ATI CMS Fundamentals Proctored Exam – 2025/2026 Edition
Topic 1: Healthcare Delivery Systems & Levels of Care
Q1. A nurse is discussing restorative health care with a newly licensed nurse.
Which examples should the nurse include? (Select all that apply.)
A. Home health care
B. Rehabilitation facilities
C. Diagnostic centers
D. Skilled nursing facilities
E. Oncology centers
Answer: A, B, D
Rationale: Restorative health care involves intermediate follow-up care for restoring
health and promoting self-care. Home health care, rehabilitation facilities, and skilled
nursing facilities are all types of restorative health care. Diagnostic centers and oncology
centers are examples of secondary health care.
Q2. A nurse is explaining levels of health care services. Which examples should the
nurse classify as tertiary care? (Select all that apply.)
A. Intensive care unit
B. Oncology treatment center
C. Burn center
D. Cardiac rehabilitation
E. Home health care
Answer: A, B, C
Rationale: Tertiary health care involves specialized and highly technical care. Intensive
care units, oncology treatment centers, and burn centers provide this level of care.
Cardiac rehabilitation and home health care are restorative care.
,Q3. Which action should the nurse include as a primary health care strategy for
managing obesity?
A. Collaborating with providers to perform obesity screenings during routine office visits
B. Ensuring availability of specialized beds in rehabilitation centers for obese clients
C. Providing specialized intraoperative training for obesity treatments
D. Educating acute care nurses about postoperative complications related to obesity
Answer: A
Rationale: Primary health care emphasizes health promotion and disease control, often
delivered during office visits. Obesity screenings during routine visits help identify
clients at risk before complications develop.
Topic 2: Ethical & Legal Issues
Q4. A nurse observes an assistive personnel (AP) reprimanding a client for not
using the urinal properly. The AP threatens to use diapers next time. Which tort is
the AP committing?
A. Assault
B. Battery
C. False imprisonment
D. Invasion of privacy
Answer: A
Rationale: Assault is the intentional threat to cause bodily harm that makes another
person fearful. By threatening the client, the AP is committing assault. Battery is actual
physical harm.
Q5. A nurse is preparing to administer a PRN sedative medication a client has not
requested because the nurse believes leaving the hospital is not in the client's best
interest. Which tort is the nurse about to commit?
A. Assault
B. Battery
C. False imprisonment
D. Invasion of privacy
Answer: A
, Rationale: Assault occurs when a person puts another in immediate fear of harmful or
offensive contact. By threatening to administer medication the client has not requested,
the nurse commits assault.
Q6. A nurse questions a medication prescription as too extreme given the client's
advanced age and unstable status. This action exemplifies which ethical principle?
A. Fidelity
B. Autonomy
C. Justice
D. Nonmaleficence
Answer: D
Rationale: Nonmaleficence is the duty to do no harm. By questioning a potentially
harmful prescription, the nurse is protecting the client from harm.
Q7. A nurse is caring for a competent adult client who says, "I am leaving the
hospital whether the doctor discharges me or not." If the nurse prevents the client
from leaving, which tort may be committed?
A. Assault
B. Battery
C. False imprisonment
D. Invasion of privacy
Answer: C
Rationale: False imprisonment is the unjustified restraint of a person without legal
warrant. A competent adult has the right to leave even against medical advice.
Q8. Which tasks are the responsibility of state licensing boards?
A. Monitoring evidence-based practice for specific diagnoses
B. Ensuring health care providers comply with regulations
C. Setting quality standards for health care facility accreditation
D. Determining medication safety for administration
Answer: B
Rationale: State licensing boards are responsible for ensuring that health care providers
and agencies comply with state regulations.
Topic 1: Healthcare Delivery Systems & Levels of Care
Q1. A nurse is discussing restorative health care with a newly licensed nurse.
Which examples should the nurse include? (Select all that apply.)
A. Home health care
B. Rehabilitation facilities
C. Diagnostic centers
D. Skilled nursing facilities
E. Oncology centers
Answer: A, B, D
Rationale: Restorative health care involves intermediate follow-up care for restoring
health and promoting self-care. Home health care, rehabilitation facilities, and skilled
nursing facilities are all types of restorative health care. Diagnostic centers and oncology
centers are examples of secondary health care.
Q2. A nurse is explaining levels of health care services. Which examples should the
nurse classify as tertiary care? (Select all that apply.)
A. Intensive care unit
B. Oncology treatment center
C. Burn center
D. Cardiac rehabilitation
E. Home health care
Answer: A, B, C
Rationale: Tertiary health care involves specialized and highly technical care. Intensive
care units, oncology treatment centers, and burn centers provide this level of care.
Cardiac rehabilitation and home health care are restorative care.
,Q3. Which action should the nurse include as a primary health care strategy for
managing obesity?
A. Collaborating with providers to perform obesity screenings during routine office visits
B. Ensuring availability of specialized beds in rehabilitation centers for obese clients
C. Providing specialized intraoperative training for obesity treatments
D. Educating acute care nurses about postoperative complications related to obesity
Answer: A
Rationale: Primary health care emphasizes health promotion and disease control, often
delivered during office visits. Obesity screenings during routine visits help identify
clients at risk before complications develop.
Topic 2: Ethical & Legal Issues
Q4. A nurse observes an assistive personnel (AP) reprimanding a client for not
using the urinal properly. The AP threatens to use diapers next time. Which tort is
the AP committing?
A. Assault
B. Battery
C. False imprisonment
D. Invasion of privacy
Answer: A
Rationale: Assault is the intentional threat to cause bodily harm that makes another
person fearful. By threatening the client, the AP is committing assault. Battery is actual
physical harm.
Q5. A nurse is preparing to administer a PRN sedative medication a client has not
requested because the nurse believes leaving the hospital is not in the client's best
interest. Which tort is the nurse about to commit?
A. Assault
B. Battery
C. False imprisonment
D. Invasion of privacy
Answer: A
, Rationale: Assault occurs when a person puts another in immediate fear of harmful or
offensive contact. By threatening to administer medication the client has not requested,
the nurse commits assault.
Q6. A nurse questions a medication prescription as too extreme given the client's
advanced age and unstable status. This action exemplifies which ethical principle?
A. Fidelity
B. Autonomy
C. Justice
D. Nonmaleficence
Answer: D
Rationale: Nonmaleficence is the duty to do no harm. By questioning a potentially
harmful prescription, the nurse is protecting the client from harm.
Q7. A nurse is caring for a competent adult client who says, "I am leaving the
hospital whether the doctor discharges me or not." If the nurse prevents the client
from leaving, which tort may be committed?
A. Assault
B. Battery
C. False imprisonment
D. Invasion of privacy
Answer: C
Rationale: False imprisonment is the unjustified restraint of a person without legal
warrant. A competent adult has the right to leave even against medical advice.
Q8. Which tasks are the responsibility of state licensing boards?
A. Monitoring evidence-based practice for specific diagnoses
B. Ensuring health care providers comply with regulations
C. Setting quality standards for health care facility accreditation
D. Determining medication safety for administration
Answer: B
Rationale: State licensing boards are responsible for ensuring that health care providers
and agencies comply with state regulations.
