NUR 233 FINAL EXAM – NURSING STUDY GUIDE, PRACTICE QUESTIONS &
COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW 2026/2027
What are the 5 rights of delegation? - ✔✔Right task, right circumstance, right person, right directions,
right supervision / evaluation
What can UAPs do? - ✔✔Vital signs
ADLs (eating, bathing, toileting, ambulating AS LONG AS PATIENT IS NOT OBESE OR JUST HAD SURGERY)
Personal care
Monitor I&Os
What can't UAPs do? - ✔✔Perform assessments
Delegate tasks
Provide patient education
Admin meds
Admin tube feedings
Perform wound care
What are the 5 steps of the nursing process?
*Think ADPIE* - ✔✔Assessment, diagnosis, planning, implementation, evaluation
What occurs in the assessment phase? - ✔✔Objective and subjective data collection
(occurs throughout whole nursing process)
What is subjective data? - ✔✔What the patient says; in quotes
What is objective data? - ✔✔Vital signs, labs, physical assessment, etc.
What should be findings should be immediately reported? - ✔✔Pain, change in LOC, vital signs change
to abnormal, ABCs
What is included in the diagnosis phase? - ✔✔States clear concise health problem
Existing evidence
Basis for planning
What does 'PE(S)' stand for for a nursing diagnosis? - ✔✔P = problem statement
E = etiology/ causes
S = signs and symptoms
What is the proper nursing diagnosis format? - ✔✔Patient problem + "related to" + etiology
What are 6 characteristics you must include in the planning phase? - ✔✔Must be:
Specific
Measurable
Attainable
Action oriented
, Realistic for patient
Timely
What is the planning phase designed to accomplish? - ✔✔Change nursing diagnosis
What must the planning interventions be? - ✔✔Individualized, safe, and specific
What are the 3 classifications of planning interventions? - ✔✔Independent
Dependent
Inter - dependence
What is an independent nursing intervention? - ✔✔The nurse can do by themselves without help
What are some examples of an independent nursing intervention? - ✔✔Patient education, helping
patient sit upright in bed etc.
What is a dependent nursing intervention? - ✔✔Requires order from provider
What is an example of a dependent nursing intervention? - ✔✔Ordering medications
What is an inter-dependent nursing intervention? - ✔✔Nurse works alongside healthcare team
What are 6 types of nursing interventions? - ✔✔Behavioral (i.e. quit smoking)
Community (i.e. education programs)
Family
Health system (i.e. PPE, infection control)
Physiological (i.e. patient's physical health)
Safety (i.e. call light near bed, injury prevention, etc.)
What are 5 steps of implementation phases? - ✔✔Initiating plan
Performing interventions
Delegating interventions
Using skills
Performing continuous assessment
During evaluation phase, if the outcomes weren't satisfactory, what should happen? - ✔✔Nursing
process should start over again to determine the reasons for failure
What are the 5 Rights of Drug Administration? - ✔✔Give the right drug to the right patient in the right
dose by the right route at the right time by the right documentation
What are the 6 types of medication orders? - ✔✔Standing or routine
PRN
Single (one-time)
STAT
Written order
Automatic stop date
COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW 2026/2027
What are the 5 rights of delegation? - ✔✔Right task, right circumstance, right person, right directions,
right supervision / evaluation
What can UAPs do? - ✔✔Vital signs
ADLs (eating, bathing, toileting, ambulating AS LONG AS PATIENT IS NOT OBESE OR JUST HAD SURGERY)
Personal care
Monitor I&Os
What can't UAPs do? - ✔✔Perform assessments
Delegate tasks
Provide patient education
Admin meds
Admin tube feedings
Perform wound care
What are the 5 steps of the nursing process?
*Think ADPIE* - ✔✔Assessment, diagnosis, planning, implementation, evaluation
What occurs in the assessment phase? - ✔✔Objective and subjective data collection
(occurs throughout whole nursing process)
What is subjective data? - ✔✔What the patient says; in quotes
What is objective data? - ✔✔Vital signs, labs, physical assessment, etc.
What should be findings should be immediately reported? - ✔✔Pain, change in LOC, vital signs change
to abnormal, ABCs
What is included in the diagnosis phase? - ✔✔States clear concise health problem
Existing evidence
Basis for planning
What does 'PE(S)' stand for for a nursing diagnosis? - ✔✔P = problem statement
E = etiology/ causes
S = signs and symptoms
What is the proper nursing diagnosis format? - ✔✔Patient problem + "related to" + etiology
What are 6 characteristics you must include in the planning phase? - ✔✔Must be:
Specific
Measurable
Attainable
Action oriented
, Realistic for patient
Timely
What is the planning phase designed to accomplish? - ✔✔Change nursing diagnosis
What must the planning interventions be? - ✔✔Individualized, safe, and specific
What are the 3 classifications of planning interventions? - ✔✔Independent
Dependent
Inter - dependence
What is an independent nursing intervention? - ✔✔The nurse can do by themselves without help
What are some examples of an independent nursing intervention? - ✔✔Patient education, helping
patient sit upright in bed etc.
What is a dependent nursing intervention? - ✔✔Requires order from provider
What is an example of a dependent nursing intervention? - ✔✔Ordering medications
What is an inter-dependent nursing intervention? - ✔✔Nurse works alongside healthcare team
What are 6 types of nursing interventions? - ✔✔Behavioral (i.e. quit smoking)
Community (i.e. education programs)
Family
Health system (i.e. PPE, infection control)
Physiological (i.e. patient's physical health)
Safety (i.e. call light near bed, injury prevention, etc.)
What are 5 steps of implementation phases? - ✔✔Initiating plan
Performing interventions
Delegating interventions
Using skills
Performing continuous assessment
During evaluation phase, if the outcomes weren't satisfactory, what should happen? - ✔✔Nursing
process should start over again to determine the reasons for failure
What are the 5 Rights of Drug Administration? - ✔✔Give the right drug to the right patient in the right
dose by the right route at the right time by the right documentation
What are the 6 types of medication orders? - ✔✔Standing or routine
PRN
Single (one-time)
STAT
Written order
Automatic stop date
