ATI Fundamentals Exam Fall 2025
Preventive health care
Immunization, stress management, occupational health and seat belt use
Primary health care
Office or clinic visits, community health centers, scheduled school or work-centered screenings
(vision, hearing, obesity)
Secondary health care
Care in hospital settings (inpatient and emergency departments), diagnostic centers, and urgent
and emergent care centers
Tertiary health care
Acute care such as intensive care, oncology centers, and burn centers
Restorative health care
Home health care, rehabilitation centers, skilled nursing facilities
Continuing health care
End-of-life care, palliative care, hospice, adult day care, assisted living, and in-home respite
care
Federally funded programs
Medicaid, Medicare
Registered nurse (RN)
Lead team member, soliciting input from all nursing team members and setting priorities for the
coordination of client care
- Function legally under state nurse practice acts
- Perform assessments; establish nursing diagnoses, goals, and interventions; conduct ongoing
client investigations
- Develop interprofessional care plans for client care
,Practical nurse (PN)
Work under supervision of RN
- Collaborate within the nursing process, assist with plan of care, consult with other team
members, recognize need for referrals
- Use the nursing process as a framework
Assistive personnel (AP)
Work under supervision of a RN or PN
- Feed clients, prepare nutritional supplements, lifting, basic care (grooming, bathing, toileting,
positioning, transferring)
- Measure and record vital signs
- Ambulate clients
Advocacy
support and defend clients' health, wellness, safety, wishes, and personal rights, including
privacy
Responsibility
willingness to respect obligations and follow through on promises
Accountability
ability to answer for one's own actions
Confidentiality
protection of privacy without diminishing access to high-quality care
Autonomy
the right to make one's own personal decisions, even when those decisions might not be in that
person's own best interest
Beneficience
action that promotes good for others, without any self-interest
Fidelity
fulfillment of promises
, Justice
fairness in care delivery and use of resources
Nonmaleficence
a commitment to do no harm
Veracity
a commitment to tell the truth
Ethical dilemma
Problems that involve more than one choice and stem from differences in values and beliefs of
decision makers
- Involves conflict between two moral imperatives
- The answer will have a profound effect on the situation and the client
Moral distress
occurs when the nurse is placed in a difficult situation where the actions taken are different from
what the nurse feels is ethically correct
Negligence
A nurse fails to implement safety measures for a client at risk for falls
Malpractice (professional negligence)
A nurse administers a large dose of medication due to a calculation error. The client has a
cardiac arrest and dies.
Breach of confidentiality
A nurse releases the medical diagnosis of a client to a member of the press
Defamation of character
A nurse tells a coworker that they believe the client has been unfaithful to their partner
Assault
Preventive health care
Immunization, stress management, occupational health and seat belt use
Primary health care
Office or clinic visits, community health centers, scheduled school or work-centered screenings
(vision, hearing, obesity)
Secondary health care
Care in hospital settings (inpatient and emergency departments), diagnostic centers, and urgent
and emergent care centers
Tertiary health care
Acute care such as intensive care, oncology centers, and burn centers
Restorative health care
Home health care, rehabilitation centers, skilled nursing facilities
Continuing health care
End-of-life care, palliative care, hospice, adult day care, assisted living, and in-home respite
care
Federally funded programs
Medicaid, Medicare
Registered nurse (RN)
Lead team member, soliciting input from all nursing team members and setting priorities for the
coordination of client care
- Function legally under state nurse practice acts
- Perform assessments; establish nursing diagnoses, goals, and interventions; conduct ongoing
client investigations
- Develop interprofessional care plans for client care
,Practical nurse (PN)
Work under supervision of RN
- Collaborate within the nursing process, assist with plan of care, consult with other team
members, recognize need for referrals
- Use the nursing process as a framework
Assistive personnel (AP)
Work under supervision of a RN or PN
- Feed clients, prepare nutritional supplements, lifting, basic care (grooming, bathing, toileting,
positioning, transferring)
- Measure and record vital signs
- Ambulate clients
Advocacy
support and defend clients' health, wellness, safety, wishes, and personal rights, including
privacy
Responsibility
willingness to respect obligations and follow through on promises
Accountability
ability to answer for one's own actions
Confidentiality
protection of privacy without diminishing access to high-quality care
Autonomy
the right to make one's own personal decisions, even when those decisions might not be in that
person's own best interest
Beneficience
action that promotes good for others, without any self-interest
Fidelity
fulfillment of promises
, Justice
fairness in care delivery and use of resources
Nonmaleficence
a commitment to do no harm
Veracity
a commitment to tell the truth
Ethical dilemma
Problems that involve more than one choice and stem from differences in values and beliefs of
decision makers
- Involves conflict between two moral imperatives
- The answer will have a profound effect on the situation and the client
Moral distress
occurs when the nurse is placed in a difficult situation where the actions taken are different from
what the nurse feels is ethically correct
Negligence
A nurse fails to implement safety measures for a client at risk for falls
Malpractice (professional negligence)
A nurse administers a large dose of medication due to a calculation error. The client has a
cardiac arrest and dies.
Breach of confidentiality
A nurse releases the medical diagnosis of a client to a member of the press
Defamation of character
A nurse tells a coworker that they believe the client has been unfaithful to their partner
Assault
