Nursing Concepts Beginning Test
Questions and Answers | Latest
Version | 2025/2026 | Correct & Verified
What is nursing primarily concerned with?
✔✔ Caring for individuals, families, and communities to promote health and well-being
Who is considered the focus of nursing care?
✔✔ The patient as a whole person
What does holistic care mean in nursing?
✔✔ Caring for the physical, emotional, social, and spiritual needs of a patient
What is the main goal of nursing practice?
✔✔ To promote, maintain, and restore health
What term describes doing no harm to a patient?
✔✔ Nonmaleficence
What is beneficence in nursing?
✔✔ Acting in the best interest of the patient
What does patient-centered care emphasize?
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,✔✔ Respecting patient values, needs, and preferences
What is accountability in nursing?
✔✔ Taking responsibility for one’s actions and decisions
What is the nurse’s role in patient advocacy?
✔✔ Protecting the patient’s rights and interests
What does confidentiality mean in nursing?
✔✔ Keeping patient information private and secure
What is informed consent?
✔✔ Permission given by a patient after understanding a procedure
What does communication in nursing mainly support?
✔✔ Safe and effective patient care
What is therapeutic communication?
✔✔ Purposeful interaction focused on patient needs
What does empathy involve?
✔✔ Understanding and sharing another person’s feelings
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, What is the difference between empathy and sympathy?
✔✔ Empathy understands feelings, sympathy feels pity
What is the nursing process?
✔✔ A systematic approach to providing patient care
What are the five steps of the nursing process?
✔✔ Assessment, diagnosis, planning, implementation, and evaluation
What is assessment in nursing?
✔✔ Collecting patient health information
What is a nursing diagnosis?
✔✔ A clinical judgment about patient responses to health conditions
What does planning involve in nursing care?
✔✔ Setting goals and choosing interventions
What is implementation in nursing?
✔✔ Carrying out planned nursing interventions
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Questions and Answers | Latest
Version | 2025/2026 | Correct & Verified
What is nursing primarily concerned with?
✔✔ Caring for individuals, families, and communities to promote health and well-being
Who is considered the focus of nursing care?
✔✔ The patient as a whole person
What does holistic care mean in nursing?
✔✔ Caring for the physical, emotional, social, and spiritual needs of a patient
What is the main goal of nursing practice?
✔✔ To promote, maintain, and restore health
What term describes doing no harm to a patient?
✔✔ Nonmaleficence
What is beneficence in nursing?
✔✔ Acting in the best interest of the patient
What does patient-centered care emphasize?
1
,✔✔ Respecting patient values, needs, and preferences
What is accountability in nursing?
✔✔ Taking responsibility for one’s actions and decisions
What is the nurse’s role in patient advocacy?
✔✔ Protecting the patient’s rights and interests
What does confidentiality mean in nursing?
✔✔ Keeping patient information private and secure
What is informed consent?
✔✔ Permission given by a patient after understanding a procedure
What does communication in nursing mainly support?
✔✔ Safe and effective patient care
What is therapeutic communication?
✔✔ Purposeful interaction focused on patient needs
What does empathy involve?
✔✔ Understanding and sharing another person’s feelings
2
, What is the difference between empathy and sympathy?
✔✔ Empathy understands feelings, sympathy feels pity
What is the nursing process?
✔✔ A systematic approach to providing patient care
What are the five steps of the nursing process?
✔✔ Assessment, diagnosis, planning, implementation, and evaluation
What is assessment in nursing?
✔✔ Collecting patient health information
What is a nursing diagnosis?
✔✔ A clinical judgment about patient responses to health conditions
What does planning involve in nursing care?
✔✔ Setting goals and choosing interventions
What is implementation in nursing?
✔✔ Carrying out planned nursing interventions
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