ADULT HEALTH NURSING
EXAM PRACTICE QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS 2026
2. A nurse is speaking to a group of prospective nursing students about what it is like to be a nurse.
What is
one characteristic the nurse would cite as necessary to possess to be an effective nurse?
A) Sensitivity to cultural differences
B) Team-focused approach to problem-solving
C) Strict adherence to routine
D) Ability to face criticism - CORRECT ANSWER:-
Ans: A Feedback:
To promote an effective nurse-patient relationship and positive outcomes of care, nursing care
must be culturally competent, appropriate, and sensitive to cultural differences. Team-focused
nursing and strict adherence to routine are not characteristics needed to be an effective nurse.
The ability to handle criticism is important, but to a lesser degree than cultural competence.
6. A group of nursing students are participating in a community health clinic. When providing
care in this context, what should the students teach participants about disease prevention?
A) It is best achieved through attending self-help groups.
B) It is best achieved by reducing psychological stress.
C) It is best achieved by being an active participant in the community.
D) It is best achieved by exhibiting behaviors that promote health. - CORRECT
ANSWER:-Ans: D Feedback:
,Today, increasing emphasis is placed on health, health promotion, wellness, and self-care.
Health is seen as resulting from a lifestyle oriented toward wellness. Nurses in community
health clinics do not teach that disease prevention is best achieved through attending self-help
groups, by reducing stress, or by being an active participant in the community, though each of
these activities is consistent with a healthy lifestyle.
8. Nurses in acute care settings must work with other health care team members to maintain
quality care
while facing pressures to care for patients who are hospitalized for shorter periods of time
than in the past. To ensure positive health outcomes when patients return to their homes,
what action should the nurse prioritize?
A) Promotion of health literacy during hospitalization
B) Close communication with insurers
C) Thorough and evidence-based discharge planning
D) Participation in continuing education initiatives - CORRECT ANSWER:-
Ans: C Feedback:
Following discharges that occur after increasingly short hospital stays, nurses in the community
care for patients who need high-technology acute care services as well as long-term care in the
home. This is dependent on effective discharge planning to a greater degree than continuing
education, communication with insurers, or promotion of health literacy.
9. You are admitting a patient to your medical unit after the patient has been transferred
from the emergency department. What is your priority nursing action at this time?
A) Identifying the immediate needs of the patient
B) Checking the admitting physicians orders
C) Obtaining a baseline set of vital signs
D) Allowing the family to be with the patient - CORRECT ANSWER:-
Ans: A Feedback:
,Among the nurses important functions in health care delivery, identifying the patients immediate
needs and working in concert with the patient to address them is most important. The other
nursing functions are important, but they are not the most important functions.
12. Nurses now have the option to practice in a variety of settings and one of the fastest growing
venues of practice for the nurse in todays health care environment is home health care. What is
the main basis for
Test Bank - Brunner & Suddarth's Textbook of Medical-Surgical Nursing 14e (Hinkle
2017) 8 the growth in this health care setting?
A) Chronic nursing shortage
B) Western focus on treatment of disease
C) Nurses preferences for day shifts instead of evening or night shifts
D) Discharge of patients who are more critically ill - CORRECT ANSWER:-
Ans: D Feedback:
With shorter hospital stays and increased use of outpatient health care services, more nursing
care is provided in the home and community setting. The other answers are incorrect because
they are not the basis for the growth in nursing care delivered in the home setting.
13. Nurses have different educational backgrounds and function under many titles in their
practice setting. If
a nurse practicing in an oncology clinic had the goal of improving patient outcomes and nursing
care by influencing the patient, the nurse, and the health care system, what would most accurately
describe this nurses title?
A) Nursing care expert
B) Clinical nurse specialist
C) Nurse manager
D) Staff nurse - CORRECT ANSWER:-
Ans: B Feedback:
, Clinical nurse specialists are prepared as specialists who practice within a circumscribed area
of care (e.g., cardiovascular, oncology). They define their roles as having five major
components: clinical practice, education, management, consultation, and research. The other
answers are incorrect because they are not the most accurate titles for this nurse.
15. A hospice nurse is caring for a patient who is dying of lymphoma. According to Maslows
hierarchy of
needs, what dimension of care should the nurse consider primary in importance when caring for a
dying patient?
A) Spiritual
B) Social
C) Physiologic
D) Emotional - CORRECT ANSWER:-
Ans: C Feedback:
Maslow ranked human needs as follows: physiologic needs; safety and security; sense of
belonging and affection; esteem and self-respect; and self-actualization, which includes self-
fulfillment, desire to know and understand, and aesthetic needs. Such a hierarchy of needs is a
useful framework that can be applied to the various nursing models for assessment of a
patients strengths, limitations, and need for nursing interventions. The other answers are
incorrect because they are not of primary importance when caring for a dying patient, though
each should certainly be addressed.
16. A nurse is planning a medical patients care with consideration of Maslows hierarchy of
needs. Within this framework of understanding, what would be the nurses first priority?
A) Allowing the family to see a newly admitted patient
B) Ambulating the patient in the hallway
C) Administering pain medication
Test Bank - Brunner & Suddarth's Textbook of Medical-Surgical Nursing 14e (Hinkle 2017) 10
D) Teaching the patient to self-administer insulin safely - CORRECT
ANSWER:-Ans: C Feedback:
EXAM PRACTICE QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS 2026
2. A nurse is speaking to a group of prospective nursing students about what it is like to be a nurse.
What is
one characteristic the nurse would cite as necessary to possess to be an effective nurse?
