NSG 101 EXAM 1 | COMPREHENSIVE NURSING STUDY GUIDE,
PRACTICE QUESTIONS & ANSWERS 2026/2027
Florence Nightingale - correct answer ✔✔founder of modern nursing and a reformer of hospital
sanitation methods
-stated that air, light, nutrition, and adequate ventilation were essential in hospitals
Nightingale Home and School for Training Nurses - correct answer ✔✔-Considered first official nursing
program
-Incorporated ideas that light, air, nutrition, and adequate ventilation are essential in hosptials
-so, mortality dropped from 47% to 2%
crimean war nursing - correct answer ✔✔poor care, unsanitary conditions, basic hand washing
introduced, nurses became more important, LEADERS: Florence Nightingale and Mary Seacole
-38 nurses addressed needs of soldiers
Dorothea Dix - correct answer ✔✔served as a Superintendent of US Army Nurses
Clara Barton - correct answer ✔✔-nurse during civil war
-provided car in tents set up close to fighting
-worked at american red cross when war was over
Lillian Wald and Mary Brewster - correct answer ✔✔the pioneers public health nursing, founded the
Henry Street Settlement in New York to fight the spread of diseases among poor immigrants
ANA's 1980 definition of nursing - correct answer ✔✔the diagnosis and treatment of human responses
to actual and potential health problems
5 characteristics of registered nursing - correct answer ✔✔-nursing practice is individualized
-nurses coordinate care by establishing partnerships (patients, families, providers, etc.)
-caring is central to the practice of the RN
-RN uses the nursing process to plan and provide individualized care
-a strong link exists between the professional work environment and the RN's ability to provide quality
healthcare and achieve optimal outcomes
ANA's updated definition of nursing - correct answer ✔✔Nursing is the protection, promotion, and
optimization of health and abilities; prevention of illness and injury; facilitation of healing; alleviation of
suffering thru the diagnosis and treatment of human response; and advocacy in the care of individuals,
families, groups, communities, and populations
The ANA - correct answer ✔✔provides a guideline of acceptable and non-acceptable behaviors of how
nurses should conduct themselves
Nursing as a Profession - correct answer ✔✔-abstract, specialized knowledge
-autonomy
,-authority over subordinate occupations
-altruism: benefits others
Nursing as a discipline - correct answer ✔✔-branch of knowledge, typically one studied in higher
education, theories
Nursing as an Occupation - correct answer ✔✔a job or profession
Nursing as a vocation - correct answer ✔✔-a strong feeling of suitability for a particular career or
profession
-a "calling
Pathways to nursing practice - correct answer ✔✔LPN, ADN, BSN, MSN, DNP, PhD
LPN - correct answer ✔✔18 month diploma
-performs nursing tasks, administers meds, cannot titrate meds or perform initial assessment to some
facilities
Advantages of Organizations - correct answer ✔✔-Networking: gain visibility, leadership, and a resume
builder
-Continuing education: certifications and deeper understanding of your profession
Continuing Education / Required by KBN - correct answer ✔✔-14 contact hours are required a year for
every RN
-license is renewed thru KBN every year (Nov 1 - Oct 31)
-Random audits are performed to assure compliance
CE/Competency earing period and license/renewal period - correct answer ✔✔November 1-October 31
6 QSEN competencies - correct answer ✔✔1. Patient-centered care
2. Teamwork and collaboration
3. Evidence-based practice
4. Quality improvement
5. Safety
6. Informatics
patient centered care - correct answer ✔✔providing care that is respectful of and responsive to
individual patient preferences, needs, and values
Teamwork and Collaboration - correct answer ✔✔Function effectively within nursing and inter-
professional teams, fostering open communication, mutual respect, and shared decision-making to
achieve quality patient care.
evidence-based practice - correct answer ✔✔clinical decision making that integrates the best available
research with clinical expertise and patient characteristics and preferences
,Quality improvement - correct answer ✔✔Use data to monitor the outcomes of care processes and use
improvement methods to design and test changes to continuously improve the quality and safety of
health care systems.
Safety - correct answer ✔✔Minimizes risk of harm to patients and providers through both system
effectiveness and individual performance.
