This document includes 50 verified questions and answers for Exam 1 of NUR 155 – Fundamentals of Nursing, designed to support nursing students during the 2025/2026 academic year. It serves as a complete, exam-focused guide that helps learners grasp key foundational concepts required in clinical practice and academic assessments.
The material covers a broad range of essential nursing topics, including:
– Definitions and models of health and wellness (clinical model, role performance model, health-illness continuum)
– Levels of disease prevention (primary, secondary, tertiary)
– Lifespan considerations for health promotion (infants to older adults)
– Infection control practices (standard, contact, airborne, and droplet precautions)
– Medical vs. surgical asepsis
– Stages of the inflammatory response
– Therapeutic nurse-client relationship and communication (SBAR, phases of helping relationship)
– Documentation formats (SOAP, PIE, DAR, narrative, charting by exception)
– Physical assessment techniques (palpation, auscultation, percussion)
– Vital signs, ROM movements, and mobility aid use (canes, walkers, crutches, gait types)
This resource is ideal for students preparing for exams, quizzes, or clinical evaluations. It provides clear, accurate, and easy-to-study content, making it suitable for self-study or group revision.
Relevant for students in:
– NUR 155 or similar Fundamentals of Nursing courses
– Associate Degree in Nursing (ADN)
– Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN)
– Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) programs
– Pre-nursing and nursing bridge programs
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NUR 155 Exam 1 2025/2026 Exam
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What is Health - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Presence or absence of disease.
Individual perception
What is Wellness - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔State of well-being. Self responsibility.
Daily decision making
7 components of wellness - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Environmental, Occupational,
Intellectual, Spiritual, Physical, Emotional, and Social
Clinical Model - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Provides the narrowest interpretation of
health. People viewed as physiologic systems. Health identified by the
absence of signs and symptoms of disease or injury. State of not being
"sick."
, Role Performance Model - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Ability to fulfill societal roles,
their roles as healthy even if they have clinical illness. Sickness is the
inability to perform one's role
Health-Illness Continuum - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Health and Illness/disease
opposite ends. Move back and fourth day by day
Internal Variables - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Biologic, Psychological, and Cognitive
Dimension
External Variable - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Physical environment, Standards of
living, Family & Cultural beliefs, Social support network
Illness - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Personal state, subjective. May/may not be related
to disease
Disease - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Diagnosis, physiological symptoms
Acute - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Lasting less than 6 months. Ex: Mono, Flu, Bronch
Chronic - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Will last longer than 6 months having periods of
remissions and exacerbation. Ex: Cancer
Holism - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Viewing the individual as a whole, not as an
assembly of part