Fundamentals NPN 106 Exam Questions
With Revised Answers
Assessment skills - answer✔✔acts that involve collecting data.
O - answer✔✔outpatient
T - answer✔✔treatment
assault - answer✔✔bodily harm is threatened
Defamation - answer✔✔untrue information that harms.
veracity - answer✔✔be honest
H - answer✔✔health teaching
false imprisonment - answer✔✔a person's freedom to move about at will (AMA)
D - answer✔✔diet
M - answer✔✔medication
Caring skills - answer✔✔nursing interventions that restore or maintain a person's health.
Comforting skills - answer✔✔intervention that provide stability and security during a health-
related crisis (ex:companion ,interpreter, supportive relationship).
Counseling skills - answer✔✔interventions that include communicating with clients, actively
listening to the exchange of information, offering pertinent health teaching and providing
emotional support.
Empathy - answer✔✔intuitive awareness of what the client is experiencing.
Evidence-Based practice - answer✔✔scientific knowledge used to predict nursing interventions
most likely to produce a desired outcome.
Advance directive - answer✔✔written statement identifying a competent person's wishes
concerning terminal care
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Autonomy - answer✔✔a competent person's right to make his or her own choices.
Board of Nursing - answer✔✔Regulatory agency that manages the provisions of a state's nurse
practice act.
Code status - answer✔✔manner in which nurses or health care personnel must manage the care
of a client during cardiac or respiratory arrest.
Living will - answer✔✔a person's advance, written directive identifying medical interventions to
use or not to use in cases of terminal conditions, irreversible coma, or vegetable state with no
hope of recovery.
Nurse Practice Act - answer✔✔statute in each state and territory that regulates the practice of
nursing
Illness - answer✔✔state of being unwell.
Morbidity - answer✔✔incidence of a specific notifiable disease
Mortality - answer✔✔incidence of death
Acute Illness - answer✔✔suddenly and lasts a short time.
Chronic Illness - answer✔✔Slowly and last a long time.
Terminal Illness - answer✔✔no potential for cure.
Sequelae - answer✔✔consequences of a disease or its treatment
Primary illness - answer✔✔one that develops independently of any other disease
Secondary Illness - answer✔✔disorder that develops from a preexisting condition
Remission - answer✔✔disappearance of signs and symptoms of disease
Exacerbation - answer✔✔reactivation of a disorder, or one that reverts from a chronic to an
acute state
Hereditary illness - answer✔✔disorder acquired from the genetic codes of one or both parents.
Congenital illness - answer✔✔disorder present at birth that results from faulty embryonic
development.
Idiopathic illness - answer✔✔one in which the cause is unexplained
Continuity of Care - answer✔✔uninterrupted client care despite the change in caregivers