NFDN 1001 MIDTERM 1–6 REVIEW 2026/2027 | PRACTICE QUESTIONS,
ANSWERS & COMPREHENSIVE NURSING STUDY GUIDE
What are the two main approaches to developing critical thinking?
a. use of evidence and planning
b. internal and external processes
c. clinical judgment and use of the
nursing process
d. reflection and assessment - correct answer ✔✔b
Which are types of data?
a. primary and secondary
b. Internal and external
c. objective and subjective
d. inferences and cues - correct answer ✔✔c
What created the following: Sparked a shift to embracing family. Nursing respected as a career choice.
a. Post war
b. ww
c. wwII
d. War of 1812 - correct answer ✔✔c
What is defined as a "Set of ideas used to describe, explain or predict the physical and social worlds"
a. Assumption
b. Cue
c. Nursing Theory
d. Metaparadigm - correct answer ✔✔c
What level of critical thinking
are you in when you assume responsibility for your choices?
a. Basic
b. Complex
c. Commitment - correct answer ✔✔c
What are the three historical approaches to health?
a. Person, Community and Environment
b. Internal, Eternal and Holistic
c. Mental, Physical and Emotional
d. Medical, Behavioral and Soci-
Environmental - correct answer ✔✔d
,Which of the following
defines:
A general idea or though about something that represents some aspect of our experiences and our
world?
a. Concept
b. Hypothesis
c. Assumption
d. Theory - correct answer ✔✔a
Select the Term that corresponds with the following description:
A beginning step toward understanding that there is a difference between cultures.
a. Cultural Sensitivity
b. Cultural awareness
c. Culture
d. Cultural Competence - correct answer ✔✔b
The Medicine Wheel used by 0/1
FNMI (First Nations, Metis, Inuit) peoples is an example of what type of approach to health?
a. Shaman
b. Alternative
c. Spiritual
d. Holistic - correct answer ✔✔d
What part of the nursing process "helps the nurse systematically and deliberately collect data to
determine a client's current and past health and functional status and to determine the client's present
and past coping patterns"?
a. Assessment
b. Planning
c. Evaluation
d. Interventions - correct answer ✔✔a
Which is a part of the Risk
Nursing diagnosis
a. Actual problem label (Nanda-| label)
b. Etiology (Risk factors)
c. Medical diagnosis
d. Defining characteristics (Evidence) - correct answer ✔✔b
According to Maslow's
Hierarchy of Needs what is not included in "self-actualization"
a. Recognition and realization of
, potential
b. Recognition and realization of growth
c. Recognition and realization of health
d. Recognition and realization of
autonomy
e. Recognition and realization of self-worth - correct answer ✔✔e
Define: a subjective experience of loss of health
a. Diesase
b. Illness
c. Health disparity
d. Sickness - correct answer ✔✔b
Which historical approach to 1/1 health is a combination of medical and behavioral approach;
health is tied to the social structure (poverty, air pollution)
a. Medical
b. Behavioral
c. Social-Environmental
d. Nursing - correct answer ✔✔c
Which of the following is correct with ages according to Erikson's Psychosocial Stages of Development
a. Trust vs Mistrust (birth-1)
b. Trust vs Mistrust (1-3)
c. Trust vs Mistrust (3-6)
d. trust vs Mistrust (6-11) - correct answer ✔✔a
What does inductive reasoning
lead to?
a. Assumptions
b. theories
c. Broad ideas
d. Specific ideas - correct answer ✔✔c
Which is not a part of an
Actual Nursing diagnosis
a. Medical diagnosis
b. Actual problem label (NANDA-| label)
c. Defining characteristics
d. Etiology (Related factors) - correct answer ✔✔a
According to Maslow's
Hierarchy of Needs what is not included in "love and belonging"
ANSWERS & COMPREHENSIVE NURSING STUDY GUIDE
What are the two main approaches to developing critical thinking?
a. use of evidence and planning
b. internal and external processes
c. clinical judgment and use of the
nursing process
d. reflection and assessment - correct answer ✔✔b
Which are types of data?
a. primary and secondary
b. Internal and external
c. objective and subjective
d. inferences and cues - correct answer ✔✔c
What created the following: Sparked a shift to embracing family. Nursing respected as a career choice.
a. Post war
b. ww
c. wwII
d. War of 1812 - correct answer ✔✔c
What is defined as a "Set of ideas used to describe, explain or predict the physical and social worlds"
a. Assumption
b. Cue
c. Nursing Theory
d. Metaparadigm - correct answer ✔✔c
What level of critical thinking
are you in when you assume responsibility for your choices?
a. Basic
b. Complex
c. Commitment - correct answer ✔✔c
What are the three historical approaches to health?
a. Person, Community and Environment
b. Internal, Eternal and Holistic
c. Mental, Physical and Emotional
d. Medical, Behavioral and Soci-
Environmental - correct answer ✔✔d
,Which of the following
defines:
A general idea or though about something that represents some aspect of our experiences and our
world?
a. Concept
b. Hypothesis
c. Assumption
d. Theory - correct answer ✔✔a
Select the Term that corresponds with the following description:
A beginning step toward understanding that there is a difference between cultures.
a. Cultural Sensitivity
b. Cultural awareness
c. Culture
d. Cultural Competence - correct answer ✔✔b
The Medicine Wheel used by 0/1
FNMI (First Nations, Metis, Inuit) peoples is an example of what type of approach to health?
a. Shaman
b. Alternative
c. Spiritual
d. Holistic - correct answer ✔✔d
What part of the nursing process "helps the nurse systematically and deliberately collect data to
determine a client's current and past health and functional status and to determine the client's present
and past coping patterns"?
a. Assessment
b. Planning
c. Evaluation
d. Interventions - correct answer ✔✔a
Which is a part of the Risk
Nursing diagnosis
a. Actual problem label (Nanda-| label)
b. Etiology (Risk factors)
c. Medical diagnosis
d. Defining characteristics (Evidence) - correct answer ✔✔b
According to Maslow's
Hierarchy of Needs what is not included in "self-actualization"
a. Recognition and realization of
, potential
b. Recognition and realization of growth
c. Recognition and realization of health
d. Recognition and realization of
autonomy
e. Recognition and realization of self-worth - correct answer ✔✔e
Define: a subjective experience of loss of health
a. Diesase
b. Illness
c. Health disparity
d. Sickness - correct answer ✔✔b
Which historical approach to 1/1 health is a combination of medical and behavioral approach;
health is tied to the social structure (poverty, air pollution)
a. Medical
b. Behavioral
c. Social-Environmental
d. Nursing - correct answer ✔✔c
Which of the following is correct with ages according to Erikson's Psychosocial Stages of Development
a. Trust vs Mistrust (birth-1)
b. Trust vs Mistrust (1-3)
c. Trust vs Mistrust (3-6)
d. trust vs Mistrust (6-11) - correct answer ✔✔a
What does inductive reasoning
lead to?
a. Assumptions
b. theories
c. Broad ideas
d. Specific ideas - correct answer ✔✔c
Which is not a part of an
Actual Nursing diagnosis
a. Medical diagnosis
b. Actual problem label (NANDA-| label)
c. Defining characteristics
d. Etiology (Related factors) - correct answer ✔✔a
According to Maslow's
Hierarchy of Needs what is not included in "love and belonging"
