NUR 217 (Trends-Issues - Test 1) NCLEX Style Questions with
Correct Answers (Grade A+)
Question 1: The nursing profession tends to use which term when attempting to explain apparent
relationships between observed behaviors and their effects on a client's health?
A. Model
B. Theory
C. Hypothesis
D. Evidence
Answer: B (Theory)
Question 2: Which of the following is a very important element in the Roy adaptation model because it
provides baseline data about the client that the nurse obtains through assessment techniques?
A. Input
B. Output
C. Feedback
D. Throughput
Answer: B (Output)
Question 3: Factors in the client's past, such as personality characteristics, past experiences, religious
beliefs, and social norms, that have an indirect effect on the client's health status are referred to as
which type of stimuli?
A. Focal stimuli
B. Contextual stimuli
C. Residual stimuli
D. Factual stimuli
Answer: C (Residual stimuli)
Question 4: The current widely accepted practice of establishing health-care goals for clients and
directing client care to meet these goals has its origins in which model?
A. Roy adaptation model
B. Orem self-care model
C. King model of goal attainment
D. Watson model of human caring
Answer: C (King model of goal attainment)
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,Question 5: Which element of the King model of goal attainment refers to a life situation in which
perceivers and things perceived are encountered and entered into as active participants?
A. Action
B. Reaction
C. Interaction
D. Transaction
Answer: D (Transaction)
Question 6: According to which model, illness is the client's inability to integrate life experiences and
the failure to achieve full potential or inner harmony?
A. Roy adaptation model
B. Orem self-care model
C. King model of goal attainment
D. Watson model of human caring
Answer: D (Watson model of human caring)
Question 7: According to the Johnson behavioral system model, nurturing and promoting self-image is
the primary type of activity of which behavioral subsystem?
A. Security
B. Dependency
C. Taking in
D. Eliminative behavior
Answer: B (Dependency)
Question 8: Select from the following the model in which the client-system's boundaries are called lines
of defense and resistance and may be represented graphically as a series of concentric circles that
surround the basic core of the individual.
A. Orem self-care model
B. Neuman health-care systems model
C. King model of goal attainment
D. Watson model of human caring
Answer: B (Neuman health-care systems model)
Question 9: According to the Neuman health-care systems model, which type of stressors occur within
the client and include physiological responses, psychological reactions, and internal thought processes?
A. Extrapersonal stressors
B. Interpersonal stressors
C. Intrapersonal stressors
D. Transpersonal stressors
Answer: C (Intrapersonal stressors)
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, Question 10: According to the Neuman health-care system model, teaching clients about stress
management, giving immunizations, and encouraging aerobic exercise to prevent heart disease are
examples of which type of intervention?
A. Primary intervention
B. Secondary intervention
C. Tertiary intervention
D. Quaternary intervention
Answer: A (Primary intervention)
Question 11: Teaching a client how to care for a colostomy bag at home after discharge from the
hospital is an example of a nursing activity at which level?
A. Primary level
B. Secondary level
C. Tertiary level
D. Quaternary level
Answer: C (Tertiary level)
Question 12: Formulated in 1987, which model is widely used as the theoretical framework for research
on prenatal care and pregnancy?
A. Parse model
B. Pender's health promotion model
C. Swanson's theory of caring
D. Orem self-care model
Answer: B (Pender's health promotion model)
Question 13: Although originally studied in the perinatal setting, which of the following has been
adopted into many other health-care settings, including critical care, mental health, public health,
hospice, gerontology, and oncology?
A. Parse model
B. Pender's health promotion model
C. Swanson's theory of caring
D. Orem self-care model
Answer: C (Swanson's theory of caring)
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Correct Answers (Grade A+)
Question 1: The nursing profession tends to use which term when attempting to explain apparent
relationships between observed behaviors and their effects on a client's health?
A. Model
B. Theory
C. Hypothesis
D. Evidence
Answer: B (Theory)
Question 2: Which of the following is a very important element in the Roy adaptation model because it
provides baseline data about the client that the nurse obtains through assessment techniques?
A. Input
B. Output
C. Feedback
D. Throughput
Answer: B (Output)
Question 3: Factors in the client's past, such as personality characteristics, past experiences, religious
beliefs, and social norms, that have an indirect effect on the client's health status are referred to as
which type of stimuli?
A. Focal stimuli
B. Contextual stimuli
C. Residual stimuli
D. Factual stimuli
Answer: C (Residual stimuli)
Question 4: The current widely accepted practice of establishing health-care goals for clients and
directing client care to meet these goals has its origins in which model?
A. Roy adaptation model
B. Orem self-care model
C. King model of goal attainment
D. Watson model of human caring
Answer: C (King model of goal attainment)
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,Question 5: Which element of the King model of goal attainment refers to a life situation in which
perceivers and things perceived are encountered and entered into as active participants?
A. Action
B. Reaction
C. Interaction
D. Transaction
Answer: D (Transaction)
Question 6: According to which model, illness is the client's inability to integrate life experiences and
the failure to achieve full potential or inner harmony?
A. Roy adaptation model
B. Orem self-care model
C. King model of goal attainment
D. Watson model of human caring
Answer: D (Watson model of human caring)
Question 7: According to the Johnson behavioral system model, nurturing and promoting self-image is
the primary type of activity of which behavioral subsystem?
A. Security
B. Dependency
C. Taking in
D. Eliminative behavior
Answer: B (Dependency)
Question 8: Select from the following the model in which the client-system's boundaries are called lines
of defense and resistance and may be represented graphically as a series of concentric circles that
surround the basic core of the individual.
A. Orem self-care model
B. Neuman health-care systems model
C. King model of goal attainment
D. Watson model of human caring
Answer: B (Neuman health-care systems model)
Question 9: According to the Neuman health-care systems model, which type of stressors occur within
the client and include physiological responses, psychological reactions, and internal thought processes?
A. Extrapersonal stressors
B. Interpersonal stressors
C. Intrapersonal stressors
D. Transpersonal stressors
Answer: C (Intrapersonal stressors)
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, Question 10: According to the Neuman health-care system model, teaching clients about stress
management, giving immunizations, and encouraging aerobic exercise to prevent heart disease are
examples of which type of intervention?
A. Primary intervention
B. Secondary intervention
C. Tertiary intervention
D. Quaternary intervention
Answer: A (Primary intervention)
Question 11: Teaching a client how to care for a colostomy bag at home after discharge from the
hospital is an example of a nursing activity at which level?
A. Primary level
B. Secondary level
C. Tertiary level
D. Quaternary level
Answer: C (Tertiary level)
Question 12: Formulated in 1987, which model is widely used as the theoretical framework for research
on prenatal care and pregnancy?
A. Parse model
B. Pender's health promotion model
C. Swanson's theory of caring
D. Orem self-care model
Answer: B (Pender's health promotion model)
Question 13: Although originally studied in the perinatal setting, which of the following has been
adopted into many other health-care settings, including critical care, mental health, public health,
hospice, gerontology, and oncology?
A. Parse model
B. Pender's health promotion model
C. Swanson's theory of caring
D. Orem self-care model
Answer: C (Swanson's theory of caring)
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