NUR 215 UPDATED COMPREHENSIVE EXAM
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Healthy People 2030 - ✔✔A national initiative that establishes goals to reduce
preventable health risks; It addresses the effect of lifestyle on health and eliminates
health disparities; Creates health improvement goals.
✔✔Least Restrictive/Invasive Interventions - ✔✔Always used first; Ensures safety of the
patient.
✔✔Most Restrictive/Invasive Interventions - ✔✔Used when least restrictive measures
are insufficient; includes methods like restraints or indwelling catheters.
✔✔Delegation - ✔✔When the RN, who holds the authority for nursing care delivery,
transfers responsibility for the performance of a task to a nursing assistive personnel
while still retaining accountability for a safe outcome.
✔✔5 Rights of Delegation - ✔✔Right Task, Right Circumstance, Right Direction and
Communication, Right Person, Right Supervision.
✔✔Right Task - ✔✔Can I delegate that?
✔✔Right Circumstance - ✔✔Should I delegate that?
, ✔✔Right Direction and Communication - ✔✔What does the UAP (Unlicensed Assistive
Personnel) need to know?
✔✔Right Person - ✔✔Who is best prepared to do that?
✔✔Right Supervision - ✔✔How will I follow up?
✔✔Vital signs - ✔✔Indicators of a stable patient's health status.
✔✔Client advocate - ✔✔A function of a nurse; supporting patients' right to make
healthcare decisions when they are able to voice their opinions and protecting patients
from harm when they are unable to make decisions.
✔✔Definition of nursing - ✔✔Helps the public understand the value of nursing,
differentiate the activities of nursing from those of medicine, and helps students
understand what is expected of them.
✔✔Direct care - ✔✔Interventions performed through interactions with the patient,
including physical care, emotional support, and patient teaching.
✔✔Indirect care - ✔✔Interventions performed away from the patient but on behalf of the
patient, including advocacy, making referrals, getting second opinions, and managing
the environment surrounding the patient.
✔✔Self-concept - ✔✔Overall view of self; forms out of a person's evaluation of
his/her/their characteristics including physical appearance, sexual performance,
intellectual abilities, success in the workplace, friendships, unique talents, and problem-
solving/coping abilities.
✔✔Components of self-concept - ✔✔Body image, self-esteem, role performance, and
personal identity.
✔✔Factors affecting self-concept - ✔✔Gender, family, developmental level,
socioeconomic status, locus of control, and peer relationships.
✔✔ANA Code of Ethics - ✔✔Provides guidelines of acceptable and unacceptable
behaviors for how nurses should conduct themselves in their day-to-day practice.
✔✔Purpose of health screenings - ✔✔Motivated by the desire to increase well-being
(health promotion); meant to detect disease at an early stage.
✔✔Definition of illness - ✔✔A change in the way they feel/a disruption of their typical
life, usually described in terms of how it makes a person feel.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Healthy People 2030 - ✔✔A national initiative that establishes goals to reduce
preventable health risks; It addresses the effect of lifestyle on health and eliminates
health disparities; Creates health improvement goals.
✔✔Least Restrictive/Invasive Interventions - ✔✔Always used first; Ensures safety of the
patient.
✔✔Most Restrictive/Invasive Interventions - ✔✔Used when least restrictive measures
are insufficient; includes methods like restraints or indwelling catheters.
✔✔Delegation - ✔✔When the RN, who holds the authority for nursing care delivery,
transfers responsibility for the performance of a task to a nursing assistive personnel
while still retaining accountability for a safe outcome.
✔✔5 Rights of Delegation - ✔✔Right Task, Right Circumstance, Right Direction and
Communication, Right Person, Right Supervision.
✔✔Right Task - ✔✔Can I delegate that?
✔✔Right Circumstance - ✔✔Should I delegate that?
, ✔✔Right Direction and Communication - ✔✔What does the UAP (Unlicensed Assistive
Personnel) need to know?
✔✔Right Person - ✔✔Who is best prepared to do that?
✔✔Right Supervision - ✔✔How will I follow up?
✔✔Vital signs - ✔✔Indicators of a stable patient's health status.
✔✔Client advocate - ✔✔A function of a nurse; supporting patients' right to make
healthcare decisions when they are able to voice their opinions and protecting patients
from harm when they are unable to make decisions.
✔✔Definition of nursing - ✔✔Helps the public understand the value of nursing,
differentiate the activities of nursing from those of medicine, and helps students
understand what is expected of them.
✔✔Direct care - ✔✔Interventions performed through interactions with the patient,
including physical care, emotional support, and patient teaching.
✔✔Indirect care - ✔✔Interventions performed away from the patient but on behalf of the
patient, including advocacy, making referrals, getting second opinions, and managing
the environment surrounding the patient.
✔✔Self-concept - ✔✔Overall view of self; forms out of a person's evaluation of
his/her/their characteristics including physical appearance, sexual performance,
intellectual abilities, success in the workplace, friendships, unique talents, and problem-
solving/coping abilities.
✔✔Components of self-concept - ✔✔Body image, self-esteem, role performance, and
personal identity.
✔✔Factors affecting self-concept - ✔✔Gender, family, developmental level,
socioeconomic status, locus of control, and peer relationships.
✔✔ANA Code of Ethics - ✔✔Provides guidelines of acceptable and unacceptable
behaviors for how nurses should conduct themselves in their day-to-day practice.
✔✔Purpose of health screenings - ✔✔Motivated by the desire to increase well-being
(health promotion); meant to detect disease at an early stage.
✔✔Definition of illness - ✔✔A change in the way they feel/a disruption of their typical
life, usually described in terms of how it makes a person feel.
