NURS 201 EXAM 1 UTK VERIFIED QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS NEW AND UPDATED 2026
1. Nursing's aims and competencies include promoting health,
preventing illness, restoring health, and which other competency?
A. facilitating coping with disability and death B. diagnosing
medical conditions C. prescribing pharmacological interventions D.
performing advanced surgical procedures Answer: A
2. Health is defined as a state of: A. complete absence of any known
disease processes B. optimal functioning or well-being C.
continuous dependency on healthcare providers D. temporary
physical fitness and stamina Answer: B
3. How can you as a nurse promote health? A. by withholding
complex medical information B. by promoting health literacy and
having a desire to increase your patient's well-being and physical
potential C. by letting patients research their own treatment
options D. by relying solely on the physician to explain treatments
Answer: B
4. Prevention is best described as: A. treating an illness after it has
reached a chronic state B. anticipatory action taken to prevent the
occurrence of an event or to minimize its effects after it has
occurred C. the process of restoring a patient back to their
baseline functioning D. providing end-of-life care to maximize a
person's functional strengths Answer: B
,5. Which of the following is a way that a nurse can prevent illness? A.
giving physical care and working for rehabilitation B. collaborating
with other providers to order diagnostic tests C. providing
educational programs, community programs that encourage a
healthy lifestyle, and performing health assessments that identify
risk D. prescribing preventative prophylactic medications Answer:
C
6. Which aim and competency of nursing takes the more traditional
expectations of nursing? A. promoting health B. preventing illness
C. restoring health D. facilitating coping with disability and death
Answer: C
7. How can you as a nurse restore health? A. give physical care,
collaborate with other healthcare providers, and work for health
rehabilitation B. focus exclusively on legislative health policy and
advocacy C. avoid performing health assessments to save patient
time D. limit patient interaction to family counseling sessions
Answer: A
8. How can you as a nurse facilitate coping with disability and death?
A. by encouraging patients to ignore their physical limitations B.
by increasing an individual's ability to carry out activities of daily
living and expected roles, and maximizing a person's function,
strengths, and potential C. by taking over all tasks so the patient
remains fully dependent D. by delegating all end-of-life care to
non-professional staff Answer: B
9. One of the four broad aims of nursing practice is to restore health.
Which example of nursing interventions reflects this goal? A. a
nurse shows a diabetic patient how to inject insulin B. a nurse
, recommends a yoga class for a busy executive C. a nurse provides
hospice care for a patient with end-stage cancer D. a nurse
teaches a nutrition class at a local high school Answer: A
10. What does it take to be a good nurse? A. relying entirely on
intuition without formal training B. providing service based on
knowledge and skill C. following instructions without
understanding the reasoning D. memorizing protocols without
practicing clinical skills Answer: B
11. Knowledge of nursing relies on: A. institutional tradition and
habits B. providing rationale for the skill (science, educational
background) C. personal preference and trial-and-error D.
administrative mandates and rules Answer: B
12. The art of nursing is best defined as: A. memorizing medical
terminology and pharmaceutical names B. the actual skilled
application of that knowledge to help others achieve maximum
health and quality of life C. creating visual charts for patient rooms
D. documenting care according to hospital software requirements
Answer: B
13. Which of the following is true regarding nursing in antiquity
and early modern Europe? A. nursing was strictly regulated by
universities B. took on the nurturer role, learned through oral
traditions, and met societal requirements like a witch doctor or
shaman as care shifts from home to "hospital" C. caregivers were
exclusively male physicians D. healthcare was centered primarily
in large corporate hospitals Answer: B
14. During the Protestant Reformation, nursing care suffered
because: A. nurses were over-educated and demanded too much
, autonomy B. corporate monopolies took over public healthcare
facilities C. nurses would have foul language around patients, steal
from patients, etc. D. the government banned women from
entering healthcare facilities Answer: C
15. The Protestant Sisters of Charity were notable because they:
A. had better motives than the nurses during the Protestant
Reformation B. completely banned the use of any medication in
hospitals C. operated exclusively in ancient Rome D. were the first
group to establish university nursing degrees Answer: A
16. Which of the following achievements is credited to Florence
Nightingale? A. she founded the American Red Cross B. she
started the original schools for nursing, was the first person to use
evidence-based practice, and nurses' week in the US always falls
on her birthday C. she organized military nursing during the
American Civil War D. she discovered penicillin during her work in
the Crimean War Answer: B
17. What major event in the US highlighted the need for nurses?
A. the Revolutionary War B. the War of 1812 C. the Civil War D.
World War II Answer: C
18. Dorothea Dix is recognized in nursing history for: A. inventing
the first automated blood pressure cuff B. helping organize
military nursing after the war C. writing the first nursing code of
ethics D. discovering the link between handwashing and infection
prevention Answer: B
19. Clara Barton is famous for being the: A. first African
American nurse in the United States B. founder of the American
ANSWERS NEW AND UPDATED 2026
1. Nursing's aims and competencies include promoting health,
preventing illness, restoring health, and which other competency?
