NUR 150 FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE 2026/2027 | NURSING FINAL EXAM
REVIEW, PRACTICE QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
Which nurse most likely kept records on sanitation techniques and the effects on health?
a. Florence Nightingale
b. Mary Nutting
c. Clara Barton
d. Lillian Wald - correct answer ✔✔a
A nurse has compassion fatigue. What is the nurse experiencing?
a. Lateral violence and intrapersonal conflict
b. Burnout and secondary traumatic stress
c. Short-term grief and single stressor
d. Physical and mental exhaustion - correct answer ✔✔b
A nurse teaches a group of nursing students about nurse practice acts. Which information is most
important to include in the teaching session about nurse practice acts?
a. Protects the nurse
b. Protects the public
c. Protects the provider
d. Protects the hospital - correct answer ✔✔b
A nurse is using a guide that provides principles of right and wrong to provide care to patients. Which
guide is the nurse using?
a. Code of ethics
b. Standards of practice
c. Standards of professional performance
d. Quality and safety education for nurses - correct answer ✔✔a
A nurse is preparing a teaching session about contemporary influences on nursing. Which examples
should the nurse include? (Select all that apply.)
a. Human rights
b. Affordable Care Act
c. Demographic changes
d. Medically underserved
e. Decreasing health care costs - correct answer ✔✔a,b,c,d
The nurse prescribes strategies and alternatives to attain expected outcome. Which standard of nursing
practice is the nurse following?
a. Assessment
,b. Diagnosis
c. Planning
d. Implementation - correct answer ✔✔c
An experienced medical-surgical nurse chooses to work in obstetrics. Which level of proficiency is the
nurse upon initial transition to the obstetrical floor?
a. Novice
b. Proficient
c. Competent
d. Advanced beginner - correct answer ✔✔a
A nurse is teaching the staff about Benner's levels of proficiency. In which order should the nurse place
the levels from beginning level to ending level?
1. Expert
2. Novice
3. Proficient
4. Competent
5. Advanced beginner
a. 2, 4, 5, 1, 3
b. 2, 5, 4, 3, 1
c. 4, 2, 5, 3, 1
d. 4, 5, 2, 1, 3 - correct answer ✔✔b
The nurse is trying to determine how well a certain health plan compares with other health plans. To
gather this type of data, which information will the nurse utilize?
a. Pew Health Professions Commission
b. Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set (HEDIS)
c. American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) Magnet Recognition Program
d. Hospital Consumer of Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) - correct answer
✔✔b
A nurse hears a co-worker state that anybody could be a nurse since it is so automated with infusion
devices and electronic monitoring; technology is doing the work. What is the
nurse's best response?
a. "Technology use has to be combined with nursing judgment."
b. "The focus of effective nursing care is technology."
c. "If it's so easy, why don't you do it?"
d. "That is true in the 20th century." - correct answer ✔✔a
A nurse is teaching the staff about the Institute of Medicine competencies. Which examples indicate the
staff has a correct understanding of the teaching? (Select all that apply.)
a. Use informatics.
b. Use transparency.
,c. Apply globalization.
d. Apply quality improvement.
e. Use evidence-based practice. - correct answer ✔✔a,d,e
A nurse is working as a community health nurse. Which action is a priority for this nurse?
a. Provide direct care to subpopulations.
b. Focus on the needs of the ill individual.
c. Provide first level of contact to health care systems.
d. Focus on providing care in various community settings. - correct answer ✔✔a
A nurse is focusing on acute and chronic care of individuals and families within a community while
enhancing patient autonomy. Which type of nursing care is the nurse providing?
a. Public health
b. Community health
c. Community-based
d. Community assessment - correct answer ✔✔c
The community health nurse is administering flu shots to children at a local playground. What is the
rationale for this nurse's action?
a. To prevent individual illness
b. To prevent community outbreak of illness
c. To prevent outbreak of illness in the family
d. To prevent needs of the local population groups - correct answer ✔✔b
While conducting a community assessment, the nurse seeks data on the average household income and
the number of residents on public assistance. In doing so, the nurse is evaluating which component of a
community assessment?
a. Structure
b. Population
c. Social system
d. Welfare system - correct answer ✔✔a
A nurse is assessing a community. Match each community element the nurse will assess with the correct
example.
