9/8/25, 11:10 PM NURS 142 - MIDTERM (FINALEXAM)
NURS 142 MIDTERM EXAM NEWEST 2025-2026 ACTUAL EXAM
COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS
(VERIFIED ANSWERS) |ALREADY GRADED A+||BRAND NEW
VERSION!! (FINAL\MIDTERM EXAM)
1. Relationship established.
List the 3 dimensions of the
2. Integration of care.
Fundamental Of Care
Framework 3. Context of care.
1. Components
- commitment to care
2. elements
What are the components
- know (patient health record)
and elements to the - Trust (establish trust with pt)
Relationship established - Focus (the focus/goal of this intervention)
dimensions? - anticipate (expecting)
- evaluation (goal/focus has been accomplished)
1. Component - Physical
- Element: safe, rested, clean, mobile, warm, fed,
dressed, comfortable, hydrated, toileted
What are the components 2. Component - relational
and elements to the - element: empathy, respect, compassion, consistent,
Integration of Care? certainty, ensuring goals are set
3. Component - Psychosocial
- element: calm, coping, hopeful, respected, involved, informed,
dignified
1. Com - Policy level
- ele: financial quality and safety, governance, regulation,
what are the components accreditation
and elements to the
Context of Care? 2. com - system level
- ele: resources, culture, leadership, evaluation, feedback
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,9/8/25, 11:10 PM NURS 142 - MIDTERM (FINALEXAM)
What does PCRA stand for? Point of Care Risk Assessment
1. Who is the patient
- Patient chart, patient themselves, wrist band
2. What are you looking for?
- environmental hazards, signs for PPE, spills, needles,
family members, patient themselves, the 4 B's
What do you check for with
PCRA? 3. What are your tasks?
- equipment needed, are you trained, and ready for the task
4. What does the care plan tell you?
- ADLs, what the patient look like now (today), physical
health (mobility), fall risk, sleep, bed mobility...
1. Communication - language, hearing, vision
2. Nutrition Diabetic - swallowing precautions, tube
feeding, total dependent, assistance,
independent
3. Elimination - commode, toilet, bedpan, urinal, catheter, brief,
pull ups,
List the things that the 4. Hygiene - bath/shower per day, grooming, dressing
patient care plan tells you. 5. Oral/dental - dentures, teeth/mouth care per day (AM/PM)
6. Skin Integrity - need for cream/ointments, skin issues
7. Bed mobility - turning, boost, sling, slider
8. Fall risk
9. Transfer and mobility - manual assistant, overhead lift, walker,
wheel chair
10. sleep
11. other/treatments
Activities of daily living (physical capability):
Basic, essential self care tasks patients do everyday in
Define ADL
order to maintain physical and emotional well being
E.x walking, feeding, toileting, bathings, eating, transferring
Instrumental activities of daily living (mental capability):
More complex tasks that are important for living
Define IADL
independently in the community, requiring a higher
level of cognitive and physical functon
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,9/8/25, 11:10 PM NURS 142 - MIDTERM (FINALEXAM)
E.x getting groceries, managing transport, managing medication
Methods used regularly to protect nurses and patients
when there is potential to come in contact with
blood or body fluids.
What is routine practice? (and
examples) - Includes the appropriate use of: gloves, gowns, masks, eyewear
- appropriate - hand washing, cleaning of equipment,
and disposal of contaminated linen sharps
1. Infectious Agent
2. Reservoir
What is the 6 things in the 3. Portal of exit
Chain of Infection? 4. Mode of transmission
5. Portal of entry
6. Susceptible host
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, 9/8/25, 11:10 PM NURS 142 - MIDTERM (FINALEXAM)
1. 2types:
- Resident microbes
- Transient micobes
2. examples:
Infectious Agent -
- E. coli (colon - gastroenteritis, UTI)
description and how can it
- C. diff (colon - colitis, diarrhea)
be broken?
3. how to break it?
- rapid and accurate identification of MO
- bacteria
- viruses
List the 5 types of - fungi
microorganisms. - protazo
- parasite
Resident
- permanent on the skin and can multiply and survive without
What is the difference btw causing harm
Resident MO and
Transient
Transient MO?
- attach to the skin when a person has contact with another
person or object.
