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Midterm Exam
The nursing faculty incorporates which practice-based learning activity in order to meet the
students' need to learn about the sociodemographics currently present among today's population?
A) Inclusion of a geriatric experience as a clinical requirement of all nursing students
B) Participation in a panel discussion on the political agendas of several national nursing
organizations
C) Creation of a poster that compares and contrasts Medicaid and private insurance health care
coverage
D) Preparing a care plan that addresses the needs of an immigrant client with limited English
language skills ---------- Correct Answer ----------- A
A social issue that is currently having a very negative impact on the learning environment in
classrooms can be best minimized by initially:
A) presenting information using a variety of methods so that all learning styles will be addressed.
B) requiring that electronic devices be turned off when entering a classroom or other learning
environment.
C) presenting information on the proper use of social media by nursing students as it impacts
client confidentiality.
D) defining behaviors that will not be tolerated in the classroom since they do not demonstrate
respect or civility. ---------- Correct Answer ----------- D
The most important concept to remember when using both verbal and nonverbal communication
is that:
A) people are more likely to accept verbal messages than nonverbal ones.
B) nonverbal messages are accepted as true more often than verbal ones.
C) touch as a nonverbal form of communication should be avoided.
D) avoiding eye contact is viewed as being untruthful by all cultures. ---------- Correct Answer --
--------- B
The primary goals of good relationship building and client care are best achieved when all
members of the interprofessional care team:
A) have identified the team's leader.
B) are experts in their field of care.
,C) have developed a trusting relationship.
D) recognize their role in the client's care. ---------- Correct Answer ----------- C
When a client expresses doubt whether a complicated procedure will actually help his condition,
the nurse best avoids blocking the communication by responding:
A) "I can understand your concern. We can talk more about it whenever you want."
B) "Your physician has performed this procedure many times and with great success."
C) "What makes you doubt that your condition will benefit from having the procedure done?"
D) "Would you like me to arrange for someone who has had the procedure talk to you about it?"
---------- Correct Answer ----------- C
What factor qualifies nursing to be defined as a profession?
A) Existence of a substantial body of nursing knowledge
B) Regular collaboration with members of the medical profession
C) Implementation of the nursing process in the delivery of care
D) Engagement in the management of unlicensed nursing care givers ---------- Correct Answer --
--------- A
The question that is being focused on during the implementation of the scientific process is
referred to as the:
A) method.
B) theory.
C) result.
D) hypothesis. ---------- Correct Answer ----------- D
A theory meets the criteria of fruitfulness when it:
A) includes all concepts related to the area of interest.
B) generates new directions for future research.
C) is easily understood and replicated.
D) is reflective of its scientific basis. ---------- Correct Answer ----------- B
When a nurse places clean linen on the bed of a comatose client, which nursing theory is being
implemented?
A) Roy's Adaptation Model
B) Nightingale's Theory of Practice
C) Rogers' Science of Unitary Human Beings
D) Peplau's Interpersonal Relations as a Nursing Process ---------- Correct Answer ----------- B
The primary benefit nursing theories have provided the profession is to:
A) add additional information to the body of nursing knowledge.
B) guide the nursing process in the effective delivery of nursing care.
,C) encourage the use of scientific inquiry when planning client care.
D) focus on future research related to nursing care. ---------- Correct Answer ----------- B
The primary reason nurses engage in research is to:
A) achieve equal status with other health care sciences.
B) provide the most appropriate evidence-based client care.
C) advance the profession of nursing in the eyes of the public.
D) collaborate with other members of the science community. ---------- Correct Answer -----------
B
If a nursing research project strives to discover new information concerning client care practices,
this project is said to be a model of:
A) quantitative design.
B) qualitative design.
C) a pilot study.
D) triangulation. ---------- Correct Answer ----------- B
When researching an aspect of human grief response, the nurse researcher will likely select
which method of qualitative design?
A) Ethnography
B) Meta-analysis
C) Phenomenology
D) Needs assessment ---------- Correct Answer ----------- C
Regarding nursing research, the role of the clinical nurse specialist (CNS) is best utilized when:
A) recruiting participants for specific studies.
B) identifying clinical care problems.
C) designing research studies.
D) collecting research data. ---------- Correct Answer ----------- C
A novice nurse reading a research article should first concentrate on which sections of the
article?
A) Abstract and discussion
B) Study design and methods
C) Future implications and acknowledgment
D) Introduction and results ---------- Correct Answer ----------- A
The clinical nurse leader (CNL) is best prepared to assume which of the following nursing roles?
