NURS-1117 FINAL EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS | COMPREHENSIVE STUDY
GUIDE 2026/2027
Therapeutic communication - correct answer ✔✔Verbal and nonverbal communication
techniques that encourage patients to express their feelings and to achieve a positive
relationship.
Communication - correct answer ✔✔Process of exchanging information and process of
generating and transmitting meanings between 2 or more people
Nonverbal communication - correct answer ✔✔communication using body movements,
gestures, and facial expressions rather than speech
What are the three communication channels? - correct answer ✔✔Auditory, visual and
kinesthetic
Communication techniques - correct answer ✔✔Helping relationship, dynamic, purposeful and
timely, professional, patient independent, improve health/well-being, and increase feeling of
worth
Physiological needs - correct answer ✔✔the most basic human needs to be satisfied- water,
food, shelter, and clothing
Safety and security needs - correct answer ✔✔Security of: body, employment, resources,
family, health, and property
Love and belonging needs - correct answer ✔✔friendship, family, sexual intimacy
,Self-esteem needs - correct answer ✔✔need to feel good about oneself and to believe others
hold one in high regard
Self-actualization needs - correct answer ✔✔need to live up to our fullest and unique potential
Outcome statements need to be... - correct answer ✔✔Specific, measurable, attainable,
realistic, and timely
Examples of measurable outcome verbs - correct answer ✔✔Define, prepare, identify, list,
describe, explain, demonstrate
Implementing - correct answer ✔✔Nursing interventions identified in care plan as any
treatment or action, based upon clinical judgement and knowledge, that nurses perform to
enhance clients outcomes
Nurse-initiated intervention - correct answer ✔✔independent nursing actions that involve
carrying out nurse-prescribed interventions written on the nursing plan of care
Physician-initiated intervention - correct answer ✔✔dependent nursing actions, involving
carrying out physician-prescribed orders
Collaborative interventions - correct answer ✔✔interdependent nursing actions performed
jointly by nurses and other members of the health care team
Evaluation process - correct answer ✔✔Identify evaluative criteria, collect data and determine if
outcome was met, interpret findings/document, terminate/continue/modify
Electronic Health Record (EHR) - correct answer ✔✔Source-oriented records
,Types of documentation - correct answer ✔✔Charting, white boards
Types of reporting - correct answer ✔✔Face-to-face, written, computer message, bedside
Types of conferring - correct answer ✔✔Rounds with disciplines, SBAR
Documentation data is used for - correct answer ✔✔Research, education, communication,
surveys, reviews, records, and reimbursment
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) - correct answer ✔✔A
comprehensive set of standards and practices designed to give patients specific rights regarding
their personal health information.
Nursing process - correct answer ✔✔assessment, diagnosis, outcome identification, planning,
implementation, evaluation
Subjective Data - correct answer ✔✔What the patient states
Objective data - correct answer ✔✔what you observe through measurement, inspection,
palpation, percussion, and auscultation
Types of assessing - correct answer ✔✔VS, head-to-toe, listening to the patient, observing the
patient, asking questions about signs and symptoms
Initial assessment - correct answer ✔✔Performed shortly after the patient is admitted to a
healthcare agency or service - within 24 hours/ASAP
Focused assessment - correct answer ✔✔The nurse gathers data about a specific problem that
has already been identified.
, Emergency assessment - correct answer ✔✔rapid focused assessment conducted to determine
potentially fatal situations
Time-lapsed assessment - correct answer ✔✔an assessment that is scheduled to compare a
patient's current status to baseline data obtained earlier
Types of nursing diagnosis - correct answer ✔✔Problem-focused, risk, and health promotion
Defining characteristics of a nursing diagnosis - correct answer ✔✔The subjective and objective
data that provides evidence of the actual/potential health problem
Etiology - correct answer ✔✔cause of disease
The 7 medication rights - correct answer ✔✔Right medication, patient, dose, route, time,
reason, and documentation
Ethical consideration of med administration - correct answer ✔✔Code of ethics, nursing
practice acts, liability, failure to assess/evaluate the response to drug, failure to ensure safety,
and medication errors
Safe medication administration - correct answer ✔✔Triple checks, prepare medications alone,
do not leave meds unattended, whoever prepares the med should administer the med
When should you do your medication checks? - correct answer ✔✔When taking the med out,
after retrieving the med, and before administering
Pharmacokinetics - correct answer ✔✔The study of how the body reacts to a medication
GUIDE 2026/2027
Therapeutic communication - correct answer ✔✔Verbal and nonverbal communication
techniques that encourage patients to express their feelings and to achieve a positive
relationship.
