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NCLEX Practice Questions Exam 1
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A nurse is providing b. Maslow's hierarchy of basic human needs is
care based on useful for establishing priorities of care.
Maslow's hierarchy of
basic human needs. For
which nursing activities
is this approach useful?
a. Making accurate nursing
diagnoses
b. Establishing priorities of
care
c. Communicating
concerns more
concisely
d. Integrating science into
nursing care
,The nurse is prioritizing b, d. Physiologic needs—oxygen, water, food,
nursing care for a elimination, temperature, sexuality, physical
patient in a long-term activity, and rest—must be met at least
care facility. Which minimally to maintain life. Providing food and
examples of nursing oxygen are examples of interventions to meet
interventions help these needs. Preventing falls helps meet safety
meet physiologic and security needs, providing art supplies may
needs? Select all that help meet self- actualization needs, facilitating
apply. visits from loved ones helps meet self-esteem
needs, and referring a patient to a support
a. Preventing falls in the group helps meet love and belonging needs.
facility
b. Changing a patient's
oxygen tank
c. Providing materials
for a patient who
likes to draw
d. Helping a patient eat his
dinner
e. Facilitating a visit from a
spouse
f. Referring a patient to
a cancer support
group.
,The nurse caring for b. By carrying out careful hand hygiene and
patients using sterile technique, nurses provide safety
postoperatively uses
from infection. An example of a physiologic need
careful hand hygiene
is clearing a patient's airway. Self-esteem needs
and sterile techniques
may be met by allowing an older adult to talk
when handling
about a past career. An example of helping
patients. Which of
meet a love and belonging need is contacting
Maslow's basic human
a hospitalized patient's family to arrange a
needs is being met by
visit.
this nurse?
a. Physiologic
b. Safety and security
c. Self-esteem
d. Love and belonging
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The nurse caring for c, e, f. Self-actualization, or reaching one's full
patients in a long-term potential, is a process that continues
care facility knows that throughout life. A person achieves self-
the highest level on actualization by focusing on problems
Maslow's hierarchy of outside oneself and using creativity as a
needs is self- guideline for solving problems and pursuing
actualization needs. interests. Humans are not born with a fully
Which statements developed sense of self-actualization, and self-
accurately describe actualization needs are not met specifically
the achievement of by depending on others for help. Loneliness
self-actualization? and isolation are not always the result of unmet
Select all that apply. self-actualization needs.
a. Humans are born with
a fully developed sense
of self-actualization.
, b. Self-actualization
needs are met by
depending on
others for help.
c. The self-actualization
process continues
throughout life.
d. Loneliness and
isolation occur when
self- actualization
needs are unmet.
e. A person achieves
self-actualization by
focusing on problems
outside self.
f. Self-actualization
needs may be met by
creatively solving
problems.
A nurse works with d. Although all the responses may be true, the
families in crisis at a best definition is a group of people who live
community mental together and depend on each other for physical,
health care facility. What emotional, or financial support.
is the best broad
definition of a family?
a. A father, a mother, and
children
b. A group whose
members are
biologically related
c. A unit that includes
aunts, uncles, and
NCLEX Practice Questions Exam 1
latest update 2025/2026
Students also
studied
A nurse is providing b. Maslow's hierarchy of basic human needs is
care based on useful for establishing priorities of care.
Maslow's hierarchy of
basic human needs. For
which nursing activities
is this approach useful?
a. Making accurate nursing
diagnoses
b. Establishing priorities of
care
c. Communicating
concerns more
concisely
d. Integrating science into
nursing care
,The nurse is prioritizing b, d. Physiologic needs—oxygen, water, food,
nursing care for a elimination, temperature, sexuality, physical
patient in a long-term activity, and rest—must be met at least
care facility. Which minimally to maintain life. Providing food and
examples of nursing oxygen are examples of interventions to meet
interventions help these needs. Preventing falls helps meet safety
meet physiologic and security needs, providing art supplies may
needs? Select all that help meet self- actualization needs, facilitating
apply. visits from loved ones helps meet self-esteem
needs, and referring a patient to a support
a. Preventing falls in the group helps meet love and belonging needs.
facility
b. Changing a patient's
oxygen tank
c. Providing materials
for a patient who
likes to draw
d. Helping a patient eat his
dinner
e. Facilitating a visit from a
spouse
f. Referring a patient to
a cancer support
group.
,The nurse caring for b. By carrying out careful hand hygiene and
patients using sterile technique, nurses provide safety
postoperatively uses
from infection. An example of a physiologic need
careful hand hygiene
is clearing a patient's airway. Self-esteem needs
and sterile techniques
may be met by allowing an older adult to talk
when handling
about a past career. An example of helping
patients. Which of
meet a love and belonging need is contacting
Maslow's basic human
a hospitalized patient's family to arrange a
needs is being met by
visit.
this nurse?
a. Physiologic
b. Safety and security
c. Self-esteem
d. Love and belonging
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The nurse caring for c, e, f. Self-actualization, or reaching one's full
patients in a long-term potential, is a process that continues
care facility knows that throughout life. A person achieves self-
the highest level on actualization by focusing on problems
Maslow's hierarchy of outside oneself and using creativity as a
needs is self- guideline for solving problems and pursuing
actualization needs. interests. Humans are not born with a fully
Which statements developed sense of self-actualization, and self-
accurately describe actualization needs are not met specifically
the achievement of by depending on others for help. Loneliness
self-actualization? and isolation are not always the result of unmet
Select all that apply. self-actualization needs.
a. Humans are born with
a fully developed sense
of self-actualization.
, b. Self-actualization
needs are met by
depending on
others for help.
c. The self-actualization
process continues
throughout life.
d. Loneliness and
isolation occur when
self- actualization
needs are unmet.
e. A person achieves
self-actualization by
focusing on problems
outside self.
f. Self-actualization
needs may be met by
creatively solving
problems.
A nurse works with d. Although all the responses may be true, the
families in crisis at a best definition is a group of people who live
community mental together and depend on each other for physical,
health care facility. What emotional, or financial support.
is the best broad
definition of a family?
a. A father, a mother, and
children
b. A group whose
members are
biologically related
c. A unit that includes
aunts, uncles, and