A) Responsibility for the evaluation of a client's plan of care
B) Preoperative assessments on clients requiring surgical interventions
, C) Research to provide evidence-based practice regarding neonatal feeding practices
D) Acting as advocate for an elderly, cognitively impaired client hospitalized with
gastrointestinal pain ---------- Correct Answer ----------- A
What event in American history influenced the role African-American women have played in the
nursing profession?
A)The creation of the U.S. Marine Hospital Service in 1798
B) The Civil War, beginning in 1861
C) The Army Nurse Corps, established in 1901
D) The North Carolina Nurse Practice Act of 1903 ---------- Correct Answer ----------- B
In the Middle Ages (467 BCE to 1450 AD), women delivered food, medicine, and care to the
community's ill based on the:
A) Christian concepts of charity and the sanctity of human life.
B) need to make offerings to the gods in exchange for good health.
C) emphasis being placed on the patient-centered approach to health care.
D) emerging understanding of the importance of hygiene and sanitation. ---------- Correct
Answer ----------- A
Which of the following interventions best demonstrates that a nursing administrator understands
the challenges currently facing the professional nurse regarding patient safety?
A) Supporting nursing interventions directed towards providing holistic care to both the client
and his/her support system
B) Requiring representation of the nursing staff in any discussion related to the redesign of
patient care environments
C) Requiring that staffing and schedules accommodate the attendance at mandatory in-services
focusing on interprofessional care collaboration
D) Supporting the right of the registered nurse to appropriately act as an advocate when a family
disagrees with a client's wishes to limit visitors. ---------- Correct Answer ----------- C
There is increasing evidence that nursing needs to address the ability of its members to provide
high-quality, effective care as patient-centered care needs intensify. Which nursing behavior
demonstrates an understanding of how these needs will be best initially met?
A) Enrolling in a Masters of Nursing Education graduate program
B) Volunteering to provide community health screening at a senior citizen center
C) Becoming politically active regarding the delivery of health care on the national level
D) Regularly speaking to groups of high school students regarding the profession of nursing -----
----- Correct Answer ----------- A
The image that best serves today's profession of nursing is one that portrays:
A) skill and caring.
Version Updated 2025 with All Questions from
Actual Past Exam and Correct Answers
Midterm Exam
The nursing faculty incorporates which practice-based learning activity in order to meet the
students' need to learn about the sociodemographics currently present among today's population?
A) Inclusion of a geriatric experience as a clinical requirement of all nursing students
B) Participation in a panel discussion on the political agendas of several national nursing
organizations
C) Creation of a poster that compares and contrasts Medicaid and private insurance health care
coverage
D) Preparing a care plan that addresses the needs of an immigrant client with limited English
language skills ---------- Correct Answer ----------- A
A social issue that is currently having a very negative impact on the learning environment in
classrooms can be best minimized by initially:
A) presenting information using a variety of methods so that all learning styles will be addressed.
B) requiring that electronic devices be turned off when entering a classroom or other learning
environment.
C) presenting information on the proper use of social media by nursing students as it impacts
client confidentiality.
D) defining behaviors that will not be tolerated in the classroom since they do not demonstrate
respect or civility. ---------- Correct Answer ----------- D
The most important concept to remember when using both verbal and nonverbal communication
is that:
A) people are more likely to accept verbal messages than nonverbal ones.
B) nonverbal messages are accepted as true more often than verbal ones.
C) touch as a nonverbal form of communication should be avoided.
D) avoiding eye contact is viewed as being untruthful by all cultures. ---------- Correct Answer --
--------- B
The primary goals of good relationship building and client care are best achieved when all
members of the interprofessional care team:
A) have identified the team's leader.
B) are experts in their field of care.
,C) have developed a trusting relationship.
D) recognize their role in the client's care. ---------- Correct Answer ----------- C
When a client expresses doubt whether a complicated procedure will actually help his condition,
the nurse best avoids blocking the communication by responding:
A) "I can understand your concern. We can talk more about it whenever you want."
B) "Your physician has performed this procedure many times and with great success."
C) "What makes you doubt that your condition will benefit from having the procedure done?"
D) "Would you like me to arrange for someone who has had the procedure talk to you about it?"
---------- Correct Answer ----------- C
What factor qualifies nursing to be defined as a profession?
