NUR 100 Final Exam Questions with
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The nurse is caring for a young Hispanic mother and her 4-year old child. While
interviewing the mother, the nurse discovers that the mother speaks no English. The
nurse does not speak Spanish. The most appropriate thing for the nurse to do is to
a. interview the child
b. Provide all instructions in writing
c. Request an interpreter to help
d. explain that care cannot be provided at this time - Answer-C
The nurse that is caring for a patient that is ill knows that which of the following is a
characteristic of chronic illness?
a. it causes irreversible alterations in anatomy and physiology
b. it requires a short period of care or support
c. it is a temporary change
d. it requires special patient education for rehabilitation - Answer-a
The patient always thanks clerks at the grocery store. Her six year old daughter echoes
her thank you. The nurse is aware that the child is demonstrating what mode of value
transmission?
a. Reward and punishment
b. modeling
c. moralizing
d. responsible choice - Answer-b
The nurse is caring for baby B who has been diagnosed with lead poisoning. The
poisoning has been related to the paint on the walls in the apartment where baby B
resides. Using the agent-host-environment model, the nurse knows that the agent is this
situation is
a. Baby B
b. apartment
c. paint
d. lead poisoning - Answer-c
A nurse wants to acquire more knowledge of a specific culture. Where should the start
first to get a beginning knowledge base?
a. talk to her co-workers
b. ask other with more experience for guidance
,c. Review the literature
d. talk to family members - Answer-c
A nursing instructor explains the concept of health to her students. The students know
that which of the following statements accurately describes health?
a. health is always an objective state
b. health is a state of optimal functioning
c. health is not determined by the patient
d. Health is the absence of illness - Answer-b
The nurses neighbor phones and states, "I have a temperatures and a sore throat. I am
not feeling well and have decided not to go to work." What stage of illness behavior is
the neighbor exhibiting?
a. Assuming the sick role
b. assuming the dependent role
c. Achieving recovery and rehabilitation
d. Experiencing symptoms - Answer-a
What is the best way the nurse can develop cultural self-awareness?
a. Objectively examine own beliefs, values, and practices
b. realize nothing can be done to change one's values and beliefs
c. Assert to others that personal biases cannot be changed
d. ask peers and colleagues about practicing cultural competence - Answer-a
An 80-year old woman says to the nurse that, " I have successfully raised my family and
had a good life." This statement illustrates meeting which basic human need?
a. safety and security
b. love and belonging
c. self esteem
d. self-actualization - Answer-d
A nurse working in a health clinic that primarily serves Hispanic patients. what does this
statement imply about the nurse.
a. The nurse's knowledge and skills are not adequate to care for patients with acute
illness.
b. The nurse is attempting to overcome cultural blindness
c. The nurse respects and values each patient providing culturally competent care
, d. The nurse embraces the stereotypical aspects of this culture in order to provide
culturally competent care - Answer-c
The nurse is aware that the family functions are important to help individual family
members meet their basic human needs and maintain their health. Which of the
following are included as part of the family's major functions (select all that apply)
a. physical
b. economical
c. reproductive
d. housing codes
e. socialization - Answer-a, b, c, e
The nurse understands that Maslow's hierarchy of Needs is used to consider which
needs is a person are the most important at any given time. The _____ is hierarchy
need that includes the understanding and acceptance of others.
a. safety and security
b. love and belonging
c. self esteem
d. self actualization
e. physiologic - Answer-b
A nurse caring for a patient in a long-term health care facility measures his intake and
output and weighs him to asses water balance. These actions help to meet which of
Maslow's hierarchy of needs?
a. love and belonging
b. physiologic
c. safety and security
d. self- actualization - Answer-b
The nurse is asked to teach a group of your adults a healthy lifestyle. One participant
says, " I stopped eating fast food to lose weight." What health-illness model explains
this behavior?
a. health-illness continuum
b. health promotion model
c. agent-host-environment model
d. health belief model - Answer-b
The nurse is teaching a group of new mothers about the importance of diet and exercise
following delivery. What level of health promotion and preventative care does this
activity represent?
