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Foundations of Nursing and Professional Practice
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Foundations of Nursing and Professional Practice
Foundations of Nursing and Professional Practice
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What is Foundations of Nursing described as in Philippine BSN curricula?
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Set of theories, concepts, principles, and basic processes of nursing practice.
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What does the Board of Nursing syllabus emphasize in Foundations of Nursing?
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Nursing process, communication, patient care, and professional practice.
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What is nursing education at the CHED level built around?
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Competency-based education around core values and key areas of responsibility for Filipino nurses.
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What do PRC and BON documents connect nursing education to?
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Standards used for licensure and entry-level practice.
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What does Foundations of Nursing include beyond bedside skills?
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Professional adjustment, ethics, legal responsibility, documentation, communication, and the nurse’s role in the health system.
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What types of data are collected during health assessment?
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Subjective and objective data.
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Name the four physical examination methods listed in health assessment.
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Inspection, palpation, percussion, and auscultation.
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What findings must be documented from health assessment?
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Normal and abnormal findings.
9
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What is included in basic nursing skills for hand hygiene?
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Hand hygiene.
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What equipment is used in basic nursing procedures for protection?
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Personal protective equipment.
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Name two components of infection prevention and control.
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Standard precautions and transmission-based precautions.
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What are the two types of asepsis in infection control?
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Medical asepsis and surgical asepsis.
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What principles are part of infection prevention?
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Cleaning, disinfection, and sterilization principles.
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What is a key measure in safety and risk reduction?
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Fall prevention.
15
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What legislation relates to confidential management of records in documentation?
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Data Privacy Act of 2012.
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What is nursing according to its definition in Foundations?
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Both a profession and a practice centered on the holistic care of individuals, families, communities, and populations across the lifespan.
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According to RA 9173 Section 28, what constitutes practicing nursing?
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Singly or in collaboration with others initiates and performs nursing services in any health care setting.
18
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What life stages does nursing care cover per RA 9173?
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Care during conception, labor, delivery, infancy through old age.
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As independent practitioners, what are nurses primarily responsible for?
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Health promotion and illness prevention.
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In what types of care do nurses collaborate as health team members?
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Curative, preventive, rehabilitative, and palliative care.
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What is the ICN definition of nursing from 2025?
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A profession dedicated to upholding everyone’s right to enjoy the highest attainable standard of health, through collaborative, culturally safe, people-centred care, acting and advocating for equitable access to health care and safe environments.
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Summarize the ANA definition of nursing.
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Protection, promotion, optimization of health and abilities; prevention of illness and injury; facilitation of healing; alleviation of suffering through diagnosis and treatment of human response; advocacy for individuals, families, groups, communities, populations.
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What makes nursing holistic in nature?
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Addresses bio-psycho-social-spiritual dimensions.
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How is nursing described as dynamic and adaptive?
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Responds to changing health needs using the nursing process.
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What characterizes client-centered nursing?
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Respects cultural safety and teamwork.
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What grounds nursing practice as evidence-based?
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Scientific knowledge delivered with compassion.
27
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What was the first formal hospital in the Spanish Era?
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Hospital Real de Manila established in 1577.
28
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Who were volunteer nurses during the Philippine Revolution?
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Josephine Bracken, Melchora Aquino, Agueda Kahabagan.
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When was the first nursing school established?
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1906 at Union Mission Hospital, now Central Philippine University College of Nursing.
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What was the first Nurses Law in the Philippines?
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Act No. 2808 in 1919 regulating the profession and creating the Board of Examiners for Nurses.