RLE LEC Prelims

Health

The degree of wellness/well-being that a client experiences

Teacher

What role of a nurse assumes to help clients learn about their health and the health care procedures they need to perform to restore or maintain their health?

Manager

Coordinates/ influences others to work together to accomplish a specific goal of the whole health care team.

Nurse administrator

A nurse who functions at various levels of management in health settings; responsible for the management and administration of resources and personnel involved in giving patient care

Florence Nightingale

Also known as the "Lady with the Lamp; work during Crimean War established hospital and procedure reform

Standard of Practice

This describes the responsibilities for which nurses are accountable 

Caregiver

A new nursing student is disappointed because classes so far are focused on topics such as communication and planning, and she wanted to be a nurse to “provide care.” This nursing student is describing which role of the nurse?

Professionalization

The student nurse is learning how to fit into the nursing profession by learning the rules defining relationships, the behavior expected of a nurse, and to see the world in a manner similar to other nurses. This is known as:

Researcher

The role of the nurse which participates in scientific investigation and applies research findings in practice.

Advocate

Role of the nurse which protects client’s human and legal rights; in line with client’s religion or culture

Protect the client

While attending a continuing education seminar, several nurses from different states are discussing their individual state requirements for Nursing licensure. Which of the following is the one common thread between all of the states’ departments of nursing?

Consumer, Patient, Client

The terms used to identify the recipients of nursing are:

Virginia Henderson

She defines nursing as “ the unique function of the nurse is to assist the individual, sick or well in the performance of those activities.”

Profession

An occupation that requires extensive education or a calling that requires special knowledge, skill, and preparation.

Expert

According to Patricia Benner, these nurses  has intuitive grasp of the situation

1980

In what year was nursing defined as the diagnosis and treatment of human responses to actual or potential health problems

Article 6 RA 9173

Nursing act that defines the scope of nursing as: A person has been deemed to be practicing nursing when he/she singly or in collaboration with one another: “Initiates and performs nursing services to individuals, families, and communities in any health care setting”

San Lazaro Hospital

This hospital in the Philippines was initially built for patients with leprosy (1578)

Iloilo Mission School of Nursing

What was the first hospital in the Philippines to train Filipino nurses in 1906?

MCU College of Nursing

Which university offered the first 4yr BSN Program

1920

When did the first PNLE Board Exam took place which garnered the highest passing rate of 93.5%

Intimate

This is the distance usually made by lovers. (0 - 18 inches)

Social

What distance is 4 to 12 ft which is characterized by a clear visual perception of the whole person

Encoding

A part of the communicating process which involves the selection of specific signs or symbols to transmit message

Playing

What is the universal language for children?

Untaught and instinctive

What was nursing during the Intuitive Period?

Trephining

This is the practice of drilling a hole on the skull with a rock or stone as a last resort to drive evil spirits from the body.

Voice & intonation

Simplicity

Clarity

Timing

Humor

What must be considered in verbal communication?

Code of Hammurabi

What are the contributions of Babylonia to medicine and nursing?

Art of Embalming

The Egyptians introduced this method of preserving the body of a dead person through mummification

Moses

He was known as the “Father of Sanitation” and wrote the book of Leviticus

Act of Charity

Hospitality to Strangers

In Israel, they practice these two values constrained in the book of genesis

Mosaic Law

This law is meant to keep Hebrews pure so they may enter sanctuary.

China

This is country greatly contributed to the use of pharmacological drugs through the book “Materia Medica”

Aesculapus

Father of medicine in Greek mythology

Hippocrates

He is the father of scientific medicine and the first to reject the claims that diseases are caused by evil spirits

Caduceus

This is the insignia of medicine composed of a staff for travelers intertwined with two serpent (symbol of Aesculapus). At the apex are two wings of Hermes that symbolize speed

Humans

During the intuitive period of nursing, sickness that is caused by witchcraft is due to the intervention of whom?

Non-human

During the intuitive period of nursing, sickness that is caused by ghosts is due to the intervention of whom?

Supernatural beings

During the intuitive period of nursing, sickness that is caused by deities is due to the intervention of whom?

Ordinary

This is a type of beneficence that is simply doing good to others

Ideal

This is the type of beneficence that entails sacrifice

Sushuruto

This is defined as the 1st recording on the nursing practice

Fabiola

She converted her home to a hospital (Nosocomium) with the help of Marcella and Paula

Marcella

She was the first educator that taught the care of the sick to her followers

Paula

She is one of the most learned woman of the intuitive period. She also built shelter for the pilgrims and hospitals for the sick

Apprentice Period

This is also known as the on-the-job training period. Religious orders of the Church led the development of this period.

Wet nurse

She is a woman who cares and breastfeeds another’s child.

