PNVN 1521 UPDATED EXAMS SCRIPT QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Isabel Hampton Robb and Lavinia Doc organized the American Society of the
Superintendents of Training Schools of Nursing in 1894. What was the major goal of the
organization? - ✔✔To set educational standards for nurses
✔✔True or False: A major criterion in differentiating between the roles of the RN and
the LVN is the level of independence of the practice activities. - ✔✔True
✔✔True or False: Primitive people believed that a person became sick when a
microscopic organism entered the body and that immunizations and good hygiene kept
diseases away. - ✔✔False
✔✔Match "Wellness-illness continuum" and "Health and Illness Prevention" - ✔✔Well-
ness: a patient reaching his/her highest level of optimal health
Illness: A patient reaching a diminished or impaired state of health
Primary prevention: Giving a child an immunization to prevent a disease from occurring
Secondary prevention: Giving a patient living with diabetes dietary education to control
the disease process
, Tertiary prevention: Providing physical therapy/rehabilitation to a person after
recovering from hip surgery
✔✔What is the order of Maslow's hierarchy of needs beginning with the most basic? -
✔✔1. Physiologic
2. Safety and Security
3. Love and belongingness
4. Esteem
5. Self-Actualization
✔✔A ______ is a legal document that is valid in all 50 states. It names health care
proxy to make medical decisions if that person is no longer able to speak for himself or
herself. - ✔✔Durable medical power of attorney
✔✔What does the abbreviation PHI stand for? - ✔✔Protected health information
✔✔True or False: LVNs can obtain an informed consent for a client procedure so long
as the patient is legally and clinically competent. - ✔✔False
✔✔A _______ is a legal document that describes the kind of medical treatments for life
sustaining treatments the person would want if seriously or terminally ill. It does not let
the person select someone to make decisions for them. - ✔✔living will
✔✔Duty, breach of duty, damages, and proximate cause are the four elements that
must be present to cause an action for negligence against a nurse. (Match) - ✔✔Breach
of duty: the nurse did not adhere to the nursing standard of care. What was expected of
the nurse was not done
Proximate cause: A reasonable cause-and-effect relationship can be shown between
the omission or commission of a nurse.
Duty: The nurse has a responsibility to provide care in an acceptable way
Damages: The nurse's negligence act injured the client in some way
✔✔What best defines the nursing program? - ✔✔A systematic method by which nurses
plan and provide care for patients
✔✔The LVN is obtaining data/information from the patient themselves during an
assessment. This is known as _________ source data. - ✔✔Primary
✔✔What are two basic methods a nurse uses to collect data? - ✔✔Completed nursing
health history and physical examination
AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Isabel Hampton Robb and Lavinia Doc organized the American Society of the
Superintendents of Training Schools of Nursing in 1894. What was the major goal of the
organization? - ✔✔To set educational standards for nurses
✔✔True or False: A major criterion in differentiating between the roles of the RN and
the LVN is the level of independence of the practice activities. - ✔✔True
✔✔True or False: Primitive people believed that a person became sick when a
microscopic organism entered the body and that immunizations and good hygiene kept
diseases away. - ✔✔False
✔✔Match "Wellness-illness continuum" and "Health and Illness Prevention" - ✔✔Well-
ness: a patient reaching his/her highest level of optimal health
Illness: A patient reaching a diminished or impaired state of health
Primary prevention: Giving a child an immunization to prevent a disease from occurring
Secondary prevention: Giving a patient living with diabetes dietary education to control
the disease process
, Tertiary prevention: Providing physical therapy/rehabilitation to a person after
recovering from hip surgery
✔✔What is the order of Maslow's hierarchy of needs beginning with the most basic? -
✔✔1. Physiologic
2. Safety and Security
3. Love and belongingness
4. Esteem
5. Self-Actualization
✔✔A ______ is a legal document that is valid in all 50 states. It names health care
proxy to make medical decisions if that person is no longer able to speak for himself or
herself. - ✔✔Durable medical power of attorney
✔✔What does the abbreviation PHI stand for? - ✔✔Protected health information
✔✔True or False: LVNs can obtain an informed consent for a client procedure so long
as the patient is legally and clinically competent. - ✔✔False
✔✔A _______ is a legal document that describes the kind of medical treatments for life
sustaining treatments the person would want if seriously or terminally ill. It does not let
the person select someone to make decisions for them. - ✔✔living will
✔✔Duty, breach of duty, damages, and proximate cause are the four elements that
must be present to cause an action for negligence against a nurse. (Match) - ✔✔Breach
of duty: the nurse did not adhere to the nursing standard of care. What was expected of
the nurse was not done
Proximate cause: A reasonable cause-and-effect relationship can be shown between
the omission or commission of a nurse.
Duty: The nurse has a responsibility to provide care in an acceptable way
Damages: The nurse's negligence act injured the client in some way
✔✔What best defines the nursing program? - ✔✔A systematic method by which nurses
plan and provide care for patients
✔✔The LVN is obtaining data/information from the patient themselves during an
assessment. This is known as _________ source data. - ✔✔Primary
✔✔What are two basic methods a nurse uses to collect data? - ✔✔Completed nursing
health history and physical examination
