Nursing Fundamentals Exam 1 Practice Questions &
Answers 2025 Latest Version
What is the best reason for why a nurse would want to provide culturally sensitive care?
• Provide best possible care for the patient.
• Make the patient feel more comfortable
• To not offend the patient
• To provide the best possible care that is both appropriate and comfortable to the patient. - ANS ✔ -
D
Identify which of the following nursing actions is an internal factor
• Ensuring privacy with your patient
• Preventing disruptions by posting a sign on
• Listening to your patient and paying attention to their nonverbal cues.
• Turning off TV to omit distractions. - ANS ✔ - C
Why can note taking be considered a disadvantage?
• It breaks eye contact too often
• It shifts attention away from the patient
• It interrupts the narrative flow and impedes observation.
• All of the above. - ANS ✔ - D
In an appropriately written outcome includes which criteria?
, • Short measurable, achievable, realistic, timeable.
• Specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, timeable.
• Short, moderately realistic, analgesic, and tolerable.
• Smart, mediating, arithmetic, realistic, testable. - ANS ✔ - B
A patient's goal was to ambulate 3 times, feed herself, and have a pain level of 3 out of 10. At the end
of the day, the patient ambulated 3 times, ate by herself, and had a pain level of the 2/10. Has the goal
been:
• Met
• Partially met
• Unmet
• Not sufficient info to determine. - ANS ✔ - A
A nurse has 2 patients. One has a low Oxygen saturation and gasping for air while the other has a pain
of 6/10. She attends to the first patient. Which critical thinking skill is this?
• Distinguishing normal from abnormal s/s
• Diagnosing actually and potential problems
• Setting priorities
• Identifying assumptions - ANS ✔ - C
A patient's pulse is 48 beats per minute. Which of the following patients would you identify this as
unexpected?
• 18 year old high school soccer player
• 32 y/o man who is sleeping
• 50 year old man taking anti-anxiety medication
• 44 year old women who has just eaten breakfast. - ANS ✔ - D
Which statement reflects the goal of a close-direct question?
a. A further explanation
b. A long, detailed response
c. One that may or may not be relevant to the topic
d. A concise yes or no answer - ANS ✔ - D
Answers 2025 Latest Version
What is the best reason for why a nurse would want to provide culturally sensitive care?
• Provide best possible care for the patient.
• Make the patient feel more comfortable
• To not offend the patient
• To provide the best possible care that is both appropriate and comfortable to the patient. - ANS ✔ -
D
Identify which of the following nursing actions is an internal factor
• Ensuring privacy with your patient
• Preventing disruptions by posting a sign on
• Listening to your patient and paying attention to their nonverbal cues.
• Turning off TV to omit distractions. - ANS ✔ - C
Why can note taking be considered a disadvantage?
• It breaks eye contact too often
• It shifts attention away from the patient
• It interrupts the narrative flow and impedes observation.
• All of the above. - ANS ✔ - D
In an appropriately written outcome includes which criteria?
, • Short measurable, achievable, realistic, timeable.
• Specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, timeable.
• Short, moderately realistic, analgesic, and tolerable.
• Smart, mediating, arithmetic, realistic, testable. - ANS ✔ - B
A patient's goal was to ambulate 3 times, feed herself, and have a pain level of 3 out of 10. At the end
of the day, the patient ambulated 3 times, ate by herself, and had a pain level of the 2/10. Has the goal
been:
• Met
• Partially met
• Unmet
• Not sufficient info to determine. - ANS ✔ - A
A nurse has 2 patients. One has a low Oxygen saturation and gasping for air while the other has a pain
of 6/10. She attends to the first patient. Which critical thinking skill is this?
• Distinguishing normal from abnormal s/s
• Diagnosing actually and potential problems
• Setting priorities
• Identifying assumptions - ANS ✔ - C
A patient's pulse is 48 beats per minute. Which of the following patients would you identify this as
unexpected?
• 18 year old high school soccer player
• 32 y/o man who is sleeping
• 50 year old man taking anti-anxiety medication
• 44 year old women who has just eaten breakfast. - ANS ✔ - D
Which statement reflects the goal of a close-direct question?
a. A further explanation
b. A long, detailed response
c. One that may or may not be relevant to the topic
d. A concise yes or no answer - ANS ✔ - D