Informatics - correct answer ✔✔use information and technology to communicate, manage knowledge,
mitigate error, and support decision making
QSEN - correct answer ✔✔Quality and Safety Education for Nurses
-focuses on education, practice, and scholarship to improve quality and safety of healthcare systems
Kentucky Board of Nursing - correct answer ✔✔regulates nursing practice
Qualities for Nurses - correct answer ✔✔Critical-thinking skills
Caring and compassionate
Detail oriented
Organizational skills
Speaking skills
Listening skills
Patience
Competence
Emotional stability
Physical stamina
Roles and Functions of Nurses - correct answer ✔✔direct care provider
communicator
educator
advocate
counselor
change agent
leader
manager
When do you start education of patients? - correct answer ✔✔As soon as patient is admitted
Types of care provided - correct answer ✔✔-acute
-long term
-home health
-independent living facilities
Acute care - correct answer ✔✔treats active, sudden, unexpected or urgent episodes of injury or illness
-hospitals
Long term care - correct answer ✔✔regularly or intermittently provides care
-nursing homes, rehabilitation facilities, assisted living
, Regulation of Healthcare - correct answer ✔✔Joint Commission establishes standards for hospitals to
promote client safety
-accreditation is tied to reimbursement
-politics can affect healthcare (ex: Affordable Care Act)
-Medicare and Public policy
How can politics affect healthcare? - correct answer ✔✔EX: affordable care act - free preventative care,
screenings
How do facilities ensure quality care? - correct answer ✔✔-quality improvement coordinators and teams
-Process reviews
-Outcome reviews
Factors that influence nursing practice - correct answer ✔✔-growing proportion of older adults
-changes in healthcare consumers - access to internet
-legislation
-political movements
- increased use of complimentary and alternative medicine
-expanded roles for nurses
How is healthcare financed? - correct answer ✔✔- individuals (self-pay)
- individual private insurance
- employment based private insurance
- government (public) financing
Government (public) financing - correct answer ✔✔- Medicare
- Medicaid
- Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIPS)
Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) - correct answer ✔✔A joint federal-state program that
provides health-care insurance for low-income children.
Medicare - correct answer ✔✔A federal program of health insurance for persons 65 years of age and
older
Medicaid - correct answer ✔✔Federal program that provides medical benefits for low-income persons.
What is health and wellness influenced by? - correct answer ✔✔-biological factors: genetics, age, race
-physical activity
-sleep
-meaningful work
-lifestyle choices
-culture
-religion
-environmental factors
-finances
-healthy personal relationships
PRACTICE QUESTIONS & ANSWERS 2026/2027
Florence Nightingale - correct answer ✔✔founder of modern nursing and a reformer of hospital
sanitation methods
-stated that air, light, nutrition, and adequate ventilation were essential in hospitals
Nightingale Home and School for Training Nurses - correct answer ✔✔-Considered first official nursing
program
-Incorporated ideas that light, air, nutrition, and adequate ventilation are essential in hosptials
-so, mortality dropped from 47% to 2%
crimean war nursing - correct answer ✔✔poor care, unsanitary conditions, basic hand washing
introduced, nurses became more important, LEADERS: Florence Nightingale and Mary Seacole
-38 nurses addressed needs of soldiers
Dorothea Dix - correct answer ✔✔served as a Superintendent of US Army Nurses
Clara Barton - correct answer ✔✔-nurse during civil war
-provided car in tents set up close to fighting
-worked at american red cross when war was over
Lillian Wald and Mary Brewster - correct answer ✔✔the pioneers public health nursing, founded the
Henry Street Settlement in New York to fight the spread of diseases among poor immigrants
ANA's 1980 definition of nursing - correct answer ✔✔the diagnosis and treatment of human responses
to actual and potential health problems
5 characteristics of registered nursing - correct answer ✔✔-nursing practice is individualized
-nurses coordinate care by establishing partnerships (patients, families, providers, etc.)
