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NSG 310 EXAM 1 (GCU) NEWEST 2026 ACTUAL EXAM|
INTRODUCTION TO PROFESSIONAL NURSING EXAM
1 REVIEW WITH COMPLETE 300 REAL EXAM
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT VERIFIED ANSWERS/
ALREADY GRADED A+ (BRAND NEW!!)
Analysis of cases of reported negligence from 1995 to 2001
demonstrated that the majority of cases occurred in which patient care
setting?
a. Acute care
b. Psychiatric units
c. Nursing homes and long-term care facilities
d. Home health -Correct Answer- Acute care
A school nurse teaching school-aged children about water safety is an
example of which ethical principle?
a. Beneficence
b. Justice
c. Veracity
d. Autonomy -Correct Answer- Beneficence
The current emphasis on eliminating racially based health disparities is
based on which of the following ethical principles?
a. Double effect
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b. Fidelity
c. Justice
d. Veracity -Correct Answer- Justice
A nurse is turning a bedfast patient to prevent pressure ulcers. The
patient complains that the process is painful. The nurse explains the
reason for the turning schedule and completes the task. This is an
example of the ethical principle of:
a. autonomy
b. fidelity
c. nonmaleficence
d. veracity -Correct Answer- nonmaleficence
Which early nursing leader founded the first training school for nurses
that would later become a model for early nursing education?
a. Dorothea Dix
b. Florence Nightingale
c. Clara Barton
d. Mary Ann Bickerdyke -Correct Answer- Florence Nightingale
To which early nursing leader is attributed the founding of the American
Red Cross?
a. Clara Barton
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b. Dorothea Dix
c. Florence Nightingale
d. Lavinia Lloyd Dock -Correct Answer- Clara Barton
Which of the following nursing leaders, because of her work in the
Henry Street Settlement, is considered the founder of public health
nursing?
a. Margaret Sanger
b. Clara Barton
c. Lillian Wald
d. Lavinia Lloyd Dock -Correct Answer- Lillian Wald
What was the purpose of the Hill-Burton Act?
a. It established funding for the construction of hospitals.
b. It provided women in the service with military rank.
c. It established and funded the Frontier Nursing Service
d. It created the Cadet Nurse Corps -Correct Answer- It established
funding for the construction of hospitals.
Which action represents the role of the nurse in helping a patient reframe
a potentially incapacitating sense of self into one with more hope and
broader options when faced with a health-related difficulty?
a. Taking a passive approach
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b. Negating potential possibilities
c. Focusing on the patient's personal weaknesses
d. Reframing the patient's sense of self -Correct Answer- Reframing the
patient's sense of self
Nursing's metaparadigm, or worldview, distinguishes the nursing
profession from other disciplines and emphasizes its unique functional
characteristics. What are the four key concepts that form the foundation
for all nursing theories?
a. Caring, compassion, health promotion, and education
b. Respect, integrity, honesty, and advocacy
c. Person, environment, health, and nursing
d. Nursing, teaching, caring, and health promotion -Correct Answer-
Person, environment, health, and nursing
The nurse offers a patient's family a list of community resources and
support groups and encourages them to become involved in the local
Lupus chapter. This is an example of which professional nursing role
responsibility?
a. Patient advocate
b. Teaching
c. Caregiver
d. Consultant -Correct Answer- patient advocate
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NSG 310 EXAM 1 (GCU) NEWEST 2026 ACTUAL EXAM|
INTRODUCTION TO PROFESSIONAL NURSING EXAM
1 REVIEW WITH COMPLETE 300 REAL EXAM
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT VERIFIED ANSWERS/
ALREADY GRADED A+ (BRAND NEW!!)
Analysis of cases of reported negligence from 1995 to 2001
demonstrated that the majority of cases occurred in which patient care
setting?
a. Acute care
b. Psychiatric units
c. Nursing homes and long-term care facilities
d. Home health -Correct Answer- Acute care
A school nurse teaching school-aged children about water safety is an
example of which ethical principle?
a. Beneficence
b. Justice
c. Veracity
d. Autonomy -Correct Answer- Beneficence
The current emphasis on eliminating racially based health disparities is
based on which of the following ethical principles?
a. Double effect
pg. 1
,2|Page
b. Fidelity
c. Justice
d. Veracity -Correct Answer- Justice
A nurse is turning a bedfast patient to prevent pressure ulcers. The
patient complains that the process is painful. The nurse explains the
reason for the turning schedule and completes the task. This is an
example of the ethical principle of:
a. autonomy
b. fidelity
c. nonmaleficence
d. veracity -Correct Answer- nonmaleficence
Which early nursing leader founded the first training school for nurses
that would later become a model for early nursing education?
a. Dorothea Dix
b. Florence Nightingale
c. Clara Barton
d. Mary Ann Bickerdyke -Correct Answer- Florence Nightingale
To which early nursing leader is attributed the founding of the American
Red Cross?
a. Clara Barton
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b. Dorothea Dix
c. Florence Nightingale
d. Lavinia Lloyd Dock -Correct Answer- Clara Barton
Which of the following nursing leaders, because of her work in the
Henry Street Settlement, is considered the founder of public health
nursing?
a. Margaret Sanger
b. Clara Barton
c. Lillian Wald
d. Lavinia Lloyd Dock -Correct Answer- Lillian Wald
What was the purpose of the Hill-Burton Act?
a. It established funding for the construction of hospitals.
b. It provided women in the service with military rank.
c. It established and funded the Frontier Nursing Service
d. It created the Cadet Nurse Corps -Correct Answer- It established
funding for the construction of hospitals.
Which action represents the role of the nurse in helping a patient reframe
a potentially incapacitating sense of self into one with more hope and
broader options when faced with a health-related difficulty?
a. Taking a passive approach
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b. Negating potential possibilities
c. Focusing on the patient's personal weaknesses
d. Reframing the patient's sense of self -Correct Answer- Reframing the
patient's sense of self
Nursing's metaparadigm, or worldview, distinguishes the nursing
profession from other disciplines and emphasizes its unique functional
characteristics. What are the four key concepts that form the foundation
for all nursing theories?
a. Caring, compassion, health promotion, and education
b. Respect, integrity, honesty, and advocacy
c. Person, environment, health, and nursing
d. Nursing, teaching, caring, and health promotion -Correct Answer-
Person, environment, health, and nursing
The nurse offers a patient's family a list of community resources and
support groups and encourages them to become involved in the local
Lupus chapter. This is an example of which professional nursing role
responsibility?
a. Patient advocate
b. Teaching
c. Caregiver
d. Consultant -Correct Answer- patient advocate
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