A) Sensitivity to cultural differences
B) Team-focused approach to problem-solving
C) Strict adherence to routine
D) Ability to face criticism - CORRECT ANSWER:-
Ans: A Feedback:
To promote an effective nurse-patient relationship and positive outcomes of care, nursing care
must be culturally competent, appropriate, and sensitive to cultural differences. Team-focused
nursing and strict adherence to routine are not characteristics needed to be an effective nurse.
The ability to handle criticism is important, but to a lesser degree than cultural competence.
6. A group of nursing students are participating in a community health clinic. When providing
care in this context, what should the students teach participants about disease prevention?
A) It is best achieved through attending self-help groups.
B) It is best achieved by reducing psychological stress.
C) It is best achieved by being an active participant in the community.
D) It is best achieved by exhibiting behaviors that promote health. - CORRECT
ANSWER:-Ans: D Feedback:
,Today, increasing emphasis is placed on health, health promotion, wellness, and self-care.
Health is seen as resulting from a lifestyle oriented toward wellness. Nurses in community
health clinics do not teach that disease prevention is best achieved through attending self-help
groups, by reducing stress, or by being an active participant in the community, though each of
these activities is consistent with a healthy lifestyle.
8. Nurses in acute care settings must work with other health care team members to maintain
quality care
while facing pressures to care for patients who are hospitalized for shorter periods of time
than in the past. To ensure positive health outcomes when patients return to their homes,
what action should the nurse prioritize?
A) Promotion of health literacy during hospitalization
B) Close communication with insurers
C) Thorough and evidence-based discharge planning
D) Participation in continuing education initiatives - CORRECT ANSWER:-
Ans: C Feedback:
Following discharges that occur after increasingly short hospital stays, nurses in the community
care for patients who need high-technology acute care services as well as long-term care in the
home. This is dependent on effective discharge planning to a greater degree than continuing
education, communication with insurers, or promotion of health literacy.
9. You are admitting a patient to your medical unit after the patient has been transferred
from the emergency department. What is your priority nursing action at this time?
A) Identifying the immediate needs of the patient
B) Checking the admitting physicians orders
C) Obtaining a baseline set of vital signs
D) Allowing the family to be with the patient - CORRECT ANSWER:-
Ans: A Feedback:
,Among the nurses important functions in health care delivery, identifying the patients immediate
needs and working in concert with the patient to address them is most important. The other
nursing functions are important, but they are not the most important functions.
12. Nurses now have the option to practice in a variety of settings and one of the fastest growing
venues of practice for the nurse in todays health care environment is home health care. What is
the main basis for
Test Bank - Brunner & Suddarth's Textbook of Medical-Surgical Nursing 14e (Hinkle
2017) 8 the growth in this health care setting?
A) Chronic nursing shortage
B) Western focus on treatment of disease
C) Nurses preferences for day shifts instead of evening or night shifts
D) Discharge of patients who are more critically ill - CORRECT ANSWER:-
Ans: D Feedback:
With shorter hospital stays and increased use of outpatient health care services, more nursing
care is provided in the home and community setting. The other answers are incorrect because
they are not the basis for the growth in nursing care delivered in the home setting.
13. Nurses have different educational backgrounds and function under many titles in their
practice setting. If
a nurse practicing in an oncology clinic had the goal of improving patient outcomes and nursing
care by influencing the patient, the nurse, and the health care system, what would most accurately
describe this nurses title?
A) Nursing care expert
B) Clinical nurse specialist
C) Nurse manager
D) Staff nurse - CORRECT ANSWER:-
Ans: B Feedback:
, Clinical nurse specialists are prepared as specialists who practice within a circumscribed area
of care (e.g., cardiovascular, oncology). They define their roles as having five major
components: clinical practice, education, management, consultation, and research. The other
answers are incorrect because they are not the most accurate titles for this nurse.
15. A hospice nurse is caring for a patient who is dying of lymphoma. According to Maslows
hierarchy of
needs, what dimension of care should the nurse consider primary in importance when caring for a
dying patient?
A) Spiritual
B) Social
C) Physiologic
D) Emotional - CORRECT ANSWER:-
Ans: C Feedback:
Maslow ranked human needs as follows: physiologic needs; safety and security; sense of
belonging and affection; esteem and self-respect; and self-actualization, which includes self-
fulfillment, desire to know and understand, and aesthetic needs. Such a hierarchy of needs is a
useful framework that can be applied to the various nursing models for assessment of a
patients strengths, limitations, and need for nursing interventions. The other answers are
incorrect because they are not of primary importance when caring for a dying patient, though
each should certainly be addressed.
16. A nurse is planning a medical patients care with consideration of Maslows hierarchy of
needs. Within this framework of understanding, what would be the nurses first priority?
A) Allowing the family to see a newly admitted patient
B) Ambulating the patient in the hallway
C) Administering pain medication
Test Bank - Brunner & Suddarth's Textbook of Medical-Surgical Nursing 14e (Hinkle 2017) 10
D) Teaching the patient to self-administer insulin safely - CORRECT
ANSWER:-Ans: C Feedback:
