NURS 101 FINAL EXAM UPDATED ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS VERIFIED 2027 EDITION
1. One of the most important outcomes of the orientation phase of the nurse-patient relationship is
the development of mutual....?
Trust
2. What important information should the nurse share with the patient during the orientation phase?
Name, credentials, and extent of responsibility.
3. How can a nurse help a patient be successful during the termination phase?
Summarize the gains and patient has made.
4. What is the difference between communication congruence and incongruence?
Congruence- the verbal and non-verbal communication matches each other. Incongruence- the verbal and
non-verbal communication doesn't match each other.
5. How can a nurse illustrate non-judgmental acceptance of a patient?
acceptance for who they are and personal beliefs, habits, expression or lifestyle. Therapeutic use of self
begins with the ability to convey acceptance to patients.
6. What are attending skills?
Active listening and paying attention, reception, perception. SOLAR.
7. What has research shown about the effects of touch and patient care?
Allows the patient to become relaxed and feel more comfortable.
8. What is false reassurance?
Reassuring or promising a patient of something that may or may not happen. ("I promise everything will
be okay")
9. Which type of questions should be avoided to encourage open communication?
Judgmental, closed-ended questions.
10. What are the goals of SBAR communication?
standardized communication with other nurses
11. What is ethnocentrism?
Practice of judging another culture by the standards of one's own culture
12. What is spiritual nursing care?
View spirituality as one aspect of the whole human person and to assess patients for spiritual distress.
13. what is spiritual distress?
impaired ability to experience and integrate meaning and purpose in life through connectedness with self,
others, art, music, literature, nature, and/or a power greater than oneself.
14. What is anxiety?
Ill-defined, diffuse feeling of apprehension and uncertainty.
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, 15. What factors create barriers to patient learning?
high anxiety, sensory deficits, pain, fatigue, hunger/thirst, SOB, cultural expectations, language barriers,
differing health values, low literacy, lack of motivation, environmental factors.
16. What are the overall goals of QSEN (Quality and Safety Education for Nurses)?
???
17. What is the definition of the term nursing research?
Systematic investigation of phenomena related to improving patient care.
18. What are the steps in the research process?
Identification of researchable problem Review of literature Formulation of research question or hypothesis
Design of study Implementation of study Drawing conclusion based on finding Discussion and clinical
implication Dissemination of findings
19. What information must be included in the informed consent for research?
Signature of participants and description in detail of the study and any risks involved.
20. Which research design has the goal of determining a cause and effect relationship?
Experimental design (ex: testing the hypothesis, "Patients who received preoperative teaching need less
pain medication in the first 72 hours postoperatively than those who do not" provides evidence of a cause
and effect relationship between teaching and perception of pain.)
21. What is the relationship of nursing research to nursing theory and practice?
They are circular and generated from three sources: (1) clinical practice, (2) literature, and (3) theory. The
evidence from the nursing research helps implement nursing theory and practice.
22. What is the definition of nursing theory?
refers to a group of related concepts, definitions, and statements that describe a certain view of nursing
phenomena from which to describe, explain, or predict outcomes.
23. Nursing theory and the professional nurse...
Theory guides the professional nurse in (1) making sound clinical judgments based on evidence by
determining which data are important and organizing, analyzing, and understanding connections in
patient data (2) planning appropriate nursing interventions (3) Evaluating outcomes of interventions
24. Nightingale
Facilitate "the body's reparative processes" by manipulating client's environment; Believed that the role of
a nurse was to place the client "in the best condition for nature to act upon him
25. Jean Watson
Theory of Caring is a holistic model for nursing that suggests that the conscious intention to care
promotes healing and wholeness. The emphasis is on the nurse patient relationship, trust, understanding,
and openness.
26. Virginia Henderson
What can i help this patient do that he would do for himself if he could? Nursing practice is independent;
self-help concepts; 14 areas of independence. (breathe normally, eat and drink adequately, eliminate body
wastes, move and maintain desirable position...)
