NURS 330 - Exam 1 Review
Questions fully solved &
updated 2025-2026(100%
verified for accuracy)
Four broad goals describe the role of a professional nurse. What is
one of these goals? - answer 1. To advocate for individuals, families,
communities, and populations
2. to prevent illness
3. to treat human responses to health or illness
4. to promote health
What are the areas of independent nursing practice? - answer -
Deciding when physical procedures should be performed on a
patient
- Deciding when client teaching is necessary
- Deciding when a client needs to be turned
* Independent nursing interventions include client teaching,
therapeutic communication, and physical procedures such as
turning patients or assisting them with ambulation
Nurses provide both direct and indirect care. What is an example of
direct care? - answer Participating in a client care conference
- Direct care - is to help restore health for clients with illness in
hospitals, clinics, long-term care facilities, and schools
, What are the primary frameworks used in conducting a health
assessment? - answer 1. head-to-toe
2. functional
3. body systems
What is a required component of a health assessment? - answer
Critical thinking
An older adult client had a hip replacement surgery 2 days ago. The
nurse enters the client's room and encourages the client to use the
incentive spirometer ten times every hour. What is this action an
example of? - answer Nursing intervention
The RN is implementing which level of intervention when
administering immunizations at a pediatric clinic? - answer Primary
intervention
The nurse is exhibiting critical thinking in which client care
situation?
1. answering the client's call bell alarm while the nursing assistant
is at lunch
2. Notifying the healthcare provider of a critical lab result
3. Transcribing medication orders onto the nurse's medication
administration record
4. Performing a focused assessment on a client who is complaining
of shortness of breath - answer 4. Performing a focused assessment
on a client who is complaining of shortness of breath
An adult client is brought to the ED by ambulance and is anxious
and very short of breath. While the nurse is completing the
emergency assessment, the client stops breathing. What is the first
action of the nurse? - answer Open the client's airway
Questions fully solved &
updated 2025-2026(100%
verified for accuracy)
Four broad goals describe the role of a professional nurse. What is
one of these goals? - answer 1. To advocate for individuals, families,
communities, and populations
2. to prevent illness
3. to treat human responses to health or illness
4. to promote health
What are the areas of independent nursing practice? - answer -
Deciding when physical procedures should be performed on a
patient
- Deciding when client teaching is necessary
- Deciding when a client needs to be turned
* Independent nursing interventions include client teaching,
therapeutic communication, and physical procedures such as
turning patients or assisting them with ambulation
Nurses provide both direct and indirect care. What is an example of
direct care? - answer Participating in a client care conference
- Direct care - is to help restore health for clients with illness in
hospitals, clinics, long-term care facilities, and schools
, What are the primary frameworks used in conducting a health
assessment? - answer 1. head-to-toe
2. functional
3. body systems
What is a required component of a health assessment? - answer
Critical thinking
An older adult client had a hip replacement surgery 2 days ago. The
nurse enters the client's room and encourages the client to use the
incentive spirometer ten times every hour. What is this action an
example of? - answer Nursing intervention
The RN is implementing which level of intervention when
administering immunizations at a pediatric clinic? - answer Primary
intervention
The nurse is exhibiting critical thinking in which client care
situation?
1. answering the client's call bell alarm while the nursing assistant
is at lunch
2. Notifying the healthcare provider of a critical lab result
3. Transcribing medication orders onto the nurse's medication
administration record
4. Performing a focused assessment on a client who is complaining
of shortness of breath - answer 4. Performing a focused assessment
on a client who is complaining of shortness of breath
An adult client is brought to the ED by ambulance and is anxious
and very short of breath. While the nurse is completing the
emergency assessment, the client stops breathing. What is the first
action of the nurse? - answer Open the client's airway