a. Education Level
b. Housing
c .Government
1. Structure
2. Population
3. Social system - correct answer ✔✔1. b
2. a
3. c
, The nurse is working in a clinic that is designed to provide health education and immunizations. Which
type of preventive care is the nurse providing?
a. Primary prevention
b. Secondary prevention
c. Tertiary prevention
d. Risk factor prevention - correct answer ✔✔a
The patient is admitted to the emergency department of the local hospital from home with reports of
chest discomfort and shortness of breath. The patient is placed on oxygen, has labs and blood gases
drawn, and is given an electrocardiogram and breathing treatments. Which level of preventive care is
this patient receiving?
a. Primary prevention
b. Secondary prevention
c. Tertiary prevention
d. Health promotion - correct answer ✔✔a
A patient is admitted to a rehabilitation facility following a stroke. The patient has right-sided paralysis
and is unable to speak. The patient will be receiving physical therapy and speech therapy. Which level of
preventive care is the patient receiving?
a. Primary prevention
b. Secondary prevention
c. Tertiary prevention
d. Health promotion - correct answer ✔✔c
The patient had a colostomy placed 1 week ago. When approached by the nurse, the patient and spouse
refuse to talk about it and refuse to be taught about how to care for it. How will the nurse evaluate this
couple's stage of adjustment?
a. Shock
b. Withdrawal
c. Acceptance
d. Rehabilitation - correct answer ✔✔b
The nurse is admitting a patient with uncontrolled diabetes mellitus. It is the fourth time the patient is
being admitted in the last 6 months for high blood sugars. During the admission process, the nurse asks
the patient about employment status and displays a nonjudgmental attitude. What is the rationale for
the nurse's actions?
a. External variables have little effect on compliance.
b. A person's compliance is affected by economic status.
c. Employment status is an internal variable that impacts compliance.
d. Noncompliant patients thrive on the disapproval of authority figures. - correct answer ✔✔b
The nurse is working on a committee to evaluate the need for increasing the levels of fluoride in the
drinking water of the community. Which concept is the nurse fostering?
REVIEW, PRACTICE QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
Which nurse most likely kept records on sanitation techniques and the effects on health?
a. Florence Nightingale
b. Mary Nutting
c. Clara Barton
d. Lillian Wald - correct answer ✔✔a
A nurse has compassion fatigue. What is the nurse experiencing?
a. Lateral violence and intrapersonal conflict
b. Burnout and secondary traumatic stress
c. Short-term grief and single stressor
d. Physical and mental exhaustion - correct answer ✔✔b
A nurse teaches a group of nursing students about nurse practice acts. Which information is most
important to include in the teaching session about nurse practice acts?
a. Protects the nurse
b. Protects the public
c. Protects the provider
d. Protects the hospital - correct answer ✔✔b
A nurse is using a guide that provides principles of right and wrong to provide care to patients. Which
guide is the nurse using?
a. Code of ethics
b. Standards of practice
c. Standards of professional performance
d. Quality and safety education for nurses - correct answer ✔✔a
A nurse is preparing a teaching session about contemporary influences on nursing. Which examples
should the nurse include? (Select all that apply.)
a. Human rights
b. Affordable Care Act
c. Demographic changes
d. Medically underserved
e. Decreasing health care costs - correct answer ✔✔a,b,c,d
The nurse prescribes strategies and alternatives to attain expected outcome. Which standard of nursing
practice is the nurse following?
a. Assessment
,b. Diagnosis
c. Planning
d. Implementation - correct answer ✔✔c
An experienced medical-surgical nurse chooses to work in obstetrics. Which level of proficiency is the
nurse upon initial transition to the obstetrical floor?
a. Novice
b. Proficient
c. Competent
d. Advanced beginner - correct answer ✔✔a
A nurse is teaching the staff about Benner's levels of proficiency. In which order should the nurse place
the levels from beginning level to ending level?
