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Medical-Surgical Nursing Exam Questions 5 (50 Items) Topics  Perioperative nursing  Diseases and conditions affecting the ear  Cancer  Various Medical-Surgical Nursing topics

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Name:___________________________________________________________Date:________


I. Multiple choice. No ERASURES and SUPERIMPOSITIONS!

Situation: Nursing as an profession, continuously struggle for autonomy in response to societal needs.
Events in the past have greatly influenced our nursing practice today.

1. Which of the ff is true about Florence Nightingale?
a. She is the mother of modern American nursing.
b. She nurses wounded soldiers during the civil war
c. She established the first nursing school in Germany
d. She is the first nursing theorist

2. She is considered as the patroness of nursing
a. Catherine of Sienna
b. Elizabeth Seaton
c. Elizabeth of Hungary
d. Florence Nightingale

3. The code of Hammurabi
a. Lists the functions of the nurse
b. Describes the qualities of a nurse
c. Lists the rights of the clients
d. Is a law that requires all Hebrews to undergo circumcision

4. She is considered as the “Florence Nightingale of Iloilo”
a. Loreto Tupas
b. Sor Ricarda Mendoza
c. Anastacia Tupas
d. Socorro Diaz

5. Which of the ff developments occurred during the apprentice period?
a. “spirit of nursing”
b. Informal education in nursing
c. Standardization of nursing curriculum
d. CHN as specialized field

Situation: A nursing theory is a system of ideas that explains a certain phenomena in nursing. It may be
utilized by a nurse in the practice of her profession.

6. Which of the ff theories consider and utilize nature and environment in the healing process?
a. Orlando
b. Nightingale
c. Rogers
d. King

7. Which of the ff is recognized for developing the concept of high level wellness?
a. Erickson
b. Maslow
c. Peplau
d. Dunn

8. Who is the first nursing theorist?`
a. Abdellah
b. Nightingale
c. Orem
d. Maslow

9. Nursing theories should include descriptions of the four concepts such as:
a. Person, environment, health, nursing
b. Nursing, environment, health, illness

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, c. Person, society, illness, health
d. Society, nursing, health, illness

10. She conceptualized the framework for psychiatric nursing, wherein a nurse must established
a therapeutic relationship with the client.
a. Peplau
b. Leninger
c. Hall
d. Neuman

Situation: Nurses assume a number of roles when the provide care to the individual, family or
community.

11. Misconceptions, superstitious beliefs of a client can be best corrected if a nurse will act as a:
a. Communicator
b. Teacher
c. Counselor
d. Leader

12. When a nurse assists the client in meeting his hygienic needs, the nurse portrays what role?
a. Manager
b. Client advocate
c. Caregiver
d. Leader

13. Before Lira undergoes an operation, the nurse checked whether Lira understood what is to
be done to her. With this regard the nurse acts as a:
a. Client’s advocate
b. Manager
c. Caregiver
d. Teacher

14. You demonstrate a client advocate role to a client for operation when you:
a. Check her v/s and carries out pre-op orders.
b. Arrange services for clients
c. Check if the client knows what is to be done to her.
d. Question the order of the doctor

Situation: Health is changing, evolving concept that is basic to nursing. There is knowledge on how to
attain a certain level of health. But, health itself cannot be measured.

15. The actions people take understand their health state, maintain their health or prevent
illness and injury are called:
a. Health status
b. Health beliefs
c. Health behaviors
d. Health values

16. The health illness continuum concept views health as:
a. Spectrum that ranges from extreme state if ill health to peak wellness
b. Adjustment to changes of the external and internal body environments
c. Health illness curve is subject to biorhythmic influences
d. Hierarchy based upon satisfying the needs at the lowest end of the continuum first




17. A single mother of three school age children is concerned about maintaining her present
health status. Although she knows that she should exercise regularly, her job and the classes
she is taking at the local community college require all her spare time. Where is the client at
the Dunn’s health grid?

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, a. High level wellness in a favorable environment
b. Emergent high level wellness in unfavorable environment
c. Protected poor health in a favorable environment
d. Poor health in an unfavorable environment

18. Mira was not able to attend to the taping of her movie because of abdominal pain. Mira is
said to be on what stage of illness behavior?
a. Symptom experience
b. Assumption of sick role
c. Medical care contact
d. Dependent client role

19. Which of the ff activities is considered a promotive nursing action?
a. Environmental sanitation to decrease the incidence of dengue
b. Adequate nutrition to attain normal growth
c. Finding cases of clients suffering from HIV
d. Administration of antibiotics as ordered so infection will not set in

20. Health beliefs are affected by certain internal and external variables. What is the best
definition of health belief?
a. Actions taken by an individual related to health
b. Concepts related health
c. Health practices as a person
d. Health habits

Situation: The nursing process is systemic, scientific method of providing care. Its components follow a
logical sequence.

21. What is the goal of the nursing process?
a. Help nurses in the delivery of care
b. Give a quality , comprehensive client care
c. Modify the client’s plan of care
d. Identify client’s problem

22. Which of the ff steps in the nursing process serve as framework in identifying client’s
problem?
a. Evaluation
b. Nursing diagnosis
c. Assessment
d. Planning

23. It is statement of the health response of a client to his/her pathological condition. What is
this statement called?
a. Nursing diagnosis
b. Medical diagnosis
c. Diagnosis
d. Collaborative diagnosis

24. What type of nursing diagnosis needs further gathering of evidences to support the
problem?
a. Actual diagnosis
b. Wellness diagnosis
c. Risk nursing diagnosis
d. Possible nursing diagnosis

25. What is the primary purpose of time-lapsed assessment?
a. To identify the client’s problem
b. To establish a data base
c. To compare client’s present from previous health status
d. To identify ongoing problems
26. When the nurse monitors the BP of a client after admission, the nurse is on what stage of the
nursing process?
a. Assessment
b. Implementation

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