CNUR 103 FINAL EXAM REVIEW | COMPLETE NURSING STUDY GUIDE, PRACTICE
QUESTIONS & EXAM PREP 2026/2027
Holistic Nursing - ANS ✔✔A practice that aims to heal the whole person and draws on nursing
knowledge, theories, expertise and intuition to guide nurses in becoming therapeutic partners
with people in their care.
Compassion - ANS ✔✔An emotion evoked by the suffering of others, a strength that allows one
person to connect with another to acknowledge that suffering, and the desire to ease the
accompanying pain.
Empathy - ANS ✔✔The ability to truly know another person within a trusting, mutually
respectful relationship. Empathy is the most essential ingredient one must have to care for
another person.
Relational Practice - ANS ✔✔The art and skill of being able to connect with people across
differences by joining with them as they are and where they are.
Handwash - ANS ✔✔40 to 60 seconds
1. Wet hands with water
2. Apply enough soap to cover all hand surfaces
3. Rub hands palm to palm
4. Right palm over left for dorsum with interlaced fingers and vice versa
5. Palm to Palm with fingers interlaced
6. Backs of fingers to opposing palms with fingers interlocked
7. Rotational rubbing of left thumb clasped in right palm and vice versa
8. Rotational rubbing, backwards and forwards with clasped fingers of right hand in left palm
and vice versa
9. Rinse hands with water
,10. Dry hands thoroughly with a single use towel
11. Use towel to turn off faucet.
Handrub - ANS ✔✔20-30 seconds
1. Apply a palm full of the product in a cupped hand, covering all surfaces
2. Rub hands palm to palm
3. Right palm over left dorsum with interlaced fingers and vice versa
4. Palm to Palm with fingers interlaced
5. Backs of fingers to opposing palms with fingers interlocked
6. Rotational rubbing of left thumb clasped in right palm and vice versa
7. Rotational rubbing, backwards and forwards with clasped fingers of right hand in left palm
and vice versa
8. Once dry, hands are safe
Critical Thinking - ANS ✔✔A combination of skills and dispositions to maximize one's ability to
purposely reflect and think deeply.
Evidence-based Practice - ANS ✔✔The use of various types of knowledge to guide ones practice
in the clinical setting toward the goal of quality patient care outcomes.
Nursing Process - ANS ✔✔A systematic and rational method of planning and providing patient
care organized around a series of phases that facilitates evidence-informed, and ethical nursing
practice.
1. Assessment
2. Nursing Diagnosis
3. Planning
4. Implementation
5. Evaluation
, Synthesis - ANS ✔✔Combining assessment data, nursing knowledge, and clinical experience to
determine the provision of care.
Assessment - ANS ✔✔A systematic and ongoing process of gathering, organizing, validating, and
documenting data related to the patients health status through inquiry, collaboration, and using
various resources.
Diagnosis - ANS ✔✔Involves analyzing data, identifying health problems and risks, as well as
strengths, and formulating diagnostic statements.
Nursing Diagnosis - ANS ✔✔A clinical judgement that identifies a patient's response to actual or
potential health problems.
Interventions - ANS ✔✔Planned nursing actions taken to address patient or family needs,
working toward previously established collaborative goals for patient or family outcomes.
Prioritizing - ANS ✔✔Using nursing knowledge and experience to determine which patient
needs are most important and what care will be given at a particular time.
Implementation - ANS ✔✔An intentional effort to achieve the goals related to the patients
health status.
Objective Data - ANS ✔✔The information collected from examining the patient and from the
patients chart and medical records that is measurable and evaluated against a standard which is
considered the norm.
Subjective Data - ANS ✔✔The information collected during an interview or conversation from
listening to the experiences of the patient or a family member.
QUESTIONS & EXAM PREP 2026/2027
Holistic Nursing - ANS ✔✔A practice that aims to heal the whole person and draws on nursing
knowledge, theories, expertise and intuition to guide nurses in becoming therapeutic partners
with people in their care.
Compassion - ANS ✔✔An emotion evoked by the suffering of others, a strength that allows one
person to connect with another to acknowledge that suffering, and the desire to ease the
accompanying pain.
Empathy - ANS ✔✔The ability to truly know another person within a trusting, mutually
respectful relationship. Empathy is the most essential ingredient one must have to care for
another person.
Relational Practice - ANS ✔✔The art and skill of being able to connect with people across
differences by joining with them as they are and where they are.
Handwash - ANS ✔✔40 to 60 seconds
1. Wet hands with water
2. Apply enough soap to cover all hand surfaces
3. Rub hands palm to palm
4. Right palm over left for dorsum with interlaced fingers and vice versa
5. Palm to Palm with fingers interlaced
6. Backs of fingers to opposing palms with fingers interlocked
7. Rotational rubbing of left thumb clasped in right palm and vice versa
8. Rotational rubbing, backwards and forwards with clasped fingers of right hand in left palm
and vice versa
9. Rinse hands with water
,10. Dry hands thoroughly with a single use towel
11. Use towel to turn off faucet.
Handrub - ANS ✔✔20-30 seconds
1. Apply a palm full of the product in a cupped hand, covering all surfaces
2. Rub hands palm to palm
3. Right palm over left dorsum with interlaced fingers and vice versa
4. Palm to Palm with fingers interlaced
5. Backs of fingers to opposing palms with fingers interlocked
6. Rotational rubbing of left thumb clasped in right palm and vice versa
7. Rotational rubbing, backwards and forwards with clasped fingers of right hand in left palm
and vice versa
8. Once dry, hands are safe
Critical Thinking - ANS ✔✔A combination of skills and dispositions to maximize one's ability to
purposely reflect and think deeply.
Evidence-based Practice - ANS ✔✔The use of various types of knowledge to guide ones practice
in the clinical setting toward the goal of quality patient care outcomes.
Nursing Process - ANS ✔✔A systematic and rational method of planning and providing patient
care organized around a series of phases that facilitates evidence-informed, and ethical nursing
practice.
1. Assessment
2. Nursing Diagnosis
3. Planning
4. Implementation
5. Evaluation
, Synthesis - ANS ✔✔Combining assessment data, nursing knowledge, and clinical experience to
determine the provision of care.
Assessment - ANS ✔✔A systematic and ongoing process of gathering, organizing, validating, and
documenting data related to the patients health status through inquiry, collaboration, and using
various resources.
Diagnosis - ANS ✔✔Involves analyzing data, identifying health problems and risks, as well as
strengths, and formulating diagnostic statements.
Nursing Diagnosis - ANS ✔✔A clinical judgement that identifies a patient's response to actual or
potential health problems.
Interventions - ANS ✔✔Planned nursing actions taken to address patient or family needs,
working toward previously established collaborative goals for patient or family outcomes.
Prioritizing - ANS ✔✔Using nursing knowledge and experience to determine which patient
needs are most important and what care will be given at a particular time.
Implementation - ANS ✔✔An intentional effort to achieve the goals related to the patients
health status.
Objective Data - ANS ✔✔The information collected from examining the patient and from the
patients chart and medical records that is measurable and evaluated against a standard which is
considered the norm.
Subjective Data - ANS ✔✔The information collected during an interview or conversation from
listening to the experiences of the patient or a family member.