1. Expert
2. Novice
3. Proficient
4. Competent
5. Advanced beginner
a. 2, 4, 5, 1, 3
b. 2, 5, 4, 3, 1
c. 4, 2, 5, 3, 1
d. 4, 5, 2, 1, 3 - correct answer ✔✔b
The nurse is trying to determine how well a certain health plan compares with other health plans. To
gather this type of data, which information will the nurse utilize?
a. Pew Health Professions Commission
b. Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set (HEDIS)
c. American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) Magnet Recognition Program
d. Hospital Consumer of Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) - correct answer
✔✔b
A nurse hears a co-worker state that anybody could be a nurse since it is so automated with infusion
devices and electronic monitoring; technology is doing the work. What is the
nurse's best response?
a. "Technology use has to be combined with nursing judgment."
b. "The focus of effective nursing care is technology."
c. "If it's so easy, why don't you do it?"
d. "That is true in the 20th century." - correct answer ✔✔a
A nurse is teaching the staff about the Institute of Medicine competencies. Which examples indicate the
staff has a correct understanding of the teaching? (Select all that apply.)
a. Use informatics.
b. Use transparency.
,c. Apply globalization.
d. Apply quality improvement.
e. Use evidence-based practice. - correct answer ✔✔a,d,e
A nurse is working as a community health nurse. Which action is a priority for this nurse?
a. Provide direct care to subpopulations.
b. Focus on the needs of the ill individual.
c. Provide first level of contact to health care systems.
d. Focus on providing care in various community settings. - correct answer ✔✔a
A nurse is focusing on acute and chronic care of individuals and families within a community while
enhancing patient autonomy. Which type of nursing care is the nurse providing?
a. Public health
b. Community health
c. Community-based
d. Community assessment - correct answer ✔✔c
The community health nurse is administering flu shots to children at a local playground. What is the
rationale for this nurse's action?
a. To prevent individual illness
b. To prevent community outbreak of illness
c. To prevent outbreak of illness in the family
d. To prevent needs of the local population groups - correct answer ✔✔b
While conducting a community assessment, the nurse seeks data on the average household income and
the number of residents on public assistance. In doing so, the nurse is evaluating which component of a
community assessment?
a. Structure
b. Population
c. Social system
d. Welfare system - correct answer ✔✔a
A nurse is assessing a community. Match each community element the nurse will assess with the correct
example.
a. Education Level
b. Housing
c .Government
1. Structure
2. Population
3. Social system - correct answer ✔✔1. b
2. a
3. c
, The nurse is working in a clinic that is designed to provide health education and immunizations. Which
type of preventive care is the nurse providing?
a. Primary prevention
b. Secondary prevention
c. Tertiary prevention
d. Risk factor prevention - correct answer ✔✔a
The patient is admitted to the emergency department of the local hospital from home with reports of
chest discomfort and shortness of breath. The patient is placed on oxygen, has labs and blood gases
drawn, and is given an electrocardiogram and breathing treatments. Which level of preventive care is
this patient receiving?
a. Primary prevention
b. Secondary prevention
c. Tertiary prevention
d. Health promotion - correct answer ✔✔a
A patient is admitted to a rehabilitation facility following a stroke. The patient has right-sided paralysis
and is unable to speak. The patient will be receiving physical therapy and speech therapy. Which level of
preventive care is the patient receiving?
a. Primary prevention
b. Secondary prevention
c. Tertiary prevention
d. Health promotion - correct answer ✔✔c
The patient had a colostomy placed 1 week ago. When approached by the nurse, the patient and spouse
refuse to talk about it and refuse to be taught about how to care for it. How will the nurse evaluate this
couple's stage of adjustment?
a. Shock
b. Withdrawal
c. Acceptance
d. Rehabilitation - correct answer ✔✔b
The nurse is admitting a patient with uncontrolled diabetes mellitus. It is the fourth time the patient is
being admitted in the last 6 months for high blood sugars. During the admission process, the nurse asks
the patient about employment status and displays a nonjudgmental attitude. What is the rationale for
the nurse's actions?
a. External variables have little effect on compliance.
b. A person's compliance is affected by economic status.
c. Employment status is an internal variable that impacts compliance.
d. Noncompliant patients thrive on the disapproval of authority figures. - correct answer ✔✔b
The nurse is working on a committee to evaluate the need for increasing the levels of fluoride in the
drinking water of the community. Which concept is the nurse fostering?
