EDGEWOOD COLLEGE

DEPARTMENT OF NURSING

N210

STUDY GUIDE – EXAM I

1. Explain the concept of high-level wellness.
2. Identify 3 levels of prevention; give examples of each.
3. Explain the significance of health promotion in nursing practice.
4. Describe Gordon’s functional health patterns.
5. Identify Erickson’s stages of psychosocial development.
6. Identify health promotion behaviors appropriate to each age group across the lifespan.
7. Identify health concerns appropriate to each age group using Gordon’s functional health patterns.
8. Evaluate communication responses in nurse-client interactions.
9. Describe events that influence one’s socialization into nursing.
10. Compare early definitions of nursing with contemporary ones.
11. Identify key accomplishments of nursing leaders who shaped the profession in the United States.
12. Explain therapeutic use of self.
13. Explain the implication of culture in nursing practice.
14. Apply growth and development needs of children (infant-adolescence).
15. Describe nursing actions in each stage of the nurse-client relationship (interview process).