NUR 334: Final Exam Practice UPDATED
ACTUAL Exam Questions and CORRECT
Answers
The ability to understand and follow directions, retain information, make decisions, solve
problems, and use language appropriately falls under which of Gordon's Functional Patterns?
A) Health Perception - Health Management Pattern
B) Cognitive - Perceptual Pattern
C) Self Perception - Self Concept Pattern
D) Coping - Stress Tolerance Pattern - CORRECT ANSWER - Answer = B
What is the purpose of gathering data on an individual's values and beliefs before implementing
a health promoting care plan?
A) Because their values may be wrong, and it is your duty to teach them what is right.
B) Because a person's values affect their behavior; and their behavior affects their health
outcomes.
C) Because you don't want to create a care plan that offends their beliefs and values. -
CORRECT ANSWER - Answer = B
According to the approaches to Family Nursing, which of the following describes 'Family as
Client'?
A) Interactional family, where all members interact and affect one another.
B) Individual as foreground, family as background.
C) Family as foreground, individual as background.
D) Family as foreground, and education, health, social, financial, and religious components of
society as background. - CORRECT ANSWER - Answer = C
Put the following components of the nursing process into correct order (number in order of #1-5)
A) Diagnosis
B) Implementing the plan
,C) Collection of data
D) Evaluation of effectiveness
E) Planning care - CORRECT ANSWER - #1 = C
#2 = A
#3 = E
#4 = B
#5 = D
Factors that explain individual variation in health or health behavior are...
A) Determinants of Health & Health Behavior
B) Gordon's Functional Health Patterns
C) Health Promotion Strategies
D) Stages of Change in Health - CORRECT ANSWER - Answer = A
Which of the following is a non-modifiable determinant of health?
A) Sal struggles with hypertension, and he consumes a diet high in sodium.
B) Sally smokes cigarettes in the park after school because that's what her friends do.
C) Johnny's mother provides him with a healthy snack every day after school.
D) Billy was just diagnosed with bipolar disorder, which his mother and grandmother also have.
- CORRECT ANSWER - Answer = D
The Health Belief Model and The Transtheoretical Model are both examples of which levels of
theory?
A) Individual
B) Interpersonal
C) Community - CORRECT ANSWER - Answer = A
According to The Health Belief Model, perceived __ minus(-) perceived __ = likelihood of
taking action to change a health behavior
, A) Susceptibility, Severity
B) Threats, Fears
C) Benefits, Barriers - CORRECT ANSWER - Answer = C
After meeting with her dietitian to discuss implementing a new diet to manage her new diagnosis
of type 2 diabetes, Darlene makes this statement, "I am going to go grocery shopping tonight and
buy the ingredients to make the diabetic-friendly muffin recipe so I won't be as tempted to eat the
chocolate cupcakes for my daughter's birthday."
according to the transtheoretical model, which stage of change is Darlene in based on her
statement?
A) The pre-contemplation stage
B) The contemplation stage
C) The preparation stage
D) The action stage - CORRECT ANSWER - Answer = C
After making friends with some of his classmates who are on the high school cross country team,
Joey decided to join the team. By the end of the school year, he had lost 15 pounds and had
reached a normal BMI. Which theory level does this represent?
A) Community
B) Interpersonal
C) Individual - CORRECT ANSWER - Answer = B
-people learn not only from their own behavior, but from observing others and the results of
those actions.
Which is the correct definition of race?
A) a categorization of people based on physical characteristics and biological heredity.
B) A social group that shares a common culture, language, history, customs, food, dress, and/or
religion.
C) Shared patterns of values/beliefs - shaped by shared beliefs of the sociocultural group. -
CORRECT ANSWER - Answer = A
ACTUAL Exam Questions and CORRECT
Answers
The ability to understand and follow directions, retain information, make decisions, solve
problems, and use language appropriately falls under which of Gordon's Functional Patterns?
A) Health Perception - Health Management Pattern
B) Cognitive - Perceptual Pattern
C) Self Perception - Self Concept Pattern
D) Coping - Stress Tolerance Pattern - CORRECT ANSWER - Answer = B
What is the purpose of gathering data on an individual's values and beliefs before implementing
a health promoting care plan?
A) Because their values may be wrong, and it is your duty to teach them what is right.
B) Because a person's values affect their behavior; and their behavior affects their health
outcomes.
C) Because you don't want to create a care plan that offends their beliefs and values. -
CORRECT ANSWER - Answer = B
According to the approaches to Family Nursing, which of the following describes 'Family as
Client'?
A) Interactional family, where all members interact and affect one another.
B) Individual as foreground, family as background.
C) Family as foreground, individual as background.
D) Family as foreground, and education, health, social, financial, and religious components of
society as background. - CORRECT ANSWER - Answer = C
Put the following components of the nursing process into correct order (number in order of #1-5)
A) Diagnosis
B) Implementing the plan
,C) Collection of data
D) Evaluation of effectiveness
E) Planning care - CORRECT ANSWER - #1 = C
#2 = A
#3 = E
#4 = B
#5 = D
Factors that explain individual variation in health or health behavior are...
A) Determinants of Health & Health Behavior
B) Gordon's Functional Health Patterns
C) Health Promotion Strategies
D) Stages of Change in Health - CORRECT ANSWER - Answer = A
Which of the following is a non-modifiable determinant of health?
A) Sal struggles with hypertension, and he consumes a diet high in sodium.
B) Sally smokes cigarettes in the park after school because that's what her friends do.
C) Johnny's mother provides him with a healthy snack every day after school.
D) Billy was just diagnosed with bipolar disorder, which his mother and grandmother also have.
- CORRECT ANSWER - Answer = D
The Health Belief Model and The Transtheoretical Model are both examples of which levels of
theory?
A) Individual
B) Interpersonal
C) Community - CORRECT ANSWER - Answer = A
According to The Health Belief Model, perceived __ minus(-) perceived __ = likelihood of
taking action to change a health behavior
, A) Susceptibility, Severity
B) Threats, Fears
C) Benefits, Barriers - CORRECT ANSWER - Answer = C
After meeting with her dietitian to discuss implementing a new diet to manage her new diagnosis
of type 2 diabetes, Darlene makes this statement, "I am going to go grocery shopping tonight and
buy the ingredients to make the diabetic-friendly muffin recipe so I won't be as tempted to eat the
chocolate cupcakes for my daughter's birthday."
according to the transtheoretical model, which stage of change is Darlene in based on her
statement?
A) The pre-contemplation stage
B) The contemplation stage
C) The preparation stage
D) The action stage - CORRECT ANSWER - Answer = C
After making friends with some of his classmates who are on the high school cross country team,
Joey decided to join the team. By the end of the school year, he had lost 15 pounds and had
reached a normal BMI. Which theory level does this represent?
A) Community
B) Interpersonal
C) Individual - CORRECT ANSWER - Answer = B
-people learn not only from their own behavior, but from observing others and the results of
those actions.
Which is the correct definition of race?
A) a categorization of people based on physical characteristics and biological heredity.
B) A social group that shares a common culture, language, history, customs, food, dress, and/or
religion.
C) Shared patterns of values/beliefs - shaped by shared beliefs of the sociocultural group. -
CORRECT ANSWER - Answer = A