a. secondary
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The nurse is caring for a young Hispanic mother and her 4-year old child. While
interviewing the mother, the nurse discovers that the mother speaks no English. The
nurse does not speak Spanish. The most appropriate thing for the nurse to do is to
a. interview the child
b. Provide all instructions in writing
c. Request an interpreter to help
d. explain that care cannot be provided at this time - Answer-C
The nurse that is caring for a patient that is ill knows that which of the following is a
characteristic of chronic illness?
a. it causes irreversible alterations in anatomy and physiology
b. it requires a short period of care or support
c. it is a temporary change
d. it requires special patient education for rehabilitation - Answer-a
The patient always thanks clerks at the grocery store. Her six year old daughter echoes
her thank you. The nurse is aware that the child is demonstrating what mode of value
transmission?
a. Reward and punishment
b. modeling
c. moralizing
d. responsible choice - Answer-b
The nurse is caring for baby B who has been diagnosed with lead poisoning. The
poisoning has been related to the paint on the walls in the apartment where baby B
resides. Using the agent-host-environment model, the nurse knows that the agent is this
situation is
a. Baby B
b. apartment
c. paint
d. lead poisoning - Answer-c
A nurse wants to acquire more knowledge of a specific culture. Where should the start
first to get a beginning knowledge base?
a. talk to her co-workers
b. ask other with more experience for guidance
,c. Review the literature
d. talk to family members - Answer-c
A nursing instructor explains the concept of health to her students. The students know
that which of the following statements accurately describes health?
a. health is always an objective state
b. health is a state of optimal functioning
c. health is not determined by the patient
d. Health is the absence of illness - Answer-b
The nurses neighbor phones and states, "I have a temperatures and a sore throat. I am
not feeling well and have decided not to go to work." What stage of illness behavior is
the neighbor exhibiting?
a. Assuming the sick role
b. assuming the dependent role
c. Achieving recovery and rehabilitation
d. Experiencing symptoms - Answer-a
What is the best way the nurse can develop cultural self-awareness?
a. Objectively examine own beliefs, values, and practices
b. realize nothing can be done to change one's values and beliefs
c. Assert to others that personal biases cannot be changed
d. ask peers and colleagues about practicing cultural competence - Answer-a
An 80-year old woman says to the nurse that, " I have successfully raised my family and
had a good life." This statement illustrates meeting which basic human need?
a. safety and security
b. love and belonging
c. self esteem
d. self-actualization - Answer-d
A nurse working in a health clinic that primarily serves Hispanic patients. what does this
statement imply about the nurse.
a. The nurse's knowledge and skills are not adequate to care for patients with acute
illness.
b. The nurse is attempting to overcome cultural blindness
c. The nurse respects and values each patient providing culturally competent care
, d. The nurse embraces the stereotypical aspects of this culture in order to provide
culturally competent care - Answer-c
The nurse is aware that the family functions are important to help individual family
members meet their basic human needs and maintain their health. Which of the
following are included as part of the family's major functions (select all that apply)
a. physical
b. economical
c. reproductive
d. housing codes
e. socialization - Answer-a, b, c, e
The nurse understands that Maslow's hierarchy of Needs is used to consider which
needs is a person are the most important at any given time. The _____ is hierarchy
need that includes the understanding and acceptance of others.
a. safety and security
b. love and belonging
c. self esteem
d. self actualization
e. physiologic - Answer-b
A nurse caring for a patient in a long-term health care facility measures his intake and
output and weighs him to asses water balance. These actions help to meet which of
Maslow's hierarchy of needs?
a. love and belonging
b. physiologic
c. safety and security
d. self- actualization - Answer-b
The nurse is asked to teach a group of your adults a healthy lifestyle. One participant
says, " I stopped eating fast food to lose weight." What health-illness model explains
this behavior?
a. health-illness continuum
b. health promotion model
c. agent-host-environment model
d. health belief model - Answer-b
The nurse is teaching a group of new mothers about the importance of diet and exercise
following delivery. What level of health promotion and preventative care does this
activity represent?
a. secondary