Crusades

Military religious orders established hospitals that were staffed with men

Knights of St. Lazarus

They were founded primarily for the nursing care of lepers in Jerusalem

Leprosy

This is a flesh eating disease. This was the one that King Viserys suffered from

Knights of St. John of Jerusalem

They are Italians also known as “Knight Hospitalers”

St. Catherine of Sienna

She is known as the “Little Saint” because she was caring for the sick as early as 7 years old. She was also considered as the first “Lady with the Lamp”

Theodore Fleidner

He was a pastor that reestablished the Order of Deaconesses and established the School of Nursing at Kaiserswerth, Germany

1854-1856

In what years did the Crimean war start and end?

Notes on Hospitals

Aside from Notes on Nursing: What it is and What it is not, what other book did Nightingale publish?

1973

This was the year that nursing was defined as direct, goal-oriented, and adaptable to the needs of the individual, the family, and the community.

Mysticism

Superstitions

These were the early beliefs and practices of the Philippines regarding health and medicine

Hospital Real de Manila

This was a hospital built in the Philippines during 1577 and was mainly for the Spanish King’s soldiers.

Hospital de Indio

This hospital was established in 1586 by the Franciscan order and was supported by alms and charitable individuals

Josephine Bracken

She installed the first hospital in an estate house in Tajeros; provided nursing care to the wounded night and day

Rosa Sevilla de Alvaro

She converted her house into quarters for Filipino soldiers when the Philippine-American war broke out in 1899

Dona Hilaria de Aguinaldo

Wife of Emilio Aguinaldo; Organized the Filipino Red Cross under the guidance of Apolinario Mabini

Dona Maria de Aguinaldo

She was the second wife of Emilio Aguinaldo; President of the Red Cross branch in Batangas. She also provided care for soldiers during the revolution

Melchora Aquino

Known as “Tandang Sora,” she nursed the wounded Filipino soldiers and gave them food and shelter

Captain Salome

A revolutionary leader in Nueva Ecija; provided care for soldiers when not in combat

Agueda Kahabagan

A revolutionary leader in Laguna; provided care for her troops

Trinidad Tecson

Known as “Ina ng Biyak na Bato” because she stayed in the hospital in Biac na Bato to care for soldiers

Anastacia Giron-Tupas

She was the first Filipino nurse to achieve the position of Chief Nurse Superintendent; founder of the Philippine Nurses Association

Cesaria Tan

First Filipino to get a Masters degree in nursing abroad

Malolos, Bulacan

The Filipino red cross located their first national headquarters where?

Communication

This is the process people use to exchange information through verbal and nonverbal messages

Verbal Communication

This is a type of communication that uses spoken and written words

UST

What was the first college of nursing in the Philippines (1946)?

Nonverbal Communication

This is a type of communication that uses gestures, facial expressions, touch, physical appearance, and adornments. Usually, involve the five senses

Electronic communication

This is a type of communication that uses technology

Territoriality

This is the need to gain, maintain, and defend one’s right to space

Sender

This communication element is the people who wishes to send information to another.

Message

This communication element refers to the content of the communication

Receiver

This is a communication element that receives and decodes a message

Feedback

This communication element refers to the message the receiver returns to the sender.

Therapeutic communication

This is a communication that encourages the expression of feelings, ideas, and convey acceptance and respect. This is an important part of establishing a constructive nurse-patient relationship

Empathy

This is the ability to understand and accept another person’s reality, accurately perceive feelings, and communicate this understanding to another

Formal Communication

This is a communication that is structured on the basis on hierarchy, authority, and accountability

Madeleine Leininger

She is a nursing theorist that pioneered ***transcultural*** ***nursing*** as a “humanistic and formal area of study and practice which is focused upon differences and similarities among cultures with respect to human care, health (or well-being), and illness based upon the people’s cultural values, beliefs & practices”

Culture

This is a patterned behavioral response and shares four basic characteristics; it is learned from birth, shared by all members of the same group, an adaptation to environmental conditions, and is a dynamic and ever-changing process.

Values

This guide one’s perception of what is good and what is not

Minority Group

These are a group of people who because of physical and cultural characteristic receive different & unequal treatment from others

Ethnocentricity

This is the assumption of cultural superiority

Socorro Sirilan

She is a pioneer on hospital social service at San Lazaro Hospital

Rosa Militar

She is a pioneer in school health education

Sor Ricarda Mendoza

She is a pioneer in nursing education

Conchita Ruiz

She is the first full-time editor of the newly named PNA magazine “The Filipino Nurse”

Loreto Tupaz

She is the dean of Philippine nursing; she is also considered as the Florence Nightingale of Iloilo

1922

This was the year that the Filipino Nursing Association established as the National Organization of Filipino Nurses

1966

This was the year that Filipino Nursing Association (FNA) was changed into Philippine Nursing Association (PNA)

Rosario Delgado

She was the first president of PNA

1953

This was the year when the Republic Act 877 known as the “Nursing Practice Act” was approved

Spatial behavior

This is the universal need for territoriality

Rose Nicolet

First Superintendent in the Iloilo Mission Hospital School of Nursing