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FOUNDATION OF NURSING PRACTICE TEST
QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT ANSWERS
Using the principles of standard precautions, the nurse would wear gloves in
what nursing interventions?
a. Providing a back massage
b. Feeding a client
c. Providing hair care
d. Providing oral hygiene
The nurse is preparing to take vital sign in an alert client admitted to the
hospital with dehydration secondary to vomiting and diarrhea. What is the
best method used to assess the client’s temperature?
a. Oral
b. Axillary
c. Radial
d. Heat sensitive tape
A nurse obtained a client’s pulse and found the rate to be above normal. The
nurse document this findings as:
a. Tachypnea
b. Hyper pyrexia
c. Arrythmia
d. Tachycardia
Which of the following actions should the nurse take to use a wide base
support when assisting a client to get up in a chair?
a. Bend at the waist and place arms under the client’s arms and lift
b. Face the client, bend knees and place hands on client’s forearm
and lift
c. Spread his or her feet apart
d. Tighten his or her pelvic muscles
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a. Oral
b. Axillary
c. Arterial line
d. Rectal
A client who is unconscious needs frequent mouth care. When performing a
mouth care, the best position of a client is:
a. Fowler’s position
b. Side lying
c. Supine
d. Trendelenburg
A client is hospitalized for the first time, which of the following actions ensure
the safety of the client?
a. Keep unnecessary furniture out of the way
b. Keep the lights on at all time
c. Keep side rails up at all time
d. Keep all equipment out of view
A walk-in client enters into the clinic with a chief complaint of abdominal pain
and diarrhea. The nurse takes the client’s vital sign hereafter. What phrase of
nursing process is being implemented here by the nurse?
a. Assessment
b. Diagnosis
c. Planning
d. Implementation
It is best describe as a systematic, rational method of planning and providing
nursing care for individual, families, group and community
a. Assessment
b. Nursing Process
c. Diagnosis
d. Implementation
Exchange of gases takes place in which of the following organ?
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d. Heart
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The Chamber of the heart that receives oxygenated blood from the lungs is
the?
a. Left atrium
b. Right atrium
c. Left ventricle
d. Right ventricle
A muscular enlarge pouch or sac that lies slightly to the left which is used for
temporary storage of food…
a. Gallbladder
b. Urinary bladder
c. Stomach
d. Lungs
The ability of the body to defend itself against scientific invading agent such as
baceria, toxin, viruses and foreign body
a. Hormones
b. Secretion
c. Immunity
d. Glands
Hormones secreted by Islets of Langerhans
a. Progesterone
b. Testosterone
c. Insulin
d. Hemoglobin
It is a transparent membrane that focuses the light that enters the eyes to
the retina.
a. Lens
b. Sclera
c. Cornea
d. Pupils
FOUNDATION OF NURSING PRACTICE TEST
QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT ANSWERS
Using the principles of standard precautions, the nurse would wear gloves in
what nursing interventions?
a. Providing a back massage
b. Feeding a client
c. Providing hair care
d. Providing oral hygiene
The nurse is preparing to take vital sign in an alert client admitted to the
hospital with dehydration secondary to vomiting and diarrhea. What is the
best method used to assess the client’s temperature?
a. Oral
b. Axillary
c. Radial
d. Heat sensitive tape
A nurse obtained a client’s pulse and found the rate to be above normal. The
nurse document this findings as:
a. Tachypnea
b. Hyper pyrexia
c. Arrythmia
d. Tachycardia
Which of the following actions should the nurse take to use a wide base
support when assisting a client to get up in a chair?
a. Bend at the waist and place arms under the client’s arms and lift
b. Face the client, bend knees and place hands on client’s forearm
and lift
c. Spread his or her feet apart
d. Tighten his or her pelvic muscles
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a. Oral
b. Axillary
c. Arterial line
d. Rectal
A client who is unconscious needs frequent mouth care. When performing a
mouth care, the best position of a client is:
a. Fowler’s position
b. Side lying
c. Supine
d. Trendelenburg
A client is hospitalized for the first time, which of the following actions ensure
the safety of the client?
a. Keep unnecessary furniture out of the way
b. Keep the lights on at all time
c. Keep side rails up at all time
d. Keep all equipment out of view
A walk-in client enters into the clinic with a chief complaint of abdominal pain
and diarrhea. The nurse takes the client’s vital sign hereafter. What phrase of
nursing process is being implemented here by the nurse?
a. Assessment
b. Diagnosis
c. Planning
d. Implementation
It is best describe as a systematic, rational method of planning and providing
nursing care for individual, families, group and community
a. Assessment
b. Nursing Process
c. Diagnosis
d. Implementation
Exchange of gases takes place in which of the following organ?
,3
d. Heart
, 4
The Chamber of the heart that receives oxygenated blood from the lungs is
the?
a. Left atrium
b. Right atrium
c. Left ventricle
d. Right ventricle
A muscular enlarge pouch or sac that lies slightly to the left which is used for
temporary storage of food…
a. Gallbladder
b. Urinary bladder
c. Stomach
d. Lungs
The ability of the body to defend itself against scientific invading agent such as
baceria, toxin, viruses and foreign body
a. Hormones
b. Secretion
c. Immunity
d. Glands
Hormones secreted by Islets of Langerhans
a. Progesterone
b. Testosterone
c. Insulin
d. Hemoglobin
It is a transparent membrane that focuses the light that enters the eyes to
the retina.
a. Lens
b. Sclera
c. Cornea
d. Pupils
