Questions with Accurate Answers
2026/2027 Updated.
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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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) - 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." - 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. - 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. - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - Answer 1. b
2. a
3. c