FUNDAMENTALS OF NURSING EXAM
1 WITH 100% CORRECT ANSWERS
2025
5 Levels of Proficiency (as according to Benner) correct answers >> 1.
Novice - beginning nursing student, or any nurse entering a situation in
which there is no previous level of experience.
2. Advanced Beginner - A nurse who has had some level of experience with
the situation.
3. Competent - A nurse who has been in the same clinical position for 2 to 3
years.
4. Proficient - A nurse with more than 2 to 3 years of experience in the same
clinical position.
5. Expert - A nurse with diverse experience who has an intuitive grasp of an
existing or potential clinical problem.
ANA (American Nursing Association) Standards of Nursing Practice correct
answers >> 1. Assessment
2. Diagnosis
3. Outcomes Identification
4. Planning
,5. Implementation: (a) Coordination of Care, (b) Health teaching and Health
Promotion, (c) Consultation, (d) Prescriptive Authority and Treatment
6. Evaluation
Define "nursing" (as according to the ANA [American Nursing Association])
correct answers >> Nursing- the protection, promotion, and optimization of
health and abilities; prevention of illness and injury; alleviation of suffering
through the diagnosis and treatment of human response; and advocacy in
the care of individuals, families, communities, and population (ANA, 2010)
ANA (American Nursing Association) Standards of Performance correct
answers >> 1. Ethics
2. Education
3. Evidence-Based Practice and Research
4. Quality of Practice
5. Communication
6. Leadership
7. Collaboration
8. Professional Practice Evaluation
9. Resources
,10. Environmental Health
Describe the "Nursing Code of Ethics" correct answers >> The
philosophical ideas of right and wrong that define the principles you will use
to provide care to your patients.
Autonomy (Ch. 1 "Nursing Today") correct answers >> Independent
nursing interventions that the nurse initiates without medical orders.
Caregiver correct answers >> Helps the patient maintain and regain
health, manage disease and symptoms, and attain a maximum level of
function and independence.
Advocate correct answers >> Protects patient human and legal rights
and provides assistance in asserting these rights.
Educator correct answers >> Explains, demonstrates, reinforces, and
evaluates the patients progress in learning.
Communicator correct answers >> Is essential to the nurse patient
relationship.
Manager correct answers >> Has personnel, policy, and budgetary
responsibility to a specific nursing unit.
Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN) correct answers >> Four
core roles: Certified Nurse-Midwife, Certified Nursing Practitioner, Clinical
Nurse Specialist, and Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist.
Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) correct answers >> Expert clinician in a
specialized area of practice.
, Nurse Practitioner correct answers >> Detects and manages self-
limiting acute and chronic stable medical conditions.
Certified Nurse-Midwife (CNM) correct answers >> Involves the
independent care for women in normal pregnancy, labor and delivery, and
care of newborns.
Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist (CRNA) correct answers >>
Provides surgical anesthesia.
Nurse Educator correct answers >> Works primarily in school of nursing
and staff development.
Nursing Administrator correct answers >> Manages patient care and the
delivery of specific nursing services within a healthcare agency.
Nurse Researcher correct answers >> Investigates problems to improve
nursing care and to expand the scope of nursing practice.
How did Florence Nightingale see the role of nursing in the early 1800s?
correct answers >> She saw the role of nursing as being in charge of a
patient's health based on the knowledge of how to put the body in such a
state as to be free of disease or to recover from disease.
Clara Barton correct answers >> Founder of the American Red Cross
Lillian Wald and Mary Brewster correct answers >> Open the Henry
Street Settlement, focusing on the health needs of the poor.
Mary Adelaide Nutting correct answers >> Instrumental in moving
nursing education into the universities.
1 WITH 100% CORRECT ANSWERS
2025
5 Levels of Proficiency (as according to Benner) correct answers >> 1.
Novice - beginning nursing student, or any nurse entering a situation in
which there is no previous level of experience.
2. Advanced Beginner - A nurse who has had some level of experience with
the situation.
3. Competent - A nurse who has been in the same clinical position for 2 to 3
years.
4. Proficient - A nurse with more than 2 to 3 years of experience in the same
clinical position.
5. Expert - A nurse with diverse experience who has an intuitive grasp of an
existing or potential clinical problem.
ANA (American Nursing Association) Standards of Nursing Practice correct
answers >> 1. Assessment
2. Diagnosis
3. Outcomes Identification
4. Planning
,5. Implementation: (a) Coordination of Care, (b) Health teaching and Health
Promotion, (c) Consultation, (d) Prescriptive Authority and Treatment
6. Evaluation
Define "nursing" (as according to the ANA [American Nursing Association])
correct answers >> Nursing- the protection, promotion, and optimization of
health and abilities; prevention of illness and injury; alleviation of suffering
through the diagnosis and treatment of human response; and advocacy in
the care of individuals, families, communities, and population (ANA, 2010)
ANA (American Nursing Association) Standards of Performance correct
answers >> 1. Ethics
2. Education
3. Evidence-Based Practice and Research
4. Quality of Practice
5. Communication
6. Leadership
7. Collaboration
8. Professional Practice Evaluation
9. Resources
,10. Environmental Health
Describe the "Nursing Code of Ethics" correct answers >> The
philosophical ideas of right and wrong that define the principles you will use
to provide care to your patients.
Autonomy (Ch. 1 "Nursing Today") correct answers >> Independent
nursing interventions that the nurse initiates without medical orders.
Caregiver correct answers >> Helps the patient maintain and regain
health, manage disease and symptoms, and attain a maximum level of
function and independence.
Advocate correct answers >> Protects patient human and legal rights
and provides assistance in asserting these rights.
Educator correct answers >> Explains, demonstrates, reinforces, and
evaluates the patients progress in learning.
Communicator correct answers >> Is essential to the nurse patient
relationship.
Manager correct answers >> Has personnel, policy, and budgetary
responsibility to a specific nursing unit.
Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN) correct answers >> Four
core roles: Certified Nurse-Midwife, Certified Nursing Practitioner, Clinical
Nurse Specialist, and Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist.
Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) correct answers >> Expert clinician in a
specialized area of practice.
, Nurse Practitioner correct answers >> Detects and manages self-
limiting acute and chronic stable medical conditions.
Certified Nurse-Midwife (CNM) correct answers >> Involves the
independent care for women in normal pregnancy, labor and delivery, and
care of newborns.
Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist (CRNA) correct answers >>
Provides surgical anesthesia.
Nurse Educator correct answers >> Works primarily in school of nursing
and staff development.
Nursing Administrator correct answers >> Manages patient care and the
delivery of specific nursing services within a healthcare agency.
Nurse Researcher correct answers >> Investigates problems to improve
nursing care and to expand the scope of nursing practice.
How did Florence Nightingale see the role of nursing in the early 1800s?
correct answers >> She saw the role of nursing as being in charge of a
patient's health based on the knowledge of how to put the body in such a
state as to be free of disease or to recover from disease.
Clara Barton correct answers >> Founder of the American Red Cross
Lillian Wald and Mary Brewster correct answers >> Open the Henry
Street Settlement, focusing on the health needs of the poor.
Mary Adelaide Nutting correct answers >> Instrumental in moving
nursing education into the universities.
