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Fundamentals of Professional Nursing: Final
Exam 2025 A+
1. What is the nursing process?
A- Assessment
D- Diagnosis
P- Planning
I- Implementation E- Evaluation
2. What are the six QSEN competencies?
-Patient-centered cared
-Teamwork and collaboration
-Safety
-Informatics
-Evidence-based practice
-Quality improvement
3. What is patient-centered care competency?
Recognize the patient as the course of control and full partner in providing compassionate and
coordinated care based on respect for patient's preferences, values, and needs
4. What is teamwork and collaboration competency?
Function effectively within in nursing and inter-professional teams, fostering open
communication, mutual respect, and shared decision-making to achieve quality patient care
5. What is the evidence-based practice competency?
Integrate best current evidence with clinical expertise and patient/family preferences and values
for delivery of optimal health care
6. What is quality improvement competency?
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Use data to monitor the outcomes of care processes and use improvement methods to design and
test changes to continuously improve the quality and safety if health care systems
7. What is the safety competency?
Minimizes risk of harm to patients and providers through both system effectiveness and
individual performance
8. What is informatics competency?
Use of information and technology to communicate, manage knowledge, mitigate error, and
support decision making
9. What is an ISBAR report?
-Introduction: Self name and role
-Situation: Patient name, age, gender, and patient's status
-Background: give relevant details such as presenting problems and clinical history
-Assessment: put in their current condition, risks, and needs together. What is you assessment?
-Recommendation: be clear about what you are requesting (transfer/review/treatment). What
should happen?
10. What is primary health/illness promotion?
-Prevent a disease or injury before it occurs
-Example: Getting immunized
11. What is secondary health/illness promotion?
-Aims to reduce the impact of disease that has already occurred
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12. What is tertiary health/illness promotion?
Aims to soften the impact of an ongoing illness or injury that has lasting effects
-Example: physical therapy for VMA patient or support groups after going through a tragedy
What is a sentinel event?
Unanticipated event in a healthcare setting resulting in death/serious physical injury to a patient
that is not related to the patient's illness
Example: Patient dying after doctor nicks the patients bowels and giving them sepsis during a
gallbladder removal surgery
Why is it important to document patient assessments?
It is important because than nursing and doctors can see what is working and changing the
patients health status or what is not working and what needs to be done to change a patients
health status
What are some safety considerations for a patient on anticoagulant therapy?
-Teach patient about increased bruising
-When going to shave, use electric razor
-Use soft bristled tooth brushes
What is active range of motion (AROM)?
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Fundamentals of Professional Nursing: Final
Exam 2025 A+
1. What is the nursing process?
A- Assessment
D- Diagnosis
P- Planning
I- Implementation E- Evaluation
2. What are the six QSEN competencies?
-Patient-centered cared
-Teamwork and collaboration
-Safety
-Informatics
-Evidence-based practice
-Quality improvement
3. What is patient-centered care competency?
Recognize the patient as the course of control and full partner in providing compassionate and
coordinated care based on respect for patient's preferences, values, and needs
4. What is teamwork and collaboration competency?
Function effectively within in nursing and inter-professional teams, fostering open
communication, mutual respect, and shared decision-making to achieve quality patient care
5. What is the evidence-based practice competency?
Integrate best current evidence with clinical expertise and patient/family preferences and values
for delivery of optimal health care
6. What is quality improvement competency?
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Use data to monitor the outcomes of care processes and use improvement methods to design and
test changes to continuously improve the quality and safety if health care systems
7. What is the safety competency?
Minimizes risk of harm to patients and providers through both system effectiveness and
individual performance
8. What is informatics competency?
Use of information and technology to communicate, manage knowledge, mitigate error, and
support decision making
9. What is an ISBAR report?
-Introduction: Self name and role
-Situation: Patient name, age, gender, and patient's status
-Background: give relevant details such as presenting problems and clinical history
-Assessment: put in their current condition, risks, and needs together. What is you assessment?
-Recommendation: be clear about what you are requesting (transfer/review/treatment). What
should happen?
10. What is primary health/illness promotion?
-Prevent a disease or injury before it occurs
-Example: Getting immunized
11. What is secondary health/illness promotion?
-Aims to reduce the impact of disease that has already occurred
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-Example: Screenings and exams (mammograms) Upgrade to remove ads
Only $35.99/year
12. What is tertiary health/illness promotion?
Aims to soften the impact of an ongoing illness or injury that has lasting effects
-Example: physical therapy for VMA patient or support groups after going through a tragedy
What is a sentinel event?
Unanticipated event in a healthcare setting resulting in death/serious physical injury to a patient
that is not related to the patient's illness
Example: Patient dying after doctor nicks the patients bowels and giving them sepsis during a
gallbladder removal surgery
Why is it important to document patient assessments?
It is important because than nursing and doctors can see what is working and changing the
patients health status or what is not working and what needs to be done to change a patients
health status
What are some safety considerations for a patient on anticoagulant therapy?
-Teach patient about increased bruising
-When going to shave, use electric razor
-Use soft bristled tooth brushes
What is active range of motion (AROM)?
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