150 NCLEX Practice Questions Exam
1 2024/2025
1) A nurse is providing care based on Maslow's hierarchy of basic human
needs. For which nursing activities is this approach useful?
a. Making accurate nursing diagnoses
b. Establishing priorities of care
c. Communicating concerns more concisely
d. Integrating science into nursing care
2) The nurse is prioritizing nursing care for a patient in a long-term care
facility. Which examples of nursing interventions help meet physiologic
needs? Select all that apply.
a. Preventing falls in the facility
b. Changing a patient's oxygen tank
c. Providing materials for a patient who likes to draw
d. Helping a patient eat his dinner
e. Facilitating a visit from a spouse
f. Referring a patient to a cancer support group.
3) b, d. Physiologic needs—oxygen, water, food—must be met minimally to
maintain life.
,4) The nurse caring for patients postoperatively uses careful hand hygiene
and sterile techniques when handling patients. Which of Maslow's basic
human needs is being met by this nurse?
a. Physiologic
b. Safety and security
c. Self-esteem
d. Love and belonging
5) b. By carrying out careful hand hygiene and using sterile technique,
nurses provide safety from infection.
6) The nurse caring for patients in a long-term care facility knows that the
highest level on Maslow's hierarchy of needs is self-actualization needs.
Which statements accurately describe the achievement of self-
actualization? Select all that apply.
a. Humans are born with a fully developed sense of self-
actualization.
b. Self-actualization needs are met by depending on others for
help.
c. The self-actualization process continues throughout life.
, d. Loneliness and isolation occur when self-actualization
needs are unmet.
e. A person achieves self-actualization by focusing on problems
outside self.
f. Self-actualization needs may be met by creatively solving
problems.
7) c, e, f. Self-actualization, or reaching one's full potential, continues
throughout life.
8) A nurse works with families in crisis at a community mental health care
facility. What is the best broad definition of a family?
a. A father, a mother, and children
b. A group whose members are biologically related
c. A unit that includes aunts, uncles, and cousins
d. A group of people who live together and depend on each
other for support
9) A nurse performs an assessment of a family consisting of a single
mother, a grandmother, and two children. Which interview questions
directed to the single mother could the nurse use to assess the affective
and coping family function? Select all that apply.
1 2024/2025
1) A nurse is providing care based on Maslow's hierarchy of basic human
needs. For which nursing activities is this approach useful?
a. Making accurate nursing diagnoses
b. Establishing priorities of care
c. Communicating concerns more concisely
d. Integrating science into nursing care
2) The nurse is prioritizing nursing care for a patient in a long-term care
facility. Which examples of nursing interventions help meet physiologic
needs? Select all that apply.
a. Preventing falls in the facility
b. Changing a patient's oxygen tank
c. Providing materials for a patient who likes to draw
d. Helping a patient eat his dinner
e. Facilitating a visit from a spouse
f. Referring a patient to a cancer support group.
3) b, d. Physiologic needs—oxygen, water, food—must be met minimally to
maintain life.
,4) The nurse caring for patients postoperatively uses careful hand hygiene
and sterile techniques when handling patients. Which of Maslow's basic
human needs is being met by this nurse?
a. Physiologic
b. Safety and security
c. Self-esteem
d. Love and belonging
5) b. By carrying out careful hand hygiene and using sterile technique,
nurses provide safety from infection.
6) The nurse caring for patients in a long-term care facility knows that the
highest level on Maslow's hierarchy of needs is self-actualization needs.
Which statements accurately describe the achievement of self-
actualization? Select all that apply.
a. Humans are born with a fully developed sense of self-
actualization.
b. Self-actualization needs are met by depending on others for
help.
c. The self-actualization process continues throughout life.
, d. Loneliness and isolation occur when self-actualization
needs are unmet.
e. A person achieves self-actualization by focusing on problems
outside self.
f. Self-actualization needs may be met by creatively solving
problems.
7) c, e, f. Self-actualization, or reaching one's full potential, continues
throughout life.
8) A nurse works with families in crisis at a community mental health care
facility. What is the best broad definition of a family?
a. A father, a mother, and children
b. A group whose members are biologically related
c. A unit that includes aunts, uncles, and cousins
d. A group of people who live together and depend on each
other for support
9) A nurse performs an assessment of a family consisting of a single
mother, a grandmother, and two children. Which interview questions
directed to the single mother could the nurse use to assess the affective
and coping family function? Select all that apply.