27. Imogene King
goal attainment theory
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ANSWERS VERIFIED 2027 EDITION
1. One of the most important outcomes of the orientation phase of the nurse-patient relationship is
the development of mutual....?
Trust
2. What important information should the nurse share with the patient during the orientation phase?
Name, credentials, and extent of responsibility.
3. How can a nurse help a patient be successful during the termination phase?
Summarize the gains and patient has made.
4. What is the difference between communication congruence and incongruence?
Congruence- the verbal and non-verbal communication matches each other. Incongruence- the verbal and
non-verbal communication doesn't match each other.
5. How can a nurse illustrate non-judgmental acceptance of a patient?
acceptance for who they are and personal beliefs, habits, expression or lifestyle. Therapeutic use of self
begins with the ability to convey acceptance to patients.
6. What are attending skills?
Active listening and paying attention, reception, perception. SOLAR.
7. What has research shown about the effects of touch and patient care?
Allows the patient to become relaxed and feel more comfortable.
8. What is false reassurance?
Reassuring or promising a patient of something that may or may not happen. ("I promise everything will
be okay")
9. Which type of questions should be avoided to encourage open communication?
Judgmental, closed-ended questions.
10. What are the goals of SBAR communication?
standardized communication with other nurses
11. What is ethnocentrism?
Practice of judging another culture by the standards of one's own culture
12. What is spiritual nursing care?
View spirituality as one aspect of the whole human person and to assess patients for spiritual distress.
13. what is spiritual distress?
impaired ability to experience and integrate meaning and purpose in life through connectedness with self,
others, art, music, literature, nature, and/or a power greater than oneself.
14. What is anxiety?
Ill-defined, diffuse feeling of apprehension and uncertainty.
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, 15. What factors create barriers to patient learning?
high anxiety, sensory deficits, pain, fatigue, hunger/thirst, SOB, cultural expectations, language barriers,
differing health values, low literacy, lack of motivation, environmental factors.
16. What are the overall goals of QSEN (Quality and Safety Education for Nurses)?
???
17. What is the definition of the term nursing research?
Systematic investigation of phenomena related to improving patient care.
18. What are the steps in the research process?
Identification of researchable problem Review of literature Formulation of research question or hypothesis
Design of study Implementation of study Drawing conclusion based on finding Discussion and clinical
implication Dissemination of findings
19. What information must be included in the informed consent for research?
Signature of participants and description in detail of the study and any risks involved.
20. Which research design has the goal of determining a cause and effect relationship?
Experimental design (ex: testing the hypothesis, "Patients who received preoperative teaching need less
pain medication in the first 72 hours postoperatively than those who do not" provides evidence of a cause
and effect relationship between teaching and perception of pain.)
21. What is the relationship of nursing research to nursing theory and practice?
They are circular and generated from three sources: (1) clinical practice, (2) literature, and (3) theory. The
evidence from the nursing research helps implement nursing theory and practice.
22. What is the definition of nursing theory?
refers to a group of related concepts, definitions, and statements that describe a certain view of nursing
phenomena from which to describe, explain, or predict outcomes.
23. Nursing theory and the professional nurse...
Theory guides the professional nurse in (1) making sound clinical judgments based on evidence by
determining which data are important and organizing, analyzing, and understanding connections in
patient data (2) planning appropriate nursing interventions (3) Evaluating outcomes of interventions
24. Nightingale
Facilitate "the body's reparative processes" by manipulating client's environment; Believed that the role of
a nurse was to place the client "in the best condition for nature to act upon him
25. Jean Watson
Theory of Caring is a holistic model for nursing that suggests that the conscious intention to care
promotes healing and wholeness. The emphasis is on the nurse patient relationship, trust, understanding,
and openness.
26. Virginia Henderson
What can i help this patient do that he would do for himself if he could? Nursing practice is independent;
self-help concepts; 14 areas of independence. (breathe normally, eat and drink adequately, eliminate body
wastes, move and maintain desirable position...)
27. Imogene King
goal attainment theory
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