A) Existence of a substantial body of nursing knowledge
B) Regular collaboration with members of the medical profession
C) Implementation of the nursing process in the delivery of care
D) Engagement in the management of unlicensed nursing care givers ---------- Correct Answer --
--------- A
The question that is being focused on during the implementation of the scientific process is
referred to as the:
A) method.
B) theory.
C) result.
D) hypothesis. ---------- Correct Answer ----------- D
A theory meets the criteria of fruitfulness when it:
A) includes all concepts related to the area of interest.
B) generates new directions for future research.
C) is easily understood and replicated.
D) is reflective of its scientific basis. ---------- Correct Answer ----------- B
When a nurse places clean linen on the bed of a comatose client, which nursing theory is being
implemented?
A) Roy's Adaptation Model
B) Nightingale's Theory of Practice
C) Rogers' Science of Unitary Human Beings
D) Peplau's Interpersonal Relations as a Nursing Process ---------- Correct Answer ----------- B
The primary benefit nursing theories have provided the profession is to:
A) add additional information to the body of nursing knowledge.
B) guide the nursing process in the effective delivery of nursing care.
,C) encourage the use of scientific inquiry when planning client care.
D) focus on future research related to nursing care. ---------- Correct Answer ----------- B
The primary reason nurses engage in research is to:
A) achieve equal status with other health care sciences.
B) provide the most appropriate evidence-based client care.
C) advance the profession of nursing in the eyes of the public.
D) collaborate with other members of the science community. ---------- Correct Answer -----------
B
If a nursing research project strives to discover new information concerning client care practices,
this project is said to be a model of:
A) quantitative design.
B) qualitative design.
C) a pilot study.
D) triangulation. ---------- Correct Answer ----------- B
When researching an aspect of human grief response, the nurse researcher will likely select
which method of qualitative design?
A) Ethnography
B) Meta-analysis
C) Phenomenology
D) Needs assessment ---------- Correct Answer ----------- C
Regarding nursing research, the role of the clinical nurse specialist (CNS) is best utilized when:
A) recruiting participants for specific studies.
B) identifying clinical care problems.
C) designing research studies.
D) collecting research data. ---------- Correct Answer ----------- C
A novice nurse reading a research article should first concentrate on which sections of the
article?
A) Abstract and discussion
B) Study design and methods
C) Future implications and acknowledgment
D) Introduction and results ---------- Correct Answer ----------- A
The clinical nurse leader (CNL) is best prepared to assume which of the following nursing roles?
A) Responsibility for the evaluation of a client's plan of care
B) Preoperative assessments on clients requiring surgical interventions
, C) Research to provide evidence-based practice regarding neonatal feeding practices
D) Acting as advocate for an elderly, cognitively impaired client hospitalized with
gastrointestinal pain ---------- Correct Answer ----------- A
What event in American history influenced the role African-American women have played in the
nursing profession?
A)The creation of the U.S. Marine Hospital Service in 1798
B) The Civil War, beginning in 1861
C) The Army Nurse Corps, established in 1901
D) The North Carolina Nurse Practice Act of 1903 ---------- Correct Answer ----------- B
In the Middle Ages (467 BCE to 1450 AD), women delivered food, medicine, and care to the
community's ill based on the:
A) Christian concepts of charity and the sanctity of human life.
B) need to make offerings to the gods in exchange for good health.
C) emphasis being placed on the patient-centered approach to health care.
D) emerging understanding of the importance of hygiene and sanitation. ---------- Correct
Answer ----------- A
Which of the following interventions best demonstrates that a nursing administrator understands
the challenges currently facing the professional nurse regarding patient safety?
A) Supporting nursing interventions directed towards providing holistic care to both the client
and his/her support system
B) Requiring representation of the nursing staff in any discussion related to the redesign of
patient care environments
C) Requiring that staffing and schedules accommodate the attendance at mandatory in-services
focusing on interprofessional care collaboration
D) Supporting the right of the registered nurse to appropriately act as an advocate when a family
disagrees with a client's wishes to limit visitors. ---------- Correct Answer ----------- C
There is increasing evidence that nursing needs to address the ability of its members to provide
high-quality, effective care as patient-centered care needs intensify. Which nursing behavior
demonstrates an understanding of how these needs will be best initially met?
A) Enrolling in a Masters of Nursing Education graduate program
B) Volunteering to provide community health screening at a senior citizen center
C) Becoming politically active regarding the delivery of health care on the national level
D) Regularly speaking to groups of high school students regarding the profession of nursing -----
----- Correct Answer ----------- A
The image that best serves today's profession of nursing is one that portrays:
A) skill and caring.
