This subject is all about Fundamentals of Nursing Practice.Please provide more explanation, information, discussion, andjustification on each number or question. Thank you and Godbless.

True or False:

  1. Health is wealth.
  2. Poor sanitation affects individual’s health.
  3. Positive health symbolizes wellness.
  4. Environment is not associated with health and wellness.
  5. Illness is characterized by soundness or wholeness of physicaland mental function.
  6. Information dissemination is one way of promoting health.
  7. Your action falls under secondary prevention when you wear longsleeves when you go and work at the field during summer.
  8. You see your neighbor runs every week ends. This is an activitythat prevent illness.
  9. Having a family history of hypertension can make you at risk ofhaving it as well.
  10. Yearly medical examination for all government employees iscategorized under secondary prevention.

Questions Part 1:

  1. Take a moment to think about the time you or a family membergot sick/hospitalized. What is the diagnosis? Discuss, support,justify and explain your answer.
  2. What do you think are the factors that precipitated to thatillness? Discuss, support, justify and explain your answer.
  3. Define health and illness. Discuss, support, justify andexplain your answer.

Questions Part 2:

  1. Enumerate and explain the three factors that affects health andillness of an individual then give an example on each of thefactors. Discuss, support, justify and explain your answer.
  2. Using a Venn diagram, compare and contrast the professional andlay definitions of both health and illness. One diagram for healthand another for illness. Discuss, support, justify and explain youranswer.

Questions Part 3:

  1. Being a professional means, you have been through a lot. Do youknow someone who is a professional nurse? Discuss, support, justifyand explain your answer.
  2. What do you think what qualifies him/her to be called as such?Discuss, support, justify and explain your answer.

Activity 1.

  1. Summarize the criteria of profession discussed above andconstruct your own criteria. Give at least three and explain each.Discuss, support, justify and explain your answer.

Activity 2.

Instruction: Read and analyze each situation then distinguishwhat role or expanded role of nurses are being implied. Choose youranswer below.

  • Care provider
  • Teacher
  • Counselor
  • Client advocate
  • Nurse practitioner
  • Clinical specialist
  • Nurse midwife
  • Nurse anesthetist
  • Change agent
  • Manager
  • Researcher
  • Nurse educator
  1. Nurse Elena just finished her master’s degree and she is soproud that she gained more knowledge that will enhance her clinicalspecialty.
  2. Briana, 18 years old is to be discharged. Nurse Andy gave theprescription of the medications that the patient needs to take.Briana asked what are those for? Nurse Andy took time to explainwhat are the medications for and she also added the importance ofreligiously taking the medications and coming for follow-up on ascheduled date.
  3. Diana is a nurse assigned at the small town of San Franciscoand she has identified a client who is at risk for stroke. She madea nutritious diet and physical activities for the client to lessenthe risk of stroke.
  4. You are having your duty at the ER. A 75-year-old patient fromKorea is being interviewed. You noticed that the nurse is havingdifficulty of communicating with the patient because the patientcannot speak in Korean nor understands English. You went in andhelp explain the procedure to the patient because you canunderstand and speak her language.
  5. Nurse Trisha is functioning more independence and autonomy thanthe other nurses. She can handle minor health problemsskillfully.
  6. Alyssa is grieving after knowing that she had miscarriagefollowing a vehicular accident. She expressed that she does nothave the reason to live anymore. The nurse shared that she hadexperience the same few years ago. She then went on and give Alyssathe things she did to cope up with the devastating situation.
  7. Nurse Adriane is providing general anesthesia for patient Dundywho is to undergo appendectomy under the supervision of aphysician.
  8. The OPD department is preparing a surprise for a doctor who isretiring. Nurse Tina divided all the work to be done and gave it tothe other nurses. As the work progresses, she is there to overseetheir work.
  9. Nurse Darieanne wants to help develop knowledge about healthand the promotion of health over the full lifespan of an individualso she is spending hours and hours at the library.
  10. Nurse Joana’s daily activity includes performing pap smears,breast examinations and even assisting clients with familyplanning.

Questions Part 4:

  1. Nursing is widely considered as an art and a science, whereincaring forms the theoretical framework of nursing. Is there arelationship between caring and nursing? Why do you say so?Discuss, support, justify and explain your answer.

Activity 3.

  1. What are the similarities and differences among the threecaring practice models? Use a Venn diagram to illustrate it.Discuss, support, justify and explain your answer.

Activity 4.

  1. Situation: Pi-Ching, 65 years old- a tourist from the mainlandof China- suffered bruises in her forehead and a fracture in herleft tibia after falling from a cliff during their hiking. Herdaughter said that her mother is experiencing headache anddizziness with mild confusion. Pi-Ching was admitted and hasundergone swabbing. Unfortunately, she tested positive withCovid-19 so she was isolated. The only language she knows isMandarin. The nurse is having trouble communicating with her thoughshe still took care of her needs. She still talks to the patienteven she knows that she does not understand the language. She evengoogles some words that are related to the situation of herpatient. The nurse makes sure that all the needs of the patient arebeing taken cared of- ensuring the safety and comfort- at alltimes.

Question: Identify at least two C’sfrom the 6 C’s of caring that is seen from the above situation.Explain its connection. Discuss, support, justify and explain youranswer.

