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LPN TO RN MIDTERMS EXAM 2026 ALL
QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED ANSWERS
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Technical skills - ANSWER- enable nurses to manipulate equipment to
produce desired outcome
Interpersonal skills - ANSWER- involve caring relationships
Ethical/legal skills - ANSWER- enable nurses to conduct themselves
morally and professionally
Nursing aims - ANSWER- promote health, prevent illness, restore
health, facilitate coping with disability or death
Advocate - ANSWER- a nurse who explains a surgical procedure to a
patient in order to obtain informed consent is fulfilling the role of
Nurse practice acts - ANSWER- what defines legal scope of nursing
practice
Nurse practice acts - ANSWER- regulate the practice of nursing,
including education and licensure
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Nursing process - ANSWER- a guideline for nurisng practice, enabling
nurses to impliment their roles
ANA standards of nursing practice - ANSWER- protect and allow
nurses to carry out professional roles
National League of Nursing - ANSWER- fosters developement and
improvement of nursing services
Nursing as a professional discipline - ANSWER- well-defined body of
specific and unique knowledge
Strong service orientation
Recognized authority by a professional group
Code of ethics
Professional organization that sets standards
Ongoing research
Autonomy and self-regulation
General Systems Theory - ANSWER- this theory describes how to break
whole things into parts and learn how the parts work together in
"systems"
Sources of Knowledge - ANSWER- traditional, authoritative (expert),
scientific
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Types of nursing knowledge - ANSWER- science (in and of nursing),
philosophy (wisdom, fundamental knowledge) , and process (conceptual
framework)
Influences on Nursing Knowledge - ANSWER- Historical, societal
(schools of nursing)
Process - ANSWER- a series of actions or steps taken in order to
achieve a particular end.
Theory - ANSWER- a group of concepts that describe a pattern of
reality
Concepts - ANSWER- abstract impressions organized into symbols of
reality
Deductive reasoning - ANSWER- examines the general ideas and
consider a specific actions or idea
Build data to prove it
Inductive reasoning - ANSWER- specific to general
Builds from specific ideas to conclusions about general ideas
Adaptation Theory - ANSWER- adjustment of living matter to other
living things and environment
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Developmental theory - ANSWER- orderly and predictable growth and
development from conception to death
Benefits of nursing theory - ANSWER- Directs nurses toward common
goal
Leads to improved patient care
Provides rational and knowledgeable reasons for nursing actions
Gives nurses knowledge base necessary for appropriate actions
Helps resolve current nursing issues
Prepares nurses to question assumptions and values
Serves research, education, and practice
Goals of Nursing Research - ANSWER- 1-Improve care of people in
clinical setting
2-Study people and the nursing process
A-Education
B-Policy development
C-Ethics
D-Nursing history
3-Develop greater autonomy and strength as a profession
4-Provide evidence-based nursing practice
LPN TO RN MIDTERMS EXAM 2026 ALL
QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED ANSWERS
|RATED A+ |NEW AND REVISED
Technical skills - ANSWER- enable nurses to manipulate equipment to
produce desired outcome
Interpersonal skills - ANSWER- involve caring relationships
Ethical/legal skills - ANSWER- enable nurses to conduct themselves
morally and professionally
Nursing aims - ANSWER- promote health, prevent illness, restore
health, facilitate coping with disability or death
Advocate - ANSWER- a nurse who explains a surgical procedure to a
patient in order to obtain informed consent is fulfilling the role of
Nurse practice acts - ANSWER- what defines legal scope of nursing
practice
Nurse practice acts - ANSWER- regulate the practice of nursing,
including education and licensure
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Nursing process - ANSWER- a guideline for nurisng practice, enabling
nurses to impliment their roles
ANA standards of nursing practice - ANSWER- protect and allow
nurses to carry out professional roles
National League of Nursing - ANSWER- fosters developement and
improvement of nursing services
Nursing as a professional discipline - ANSWER- well-defined body of
specific and unique knowledge
Strong service orientation
Recognized authority by a professional group
Code of ethics
Professional organization that sets standards
Ongoing research
Autonomy and self-regulation
General Systems Theory - ANSWER- this theory describes how to break
whole things into parts and learn how the parts work together in
"systems"
Sources of Knowledge - ANSWER- traditional, authoritative (expert),
scientific
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Types of nursing knowledge - ANSWER- science (in and of nursing),
philosophy (wisdom, fundamental knowledge) , and process (conceptual
framework)
Influences on Nursing Knowledge - ANSWER- Historical, societal
(schools of nursing)
Process - ANSWER- a series of actions or steps taken in order to
achieve a particular end.
Theory - ANSWER- a group of concepts that describe a pattern of
reality
Concepts - ANSWER- abstract impressions organized into symbols of
reality
Deductive reasoning - ANSWER- examines the general ideas and
consider a specific actions or idea
Build data to prove it
Inductive reasoning - ANSWER- specific to general
Builds from specific ideas to conclusions about general ideas
Adaptation Theory - ANSWER- adjustment of living matter to other
living things and environment
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Developmental theory - ANSWER- orderly and predictable growth and
development from conception to death
Benefits of nursing theory - ANSWER- Directs nurses toward common
goal
Leads to improved patient care
Provides rational and knowledgeable reasons for nursing actions
Gives nurses knowledge base necessary for appropriate actions
Helps resolve current nursing issues
Prepares nurses to question assumptions and values
Serves research, education, and practice
Goals of Nursing Research - ANSWER- 1-Improve care of people in
clinical setting
2-Study people and the nursing process
A-Education
B-Policy development
C-Ethics
D-Nursing history
3-Develop greater autonomy and strength as a profession
4-Provide evidence-based nursing practice
