1 fundamentals of nursing 7th edition questions and answers –assured success 1. accreditation - Correct Answer Process whereby a professional association or nongovernmental agency grants recognition to an institution or agency for demonstrated ability in a special area of practice. 2. approved program - Correct Answer Program that meets minimum standards established by the state agency responsible for overseeing education programs. 3. articulation - Correct Answer allows nursing programs to plan their curricula collaboratively; the purpose is to lessen duplication of learning experiences and support a process of progressive buildup. 4. certification - Correct Answer Process in which an individual or institution, agency, or educational program is evaluated and recognized as meeting certain predetermined standards. 5. health - Correct Answer A condition of physical, mental, and social well-being and the absence of disease or other abnormal conditions. 6. health care system - Correct Answer The complete network of agencies, facilities, and all providers of health care in a specific geographic area. 7. holistic - Correct Answer Pertaining to the total patient care that considers the physical, emotional, social, economic, and spiritual needs of the person. 8. holistic health care - Correct Answer A SYSTEM of comprehensive or total patient care that considers the physical, emotional, social, economic, and spiritual needs of the person; the response to the illness and the effect of the illness on the person's ability to meet self-care needs. 9. illness - Correct Answer An abnormal process in which aspects of the social, emotional, or intellectual condition and function of a person are diminished or impaired. 10. licensure - Correct Answer The granting of permission by a competent authority (usually government agency) to an organization or individual to engage in a practice or activity that would otherwise be illegal. 11.patient - Correct Answer A recipient of a health care service, usually thought of as a recipient who is ill or hospitalized. 12.pesthouses - Correct Answer ________ or hospitals as they were called, were dirty overcrowded facilities filled with patients 13.portfolio - Correct Answer is an organized account of an individual's education and professional accomplishments. 14.wellness - Correct Answer A dynamic state of health in which an individual progresses toward a higher level of functioning, achieving an optimum balance between internal and external environments. 15.dix - Correct Answer Pioneer crusader for elevation of standards of care for the mentally ill. and Superintendent of Female Nurses of the Union Army. 16.clara barton - Correct Answer Developed the American Red Cross in 1881. 17.ball - Correct Answer One of the greatest nurse heroines of the Civil War. 18.Championed the rights and comforts of the soldiers; organized diet kitchens, laundries, ambulance service; and supervised the nursing staff 19. richards - Correct Answer FIRST trained nurse in AMERICA 20.Responsible for the development of the first nursing and hospital records.Credited with the development of our present-day documentation system. 21. robb - Correct Answer Organized the first graded system of theory and practice in the schools of nursing. 22.One of the founders of the American Journal of Nursing. 23.dock - Correct Answer Responsible, with Robb, for the organization of the American Society of Superintendents of Training Schools, which evolved into the National League for Nursing Education. 24.mahoney - Correct Answer Graduated from the New England Hospital for Women and Children in 1879, becoming the first African-American professional nurse. 25.Worked for acceptance of African Americans in the nursing profession. 26.wald - Correct Answer Responsible for the development of public health nursing in the United States through the founding of the Henry Street Settlement in New York City. 27.nutting - Correct Answer Developed curriculum concepts and guidelines for student nurses.Assisted in the development of the International Council of Nurses. 28.mary brekenridge - Correct Answer PIONEER in nurse-midwifery.
