NURS 330 EXAM 1 REVIEW QUESTIONS | NURS 330 EXAM 1 PRACTICE
QUESTIONS & ANSWERS | COMPREHENSIVE NCLEX REVIEW 2026/2027
Four broad goals describe the role of a professional nurse. What is one of these goals? - ✔✔1. To
advocate for individuals, families, communities, and populations
2. to prevent illness
3. to treat human responses to health or illness
4. to promote health
What are the areas of independent nursing practice? - ✔✔- Deciding when physical procedures should
be performed on a patient
- Deciding when client teaching is necessary
- Deciding when a client needs to be turned
* Independent nursing interventions include client teaching, therapeutic communication, and physical
procedures such as turning patients or assisting them with ambulation
Nurses provide both direct and indirect care. What is an example of direct care? - ✔✔Participating in a
client care conference
- Direct care - is to help restore health for clients with illness in hospitals, clinics, long-term care facilities,
and schools
What are the primary frameworks used in conducting a health assessment? - ✔✔1. head-to-toe
2. functional
3. body systems
What is a required component of a health assessment? - ✔✔Critical thinking
An older adult client had a hip replacement surgery 2 days ago. The nurse enters the client's room and
encourages the client to use the incentive spirometer ten times every hour. What is this action an
example of? - ✔✔Nursing intervention
The RN is implementing which level of intervention when administering immunizations at a pediatric
clinic? - ✔✔Primary intervention
The nurse is exhibiting critical thinking in which client care situation?
1. answering the client's call bell alarm while the nursing assistant is at lunch
2. Notifying the healthcare provider of a critical lab result
3. Transcribing medication orders onto the nurse's medication administration record
4. Performing a focused assessment on a client who is complaining of shortness of breath - ✔✔4.
Performing a focused assessment on a client who is complaining of shortness of breath
An adult client is brought to the ED by ambulance and is anxious and very short of breath. While the
nurse is completing the emergency assessment, the client stops breathing. What is the first action of the
nurse? - ✔✔Open the client's airway
QUESTIONS & ANSWERS | COMPREHENSIVE NCLEX REVIEW 2026/2027
Four broad goals describe the role of a professional nurse. What is one of these goals? - ✔✔1. To
advocate for individuals, families, communities, and populations
2. to prevent illness
3. to treat human responses to health or illness
4. to promote health
What are the areas of independent nursing practice? - ✔✔- Deciding when physical procedures should
be performed on a patient
- Deciding when client teaching is necessary
- Deciding when a client needs to be turned
* Independent nursing interventions include client teaching, therapeutic communication, and physical
procedures such as turning patients or assisting them with ambulation
Nurses provide both direct and indirect care. What is an example of direct care? - ✔✔Participating in a
client care conference
- Direct care - is to help restore health for clients with illness in hospitals, clinics, long-term care facilities,
and schools
What are the primary frameworks used in conducting a health assessment? - ✔✔1. head-to-toe
2. functional
3. body systems
What is a required component of a health assessment? - ✔✔Critical thinking
An older adult client had a hip replacement surgery 2 days ago. The nurse enters the client's room and
encourages the client to use the incentive spirometer ten times every hour. What is this action an
example of? - ✔✔Nursing intervention
The RN is implementing which level of intervention when administering immunizations at a pediatric
clinic? - ✔✔Primary intervention
The nurse is exhibiting critical thinking in which client care situation?
1. answering the client's call bell alarm while the nursing assistant is at lunch
2. Notifying the healthcare provider of a critical lab result
3. Transcribing medication orders onto the nurse's medication administration record
4. Performing a focused assessment on a client who is complaining of shortness of breath - ✔✔4.
Performing a focused assessment on a client who is complaining of shortness of breath
An adult client is brought to the ED by ambulance and is anxious and very short of breath. While the
nurse is completing the emergency assessment, the client stops breathing. What is the first action of the
nurse? - ✔✔Open the client's airway
