Chapter 1: Essentials of nursing: values, knowledge, skills and practice
1. What was the main principle on which the NHS was founded?
- Treatment should be free at the point of access.
- Treatment would be billed when you were discharged.
- Treatment costs were means tested.
- Treatment would be free to over 65s.
2. When was legislation enacted for nursing to become an all graduate profession in England?
- 1919
- 1948
- 2000
- 2010
3. Your professional profile/portfolio is a tool to develop your skills of ______.
- critical awareness, professionalism, clinical competence, rational decision making
- critical awareness, reflective practice, rational decision making and clinical judgement
- academic writing, clinical decision making, professional competence, reflective awareness
- clinical decision making, reflective practice, health promotion, patient education
4. The Code (NMC, 2015) is informed by four ethical principles which are…?
- do good, do no harm, justice, autonomy
- do well, do no harm, be judgemental, autonomy
- do good, do no harm, be judgemental, autocracy
- do well, do no harm, justice, aristocracy
5. The six Cs are ______.
- competence, care, candour, critique, compassion, command
- care, courage, corporate, compassion, candour, competence
- competence, communication, care, compassion, courage, commitment
- confidence, competence, communication, care, compassion, commitment