- can be easily transmitted
1. Description
- where the pathogen can survive - may or may not multiply
- likes a place with food, oxygen (aerobic = oxygen,
anaerobic = no oxygen), water, appropriate temp, pH
and minimal light
Reservoir - description and
how can it be broken? 2. examples
- food, water, body, animal, warm moist environments
3.breaking it
- environmental sanitation
- disinfection/sterilization
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NURS 142 MIDTERM EXAM NEWEST 2025-2026 ACTUAL EXAM
COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS
(VERIFIED ANSWERS) |ALREADY GRADED A+||BRAND NEW
VERSION!! (FINAL\MIDTERM EXAM)
1. Relationship established.
List the 3 dimensions of the
2. Integration of care.
Fundamental Of Care
Framework 3. Context of care.
1. Components
- commitment to care
2. elements
What are the components
- know (patient health record)
and elements to the - Trust (establish trust with pt)
Relationship established - Focus (the focus/goal of this intervention)
dimensions? - anticipate (expecting)
- evaluation (goal/focus has been accomplished)
1. Component - Physical
- Element: safe, rested, clean, mobile, warm, fed,
dressed, comfortable, hydrated, toileted
What are the components 2. Component - relational
and elements to the - element: empathy, respect, compassion, consistent,
Integration of Care? certainty, ensuring goals are set
3. Component - Psychosocial
- element: calm, coping, hopeful, respected, involved, informed,
dignified
1. Com - Policy level
- ele: financial quality and safety, governance, regulation,
what are the components accreditation
and elements to the
Context of Care? 2. com - system level
- ele: resources, culture, leadership, evaluation, feedback
1/62
,9/8/25, 11:10 PM NURS 142 - MIDTERM (FINALEXAM)
What does PCRA stand for? Point of Care Risk Assessment
1. Who is the patient
- Patient chart, patient themselves, wrist band
2. What are you looking for?
- environmental hazards, signs for PPE, spills, needles,
family members, patient themselves, the 4 B's
What do you check for with
PCRA? 3. What are your tasks?
- equipment needed, are you trained, and ready for the task
4. What does the care plan tell you?
- ADLs, what the patient look like now (today), physical
health (mobility), fall risk, sleep, bed mobility...
1. Communication - language, hearing, vision
2. Nutrition Diabetic - swallowing precautions, tube
feeding, total dependent, assistance,
independent
3. Elimination - commode, toilet, bedpan, urinal, catheter, brief,
pull ups,
List the things that the 4. Hygiene - bath/shower per day, grooming, dressing
patient care plan tells you. 5. Oral/dental - dentures, teeth/mouth care per day (AM/PM)
6. Skin Integrity - need for cream/ointments, skin issues
7. Bed mobility - turning, boost, sling, slider
8. Fall risk
9. Transfer and mobility - manual assistant, overhead lift, walker,
wheel chair
10. sleep
11. other/treatments
Activities of daily living (physical capability):
Basic, essential self care tasks patients do everyday in
Define ADL
order to maintain physical and emotional well being
E.x walking, feeding, toileting, bathings, eating, transferring
Instrumental activities of daily living (mental capability):
More complex tasks that are important for living
Define IADL
independently in the community, requiring a higher
level of cognitive and physical functon
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,9/8/25, 11:10 PM NURS 142 - MIDTERM (FINALEXAM)
E.x getting groceries, managing transport, managing medication
Methods used regularly to protect nurses and patients
when there is potential to come in contact with
blood or body fluids.
What is routine practice? (and
examples) - Includes the appropriate use of: gloves, gowns, masks, eyewear
- appropriate - hand washing, cleaning of equipment,
and disposal of contaminated linen sharps
1. Infectious Agent
2. Reservoir
What is the 6 things in the 3. Portal of exit
Chain of Infection? 4. Mode of transmission
5. Portal of entry
6. Susceptible host
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, 9/8/25, 11:10 PM NURS 142 - MIDTERM (FINALEXAM)
1. 2types:
- Resident microbes
- Transient micobes
2. examples:
Infectious Agent -
- E. coli (colon - gastroenteritis, UTI)
description and how can it
- C. diff (colon - colitis, diarrhea)
be broken?
3. how to break it?
- rapid and accurate identification of MO
- bacteria
- viruses
List the 5 types of - fungi
microorganisms. - protazo
- parasite
Resident
- permanent on the skin and can multiply and survive without
What is the difference btw causing harm
Resident MO and
Transient
Transient MO?
- attach to the skin when a person has contact with another
person or object.
- can be easily transmitted
1. Description
- where the pathogen can survive - may or may not multiply
- likes a place with food, oxygen (aerobic = oxygen,
anaerobic = no oxygen), water, appropriate temp, pH
and minimal light
Reservoir - description and
how can it be broken? 2. examples
- food, water, body, animal, warm moist environments
3.breaking it
- environmental sanitation
- disinfection/sterilization
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