NUR 112 EXAM 1 STUDY GUIDE & PRACTICE QUESTIONS
2026/2027
promoting self-determination - Correct answer ✔✔ Making choices about health is a
fundamental human right that promotes the individual's dignity & well-being.
primary prevention - Correct answer ✔✔ Efforts to prevent an injury or illness from ever
occurring.
secondary prevention - Correct answer ✔✔ identifying and treating disorders in the early
stages, before they become serious
Tertiary prevention - Correct answer ✔✔ rehabilitation, health restoration, and palliative care
once you have the disease already
Modifiable risk factors - Correct answer ✔✔ changeable or controllable (weight, high
cholesterol)
Non-modifiable risk factors - Correct answer ✔✔ those that cannot be changed by the
individual, such as age, gender, or family history
What is nursing? - Correct answer ✔✔ Nursing is the protection, promotion, and optimization
of health and abilities, prevention of illness and injury, alleviation of suffering through the
diagnosis and treatment of human response, and advocacy in the care of individuals, families,
communities, and populations.
Immunizing children against measles is an example of which of the following levels of
preventive care? - Correct answer ✔✔ primary
, Referring an HIV positive patient to a local support group is an example of which of the
following levels of preventive care? - Correct answer ✔✔ Tertiary
Which of the following guidelines was developed by the American Hospital Association to state
the rights and responsibilities of pateints while receiving hospital care? - Correct answer ✔✔ A.
Code of ethics
B. Patient bill of rights
C. Biomedical ethics
D. Nurses bill of rights
Non-modifiable risk factors - Correct answer ✔✔ age, gender, race, family history
A nurse who documents a procedure was completed, when it was not has committed which of
the following torts? - Correct answer ✔✔ Fraud
What is a true statement regarding the profession of nursing? - Correct answer ✔✔ A nurse's
primary goal is to promote health, prevent illness, and alleviate suffering.
Which of the following statements are true in regard to nursing being a profession. - Correct
answer ✔✔ Professions have a Code of Ethics
Professions are based on a unique theoretical body of knowledge
Members of a profession must be able to make sound judgments in their practice
A nurse is wanting to become certified in perioperative nursing. What resource should the nurse
consult to determine the requirements? - Correct answer ✔✔ Association of peri-Operative
Registered Nurses
The concept of evidence based practice is founded on what three components? - Correct
answer ✔✔ Evidence from research and theories
2026/2027
promoting self-determination - Correct answer ✔✔ Making choices about health is a
fundamental human right that promotes the individual's dignity & well-being.
primary prevention - Correct answer ✔✔ Efforts to prevent an injury or illness from ever
occurring.
secondary prevention - Correct answer ✔✔ identifying and treating disorders in the early
stages, before they become serious
Tertiary prevention - Correct answer ✔✔ rehabilitation, health restoration, and palliative care
once you have the disease already
Modifiable risk factors - Correct answer ✔✔ changeable or controllable (weight, high
cholesterol)
Non-modifiable risk factors - Correct answer ✔✔ those that cannot be changed by the
individual, such as age, gender, or family history
What is nursing? - Correct answer ✔✔ Nursing is the protection, promotion, and optimization
of health and abilities, prevention of illness and injury, alleviation of suffering through the
diagnosis and treatment of human response, and advocacy in the care of individuals, families,
communities, and populations.
Immunizing children against measles is an example of which of the following levels of
preventive care? - Correct answer ✔✔ primary
, Referring an HIV positive patient to a local support group is an example of which of the
following levels of preventive care? - Correct answer ✔✔ Tertiary
Which of the following guidelines was developed by the American Hospital Association to state
the rights and responsibilities of pateints while receiving hospital care? - Correct answer ✔✔ A.
Code of ethics
B. Patient bill of rights
C. Biomedical ethics
D. Nurses bill of rights
Non-modifiable risk factors - Correct answer ✔✔ age, gender, race, family history
A nurse who documents a procedure was completed, when it was not has committed which of
the following torts? - Correct answer ✔✔ Fraud
What is a true statement regarding the profession of nursing? - Correct answer ✔✔ A nurse's
primary goal is to promote health, prevent illness, and alleviate suffering.
Which of the following statements are true in regard to nursing being a profession. - Correct
answer ✔✔ Professions have a Code of Ethics
Professions are based on a unique theoretical body of knowledge
Members of a profession must be able to make sound judgments in their practice
A nurse is wanting to become certified in perioperative nursing. What resource should the nurse
consult to determine the requirements? - Correct answer ✔✔ Association of peri-Operative
Registered Nurses
The concept of evidence based practice is founded on what three components? - Correct
answer ✔✔ Evidence from research and theories
