NR 222 HEALTH & WELLNESS EXAM 1 |
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QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS AND
RATIONALES
1. Which definition best reflects health?
A. Absence of disease
B. Complete physical, mental, and social well-being
C. Ability to perform ADLs
D. Genetic fitness
Answer: B. Rationale: The WHO defines health as a state of complete physical,
mental, and social well-being, not merely the absence of disease.
2. Wellness is best described as:
A. A fixed state
B. The same as illness
C. An active process of making choices toward a healthy and fulfilling life
D. Only physical fitness
Answer: C. Rationale: Wellness is an active, ongoing process involving multiple
dimensions of health.
3. Which is a social determinant of health?
A. Food insecurity
B. Blood pressure
C. Height
D. Age
Answer: A. Rationale: Social determinants include income, education, housing,
food security, and neighborhood conditions.
4. Health disparities are:
A. Random differences in health
B. Preventable differences in health among groups
C. Only genetic differences
D. Differences in hospital size
, Answer: B. Rationale: Health disparities are unfair, preventable differences
closely linked to social, economic, and environmental disadvantage.
5. A major goal of Healthy People 2030 is to:
A. Eliminate all diseases
B. Increase health disparities
C. Attain healthy lives free of preventable disease, injury, and premature death
D. Focus only on hospital care
Answer: C. Rationale: Healthy People 2030 promotes health equity and disease
prevention across the lifespan.
6. Which is an example of primary prevention?
A. Mammogram
B. Immunization
C. Cardiac rehabilitation
D. Physical therapy after stroke
Answer: B. Rationale: Primary prevention prevents disease before it occurs,
such as through immunization.
7. Which is an example of secondary prevention?
A. Seat belt education
B. Smoking prevention program
C. Blood pressure screening
D. Cardiac rehab
Answer: C. Rationale: Secondary prevention focuses on early detection and
treatment of disease.
8. Which is an example of tertiary prevention?
A. Vaccination
B. Annual physical
C. Diet education for healthy adults
D. Cardiac rehabilitation after a heart attack
Answer: D. Rationale: Tertiary prevention limits disability and promotes
rehabilitation after disease has occurred.
9. Health promotion focuses on:
A. Wellness and maximizing health potential
B. Only treating disease
C. Avoiding all risk
D. Genetic testing only
Answer: A. Rationale: Health promotion helps people increase control over and
improve their health.
10. In the Health Belief Model, perceived susceptibility means:
A. Belief about seriousness of disease
B. Belief about ability to change
C. Belief about chances of getting a condition
D. Belief about barriers
, Answer: C. Rationale: Perceived susceptibility is a person’s belief about the
likelihood of developing a health problem.
11. Self-efficacy is:
A. Fear of disease
B. Confidence in one’s ability to perform a behavior
C. External reward
D. Genetic risk
Answer: B. Rationale: Self-efficacy strongly influences whether a person
attempts and maintains health behavior change.
12. In the Transtheoretical Model, precontemplation means:
A. No intention to change in the next 6 months
B. Considering change within 6 months
C. Planning change within 1 month
D. Maintaining change for 6 months
Answer: A. Rationale: Precontemplation is when the patient is not yet
considering change.
13. Contemplation means:
A. No awareness of problem
B. Has already changed
C. Considering change within the next 6 months
D. Relapsed
Answer: C. Rationale: Contemplation involves awareness of the problem and
consideration of change.
14. Preparation in the Transtheoretical Model means:
A. No intention to change
B. Taking small steps and intending change within 1 month
C. Maintaining change for years
D. Unaware of risk
Answer: B. Rationale: Preparation includes planning and small steps toward
behavior change.
15. Action stage means:
A. No change
B. Change made more than 6 months ago
C. Thinking about change
D. Behavior change has occurred for less than 6 months
Answer: D. Rationale: Action is the stage where the person has recently made
the change.
16. Maintenance means:
A. Sustained behavior change for more than 6 months
B. Thinking about change
C. No intention to change
D. Just starting to plan
, Answer: A. Rationale: Maintenance is long-term continuation of the behavior
change.
17. Pender’s Health Promotion Model focuses on:
A. Only disease treatment
B. Only genetic risk
C. Promoting health through benefits, barriers, and self-efficacy
D. Medical diagnosis only
Answer: C. Rationale: Pender’s model explains factors that influence health-
promoting behaviors.
18. According to Maslow, which need has highest priority?
A. Self-esteem
B. Oxygenation
C. Love and belonging
D. Self-actualization
Answer: B. Rationale: Physiologic needs such as oxygenation, breathing, and
circulation come first.
19. The first step of the nursing process is:
A. Assessment
B. Diagnosis
C. Planning
D. Evaluation
Answer: A. Rationale: Assessment is the systematic collection of patient data.
20. Which is subjective data?
A. Blood pressure 150/90
B. Heart rate 88
C. Patient reports pain 7/10
D. Temperature 101°F
Answer: C. Rationale: Subjective data are what the patient says or feels; pain
rating is subjective.
21. Which is objective data?
A. Patient states, “I feel dizzy”
B. Blood pressure 150/90
C. Patient reports nausea
D. Patient says, “I am sad”
Answer: B. Rationale: Objective data are measurable or observable findings.
22. Which finding suggests the patient is ready to learn?
A. Severe pain
B. Low alertness
C. Patient asks questions and states concerns
D. High anxiety
Answer: C. Rationale: Readiness to learn includes interest, motivation, and
ability to focus.
