Nursing 220 Exam 2025
Questions and Answers
What are the most prevalent and debilitating occupational health hazards among
nurses? - ✔✔Musculoskeletal injuries
When planning care for a patient to increase their mobility and activity, it is important
to consider which of the following? SELECT ALL THAT APPLY - ✔✔Knowledge Level,
Cultural Beliefs, Issues Surrounding Loss of Mobility
Before a nurse attempts to move a patient, they should consider which of the following?
SELECT ALL THAT APPLY - ✔✔Weight of Patient, Proper Body Mechanics, If
additional Help is Needed
Before beginning any new exercise program it is important for the patient with lung or
heart disease to do which of the following? - ✔✔Consult a Health Care provider
What should the nurse do when they notice a nursing assistive personnel
(NAP)performing ROM (Range-of-motion) on a patient with a spinal cord injury? -
✔✔Stop the NAP, this type of injury requires ROM performed by a nurse or physical
therapist.
A CPM (continuous passive motion) machine has been ordered post-operatively for a
patient with knee surgery. When performing patient teaching it is important for the
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,nurse to include which of the following? SELECT ALL THAT APPLY. - ✔✔The CPM
can assist in decreasing the length of a hospital stay,The CPM can help prevent a
thromboembolism,The CPM aids in diminishing pain,
After a cast has been placed on a patient, the nurse should perform which assessment
every two hours for the first 24 hours? - ✔✔Neurovascular assessment
A nursing student is repositioning a patient every two hours, when a patient's family
member asks why this is done. What is the best response by the nursing student? - ✔✔"I
have learned that repositioning frequently reduces pressure ulcers."
Which of the following is the appropriate rationale for utilizing two patient identifiers
when providing any patient care? - ✔✔Using the patient identifiers improves patient
safety.
After standing a patient up from bed, the patient complains of feeling dizzy. What
action should the nurse take? - ✔✔Assist them in sitting on the bed.
The patient is sitting at the bedside. He has not been eating and is just staring out of the
window. The nurse approaches the patient and asks, "What are you thinking about?"
What type of communication technique is this?
Broad Openings
Clarification
Restating
Reflection - ✔✔Broad Opening
In caring for patients of different cultures, it is important for the nurse to: (Select all that
apply)
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, Display empathy and respect
Use appropriate linguistic services
Provide teaching about eating foods from the American culture
Use patient-centered communication - ✔✔Display empathy and respect, Use
appropriate linguistic services, Use patient-centered communication
Nursing documentation does all of the following EXCEPT:
provides legal evidence
evaluates patient outcomes
ensures continuity of care
increases the risk of litigation - ✔✔increases the risk of litigation
Nursing documentation has all of the following characteristics EXCEPT:
Organized
Factual
Public
Complete - ✔✔Public
When evaluating the patient's temperature levels, the nurse expects the patient's
temperature to be lower:
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Questions and Answers
What are the most prevalent and debilitating occupational health hazards among
nurses? - ✔✔Musculoskeletal injuries
When planning care for a patient to increase their mobility and activity, it is important
to consider which of the following? SELECT ALL THAT APPLY - ✔✔Knowledge Level,
Cultural Beliefs, Issues Surrounding Loss of Mobility
Before a nurse attempts to move a patient, they should consider which of the following?
SELECT ALL THAT APPLY - ✔✔Weight of Patient, Proper Body Mechanics, If
additional Help is Needed
Before beginning any new exercise program it is important for the patient with lung or
heart disease to do which of the following? - ✔✔Consult a Health Care provider
What should the nurse do when they notice a nursing assistive personnel
(NAP)performing ROM (Range-of-motion) on a patient with a spinal cord injury? -
✔✔Stop the NAP, this type of injury requires ROM performed by a nurse or physical
therapist.
A CPM (continuous passive motion) machine has been ordered post-operatively for a
patient with knee surgery. When performing patient teaching it is important for the
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,nurse to include which of the following? SELECT ALL THAT APPLY. - ✔✔The CPM
can assist in decreasing the length of a hospital stay,The CPM can help prevent a
thromboembolism,The CPM aids in diminishing pain,
After a cast has been placed on a patient, the nurse should perform which assessment
every two hours for the first 24 hours? - ✔✔Neurovascular assessment
A nursing student is repositioning a patient every two hours, when a patient's family
member asks why this is done. What is the best response by the nursing student? - ✔✔"I
have learned that repositioning frequently reduces pressure ulcers."
Which of the following is the appropriate rationale for utilizing two patient identifiers
when providing any patient care? - ✔✔Using the patient identifiers improves patient
safety.
After standing a patient up from bed, the patient complains of feeling dizzy. What
action should the nurse take? - ✔✔Assist them in sitting on the bed.
The patient is sitting at the bedside. He has not been eating and is just staring out of the
window. The nurse approaches the patient and asks, "What are you thinking about?"
What type of communication technique is this?
Broad Openings
Clarification
Restating
Reflection - ✔✔Broad Opening
In caring for patients of different cultures, it is important for the nurse to: (Select all that
apply)
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, Display empathy and respect
Use appropriate linguistic services
Provide teaching about eating foods from the American culture
Use patient-centered communication - ✔✔Display empathy and respect, Use
appropriate linguistic services, Use patient-centered communication
Nursing documentation does all of the following EXCEPT:
provides legal evidence
evaluates patient outcomes
ensures continuity of care
increases the risk of litigation - ✔✔increases the risk of litigation
Nursing documentation has all of the following characteristics EXCEPT:
Organized
Factual
Public
Complete - ✔✔Public
When evaluating the patient's temperature levels, the nurse expects the patient's
temperature to be lower:
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