FOUNDATIONS OF NURSING
COMPREHENSIVE EXAM PREP STUDY
GUIDE 2026
◉ What is PPE?. Answer: personal protective equipment
◉ Name the 5 rights of medication administration. Answer: Right
person, right medication, right dose, right time, and right route.
◉ If your Foley catheter touches outside the sterile field, what should
you do?. Answer: Start over.
◉ Name an intervention to prevent falls in the hospital. Answer: Place
call light in reach, safety rounds, keep floors clear
◉ What is the name of the scoring tool used for falls?. Answer: Morse
Fall scale
◉ What is the most important item we can do for our patients at
discharge?. Answer: Educate
◉ Name 2 items that can influence a persons hygiene.. Answer: Culture,
preference. religion, spirituality, living environment
◉ What is the thicker outer layer of the skin called?. Answer: Epidermis
, ◉ What is the main function of the skin?. Answer: It is the body's first
line of protection
◉ What are the 5 functions of the skin?. Answer: Protection, Sensation,
Regulation, Secretion/excretion, and Vitamin-D formation
◉ What is a bluish coloring of the skin caused by decreased peripheral
circulation?. Answer: Cyanosis
◉ Erythema is what?. Answer: A redness of the skin
◉ Why is it important to keep the skin dry?. Answer: To decrease
breakdown.
◉ What is perineal care. Answer: Cleansing of the genital and rectal
areas; also called peri-care
◉ Diabetics can get what, in their feet, causing them to not feel injury?.
Answer: Neuropathy
◉ What is the correct way to clean a client's eyes?. Answer: From the
inner to the outer canthus.
◉ When placing an NG tube, what assessment of the nose should be
made?. Answer: Patency of the nostril
COMPREHENSIVE EXAM PREP STUDY
GUIDE 2026
◉ What is PPE?. Answer: personal protective equipment
◉ Name the 5 rights of medication administration. Answer: Right
person, right medication, right dose, right time, and right route.
◉ If your Foley catheter touches outside the sterile field, what should
you do?. Answer: Start over.
◉ Name an intervention to prevent falls in the hospital. Answer: Place
call light in reach, safety rounds, keep floors clear
◉ What is the name of the scoring tool used for falls?. Answer: Morse
Fall scale
◉ What is the most important item we can do for our patients at
discharge?. Answer: Educate
◉ Name 2 items that can influence a persons hygiene.. Answer: Culture,
preference. religion, spirituality, living environment
◉ What is the thicker outer layer of the skin called?. Answer: Epidermis
, ◉ What is the main function of the skin?. Answer: It is the body's first
line of protection
◉ What are the 5 functions of the skin?. Answer: Protection, Sensation,
Regulation, Secretion/excretion, and Vitamin-D formation
◉ What is a bluish coloring of the skin caused by decreased peripheral
circulation?. Answer: Cyanosis
◉ Erythema is what?. Answer: A redness of the skin
◉ Why is it important to keep the skin dry?. Answer: To decrease
breakdown.
◉ What is perineal care. Answer: Cleansing of the genital and rectal
areas; also called peri-care
◉ Diabetics can get what, in their feet, causing them to not feel injury?.
Answer: Neuropathy
◉ What is the correct way to clean a client's eyes?. Answer: From the
inner to the outer canthus.
◉ When placing an NG tube, what assessment of the nose should be
made?. Answer: Patency of the nostril
