RN Fundamentals Exam Questions with Answers -
WCU 2025
What is the nursing process?
Assessment
Diagnosis
Planning
Implementation
Evaluation
What is assessment?
Information collection/ gathering data
What is diagnosis?
Information interpretation. Stating problems & strengths.
What is planning?
Setting nursing goals, desired outcomes, and planning interventions.
What is implementation?
Performing nursing interventions
What is evaluation?
Patient's status and effectiveness of nursing interventions
,What is objective data?
obtain by observing and examing client
What is subjective data?
Data that only the subject or "patient" can feel and will tell you. Usually in a statement.
What is a nursing diagnosis?
A clinical judgment about
individual, family, or community responses to actual or
potential health problems, which provide the basis for the
selection of nursing interventions to achieve outcomes
What is a medical diagnosis?
Identification of disease based on physical signs, history, tests & procedures
Examples of nursing diagnosis
-Impaired gas exchange
-Impaired peripheral perfusion
-Fluid volume deficit
-Impaired skin integrity
-Altered mental balance
, Examples of medical diagnosis
-Pneumonia
-Dehydration
-Peripheral vascular disease
-Dementia
-Cellulitis
What is a risk nursing diagnosis?
Clinical judgment considering the vulnerability of a patient
for developing a health problem
- No defining characteristics
- No related to factors (etiology)
- Focus on risk factors
What is a smart goal?
Specific
Measurable
Achievable
Relevant
Timely
What is S in smart goal?
SPECIFIC
Keep your goals specific. If your objective is to loose weight then it would be to loose 27 pounds.
What is A in smart goal?
ACHIEVABLE
Set goals that are achievable. Loosing 100 pounds in 2 days is not achievable.
WCU 2025
What is the nursing process?
Assessment
Diagnosis
Planning
Implementation
Evaluation
What is assessment?
Information collection/ gathering data
What is diagnosis?
Information interpretation. Stating problems & strengths.
What is planning?
Setting nursing goals, desired outcomes, and planning interventions.
What is implementation?
Performing nursing interventions
What is evaluation?
Patient's status and effectiveness of nursing interventions
,What is objective data?
obtain by observing and examing client
What is subjective data?
Data that only the subject or "patient" can feel and will tell you. Usually in a statement.
What is a nursing diagnosis?
A clinical judgment about
individual, family, or community responses to actual or
potential health problems, which provide the basis for the
selection of nursing interventions to achieve outcomes
What is a medical diagnosis?
Identification of disease based on physical signs, history, tests & procedures
Examples of nursing diagnosis
-Impaired gas exchange
-Impaired peripheral perfusion
-Fluid volume deficit
-Impaired skin integrity
-Altered mental balance
, Examples of medical diagnosis
-Pneumonia
-Dehydration
-Peripheral vascular disease
-Dementia
-Cellulitis
What is a risk nursing diagnosis?
Clinical judgment considering the vulnerability of a patient
for developing a health problem
- No defining characteristics
- No related to factors (etiology)
- Focus on risk factors
What is a smart goal?
Specific
Measurable
Achievable
Relevant
Timely
What is S in smart goal?
SPECIFIC
Keep your goals specific. If your objective is to loose weight then it would be to loose 27 pounds.
What is A in smart goal?
ACHIEVABLE
Set goals that are achievable. Loosing 100 pounds in 2 days is not achievable.
