NUR 1025
NUR 1025 EXAM 1 FUNDAMENTALS OF NURSING QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
You are preparing a presentation for your classmates regarding the
clinical care coordination conference for a patient with terminal cancer.
As part of the preparation, you have your classmates read the Nursing
Code of Ethics for Professional Registered Nurses. Your instructor asks
the class why this document is important. Which statement best
describes this code?
1. Improves self-health care
2. Protects the patient's confidentiality
3. Ensures identical care to all patients
4. Defines the principles of right and wrong to provide patient care -
correct answer 4
A nurse is caring for a patient with end-stage lung disease. The patient
wants to go home on oxygen and be comfortable. The family wants the
patient to have a new surgical procedure. The nurse explains the risk
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and benefits of the operation to the family and discusses the patient's
wishes with them. The nurse is acting as the patient's:
1. Educator
2. Advocate
3. Caregiver
4. Communicator - correct answer 2
The nurse spends time with a patient and family reviewing a dressing
change procedure for the patient's wound. The patient's spouse
demonstrates how to change the dressing. The nurse is acting in which
professional role?
1. Educator
2. Advocate
3. Caregiver
4. Communicator - correct answer 1
The examination for RN licensure is the same in every state in the
United States. This examination:
1. Guarantees safe nursing care for all patients
2. Ensures standard nursing care for all patients
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3. Provides the minimal standard of knowledge for an RN in practice
4. Guarantees standardized education across all prelicensure programs
- correct answer 3
Contemporary nursing requires that the nurse have knowledge and
skills for a variety of professional roles and responsibilities. Which of the
following are examples of these roles and responsibilities? (Select all
that apply.)
1. Caregiver
2. Autonomy
3. Patient advocate
4. Health promotion
5. Genetic counselor - correct answer 1,2, 3,4
Match the advanced practice nurse specialty with the statement about
the role.
1. Clinical nurse
specialist
2. Nurse
anesthetist
3. Nurse
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practitioner
4. Nurse-
midwife
a. Provides independent care, including pregnancy and gynecological
services
b. Expert clinician in a specialized area of practice such as adult diabetes
care
c. Provides comprehensive care, usually in a primary care setting,
directly managing the medical care of patients who are healthy or have
chronic conditions
d. Plans and delivers anesthesia and pain management to patients
across the life span - correct answer 1- b
2- d
3- c
4- a
Health care reform will bring changes in the emphasis of care. Which of
these models is expected from health care reform?
NUR 1025 EXAM 1 FUNDAMENTALS OF NURSING QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
You are preparing a presentation for your classmates regarding the
clinical care coordination conference for a patient with terminal cancer.
As part of the preparation, you have your classmates read the Nursing
Code of Ethics for Professional Registered Nurses. Your instructor asks
the class why this document is important. Which statement best
describes this code?
1. Improves self-health care
2. Protects the patient's confidentiality
3. Ensures identical care to all patients
4. Defines the principles of right and wrong to provide patient care -
correct answer 4
A nurse is caring for a patient with end-stage lung disease. The patient
wants to go home on oxygen and be comfortable. The family wants the
patient to have a new surgical procedure. The nurse explains the risk
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and benefits of the operation to the family and discusses the patient's
wishes with them. The nurse is acting as the patient's:
1. Educator
2. Advocate
3. Caregiver
4. Communicator - correct answer 2
The nurse spends time with a patient and family reviewing a dressing
change procedure for the patient's wound. The patient's spouse
demonstrates how to change the dressing. The nurse is acting in which
professional role?
1. Educator
2. Advocate
3. Caregiver
4. Communicator - correct answer 1
The examination for RN licensure is the same in every state in the
United States. This examination:
1. Guarantees safe nursing care for all patients
2. Ensures standard nursing care for all patients
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3. Provides the minimal standard of knowledge for an RN in practice
4. Guarantees standardized education across all prelicensure programs
- correct answer 3
Contemporary nursing requires that the nurse have knowledge and
skills for a variety of professional roles and responsibilities. Which of the
following are examples of these roles and responsibilities? (Select all
that apply.)
1. Caregiver
2. Autonomy
3. Patient advocate
4. Health promotion
5. Genetic counselor - correct answer 1,2, 3,4
Match the advanced practice nurse specialty with the statement about
the role.
1. Clinical nurse
specialist
2. Nurse
anesthetist
3. Nurse
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practitioner
4. Nurse-
midwife
a. Provides independent care, including pregnancy and gynecological
services
b. Expert clinician in a specialized area of practice such as adult diabetes
care
c. Provides comprehensive care, usually in a primary care setting,
directly managing the medical care of patients who are healthy or have
chronic conditions
d. Plans and delivers anesthesia and pain management to patients
across the life span - correct answer 1- b
2- d
3- c
4- a
Health care reform will bring changes in the emphasis of care. Which of
these models is expected from health care reform?
