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This document contains 90 thoroughly verified questions and answers from NUR 155 Exam 3 – Fundamentals of Nursing, tailored for the 2025/2026 academic year. Designed for focused exam preparation, it provides a detailed review of key topics including legal and ethical standards in nursing, wound and pressure ulcer care, heat/cold therapy, oxygenation, and sensory function. Key learning areas covered in this resource: – Legal frameworks in nursing: statutory, common, and administrative law – Informed consent, patient rights, advance directives, and incident reporting – Ethical principles and professional values: autonomy, fidelity, beneficence, and social justice – Wound care: stages of pressure ulcers, wound healing phases, and Braden/Norton risk assessments – Types of debridement and wound dressings: hydrocolloids, transparent, alginates, foams, and more – Complications in wound healing: dehiscence, infection, evisceration, hemorrhage – Thermotherapy applications: local/systemic effects, indications, contraindications – Oxygenation and respiratory care: incentive spirometry, hypoxia signs, postural drainage – Cardiovascular assessment and thrombus prevention – Sensory function: overload and deprivation, nursing interventions for balance This exam pack provides comprehensive, clinically relevant content and definitions, suited to enhance the readiness of nursing students for exams, patient care planning, and NCLEX-based applications. Recommended for students in: – NUR 155 or comparable Fundamentals of Nursing courses – ADN (Associate Degree in Nursing) – BSN (Bachelor of Science in Nursing) – LPN to RN bridge programs – Nursing fundamentals, concept-based learning, and NCLEX review Keywords: nursing law,ethics in nursing,informed consent,advance directives,pressure ulcers,wound care,braden scale,nursing documentation,malpractice,debridement,primary intention healing,secondary intention,thermotherapy,oxygenation,hypoxia,cardiovascular risk,sensory overload,sensory deprivation,nursing values,good samaritan act

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laws enacted by any legislative body - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔legislation/statutory

law


laws evolving from court decisions - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔common law


state boards of nursing is an example of which kind of law? - 🧠 ANSWER

✔✔administrative law


process of determining and maintaining competence in nursing - 🧠

ANSWER ✔✔credentialing


standards that include the nurse's job description, education, expertise,

institutional policies and procedures - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔internal standards

,standards that include nurse practice acts, professional organizations,

nursing specialty organizations, and federal organizations and guidelines -

🧠 ANSWER ✔✔external standards


an agreement by a client to accept course of treatment - 🧠 ANSWER

✔✔informed consent


what are the two types of informed consent? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔implied and

express


oral or written agreement - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔express consent


non-verbal behavior that indicates consent - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔implied

consent


what does the nurse's signature verify? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔voluntary consent,

signature is authentic, client was of age, client had mental capacity and

competence to give consent, client was given enough information

T or F? the client can change the advanced directives at any time - 🧠

ANSWER ✔✔true

, provides specific instructions about what medical treatment the client

chooses to omit or refuse in the event that the client is unable to make

those decisions - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔living will


durable power of attorney for health care; notarized or witness statement

appointing someone else to manage health care treatment when client is

unable to do so - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔health care proxy


post-mortem examination of the body - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔autopsy


civil wrong doing - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔tort


torts that do not require intent but require the element of harm - 🧠 ANSWER

✔✔unintentional tort


what are the 3 types of unintentional torts? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔negligence,

gross negligence, malpractice

misconduct to practice below the standard expected of a person - 🧠

ANSWER ✔✔negligence


professional negligence - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔malpractice




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