FUNDAMENTALS OF NURSING EXAM
QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED
ANSWERS [GRADED A+]
origination of the word "nurse" - ✔✔from the latin word "nutrix" meaning to
nourish
Interrelated roles of nurses - ✔✔communicator, teacher, counselor,
leader, researcher, advocate, collaborator
coping with disability and death - ✔✔nurses use optimal function of
maximum strengths and potentials, refer to community support systems;
provide care to families and patients during end-of-life care, hospice
The Nursing Process - ✔✔-one of major guidelines for nursing practice
-helps nurses implement their roles
©morren2025/2026.Year published 2025.
,-integrates art and science of nursing
-allows nurses to use critical thinking and clinical reasoning
-defines the areas of care that are within the domain of nursing
Nurse Practice Acts - ✔✔-define legal scope of nursing practice
-create state board of nursing to make and enforce rules and regulation
-define important terms and activities in nursing, including legal
requirements and titles for RNs and LPNs
- established criteria for the education and licensure of nurses
5 vital signs - ✔✔respirations, pulse rate, blood pressure, temperature,
and pain
Nursing is recognized as profession based on what criteria - ✔✔-well
defined body specific and unique knowledge
-strong service orientation
-recognized authority by a professional group (ANA)
-code of ethics
-professional organization that sets standards
-ongoing research
©morren2025/2026.Year published 2025.
,-autonomy and self-regulation
Florence Nightingale - ✔✔defined nursing as both an art and science,
differentiated nursing from medicine, created freestanding nursing
education, published books; founder of modern nursing
Clara Barton - ✔✔established red cross; volunteered to care for wounds
and feed union soldiers during civil war; served as supervisor of nurses for
the army of James
sources of knowledge - ✔✔-traditional ( passed down from generation to
generation)
-authoritative- comes from an expert, accepted as truth based on person's
perceived expertise
-scientific (obtained through the scientific method-research)
objective - ✔✔you can see the object
subjective - ✔✔coming from that subject
©morren2025/2026.Year published 2025.
, types of knowledge - ✔✔-science (observing, identifying, describing,
investigating, and explaining events and occurences that are perceived in
world)
-philosophy (the study of wisdom, fundamental knowledge, and the
processes used to develop and construct on perception on life)
-process (a series of actions, changes, or functions intended to bring about
a desired result)
goals of nursing research - ✔✔-improve care in clinical setting
-study ppl and nurse process: education, policy development, ethics,
nursing history
-develop greater autonomy and strength as a profession
-provide evidence-based nursing practice
deductive reasoning - ✔✔examines a general idea and then considers
specific actions or ideas
inductive reasoning - ✔✔one builds from specific ideas or actions to
conclusions about general ideas
©morren2025/2026.Year published 2025.
QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED
ANSWERS [GRADED A+]
origination of the word "nurse" - ✔✔from the latin word "nutrix" meaning to
nourish
Interrelated roles of nurses - ✔✔communicator, teacher, counselor,
leader, researcher, advocate, collaborator
coping with disability and death - ✔✔nurses use optimal function of
maximum strengths and potentials, refer to community support systems;
provide care to families and patients during end-of-life care, hospice
The Nursing Process - ✔✔-one of major guidelines for nursing practice
-helps nurses implement their roles
©morren2025/2026.Year published 2025.
,-integrates art and science of nursing
-allows nurses to use critical thinking and clinical reasoning
-defines the areas of care that are within the domain of nursing
Nurse Practice Acts - ✔✔-define legal scope of nursing practice
-create state board of nursing to make and enforce rules and regulation
-define important terms and activities in nursing, including legal
requirements and titles for RNs and LPNs
- established criteria for the education and licensure of nurses
5 vital signs - ✔✔respirations, pulse rate, blood pressure, temperature,
and pain
Nursing is recognized as profession based on what criteria - ✔✔-well
defined body specific and unique knowledge
-strong service orientation
-recognized authority by a professional group (ANA)
-code of ethics
-professional organization that sets standards
-ongoing research
©morren2025/2026.Year published 2025.
,-autonomy and self-regulation
Florence Nightingale - ✔✔defined nursing as both an art and science,
differentiated nursing from medicine, created freestanding nursing
education, published books; founder of modern nursing
Clara Barton - ✔✔established red cross; volunteered to care for wounds
and feed union soldiers during civil war; served as supervisor of nurses for
the army of James
sources of knowledge - ✔✔-traditional ( passed down from generation to
generation)
-authoritative- comes from an expert, accepted as truth based on person's
perceived expertise
-scientific (obtained through the scientific method-research)
objective - ✔✔you can see the object
subjective - ✔✔coming from that subject
©morren2025/2026.Year published 2025.
, types of knowledge - ✔✔-science (observing, identifying, describing,
investigating, and explaining events and occurences that are perceived in
world)
-philosophy (the study of wisdom, fundamental knowledge, and the
processes used to develop and construct on perception on life)
-process (a series of actions, changes, or functions intended to bring about
a desired result)
goals of nursing research - ✔✔-improve care in clinical setting
-study ppl and nurse process: education, policy development, ethics,
nursing history
-develop greater autonomy and strength as a profession
-provide evidence-based nursing practice
deductive reasoning - ✔✔examines a general idea and then considers
specific actions or ideas
inductive reasoning - ✔✔one builds from specific ideas or actions to
conclusions about general ideas
©morren2025/2026.Year published 2025.
