NUR 205 EVALUATION 2026 EXAM QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Negligence - ✔✔Failure to use reasonable prudent care in the smart to similar
circumstances
ties in with healthcare law or tort law
✔✔Elements that must occur to establish liability of negligence - ✔✔Duty-professional
duty of reasonable care to pt that a reasonable prudent nurse would perform in same
circumstance
Breach of Duty-falling below standard of care causing injury
Causation-breach of care causing direct harm
Injury/harm- may be physical or combination of physical mental emotional or financial
✔✔Nurse Practice Act - ✔✔Permits individual to obtain licensure to perform
professional duties based on demonstrated qualifications and competency to perform
actions which are illegal without a license
✔✔Scope of Practice - ✔✔Range of permissible activity defined by law or defines what
a RN can or cannot do
Ex- Ohio board of nursing writes scope of practice for nurses in Ohio
✔✔Tort Law - ✔✔Most common basis for liability of nurses, physicians, and other health
care providers
Civil tort is an action or omission that results in harm to a person
Unintentional- negligence
Intentional-intentionally harming or violating rights
✔✔Healthcare Law - ✔✔collection of laws having direct impact on delivery of healthcare
or between deliverers and recipients of healthcare
EX HIPAA 1996
✔✔Development - ✔✔complex process of physical, psychological, cognitive and
developmental changes through life from birth to death
✔✔Culture - ✔✔pattern of shared attributes or beliefs
self definitions, norms, roles and values that can occur among those who speak a
particular language or live in a defined geographical region
✔✔Spirituality - ✔✔A belief, principle, experience or attitude
Nurse should assess and integrate in care by communication and listening skills
Involves recognizing honoring beliefs and practices of others
, ✔✔Communication - ✔✔Process of interaction using symbols to create, exchange and
interpret messages
Learned skin develops overtime
Complementary exchange-a sender transmitting a message to a receiver
✔✔Collaboration - ✔✔development of partnerships to achieve best possible outcomes
that reflects the particular needs of a patient
✔✔types of collaborations - ✔✔Nurse Nurse- intraprofessional, mentoring
Nurse Patient-partake as members of healthcare team
Interprofessional-team of different health providers
Interorganizational- regional, national, international level
✔✔Evidence based practice - ✔✔problem solving model to clinical practice that
integrates the conscientious use of best practice in combination with a clinicians
expertise and patient preferences and values in making decisions about patient care
✔✔Autonomy - ✔✔the initiation of independent nursing interventions without medical
orders
✔✔Advocate - ✔✔protect patients human and legal rights and provide assistance in
asserting these rights, act on behalf of the pt and secure you its health care rights
✔✔Patient centered care - ✔✔primary goal is to provide individual care and restore an
emphasis on personal relationships it aims to elevate quality for all patients
✔✔Culture competence - ✔✔Cultural desire-wanting to understand differences
Self awareness-identify and understand own identity
Knowledge=expose self to other cultures be motived to learn
Skill-acquired throughout time and using therapeutic communication
✔✔Clinical Reasoning - ✔✔the thinking process by which nurse reaches clinical
judgement
✔✔Safety - ✔✔prevention of healthcare errors and elimination of patient injury due to
healthcare errors-National Patient Safety Foundation
4 types of errors- diagnostic, treatment,preventitive, communication
Active errors-made by health professional
Latent errors-flaw related to organizational design
✔✔Self Management - ✔✔individuals ability to manage Sx and Tx
Self Efficacy- having knowledge and confidence to reach outcome
Pt engagement- participation through knowledge skills ability and willingness
Health Education-knowledge skills ability through learning experience
Patient provider- patient responsibility health provider to instill optimal self management
ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Negligence - ✔✔Failure to use reasonable prudent care in the smart to similar
circumstances
ties in with healthcare law or tort law
✔✔Elements that must occur to establish liability of negligence - ✔✔Duty-professional
duty of reasonable care to pt that a reasonable prudent nurse would perform in same
circumstance
Breach of Duty-falling below standard of care causing injury
Causation-breach of care causing direct harm
Injury/harm- may be physical or combination of physical mental emotional or financial
✔✔Nurse Practice Act - ✔✔Permits individual to obtain licensure to perform
professional duties based on demonstrated qualifications and competency to perform
actions which are illegal without a license
✔✔Scope of Practice - ✔✔Range of permissible activity defined by law or defines what
a RN can or cannot do
Ex- Ohio board of nursing writes scope of practice for nurses in Ohio
✔✔Tort Law - ✔✔Most common basis for liability of nurses, physicians, and other health
care providers
Civil tort is an action or omission that results in harm to a person
Unintentional- negligence
Intentional-intentionally harming or violating rights
✔✔Healthcare Law - ✔✔collection of laws having direct impact on delivery of healthcare
or between deliverers and recipients of healthcare
EX HIPAA 1996
✔✔Development - ✔✔complex process of physical, psychological, cognitive and
developmental changes through life from birth to death
✔✔Culture - ✔✔pattern of shared attributes or beliefs
self definitions, norms, roles and values that can occur among those who speak a
particular language or live in a defined geographical region
✔✔Spirituality - ✔✔A belief, principle, experience or attitude
Nurse should assess and integrate in care by communication and listening skills
Involves recognizing honoring beliefs and practices of others
, ✔✔Communication - ✔✔Process of interaction using symbols to create, exchange and
interpret messages
Learned skin develops overtime
Complementary exchange-a sender transmitting a message to a receiver
✔✔Collaboration - ✔✔development of partnerships to achieve best possible outcomes
that reflects the particular needs of a patient
✔✔types of collaborations - ✔✔Nurse Nurse- intraprofessional, mentoring
Nurse Patient-partake as members of healthcare team
Interprofessional-team of different health providers
Interorganizational- regional, national, international level
✔✔Evidence based practice - ✔✔problem solving model to clinical practice that
integrates the conscientious use of best practice in combination with a clinicians
expertise and patient preferences and values in making decisions about patient care
✔✔Autonomy - ✔✔the initiation of independent nursing interventions without medical
orders
✔✔Advocate - ✔✔protect patients human and legal rights and provide assistance in
asserting these rights, act on behalf of the pt and secure you its health care rights
✔✔Patient centered care - ✔✔primary goal is to provide individual care and restore an
emphasis on personal relationships it aims to elevate quality for all patients
✔✔Culture competence - ✔✔Cultural desire-wanting to understand differences
Self awareness-identify and understand own identity
Knowledge=expose self to other cultures be motived to learn
Skill-acquired throughout time and using therapeutic communication
✔✔Clinical Reasoning - ✔✔the thinking process by which nurse reaches clinical
judgement
✔✔Safety - ✔✔prevention of healthcare errors and elimination of patient injury due to
healthcare errors-National Patient Safety Foundation
4 types of errors- diagnostic, treatment,preventitive, communication
Active errors-made by health professional
Latent errors-flaw related to organizational design
✔✔Self Management - ✔✔individuals ability to manage Sx and Tx
Self Efficacy- having knowledge and confidence to reach outcome
Pt engagement- participation through knowledge skills ability and willingness
Health Education-knowledge skills ability through learning experience
Patient provider- patient responsibility health provider to instill optimal self management
