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PN101: EXAM 1 ACTUAL EXAM PREP 2026
ALL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
DETAILED ANSWERS ALREADY A GRADED
WITH EXPERT FEEDBACK |CURRENTLY
TESTING |NEW AND REVISED
The nurse administering pain medication every 4 hours is an example of
which aspect of patient care?
A) Assessment data
B) Nursing diagnosis
C) Patient outcome
D) Nursing intervention - ANSWER- ANS: D Interventions are
activities that will help the patient achieve a goal, such as administering
pain-relieving medication. An example of assessment data might be,
Patient reports pain is a 5 on a 1 to 10 scale. The nursing diagnosis
would be Pain. The nurse might define the patient outcome in this
scenario as, The patient will state the level of pain is less than 4
The nurse is participating in a care plan for a patient to help prevent
Impaired Skin Integrity. She has made sure that nursing assistive
personnel change the patients position every 2 hours. In the evaluation
phase of the nursing process, which of the following would the nurse do
first?
A)Determine whether she has gathered enough assessment data.
B)Judge whether the interventions achieved the stated outcomes.
C)Follow up to verify that care for the nursing diagnosis was given.
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D)Decide whether the nursing diagnosis was accurate for the patients
condition. - ANSWER- ANS: B The evaluation phase judges whether
the interventions were effective in achieving the desired outcomes and
helped to alleviate the nursing diagnosis. This must be done before
examining the nursing process steps and revising the care plan.
A patient who is very angry and is leaving the hospital against medical
advice (AMA) demands to have the medical chart to take, because it is
her personal property. An appropriate response would be:
A) Certainly, This hospital doesn't need to keep is if you are leaving and
will not be returning here.
B) You are entitled to the information in your chart, but the chart is the
property of the hospital. I will see about having a copy made for you.
C) The information in your chart is confidential, and you cannot leave
this facility with it.
D) Because you are leaving against medical advice of your physician,
you may not have the chart. - ANSWER- ANS: B The chart is the
property of the facility, but the patient has a legal right to the
information in it even if she is leaving AMA.
A nurse enters a notation in a patients chart but then discovers that the
notation was made in the wrong chart. The nurse correctly:
A) draws a single line through the notation so that it is still readable and
writes mistaken entry, his signature, and the date and time.
B) removes the page on which the error is written and rewrites the other
correct notes
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C) blacks out the note to protect the confidentiality of the patient about
whom it was written and writes in the margin wrong patient, his
signature, and the date and time.
D) whites out the wrong entry and writes the note in the chart of the
correct patient. - ANSWER- ANS: A When an error is made, no attempt
to hide or obliterate the error should be made, because this may be
questioned in a court of law.
When the patient complains of nausea and dizziness, the nurse
recognizes these complaints as ________ data.
A) Objective
B) Medical
C) Subjective
D) Adjunct - ANSWER- ANS: C Subjective data are symptoms that
only the patient can identify.
During the assessment phase of the nursing process, the
nurse___________
A) Develops a care plan to meet the patients nursing needs.
B) Begins to formulate plans for providing nursing interventions
C) Establishes a nursing diagnosis for the nursing care plan
D) Gathers, organizes, and document data in a logical database. -
ANSWER- ANS: D Gathering and organizing data is the first step in the
assessment phase of the nursing process.
PN101: EXAM 1 ACTUAL EXAM PREP 2026
ALL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
DETAILED ANSWERS ALREADY A GRADED
WITH EXPERT FEEDBACK |CURRENTLY
TESTING |NEW AND REVISED
The nurse administering pain medication every 4 hours is an example of
which aspect of patient care?
A) Assessment data
B) Nursing diagnosis
C) Patient outcome
D) Nursing intervention - ANSWER- ANS: D Interventions are
activities that will help the patient achieve a goal, such as administering
pain-relieving medication. An example of assessment data might be,
Patient reports pain is a 5 on a 1 to 10 scale. The nursing diagnosis
would be Pain. The nurse might define the patient outcome in this
scenario as, The patient will state the level of pain is less than 4
The nurse is participating in a care plan for a patient to help prevent
Impaired Skin Integrity. She has made sure that nursing assistive
personnel change the patients position every 2 hours. In the evaluation
phase of the nursing process, which of the following would the nurse do
first?
A)Determine whether she has gathered enough assessment data.
B)Judge whether the interventions achieved the stated outcomes.
C)Follow up to verify that care for the nursing diagnosis was given.
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D)Decide whether the nursing diagnosis was accurate for the patients
condition. - ANSWER- ANS: B The evaluation phase judges whether
the interventions were effective in achieving the desired outcomes and
helped to alleviate the nursing diagnosis. This must be done before
examining the nursing process steps and revising the care plan.
A patient who is very angry and is leaving the hospital against medical
advice (AMA) demands to have the medical chart to take, because it is
her personal property. An appropriate response would be:
A) Certainly, This hospital doesn't need to keep is if you are leaving and
will not be returning here.
B) You are entitled to the information in your chart, but the chart is the
property of the hospital. I will see about having a copy made for you.
C) The information in your chart is confidential, and you cannot leave
this facility with it.
D) Because you are leaving against medical advice of your physician,
you may not have the chart. - ANSWER- ANS: B The chart is the
property of the facility, but the patient has a legal right to the
information in it even if she is leaving AMA.
A nurse enters a notation in a patients chart but then discovers that the
notation was made in the wrong chart. The nurse correctly:
A) draws a single line through the notation so that it is still readable and
writes mistaken entry, his signature, and the date and time.
B) removes the page on which the error is written and rewrites the other
correct notes
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C) blacks out the note to protect the confidentiality of the patient about
whom it was written and writes in the margin wrong patient, his
signature, and the date and time.
D) whites out the wrong entry and writes the note in the chart of the
correct patient. - ANSWER- ANS: A When an error is made, no attempt
to hide or obliterate the error should be made, because this may be
questioned in a court of law.
When the patient complains of nausea and dizziness, the nurse
recognizes these complaints as ________ data.
A) Objective
B) Medical
C) Subjective
D) Adjunct - ANSWER- ANS: C Subjective data are symptoms that
only the patient can identify.
During the assessment phase of the nursing process, the
nurse___________
A) Develops a care plan to meet the patients nursing needs.
B) Begins to formulate plans for providing nursing interventions
C) Establishes a nursing diagnosis for the nursing care plan
D) Gathers, organizes, and document data in a logical database. -
ANSWER- ANS: D Gathering and organizing data is the first step in the
assessment phase of the nursing process.
