NURS 101 FINAL EXAM 2025/2026 QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT VERIFIED ANSWERS | 100% PASS (A+ GRADED)

NURS 101 FINAL EXAM 2025/2026 QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT VERIFIED ANSWERS | 100% PASS (A+ GRADED) One of the most important outcomes of the orientation phase of the nurse-patient relationship is the development of mutual....? Correct Answer Trust What important information should the nurse share with the patient during the orientation phase? Correct Answer Name, credentials, and extent of responsibility. How can a nurse help a patient be successful during the termination phase? Correct Answer Summarize the gains and patient has made. What is the difference between communication congruence and incongruence? Correct Answer Congruence- the verbal and non-verbal communication matches each other. Incongruence- the verbal and non-verbal communication doesn't match each other. How can a nurse illustrate non-judgmental acceptance of a patient? Correct Answer acceptance for who they are and personal beliefs, habits, expression or lifestyle. Therapeutic use of self begins with the ability to convey acceptance to patients. What are attending skills? Correct Answer Active listening and paying attention, reception, perception. SOLAR. What has research shown about the effects of touch and patient care? Correct Answer Allows the patient to become relaxed and feel more comfortable. What is false reassurance? Correct Answer Reassuring or promising a patient of something that may or may not happen. ("I promise everything will be okay") Which type of questions should be avoided to encourage open communication? Correct Answer Judgmental, closed-ended questions. What are the goals of SBAR communication? Correct Answer standardized communication with other nurses What is ethnocentrism? Correct Answer Practice of judging another culture by the standards of one's own culture What is spiritual nursing care? Correct Answer View spirituality as one aspect of the whole human person and to assess patients for spiritual distress. what is spiritual distress? Correct Answer impaired ability to experience and integrate meaning and purpose in life through connectedness with self, others, art, music, literature, nature, and/or a power greater than oneself. What is anxiety? Correct Answer Ill-defined, diffuse feeling of apprehension and uncertainty. What factors create barriers to patient learning? Correct Answer high anxiety, sensory deficits, pain, fatigue, hunger/thirst, SOB, cultural expectations, language barriers, differing health values, low literacy, lack of motivation, environmental factors. What are the overall goals of QSEN (Quality and Safety Education for Nurses)? Correct Answer ??? What is the definition of the term nursing research? Correct Answer Systematic investigation of phenomena related to improving patient care. What are the steps in the research process? Correct Answer Identification of researchable problem Review of literature Formulation of research question or hypothesis Design of study Implementation of study Drawing conclusion based on finding Discussion and clinical implication Dissemination of findings What information must be included in the informed consent for research? Correct Answer Signature of participants and description in detail of the study and any risks involved. Which research design has the goal of determining a cause and effect relationship? Correct Answer Experimental design (ex: testing the hypothesis, "Patients who received preoperative teaching need less pain medication in the first 72 hours postoperatively than those who do not" provides evidence of a cause and effect relationship between teaching and perception of pain.) What is the relationship of nursing research to nursing theory and practice? Correct Answer They are circular and generated from three sources: (1) clinical practice, (2) literature, and (3) theory. The evidence from the nursing research helps implement nursing theory and practice. What is the definition of nursing theory? Correct Answer refers to a group of related concepts, definitions, and statements that describe a certain view of nursing phenomena from which to describe, explain, or predict outcomes. Nursing theory and the professional nurse... Correct Answer Theory guides the professional nurse in (1) making sound clinical judgments based on evidence by determining which data are important and organizing, analyzing, and understanding connections in patient data (2) planning appropriate nursing interventions (3) Evaluating outcomes of interventions Nightingale Correct Answer Facilitate "the body's reparative processes" by manipulating client's environment; Believed that the role of a nurse was to place the client "in the best condition for nature to act upon him Jean Watson Correct Answer Theory of Caring is a holistic model for nursing that suggests that the conscious intention to care promotes healing and wholeness. The emphasis is on the nurse patient relationship, trust, understanding, and openness. Virginia Henderson Correct Answer What can i help this patient do that he would do for himself if he could? Nursing practice is independent; self-help concepts; 14 areas of independence. (breathe normally, eat and drink