N1117 EXAM 1 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS | RCTC FUNDAMENTALS OF NURSING STUDY
GUIDE 2026/2027
what are the goals of nursing practice? - ANS ✔✔1. To promote health
2. To prevent illness
3. To restore health
4. To facilitate coping with disability or death
what skills do nurses use? - ANS ✔✔rely on 4 competencies (skills) to achieve goals of practice
1. Cognitive abilities/skills (critical thinking)
2. Technical skills (hands on tasks)
3. Interpersonal skills (communication)
4. Ethical/Legal skills ( knowing your scope of practice what you are capable of)
patient and family centered care - ANS ✔✔a model of nursing care in which mutual
partnerships among the patient, family, and health care team are formed to plan, implement,
and evaluate the nursing and health care delivered
what are the five phases of the nursing process? - ANS ✔✔ADPIE
Assessment
Diagnosis
Planning (outcome identification)
Implementation
Evaluation
what is the purpose of the nursing process? - ANS ✔✔-To organize and deliver nursing care
, -to integrate elements of clinical reasoning to make judgments and take actions based on critical
thinking
-variation of scientific reasoning that allows nurses to organize and systematize nursing practice
Nursing Diagnosis (ADPIE) - ANS ✔✔A systematic method
1. Assess- the patient to determine the need for nursing care
2. Determining nursing diagnoses for actual and potential health problems
3. Identify expected outcomes and plan care
4. Implementing (interventions) the care
5. Evaluate the results (reassess what works)
What does the nursing process ensure? - ANS ✔✔-that nurses are patient centered rather than
task centered
-working intimately with patients helps nurses to explore their own strength and limitations and
to develop personally and professionally
-nurses ask what are the most important things I can do for you?
Assessing - ANS ✔✔Systematic and continuous collection, analysis, validation, and
communication of patient data, or information.
What is subjective data? - ANS ✔✔information perceived only by the affected person; cannot
be perceived or verified by another person. (patient states)
Ex.) pain, cold, hot, sad, upset, feeling nervous, nauseated
What is objective data? - ANS ✔✔observable and measurable data that can be seen, heard, felt,
or measured by someone other than the person experiencing them
Ex.) elevated temperature, moist skin, refusal to look at or eat food, drainage, ambulation,
crying, yelling, clenching jaw ,vital signs
GUIDE 2026/2027
what are the goals of nursing practice? - ANS ✔✔1. To promote health
2. To prevent illness
3. To restore health
4. To facilitate coping with disability or death
what skills do nurses use? - ANS ✔✔rely on 4 competencies (skills) to achieve goals of practice
1. Cognitive abilities/skills (critical thinking)
2. Technical skills (hands on tasks)
3. Interpersonal skills (communication)
4. Ethical/Legal skills ( knowing your scope of practice what you are capable of)
patient and family centered care - ANS ✔✔a model of nursing care in which mutual
partnerships among the patient, family, and health care team are formed to plan, implement,
and evaluate the nursing and health care delivered
what are the five phases of the nursing process? - ANS ✔✔ADPIE
Assessment
Diagnosis
Planning (outcome identification)
Implementation
Evaluation
what is the purpose of the nursing process? - ANS ✔✔-To organize and deliver nursing care
, -to integrate elements of clinical reasoning to make judgments and take actions based on critical
thinking
-variation of scientific reasoning that allows nurses to organize and systematize nursing practice
Nursing Diagnosis (ADPIE) - ANS ✔✔A systematic method
1. Assess- the patient to determine the need for nursing care
2. Determining nursing diagnoses for actual and potential health problems
3. Identify expected outcomes and plan care
4. Implementing (interventions) the care
5. Evaluate the results (reassess what works)
What does the nursing process ensure? - ANS ✔✔-that nurses are patient centered rather than
task centered
-working intimately with patients helps nurses to explore their own strength and limitations and
to develop personally and professionally
-nurses ask what are the most important things I can do for you?
Assessing - ANS ✔✔Systematic and continuous collection, analysis, validation, and
communication of patient data, or information.
What is subjective data? - ANS ✔✔information perceived only by the affected person; cannot
be perceived or verified by another person. (patient states)
Ex.) pain, cold, hot, sad, upset, feeling nervous, nauseated
What is objective data? - ANS ✔✔observable and measurable data that can be seen, heard, felt,
or measured by someone other than the person experiencing them
Ex.) elevated temperature, moist skin, refusal to look at or eat food, drainage, ambulation,
crying, yelling, clenching jaw ,vital signs
