NUR 215 ACTUAL FINALS QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Client advocate - ✔✔A function of a nurse; supporting patients' right to make
healthcare decisions when they are able to voice their opinions and protecting patien
ts from harm when they are unable to make decisions.
✔✔Definition of nursing - ✔✔Helps the public understand the value of nursing, helps
differentiate the activities of nursing from those of medicine, and helps students
understand what is expected of them.
✔✔Direct care - ✔✔Interventions performed through interactions with the patient,
including physical care, emotional support, and patient teaching.
✔✔Indirect care - ✔✔Interventions performed away from the patient but on behalf of the
patient, including advocacy, making referrals, getting second opinions, and managing
the environment surrounding the patient.
✔✔Self-concept - ✔✔Overall view of self; forms out of a person's evaluation of
his/her/their characteristics, including physical appearance, sexual performance,
intellectual abilities, success in the workplace, friendships, unique talents, and problem-
solving/coping abilities.
✔✔Components of self-concept - ✔✔Body image, self-esteem, role performance, and
personal identity.
✔✔Factors affecting self-concept - ✔✔Gender, family, developmental level,
socioeconomic status, locus of control, and peer relationships.
✔✔ANA Code of Ethics - ✔✔Provides guidelines of acceptable and unacceptable
behaviors for how nurses should conduct themselves in their day-to-day practice.
, ✔✔Purpose of health screenings - ✔✔Motivated by the desire to increase well-being
(health promotion); meant to detect disease at an early stage.
✔✔Illness - ✔✔A change in the way they feel/a disruption of their typical life, usually
described in terms of how it makes a person feel.
✔✔Assessment of a non-English-speaking patient - ✔✔Utilize facility interpreter,
internet/computer translation software, or translator; do not use patient's family member
or hospital staff not formally trained as an interpreter.
✔✔Vulnerable populations - ✔✔Groups that are more likely to develop health problems
and experience poorer outcomes due to limited access to care, high-risk behaviors,
and/or multiple and cumulative stressors.
✔✔Characteristics of vulnerable populations - ✔✔Subgroups including homeless, poor,
mentally ill, young, elderly, people with physical disabilities, and some ethnic and racial
minorities.
✔✔Morse Fall Scale - ✔✔A rapid and simple method of assessing a patient's likelihood
of falling.
✔✔Ways to reduce fall risk - ✔✔Remove throw rugs/cords/trip hazards, use a shower
chair, grab bars, non-skid bathroom mats, mobility aids (canes), non-slip socks, 'fall risk'
band, sign on door, and bed/chair alarm.
✔✔Fall risk assessment timing - ✔✔For all clients at admission and at regular intervals.
✔✔Interprofessional team members - ✔✔Members of a healthcare team that
collaborate to provide comprehensive care.
✔✔Nurses - ✔✔Assess patients, administer meds/treatments, provide education, and
modify care plans based on patient's response to treatment.
✔✔Licensed Practical Nurse - ✔✔Work under RN supervision to provide non-complex
care, administer certain meds, and communicate patient's responses.
✔✔Nurse Practitioners - ✔✔Independent practitioners with advanced education/training
and are licensed to provide a broad range of medical/nursing care based on their
specialty area.
✔✔Nursing Assistive Personnel - ✔✔Unlicensed assistive personnel (nursing
assistants, aides, and techs) provide custodial care under the direction of
nurses/providers in a variety of settings.
ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Client advocate - ✔✔A function of a nurse; supporting patients' right to make
healthcare decisions when they are able to voice their opinions and protecting patien
ts from harm when they are unable to make decisions.
✔✔Definition of nursing - ✔✔Helps the public understand the value of nursing, helps
differentiate the activities of nursing from those of medicine, and helps students
understand what is expected of them.
✔✔Direct care - ✔✔Interventions performed through interactions with the patient,
including physical care, emotional support, and patient teaching.
✔✔Indirect care - ✔✔Interventions performed away from the patient but on behalf of the
patient, including advocacy, making referrals, getting second opinions, and managing
the environment surrounding the patient.
✔✔Self-concept - ✔✔Overall view of self; forms out of a person's evaluation of
his/her/their characteristics, including physical appearance, sexual performance,
intellectual abilities, success in the workplace, friendships, unique talents, and problem-
solving/coping abilities.
✔✔Components of self-concept - ✔✔Body image, self-esteem, role performance, and
personal identity.
✔✔Factors affecting self-concept - ✔✔Gender, family, developmental level,
socioeconomic status, locus of control, and peer relationships.
✔✔ANA Code of Ethics - ✔✔Provides guidelines of acceptable and unacceptable
behaviors for how nurses should conduct themselves in their day-to-day practice.
, ✔✔Purpose of health screenings - ✔✔Motivated by the desire to increase well-being
(health promotion); meant to detect disease at an early stage.
✔✔Illness - ✔✔A change in the way they feel/a disruption of their typical life, usually
described in terms of how it makes a person feel.
✔✔Assessment of a non-English-speaking patient - ✔✔Utilize facility interpreter,
internet/computer translation software, or translator; do not use patient's family member
or hospital staff not formally trained as an interpreter.
✔✔Vulnerable populations - ✔✔Groups that are more likely to develop health problems
and experience poorer outcomes due to limited access to care, high-risk behaviors,
and/or multiple and cumulative stressors.
✔✔Characteristics of vulnerable populations - ✔✔Subgroups including homeless, poor,
mentally ill, young, elderly, people with physical disabilities, and some ethnic and racial
minorities.
✔✔Morse Fall Scale - ✔✔A rapid and simple method of assessing a patient's likelihood
of falling.
✔✔Ways to reduce fall risk - ✔✔Remove throw rugs/cords/trip hazards, use a shower
chair, grab bars, non-skid bathroom mats, mobility aids (canes), non-slip socks, 'fall risk'
band, sign on door, and bed/chair alarm.
✔✔Fall risk assessment timing - ✔✔For all clients at admission and at regular intervals.
✔✔Interprofessional team members - ✔✔Members of a healthcare team that
collaborate to provide comprehensive care.
✔✔Nurses - ✔✔Assess patients, administer meds/treatments, provide education, and
modify care plans based on patient's response to treatment.
✔✔Licensed Practical Nurse - ✔✔Work under RN supervision to provide non-complex
care, administer certain meds, and communicate patient's responses.
✔✔Nurse Practitioners - ✔✔Independent practitioners with advanced education/training
and are licensed to provide a broad range of medical/nursing care based on their
specialty area.
✔✔Nursing Assistive Personnel - ✔✔Unlicensed assistive personnel (nursing
assistants, aides, and techs) provide custodial care under the direction of
nurses/providers in a variety of settings.