NEWEST REVIEW TEST BANK | NR
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EXAM 1 | 240 ORIGINAL PRACTICE
QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS AND
RATIONALES
1. Which definition best reflects health?
A. Absence of disease
B. Complete physical, mental, and social well-being
C. Ability to perform ADLs
D. Genetic fitness
Answer: B. Rationale: The WHO defines health as a state of complete physical,
mental, and social well-being, not merely the absence of disease.
2. Wellness is best described as:
A. A fixed state
B. The same as illness
C. An active process of making choices toward a healthy and fulfilling life
D. Only physical fitness
Answer: C. Rationale: Wellness is an active, ongoing process involving multiple
dimensions of health.
3. Which is a social determinant of health?
A. Food insecurity
B. Blood pressure
C. Height
D. Age
Answer: A. Rationale: Social determinants include income, education, housing,
food security, and neighborhood conditions.
4. Health disparities are:
A. Random differences in health
B. Preventable differences in health among groups
C. Only genetic differences
D. Differences in hospital size
, Answer: B. Rationale: Health disparities are unfair, preventable differences
closely linked to social, economic, and environmental disadvantage.
5. A major goal of Healthy People 2030 is to:
A. Eliminate all diseases
B. Increase health disparities
C. Attain healthy lives free of preventable disease, injury, and premature death
D. Focus only on hospital care
Answer: C. Rationale: Healthy People 2030 promotes health equity and disease
prevention across the lifespan.
6. Which is an example of primary prevention?
A. Mammogram
B. Immunization
C. Cardiac rehabilitation
D. Physical therapy after stroke
Answer: B. Rationale: Primary prevention prevents disease before it occurs,
such as through immunization.
7. Which is an example of secondary prevention?
A. Seat belt education
B. Smoking prevention program
C. Blood pressure screening
D. Cardiac rehab
Answer: C. Rationale: Secondary prevention focuses on early detection and
treatment of disease.
8. Which is an example of tertiary prevention?
A. Vaccination
B. Annual physical
C. Diet education for healthy adults
D. Cardiac rehabilitation after a heart attack
Answer: D. Rationale: Tertiary prevention limits disability and promotes
rehabilitation after disease has occurred.
9. Health promotion focuses on:
A. Wellness and maximizing health potential
B. Only treating disease
C. Avoiding all risk
D. Genetic testing only
Answer: A. Rationale: Health promotion helps people increase control over and
improve their health.
10. In the Health Belief Model, perceived susceptibility means:
A. Belief about seriousness of disease
B. Belief about ability to change
C. Belief about chances of getting a condition
D. Belief about barriers
, Answer: C. Rationale: Perceived susceptibility is a person’s belief about the
likelihood of developing a health problem.
11. Self-efficacy is:
A. Fear of disease
B. Confidence in one’s ability to perform a behavior
C. External reward
D. Genetic risk
Answer: B. Rationale: Self-efficacy strongly influences whether a person
attempts and maintains health behavior change.
12. In the Transtheoretical Model, precontemplation means:
A. No intention to change in the next 6 months
B. Considering change within 6 months
C. Planning change within 1 month
D. Maintaining change for 6 months
Answer: A. Rationale: Precontemplation is when the patient is not yet
considering change.
13. Contemplation means:
A. No awareness of problem
B. Has already changed
C. Considering change within the next 6 months
D. Relapsed
Answer: C. Rationale: Contemplation involves awareness of the problem and
consideration of change.
14. Preparation in the Transtheoretical Model means:
A. No intention to change
B. Taking small steps and intending change within 1 month
C. Maintaining change for years
D. Unaware of risk
Answer: B. Rationale: Preparation includes planning and small steps toward
behavior change.
15. Action stage means:
A. No change
B. Change made more than 6 months ago
C. Thinking about change
D. Behavior change has occurred for less than 6 months
Answer: D. Rationale: Action is the stage where the person has recently made
the change.
16. Maintenance means:
A. Sustained behavior change for more than 6 months
B. Thinking about change
C. No intention to change
D. Just starting to plan
, Answer: A. Rationale: Maintenance is long-term continuation of the behavior
change.
17. Pender’s Health Promotion Model focuses on:
A. Only disease treatment
B. Only genetic risk
C. Promoting health through benefits, barriers, and self-efficacy
D. Medical diagnosis only
Answer: C. Rationale: Pender’s model explains factors that influence health-
promoting behaviors.
18. According to Maslow, which need has highest priority?
A. Self-esteem
B. Oxygenation
C. Love and belonging
D. Self-actualization
Answer: B. Rationale: Physiologic needs such as oxygenation, breathing, and
circulation come first.
19. The first step of the nursing process is:
A. Assessment
B. Diagnosis
C. Planning
D. Evaluation
Answer: A. Rationale: Assessment is the systematic collection of patient data.
20. Which is subjective data?
A. Blood pressure 150/90
B. Heart rate 88
C. Patient reports pain 7/10
D. Temperature 101°F
Answer: C. Rationale: Subjective data are what the patient says or feels; pain
rating is subjective.
21. Which is objective data?
A. Patient states, “I feel dizzy”
B. Blood pressure 150/90
C. Patient reports nausea
D. Patient says, “I am sad”
Answer: B. Rationale: Objective data are measurable or observable findings.
22. Which finding suggests the patient is ready to learn?
A. Severe pain
B. Low alertness
C. Patient asks questions and states concerns
D. High anxiety
Answer: C. Rationale: Readiness to learn includes interest, motivation, and
ability to focus.
