UPDATED ACTUAL Exam Questions and
CORRECT Answers
EX: The patient will walk in the halls three times a day for 15 minutes each time for three days -
CORRECT ANSWER - Smart Goal
The ethical principle where the nurse does no harm
EX: carefully examining a patients medications before administration, the outcome outweighs
the harm, considering the degree of risk permissible - CORRECT ANSWER -
Nonmaleficence
Who was the nurse who funded the American Red Cross - CORRECT ANSWER - Clara
Bartin
This applies to adult learning situations as nurses transition from inexpert to expert practitioners.
- CORRECT ANSWER - Novice to Expert Novel
This phase of the nursing process includes pain management, education, and nursing orders. -
CORRECT ANSWER - Implementation
Term: Places life threatening problems first - CORRECT ANSWER - Prioritization
A way to systematically use patient data - CORRECT ANSWER - prioritization
This phase of the nursing process includes identifying actual or potential problems. - CORRECT
ANSWER - Diagnosis/Assessment
This ethical principle states that individuals have the right to determine their own actions and the
freedom to make their own decisions - CORRECT ANSWER - Autonomy
,Who was the first superintendent of female nurses in the civil war - CORRECT
ANSWER - Dorothea Dix
This ethical principle means equals should be treated the same or impartially to provide equality
of service - CORRECT ANSWER - Justice
This is important to establish with a patient - CORRECT ANSWER - Trust
What is equal to 1 teaspoon - CORRECT ANSWER - 5 mL
Who was a Jamaican business woman and nurse who was a Cholera expert - CORRECT
ANSWER - Mary Seacole
Examples include when a nurse conveys acceptance, doesn't judge a patient, and uses touch only
in a way that is acceptable to the patient. - CORRECT ANSWER - Therapeutic
Communication
Who founded the frontier nursing service and provided midwifery services in rural Kentucky -
CORRECT ANSWER - Mary Breckenridge
This code provides nurse with ethical guidelines regarding human dignity and respect of the
patient - CORRECT ANSWER - ANA Code of Ethics
Nurses have to qualify for these by working a certain number of hours in a specialty role but is
not required to practice - CORRECT ANSWER - Certifications
What is the type of question that you should ask patients when gathering information -
CORRECT ANSWER - Open ended questions
, This includes examining your view points - CORRECT ANSWER - Critical thinking
This is needed to establish boundaries of the nursing practice - CORRECT ANSWER -
Definitions of Nursing
The absence of this is why nursing is considered an emerging profession - CORRECT
ANSWER - Only one standardized education entry level
A nurse demonstrated this when respecting team members, identifying others strengths -
CORRECT ANSWER - player/collaboration
Research shows that this is increased when hospitals have more BSN than APN prepared nurses -
CORRECT ANSWER - patient safety/quality of care
An act was moral if its morals or intentions were good, regardless of the outcome
EX: "always keep a promise" "never tell a lie"
"Right/wrongness of an action depends on doing ones duty regardless of the consequences" -
CORRECT ANSWER - Deontology
Moral rightness of an action is determined by its consequence.
EX: greatest good for the greatest number of people
prioritize what helps the most, rather than what helps the the few - CORRECT
ANSWER - Utilitarianism
Emphasizes the character of the decision maker
EX: tendencies to act, feel, and judge that develop through appropriate training but come from
natural tendencies - CORRECT ANSWER - Virtue Ethics
Refers to faithfulness or honoring ones commitments
EX: Taking care of a patient you are assigned and keeping nursing skills correct