Questions and Correct Answers 2026
Updated.
Ethics - Answer guided by family friends and socioeconomics
5 rights of delegation - Answer - right task
- right circumstances
- right person
- right direction & communication
- right supervision
Hand washing - Answer Most effective way to prevent the spread of infection
Things UAPs can do: - Answer May take VS, I&O (intake and output), height, and weight
Primary source - Answer When data is collected from the patient
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs - Answer the pyramid that guides nursing practice
PE and PES - Answer Actual and risk diagnosis
Miss-communication can be caused by - Answer Texting and emails
***Advocacy - Answer Promoting what is best for the patient and ensuring their needs are
met
and
Supporting or promoting the interests of others or doing so for a cause greater than ourselves
Malpractice - Answer Acts unethically, has deficient skills, fails to meet standards of safe
effective patient care
Therapeutic communication - Answer Arms not crossed, looks and listens
,Ethics - Answer influenced by friends and family
Examples of tertiary prevention - Answer Pulmonary and cardiac rehabilitation
functional assessment - Answer ***Questions that assist the nurse in determining patients
ability to perform self-care activities
nursing goals - Answer SMART goals - singular, measurable, attainable, realistic, time frame --
these are:
sandwich generation - Answer Those caring for children and aging parents
Felony - Answer Child abuse, dealing drugs, murder, pretending to have a nursing license
Patient Safety - Answer Free from physical and psychological harm in every health care setting
fidelity - Answer adherence to promises; faithfulness; loyalty
Ex: Nurse makes promise to return and check on pt which she later follows thru with
slander - Answer oral defamation of character with false info
Ex: Nurse is properly and professionally bathing pt and another nurse comes into room and
deems her behavior as inappropriate. She then goes to other nurses and shares her
"observation"
Blood flow through the heart - Answer Inferior/Superior vena cava --> Right atrium -->
Tricuspid valve --> right ventricle --> Pulmonic valve (right) --> Pulmonary arteries --> Lungs -->
Pulmonary veins (right and left) --> Left atrium --> Mitral valve --> Left ventricle --> Aortic valve
(Left) --> Aorta --> Arteries --> Capillaries --> Veins --> Inferior vena cava/ Superior vena cava.
Beneficence - Answer Doing good - Placing someones needs before your own
Ex: Giving pain meds to pt even though you have to use restroom and have been waiting
Priority populations who are prone to illness - Answer Very old and very young
Goals - Answer Broad statements, aim of nursing care
, Fidelity - Answer adherence to promises; faithfulness; loyalty
Ex: Nurse makes promise to return and check on pt which she later follows thru with
Nonmaleficence - Answer Nonharming; inflict least harm to reach good outcome
Ex: Pt needs an IV and nurse tells pt IV stick will hurt but she will only try 2 times
Primary prevention - Answer Prevents disease or injury before it ever occurs
What makes a professional nurse (not asking roles) - Answer Technological advances, current
treatment, modalities, cues, understanding rationalization and taking data to make decisions
Best way to measure core temperature - Answer Rectal temperature
How to take pediatric tympanic temperature - Answer Pull the pinna of the patient's ear down
and back
Quality of care - Answer Is evaluated on the process of outcomes (patient satisfaction)
ISBARR - Answer Introduction, situation, background, assessment, recommendations,
readback
Patient Self Determination Act - Answer Inquiring about the pts advanced directives and
informing them of the right to participate in medical decisions
***Organs of the body that can lead to respiratory problems - Answer Heart, lungs and brain
In depth Health history - Answer Includes demographic data, pts allergies, family HX, health
promotion practices
Subjective data from primary source - Answer Pt's feelings about a situation or comment on
how they are feeling
ANA requires nurses to - Answer participate in research at their position and level of
education, and to use the best available evidence when practicing