ROLE AND SCOPE REAL FINAL PRACTICE TEST
2026 QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT
SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
◉ Identify what a new graduate nurse who is having unresolved role
conflicts may experience. Answer: d. high levels of anxiety
◉ Identify the most important element in nursing's attempt to gain
full autonomy of practice Answer: c. gaining and maintaining control
of nursing practice by nurses
◉ Identify the element that is the best indicator of increasing
accountability in the profession of nursing. Answer: c.
demonstration of competency and high quality care through peer
review
◉ What is the recommended method for nurses to prepare for
future professional practice? Answer: b. understand and explore the
issues involved in professionalism as nurses
◉ After her first week working on a busy medical/surgical unit, a
new charge nurse notes that the nurses, although highly competent,
are unable to function productively as a team. What can she do to
facilitate team-building on her unit? Answer:
,◉ a. Provide an opportunity for the nurses to express their feelings
and emotions Answer:
◉ b. hire more staff members to reduce stress and fatigue from
understaffing Answer:
◉ c. allow the staff more input into important policy decision-
making Answer:
◉ d. give the staff members more time to adjust to the change in
charge nurses Answer:
◉ A or C? Answer:
◉ The oxygen saturation for a client with acute infective bronchitis
drops to 84% and the client develops severe dyspnea. there is a
standing order for a handheld nebulizer treatment PRN for SOB. the
respiratory therapy department is designated to give all respiratory
treatments in the facility. when the nurse calls the RT, he states that
he has several more treatments to give but he should be there in 10
or 15 minutes. which action by the nurse is most appropriate at this
time? Answer: c. do not wait for the respiratory therapist, give the
HHN treatment himself or herself
, ◉ Identify the two most important ethical issues surrounding organ
transplantation Answer: beneficence and non-maleficence
◉ Provision number 1 of 2001 Code of Ethics for Nurses states: "the
nurse, in all professional relationships, practices with compassion
and respect or the inherent dignity, worth, and uniqueness of every
individual, unrestricted by considerations of social or economic
status, personal attributes, or the nature of health-care problems."
On which ethical principle is this statement primarily based?
Answer: c. fidelity
◉ Provision number 7 of the 2001 code of ethics for nurses states:
"the nurse participates in the advancement of the profession
through contributions to practice, education, administration and
knowledge development." On which ethical principle is this
statement primarily based? Answer: c. accountability
◉ the manager of a surgical area has a vision for the future that
requires the addition of RN assistants or unlicensed persons to feed,
bathe, and walk patients. The RNs on the staff have always practiced
in a primary nursing-delivery system and are very resistant to this
idea. the best initial strategy in this situation would include: Answer:
a. examining the reasons for resistance and the values of the RN
group in relationship to this change
◉ You overhear a newly graduated RN telling one of your colleagues
that leadership and management belong to the unit manager and not
2026 QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT
SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
◉ Identify what a new graduate nurse who is having unresolved role
conflicts may experience. Answer: d. high levels of anxiety
◉ Identify the most important element in nursing's attempt to gain
full autonomy of practice Answer: c. gaining and maintaining control
of nursing practice by nurses
◉ Identify the element that is the best indicator of increasing
accountability in the profession of nursing. Answer: c.
demonstration of competency and high quality care through peer
review
◉ What is the recommended method for nurses to prepare for
future professional practice? Answer: b. understand and explore the
issues involved in professionalism as nurses
◉ After her first week working on a busy medical/surgical unit, a
new charge nurse notes that the nurses, although highly competent,
are unable to function productively as a team. What can she do to
facilitate team-building on her unit? Answer:
,◉ a. Provide an opportunity for the nurses to express their feelings
and emotions Answer:
◉ b. hire more staff members to reduce stress and fatigue from
understaffing Answer:
◉ c. allow the staff more input into important policy decision-
making Answer:
◉ d. give the staff members more time to adjust to the change in
charge nurses Answer:
◉ A or C? Answer:
◉ The oxygen saturation for a client with acute infective bronchitis
drops to 84% and the client develops severe dyspnea. there is a
standing order for a handheld nebulizer treatment PRN for SOB. the
respiratory therapy department is designated to give all respiratory
treatments in the facility. when the nurse calls the RT, he states that
he has several more treatments to give but he should be there in 10
or 15 minutes. which action by the nurse is most appropriate at this
time? Answer: c. do not wait for the respiratory therapist, give the
HHN treatment himself or herself
, ◉ Identify the two most important ethical issues surrounding organ
transplantation Answer: beneficence and non-maleficence
◉ Provision number 1 of 2001 Code of Ethics for Nurses states: "the
nurse, in all professional relationships, practices with compassion
and respect or the inherent dignity, worth, and uniqueness of every
individual, unrestricted by considerations of social or economic
status, personal attributes, or the nature of health-care problems."
On which ethical principle is this statement primarily based?
Answer: c. fidelity
◉ Provision number 7 of the 2001 code of ethics for nurses states:
"the nurse participates in the advancement of the profession
through contributions to practice, education, administration and
knowledge development." On which ethical principle is this
statement primarily based? Answer: c. accountability
◉ the manager of a surgical area has a vision for the future that
requires the addition of RN assistants or unlicensed persons to feed,
bathe, and walk patients. The RNs on the staff have always practiced
in a primary nursing-delivery system and are very resistant to this
idea. the best initial strategy in this situation would include: Answer:
a. examining the reasons for resistance and the values of the RN
group in relationship to this change
◉ You overhear a newly graduated RN telling one of your colleagues
that leadership and management belong to the unit manager and not