Communication - correct answer ✔✔Process of exchanging information and process of
generating and transmitting meanings between 2 or more people
Nonverbal communication - correct answer ✔✔communication using body movements,
gestures, and facial expressions rather than speech
What are the three communication channels? - correct answer ✔✔Auditory, visual and
kinesthetic
Communication techniques - correct answer ✔✔Helping relationship, dynamic, purposeful and
timely, professional, patient independent, improve health/well-being, and increase feeling of
worth
Physiological needs - correct answer ✔✔the most basic human needs to be satisfied- water,
food, shelter, and clothing
Safety and security needs - correct answer ✔✔Security of: body, employment, resources,
family, health, and property
Love and belonging needs - correct answer ✔✔friendship, family, sexual intimacy
,Self-esteem needs - correct answer ✔✔need to feel good about oneself and to believe others
hold one in high regard
Self-actualization needs - correct answer ✔✔need to live up to our fullest and unique potential
Outcome statements need to be... - correct answer ✔✔Specific, measurable, attainable,
realistic, and timely
Examples of measurable outcome verbs - correct answer ✔✔Define, prepare, identify, list,
describe, explain, demonstrate
Implementing - correct answer ✔✔Nursing interventions identified in care plan as any
treatment or action, based upon clinical judgement and knowledge, that nurses perform to
enhance clients outcomes
Nurse-initiated intervention - correct answer ✔✔independent nursing actions that involve
carrying out nurse-prescribed interventions written on the nursing plan of care
Physician-initiated intervention - correct answer ✔✔dependent nursing actions, involving
carrying out physician-prescribed orders
Collaborative interventions - correct answer ✔✔interdependent nursing actions performed
jointly by nurses and other members of the health care team
Evaluation process - correct answer ✔✔Identify evaluative criteria, collect data and determine if
outcome was met, interpret findings/document, terminate/continue/modify
Electronic Health Record (EHR) - correct answer ✔✔Source-oriented records
,Types of documentation - correct answer ✔✔Charting, white boards
Types of reporting - correct answer ✔✔Face-to-face, written, computer message, bedside
Types of conferring - correct answer ✔✔Rounds with disciplines, SBAR
Documentation data is used for - correct answer ✔✔Research, education, communication,
surveys, reviews, records, and reimbursment
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) - correct answer ✔✔A
comprehensive set of standards and practices designed to give patients specific rights regarding
their personal health information.
Nursing process - correct answer ✔✔assessment, diagnosis, outcome identification, planning,
implementation, evaluation
Subjective Data - correct answer ✔✔What the patient states
Objective data - correct answer ✔✔what you observe through measurement, inspection,
palpation, percussion, and auscultation
Types of assessing - correct answer ✔✔VS, head-to-toe, listening to the patient, observing the
patient, asking questions about signs and symptoms
Initial assessment - correct answer ✔✔Performed shortly after the patient is admitted to a
healthcare agency or service - within 24 hours/ASAP
Focused assessment - correct answer ✔✔The nurse gathers data about a specific problem that
has already been identified.
, Emergency assessment - correct answer ✔✔rapid focused assessment conducted to determine
potentially fatal situations
Time-lapsed assessment - correct answer ✔✔an assessment that is scheduled to compare a
patient's current status to baseline data obtained earlier
Types of nursing diagnosis - correct answer ✔✔Problem-focused, risk, and health promotion
Defining characteristics of a nursing diagnosis - correct answer ✔✔The subjective and objective
data that provides evidence of the actual/potential health problem
Etiology - correct answer ✔✔cause of disease
The 7 medication rights - correct answer ✔✔Right medication, patient, dose, route, time,
reason, and documentation
Ethical consideration of med administration - correct answer ✔✔Code of ethics, nursing
practice acts, liability, failure to assess/evaluate the response to drug, failure to ensure safety,
and medication errors
Safe medication administration - correct answer ✔✔Triple checks, prepare medications alone,
do not leave meds unattended, whoever prepares the med should administer the med
When should you do your medication checks? - correct answer ✔✔When taking the med out,
after retrieving the med, and before administering
Pharmacokinetics - correct answer ✔✔The study of how the body reacts to a medication
