NUR 215 EXAMS SCRIPT ALL QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Spiritual Care Providers - ✔✔Organized religious services, patient visits, and
family/staff support; particularly in serious illness and end-of-life care.
✔✔Alternative Care Providers - ✔✔Chiropractors, Herbalists, and Naturopaths offer
health services that are primarily outside of the traditional healthcare system.
✔✔Common safety hazards in the home - ✔✔Poisoning, carbon monoxide exposure,
scalds/burns, fires, falls, firearm injuries, suffocation/asphyxiation, take-home toxins.
✔✔Home Safety Teaching - ✔✔Smoke alarms/carbon monoxide detectors, safe
medication/poison storage, wear a seatbelt, wear a helmet, secure firearms, and label
faucets hot/cold.
✔✔RACE - ✔✔Rescue, Alarm, Contain, Extinguish - a fire safety protocol.
✔✔Seizure Precautions - ✔✔Make sure rescue equipment is available, stay with the
patient, lower to the floor/bed, protect the head, do NOT restrain, do NOT place
anything into the mouth.
✔✔Fall Precautions - ✔✔Remove throw rugs/cords/trip hazards, use a shower chair
and grab bars, use mobility aids, use non-slip socks, patient wear 'fall risk' band, place
sign on door, have bed/chair alarm.
✔✔ ABCs - ✔✔Airway, Breathing, Circulation
✔✔Prioritization - ✔✔Identifying what patient or problem is the priority based on critical
factors.
, ✔✔Factors influencing prioritization - ✔✔Problem urgency, future consequences,
patient preference, computer-assisted diagnosing.
✔✔RN's scope of practice - ✔✔Activities that a nurse can perform without a doctor's
order.
✔✔Activities a nurse can do without a doctor's order - ✔✔Turning a patient, providing
comfort, raising the head of the bed, grooming/bathing, ice packs/heat pads (some
exceptions), patient education, assistance in ADLs, preventing falls, promoting
hydration and nourishment (some exceptions).
✔✔Out of scope actions - ✔✔Refusing to practice beyond legal scope and using the
formal chain of command to verbalize concerns.
✔✔Primary prevention - ✔✔Designed to prevent or slow the onset of disease.
✔✔Examples of primary prevention - ✔✔Eating healthy foods, exercising, wearing
sunscreen, obeying seat belt laws, using car seats, using condoms, and keeping up
with immunizations.
✔✔Secondary prevention - ✔✔Screening activities and education for detecting illnesses
in the early stages.
✔✔Examples of secondary prevention - ✔✔Breast self-exams, testicular exams, regular
physical exams, BP and diabetic screenings, bone density screenings, and TB skin
tests.
✔✔Tertiary prevention - ✔✔Focuses on stopping the disease from progressing and
returning the individual to the pre-illness phase.
✔✔Main intervention in tertiary prevention - ✔✔Rehab.
✔✔Examples of tertiary prevention - ✔✔Preventing pressure ulcers, cardiac stent
procedure, support groups, physical rehab, and speech therapy.
✔✔Nursing process - ✔✔A systematic approach to patient care consisting of
assessment, diagnosis, planning, implementation, and evaluation (ADPIE).
✔✔ADPIE - ✔✔Assessment, Diagnosis, Planning, Implementation, Evaluation.
✔✔Nursing process characteristics - ✔✔The nursing process is NOT linear.
ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Spiritual Care Providers - ✔✔Organized religious services, patient visits, and
family/staff support; particularly in serious illness and end-of-life care.
✔✔Alternative Care Providers - ✔✔Chiropractors, Herbalists, and Naturopaths offer
health services that are primarily outside of the traditional healthcare system.
✔✔Common safety hazards in the home - ✔✔Poisoning, carbon monoxide exposure,
scalds/burns, fires, falls, firearm injuries, suffocation/asphyxiation, take-home toxins.
✔✔Home Safety Teaching - ✔✔Smoke alarms/carbon monoxide detectors, safe
medication/poison storage, wear a seatbelt, wear a helmet, secure firearms, and label
faucets hot/cold.
✔✔RACE - ✔✔Rescue, Alarm, Contain, Extinguish - a fire safety protocol.
✔✔Seizure Precautions - ✔✔Make sure rescue equipment is available, stay with the
patient, lower to the floor/bed, protect the head, do NOT restrain, do NOT place
anything into the mouth.
✔✔Fall Precautions - ✔✔Remove throw rugs/cords/trip hazards, use a shower chair
and grab bars, use mobility aids, use non-slip socks, patient wear 'fall risk' band, place
sign on door, have bed/chair alarm.
✔✔ ABCs - ✔✔Airway, Breathing, Circulation
✔✔Prioritization - ✔✔Identifying what patient or problem is the priority based on critical
factors.
, ✔✔Factors influencing prioritization - ✔✔Problem urgency, future consequences,
patient preference, computer-assisted diagnosing.
✔✔RN's scope of practice - ✔✔Activities that a nurse can perform without a doctor's
order.
✔✔Activities a nurse can do without a doctor's order - ✔✔Turning a patient, providing
comfort, raising the head of the bed, grooming/bathing, ice packs/heat pads (some
exceptions), patient education, assistance in ADLs, preventing falls, promoting
hydration and nourishment (some exceptions).
✔✔Out of scope actions - ✔✔Refusing to practice beyond legal scope and using the
formal chain of command to verbalize concerns.
✔✔Primary prevention - ✔✔Designed to prevent or slow the onset of disease.
✔✔Examples of primary prevention - ✔✔Eating healthy foods, exercising, wearing
sunscreen, obeying seat belt laws, using car seats, using condoms, and keeping up
with immunizations.
✔✔Secondary prevention - ✔✔Screening activities and education for detecting illnesses
in the early stages.
✔✔Examples of secondary prevention - ✔✔Breast self-exams, testicular exams, regular
physical exams, BP and diabetic screenings, bone density screenings, and TB skin
tests.
✔✔Tertiary prevention - ✔✔Focuses on stopping the disease from progressing and
returning the individual to the pre-illness phase.
✔✔Main intervention in tertiary prevention - ✔✔Rehab.
✔✔Examples of tertiary prevention - ✔✔Preventing pressure ulcers, cardiac stent
procedure, support groups, physical rehab, and speech therapy.
✔✔Nursing process - ✔✔A systematic approach to patient care consisting of
assessment, diagnosis, planning, implementation, and evaluation (ADPIE).
✔✔ADPIE - ✔✔Assessment, Diagnosis, Planning, Implementation, Evaluation.
✔✔Nursing process characteristics - ✔✔The nursing process is NOT linear.