Choose the correct answer:

  1. Allen can be called a nurse only if he possesses which of thefollowing. Select all that applies.
  1. A graduate of Bachelor of Science in Nursing.
  2. Passed the licensure examination for nurses.
  3. Physically and mentally fit.
  4. All of the above.

  1. i and ii only
  2. i and iii only
  3. i. ii. Iii and iv
  4. i, ii and iii
  1. which among the statements below is correct about caring andcuring?
  1. There can be no cure without caring.
  2. There could be care without curing.
  3. There is cure even without caring.
  4. Both A and B is correct.
  1. Diana is always seen happy and is mingling to any person shemeets. Her personality is:
  1. Type A
  2. Type B
  3. Type AB
  4. Type O
  1. During class discussion, the teacher accepts all the opinionsof the students and she makes sure that she does not neglectadditional knowledge from them. The teacher is exhibiting whatcarative element?
  1. Sense of humor
  2. Open-mindedness
  3. Quick decision-making
  4. Relaxed attitude
  1. The act of utilizing the environment of the patient to assisthim in his recovery. Who conceptualize this definition ofnursing?
  1. Jean Watson
  2. Florence Nightingale
  3. Dorothy Johnson
  4. Dorothea Orem
  1. The following are concepts of health:
  1. Health is state of compete physical, mental and socialwell-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.
  2. Health is the ability to maintain balance.
  3. Health is the ability to maintain the internalenvironment.
  4. Health is an integration of all parts and subparts of anindividual.

  1. i, ii, iii
  2. i, iii, iv
  3. ii, iii, iv
  4. i, ii, iii, iv

  1. The “Health-Illness Continuum Theory” describes which of thefollowing:
  1. The effect of environment to well-being and wellness.
  2. High level wellness is achieved if a person is able to functionindependently.
  3. Precursor of illness may be hereditary, environmental andbehavioral factors.
  4. The relationship between agent, host and environment.

  1. i, ii
  2. i, iii, iv
  3. ii. Iii, iv
  4. i, ii, iii
  1. Which of the following statements is not true about high-levelwellness?
  1. It is applicable to healthy individuals only.
  2. It is the ability to perform activities of daily living.
  3. It connotes maximizing one’s potentialities.
  4. It is the ability to self-care.
  1. Which of the following behaviors is not expected when a clientassumes the sick role?
  1. The client seeks for sick leave.
  2. The client consults a physician because of headache andfever.
  3. The client takes medication as prescribed by thephysician.
  4. The client ignores dizziness, with the hope that it will berelieved spontaneously.
  1. Health promotion activities are directed to achieve thefollowing:
  1. Increasing level of wellness.
  2. Improving quality of life.
  3. Relying on health care personnel to maintain health.
  4. Promoting healthful lifestyle.

  1. i. iii, iv
  2. i, ii, iv
  3. i, ii, iii
  4. ii, iv

For questions number 11-15 draw your answers from the choicesbelow. Note that among the choices can be used twice.

  1. Caregiver
  2. Client advocate
  3. Manager
  4. Change agent
  1. This role emphasizes that a nurse must be keen enough torecognize the needs of clients.
  2. The nurse is defending the rights of the patient.
  3. The nurse is performing bedside nursing.
  4. The nurse becomes the initiator for something new to a patientthat helps promote health.
  5. The nurse is working together with the nursing team.

For the questions number 16-20 draw your answers from thechoices below. Note that one among the choices can be usedtwice.

  1. Care
  2. Competence
  3. Courage
  4. Commitment

  1. Nurse Gina has been assigned at the Covid ward since the startof the pandemic. She was even tested positive twice but she neverthought of resigning.
  2. Teacher Pearl went to a three days’ seminar about how to inserturinary catheter.
  3. The nurse assigned at the ER gave the paracetamol intramuscularto a 3 years old child after persistent vomiting and an intravenousline is not yet established despite the disagreement of theparents.
  4. Savanna makes sure that all the needs of her patient at themedical ward are well taken cared of.
  5. During the surge of dengue, many patients were admitted at themedical ward. Nurse Joe is taking care of 60 patients in an 8-hourshift. After weeks of facing the same scenario, he decided toresign due to the heavy work. He lacks _________ to his job.
  6. When you are a public health nurse you are not expectedto:
  1. Deal with patients at the community area.
  2. Take care of individual, family and even community as awhole.
  3. To be working at the barangay health center.
  4. Arrange for confinement of patients.
  1. A nurse who earned an advance degree and is well trained inacupuncture now runs a private clinic specially serving patientswho are stroked. She is a:
  1. Nurse administrator
  2. Nurse anesthetist
  3. Nurse educator
  4. Nurse entrepreneur
  1. Health is wealth is describing what dimension?
  1. Social
  2. Cultural
  3. Economic
  4. Political
  1. Illness is the inability to function to one’s optimum level offunctioning is coined by:
  1. King
  2. Dunn
  3. Bernard
  4. Leavell and Clark
  1. According to Suchman, the most common physical experienceindicating that something is wrong is:
  1. Discomfort
  2. Pain
  3. Weakness
  4. Dizziness
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