-caring is central to the practice of the RN
-RN uses the nursing process to plan and provide individualized care
-a strong link exists between the professional work environment and the RN's ability to provide quality
healthcare and achieve optimal outcomes
ANA's updated definition of nursing - correct answer ✔✔Nursing is the protection, promotion, and
optimization of health and abilities; prevention of illness and injury; facilitation of healing; alleviation of
suffering thru the diagnosis and treatment of human response; and advocacy in the care of individuals,
families, groups, communities, and populations
The ANA - correct answer ✔✔provides a guideline of acceptable and non-acceptable behaviors of how
nurses should conduct themselves
Nursing as a Profession - correct answer ✔✔-abstract, specialized knowledge
-autonomy
,-authority over subordinate occupations
-altruism: benefits others
Nursing as a discipline - correct answer ✔✔-branch of knowledge, typically one studied in higher
education, theories
Nursing as an Occupation - correct answer ✔✔a job or profession
Nursing as a vocation - correct answer ✔✔-a strong feeling of suitability for a particular career or
profession
-a "calling
Pathways to nursing practice - correct answer ✔✔LPN, ADN, BSN, MSN, DNP, PhD
LPN - correct answer ✔✔18 month diploma
-performs nursing tasks, administers meds, cannot titrate meds or perform initial assessment to some
facilities
Advantages of Organizations - correct answer ✔✔-Networking: gain visibility, leadership, and a resume
builder
-Continuing education: certifications and deeper understanding of your profession
Continuing Education / Required by KBN - correct answer ✔✔-14 contact hours are required a year for
every RN
-license is renewed thru KBN every year (Nov 1 - Oct 31)
-Random audits are performed to assure compliance
CE/Competency earing period and license/renewal period - correct answer ✔✔November 1-October 31
6 QSEN competencies - correct answer ✔✔1. Patient-centered care
2. Teamwork and collaboration
3. Evidence-based practice
4. Quality improvement
5. Safety
6. Informatics
patient centered care - correct answer ✔✔providing care that is respectful of and responsive to
individual patient preferences, needs, and values
Teamwork and Collaboration - correct answer ✔✔Function effectively within nursing and inter-
professional teams, fostering open communication, mutual respect, and shared decision-making to
achieve quality patient care.
evidence-based practice - correct answer ✔✔clinical decision making that integrates the best available
research with clinical expertise and patient characteristics and preferences
,Quality improvement - correct answer ✔✔Use data to monitor the outcomes of care processes and use
improvement methods to design and test changes to continuously improve the quality and safety of
health care systems.
Safety - correct answer ✔✔Minimizes risk of harm to patients and providers through both system
effectiveness and individual performance.
Informatics - correct answer ✔✔use information and technology to communicate, manage knowledge,
mitigate error, and support decision making
QSEN - correct answer ✔✔Quality and Safety Education for Nurses
-focuses on education, practice, and scholarship to improve quality and safety of healthcare systems
Kentucky Board of Nursing - correct answer ✔✔regulates nursing practice
Qualities for Nurses - correct answer ✔✔Critical-thinking skills
Caring and compassionate
Detail oriented
Organizational skills
Speaking skills
Listening skills
Patience
Competence
Emotional stability
Physical stamina
Roles and Functions of Nurses - correct answer ✔✔direct care provider
communicator
educator
advocate
counselor
change agent
leader
manager
When do you start education of patients? - correct answer ✔✔As soon as patient is admitted
Types of care provided - correct answer ✔✔-acute
-long term
-home health
-independent living facilities
Acute care - correct answer ✔✔treats active, sudden, unexpected or urgent episodes of injury or illness
-hospitals
Long term care - correct answer ✔✔regularly or intermittently provides care
-nursing homes, rehabilitation facilities, assisted living
, Regulation of Healthcare - correct answer ✔✔Joint Commission establishes standards for hospitals to
promote client safety
-accreditation is tied to reimbursement
-politics can affect healthcare (ex: Affordable Care Act)
-Medicare and Public policy
How can politics affect healthcare? - correct answer ✔✔EX: affordable care act - free preventative care,
screenings
How do facilities ensure quality care? - correct answer ✔✔-quality improvement coordinators and teams
-Process reviews
-Outcome reviews
Factors that influence nursing practice - correct answer ✔✔-growing proportion of older adults
-changes in healthcare consumers - access to internet
-legislation
-political movements
- increased use of complimentary and alternative medicine
-expanded roles for nurses
How is healthcare financed? - correct answer ✔✔- individuals (self-pay)
- individual private insurance
- employment based private insurance
- government (public) financing
Government (public) financing - correct answer ✔✔- Medicare
- Medicaid
- Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIPS)
Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) - correct answer ✔✔A joint federal-state program that
provides health-care insurance for low-income children.
Medicare - correct answer ✔✔A federal program of health insurance for persons 65 years of age and
older
Medicaid - correct answer ✔✔Federal program that provides medical benefits for low-income persons.
What is health and wellness influenced by? - correct answer ✔✔-biological factors: genetics, age, race
-physical activity
-sleep
-meaningful work
-lifestyle choices
-culture
-religion
-environmental factors
-finances
-healthy personal relationships
