NUR 1390 FINAL EXAM | COMPREHENSIVE STUDY GUIDE, NCLEX-STYLE
PRACTICE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 2026/2027
Clinical Model of Health - correct answer ✔✔Absence of s/s of disease; prevention is not
emphasized
Role Performance Model of Health - correct answer ✔✔Health based on whether person can
perform societal roles. Occupational health evaluations, school physicals, medically-excused
absences.
Adaptive Model of Health - correct answer ✔✔Ability to adapt positively to change (social,
mental, and physiologic). Ex. adaption of older adult
Eudaimonistic model of health - correct answer ✔✔Emphasizes the interactions between
physical, social, psychological, and spiritual aspects of life and the environment that contribute
to goal attainment and create meaning. Illness is reflected by a denervation or languishing, a
lack of involvement with life.
primary prevention - correct answer ✔✔No disease exists yet
Secondary Prevention - correct answer ✔✔screening and early medications and treatments
tertiary prevention - correct answer ✔✔restoration and rehabilitation
Roles of the nurse - correct answer ✔✔care provider, educator, advocate, leader, change agent,
manager, researcher, collaborator, delegator
Questions to ask when educating people - correct answer ✔✔What are they interested in? Are
they ready to learn? What is the priority?
,Subjective Data - correct answer ✔✔Symptoms reported by the client during an interview.
Apparent only to the people affected
Objective Data - correct answer ✔✔Signs or overt data that is detectable by an observer or can
be tested against a standard. Obtained by observation or physical examination
Evidence-Based Nursing - correct answer ✔✔integration of the best evidence available with
clinical expertise and the values of the client to increase the quality of care
Qualitative Research - correct answer ✔✔research that relies on what is seen in field or
naturalistic settings more than on statistical data
Quantitative Research - correct answer ✔✔research that collects and reports data primarily in
numerical form
Clinical Judgement - correct answer ✔✔an interpretation or conclusion about a patient's needs,
concerns, or health problems, and/or the decision to take action (or not), use or modify
standard approaches, or improvise new ones as deemed appropriate by the patient's response
Gordon - correct answer ✔✔11 health patterns
Erikson's Psychosocial Theory - correct answer ✔✔8 stages of growth
Piaget - correct answer ✔✔Sensorimotor, per operational, concrete operations, formal
operations
Gilligan - correct answer ✔✔Women develop differently
, Kohlberg - correct answer ✔✔Moral development
Gordon's 11 health patterns - correct answer ✔✔1. Health perception-health management
pattern
2. Nutritional-metabolic pattern
3. Elimination pattern
4. Activity-exercise pattern
5. Cognitive-perceptual pattern
6. Sleep-rest pattern
7. Self-perception-self-concept pattern
8. Role-relationship pattern
9. Sexuality-reproductive pattern
10. Coping-stress-tolerance pattern
11. Value-belief pattern
Health Perception-health management pattern - correct answer ✔✔A family's perceived health.
management, and preventative practices
Nutritional-Metabolic Pattern - correct answer ✔✔Family's typical food and fluid consumption
Elimination pattern - correct answer ✔✔Regularity and control of family's excretory functions
Activity-Exercise Pattern - correct answer ✔✔Family's characteristics of activity level- family
creates setting for physical; activity; attitudes/beliefs about exercise
Sleep-Rest pattern - correct answer ✔✔Usual sleeping/rising habits
PRACTICE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 2026/2027
Clinical Model of Health - correct answer ✔✔Absence of s/s of disease; prevention is not
emphasized
Role Performance Model of Health - correct answer ✔✔Health based on whether person can
perform societal roles. Occupational health evaluations, school physicals, medically-excused
absences.
Adaptive Model of Health - correct answer ✔✔Ability to adapt positively to change (social,
mental, and physiologic). Ex. adaption of older adult
Eudaimonistic model of health - correct answer ✔✔Emphasizes the interactions between
physical, social, psychological, and spiritual aspects of life and the environment that contribute
to goal attainment and create meaning. Illness is reflected by a denervation or languishing, a
lack of involvement with life.
primary prevention - correct answer ✔✔No disease exists yet
Secondary Prevention - correct answer ✔✔screening and early medications and treatments
tertiary prevention - correct answer ✔✔restoration and rehabilitation
Roles of the nurse - correct answer ✔✔care provider, educator, advocate, leader, change agent,
manager, researcher, collaborator, delegator
Questions to ask when educating people - correct answer ✔✔What are they interested in? Are
they ready to learn? What is the priority?
,Subjective Data - correct answer ✔✔Symptoms reported by the client during an interview.
Apparent only to the people affected
Objective Data - correct answer ✔✔Signs or overt data that is detectable by an observer or can
be tested against a standard. Obtained by observation or physical examination
Evidence-Based Nursing - correct answer ✔✔integration of the best evidence available with
clinical expertise and the values of the client to increase the quality of care
Qualitative Research - correct answer ✔✔research that relies on what is seen in field or
naturalistic settings more than on statistical data
Quantitative Research - correct answer ✔✔research that collects and reports data primarily in
numerical form
Clinical Judgement - correct answer ✔✔an interpretation or conclusion about a patient's needs,
concerns, or health problems, and/or the decision to take action (or not), use or modify
standard approaches, or improvise new ones as deemed appropriate by the patient's response
Gordon - correct answer ✔✔11 health patterns
Erikson's Psychosocial Theory - correct answer ✔✔8 stages of growth
Piaget - correct answer ✔✔Sensorimotor, per operational, concrete operations, formal
operations
Gilligan - correct answer ✔✔Women develop differently
, Kohlberg - correct answer ✔✔Moral development
Gordon's 11 health patterns - correct answer ✔✔1. Health perception-health management
pattern
2. Nutritional-metabolic pattern
3. Elimination pattern
4. Activity-exercise pattern
5. Cognitive-perceptual pattern
6. Sleep-rest pattern
7. Self-perception-self-concept pattern
8. Role-relationship pattern
9. Sexuality-reproductive pattern
10. Coping-stress-tolerance pattern
11. Value-belief pattern
Health Perception-health management pattern - correct answer ✔✔A family's perceived health.
management, and preventative practices
Nutritional-Metabolic Pattern - correct answer ✔✔Family's typical food and fluid consumption
Elimination pattern - correct answer ✔✔Regularity and control of family's excretory functions
Activity-Exercise Pattern - correct answer ✔✔Family's characteristics of activity level- family
creates setting for physical; activity; attitudes/beliefs about exercise
Sleep-Rest pattern - correct answer ✔✔Usual sleeping/rising habits