A. facilitating coping with disability and death B. diagnosing
medical conditions C. prescribing pharmacological interventions D.
performing advanced surgical procedures Answer: A
2. Health is defined as a state of: A. complete absence of any known
disease processes B. optimal functioning or well-being C.
continuous dependency on healthcare providers D. temporary
physical fitness and stamina Answer: B
3. How can you as a nurse promote health? A. by withholding
complex medical information B. by promoting health literacy and
having a desire to increase your patient's well-being and physical
potential C. by letting patients research their own treatment
options D. by relying solely on the physician to explain treatments
Answer: B
4. Prevention is best described as: A. treating an illness after it has
reached a chronic state B. anticipatory action taken to prevent the
occurrence of an event or to minimize its effects after it has
occurred C. the process of restoring a patient back to their
baseline functioning D. providing end-of-life care to maximize a
person's functional strengths Answer: B
,5. Which of the following is a way that a nurse can prevent illness? A.
giving physical care and working for rehabilitation B. collaborating
with other providers to order diagnostic tests C. providing
educational programs, community programs that encourage a
healthy lifestyle, and performing health assessments that identify
risk D. prescribing preventative prophylactic medications Answer:
C
6. Which aim and competency of nursing takes the more traditional
expectations of nursing? A. promoting health B. preventing illness
C. restoring health D. facilitating coping with disability and death
Answer: C
7. How can you as a nurse restore health? A. give physical care,
collaborate with other healthcare providers, and work for health
rehabilitation B. focus exclusively on legislative health policy and
advocacy C. avoid performing health assessments to save patient
time D. limit patient interaction to family counseling sessions
Answer: A
8. How can you as a nurse facilitate coping with disability and death?
A. by encouraging patients to ignore their physical limitations B.
by increasing an individual's ability to carry out activities of daily
living and expected roles, and maximizing a person's function,
strengths, and potential C. by taking over all tasks so the patient
remains fully dependent D. by delegating all end-of-life care to
non-professional staff Answer: B
9. One of the four broad aims of nursing practice is to restore health.
Which example of nursing interventions reflects this goal? A. a
nurse shows a diabetic patient how to inject insulin B. a nurse
, recommends a yoga class for a busy executive C. a nurse provides
hospice care for a patient with end-stage cancer D. a nurse
teaches a nutrition class at a local high school Answer: A
10. What does it take to be a good nurse? A. relying entirely on
intuition without formal training B. providing service based on
knowledge and skill C. following instructions without
understanding the reasoning D. memorizing protocols without
practicing clinical skills Answer: B
11. Knowledge of nursing relies on: A. institutional tradition and
habits B. providing rationale for the skill (science, educational
background) C. personal preference and trial-and-error D.
administrative mandates and rules Answer: B
12. The art of nursing is best defined as: A. memorizing medical
terminology and pharmaceutical names B. the actual skilled
application of that knowledge to help others achieve maximum
health and quality of life C. creating visual charts for patient rooms
D. documenting care according to hospital software requirements
Answer: B
13. Which of the following is true regarding nursing in antiquity
and early modern Europe? A. nursing was strictly regulated by
universities B. took on the nurturer role, learned through oral
traditions, and met societal requirements like a witch doctor or
shaman as care shifts from home to "hospital" C. caregivers were
exclusively male physicians D. healthcare was centered primarily
in large corporate hospitals Answer: B
14. During the Protestant Reformation, nursing care suffered
because: A. nurses were over-educated and demanded too much
, autonomy B. corporate monopolies took over public healthcare
facilities C. nurses would have foul language around patients, steal
from patients, etc. D. the government banned women from
entering healthcare facilities Answer: C
15. The Protestant Sisters of Charity were notable because they:
A. had better motives than the nurses during the Protestant
Reformation B. completely banned the use of any medication in
hospitals C. operated exclusively in ancient Rome D. were the first
group to establish university nursing degrees Answer: A
16. Which of the following achievements is credited to Florence
Nightingale? A. she founded the American Red Cross B. she
started the original schools for nursing, was the first person to use
evidence-based practice, and nurses' week in the US always falls
on her birthday C. she organized military nursing during the
American Civil War D. she discovered penicillin during her work in
the Crimean War Answer: B
17. What major event in the US highlighted the need for nurses?
A. the Revolutionary War B. the War of 1812 C. the Civil War D.
World War II Answer: C
18. Dorothea Dix is recognized in nursing history for: A. inventing
the first automated blood pressure cuff B. helping organize
military nursing after the war C. writing the first nursing code of
ethics D. discovering the link between handwashing and infection
prevention Answer: B
19. Clara Barton is famous for being the: A. first African
American nurse in the United States B. founder of the American
