1. Which is the most influential factor that has shaped the nursing profession?
1) Physicians’ need for handmaidens
2) Societal need for healthcare
... [Show More] outside the home
3) Military demand for nurses in the field
4) Germ theory influence on sanitation
ANS: 3
Chapter number and title: 1, Nursing Past & Present
Chapter learning objective: Define nursing in your own words.
Chapter page reference: p. 7
Heading: Historical Context of Nursing
Integrated Processes: Teaching and Learning
Client Need: Safe and Effective Care Environment: Management of Care
Cognitive level: Comprehension [Understanding]
Concept: Professionalism
Difficulty: Easy
Feedback
1 The physician's handmaiden was/is a nursing stereotype rather than an influence
on nursing.
2 Although there has been a need for healthcare outside the home throughout
history, this has more inNfluUeRncSeIoNnGthKeIdNevGe.loCpmOMent of hospitals than on
nursing; this need provided one more setting for nursing work.
3 Throughout the centuries, stability of the government has been related to the
success of the military to protect or extend its domain. As the survival and
well-being of soldiers are both critical, nurses provided healthcare to the sick
and injured at the battle site.
4 Germ theory and sanitation helped to improve healthcare but did not shape
nursing.
PTS: 1 CON: Professionalism
2. Which is an example of an illness-prevention activity?
1) Encouraging the use of a food diary
2) Joining a cancer support group
3) Administering immunization for HPV
4) Teaching a diabetic patient about his diet
ANS: 3
Chapter number and title: 1, Nursing Past & Present
Chapter learning objective: Name and recognize the four purposes of nursing care.
Chapter page reference: p. 15
Heading: Nursing Practice: Caring for Clients
Integrated Processes: Nursing Process – Implementation
Client Need: Health Promotion and Maintenance
Cognitive level: Application [Applying]
Concept: Health Promotion
Difficulty: Moderate
Feedback
1 Illness-prevention activities focus on avoiding a specific disease. A food diary is
a health-promotion activity.
2 Although cancer is a disease, it is assumed that a person joining a support group
would already have the disease; therefore, this is not disease prevention but
treatment.
3 Administering immunization for HPV is an example of illness prevention.
4 Teaching a diabetic patient about diet is a treatment for diabetes; the patient
already has diabetes, so it cannot prevent diabetes.
PTS: 1 CON: Health Promotion [Show Less]