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PNM FINAL EXAM NEWEST 2025 /PNM FINAL
EXAM PRACTICE QUESTIONS EXAM COMPLETE
ALL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS WITH
ANSWERS
Chapter 1
1. You are preparing a presentation for your classmates
regarding the clinical care coordination conference for a
patient with terminal cancer. As part of the preparation
you have your classmates read the Nursing Code of
Ethics for Professional Registered Nurses. Your instructor
asks the class why this document is important. Which
statement best describes this code?
1. Improves self-health care
2. Protects the patient's confidentiality
3. Ensures identical care to all patients
4. Defines the principles of right and wrong to provide
patient care - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ Answer:
4. When giving care, it is essential to provide a
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specified service according to standards of practice and
to follow a code of ethics. The code of ethics is the
philosophical ideals of right and wrong that define the
principles you will use to provide care to your patients. It
serves as a guide for carrying out nursing responsibilities
to provide quality nursing care and as a guide to the
ethical obligations of the profession.
2. A nurse is caring for a patient with end-stage lung
disease. The patient wants to go home on oxygen and
be comfortable. The family wants the patient to have a
new surgical procedure. The nurse explains the risk and
benefits of the surgery to the family and discusses the
patient's wishes with them. The nurse is acting as the
patient's:
1. Educator. 2. Advocate. 3. Caregiver. 4. Communicator
- .....ANSWER ...✔✔ Answer: 2. An advocate protects
the patient's human and legal right to make choices
about his or her care. An advocate may also provide
additional information to help a patient decide whether
to accept a treatment or may find an interpreter to help
family members communicate their concerns
3. The nurse spends time with a patient and family
reviewing a dressing change procedure for the patient's
wound. The patient's spouse demonstrates how to
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change the dressing. The nurse is acting in which
professional role?
1. Educator 2. Advocate 3. Caregiver 4. Communicator -
.....ANSWER ...✔✔ Answer: 1. The nurse is
demonstrating the role of educator. An educator
explains concepts and facts about health, describes the
reason for routine care activities, demonstrates
procedures such as home-care activities, reinforces
learning or patient behavior, and evaluates the patient's
progress in learning through return demonstration.
4. The examination for registered nurse (RN) licensure is
the same in every state in the United States. This
examination:
1. Guarantees safe nursing care for all patients.
2. Ensures standard nursing care for all patients.
3. Provides a minimal standard of knowledge for an RN
in practice.
4. Guarantees standardized education across all
prelicensure programs. - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ Answer:
3. RN candidates must pass the NCLEX-RN® to attain
licensure. Regardless of educational preparation, the
examination for RN licensure is exactly the same in
every state in the United States
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5. Contemporary nursing requires that the nurse has
knowledge and skills for a variety of professional roles
and responsibilities. Which of the following are
examples of these roles and responsibilities? (Select all
that apply.)
1. Caregiver
2. Autonomy
3. Patient advocate
4. Health promotion
5. Genetic counselor - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ Answer: 1,
2, 3, 4. Each of these roles or skills includes activities for
the professional nurse. Each of these is used in direct
care or is part of the professionalism that guides nursing
practice.
6. Match the advanced practice nurse specialty with the
statement about the role.
1. Clinical nurse
specialist
2. Nurse anesthetist
3. Nurse practitioner
PNM FINAL EXAM NEWEST 2025 /PNM FINAL
EXAM PRACTICE QUESTIONS EXAM COMPLETE
ALL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS WITH
ANSWERS
Chapter 1
1. You are preparing a presentation for your classmates
regarding the clinical care coordination conference for a
patient with terminal cancer. As part of the preparation
you have your classmates read the Nursing Code of
Ethics for Professional Registered Nurses. Your instructor
asks the class why this document is important. Which
statement best describes this code?
1. Improves self-health care
2. Protects the patient's confidentiality
3. Ensures identical care to all patients
4. Defines the principles of right and wrong to provide
patient care - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ Answer:
4. When giving care, it is essential to provide a
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specified service according to standards of practice and
to follow a code of ethics. The code of ethics is the
philosophical ideals of right and wrong that define the
principles you will use to provide care to your patients. It
serves as a guide for carrying out nursing responsibilities
to provide quality nursing care and as a guide to the
ethical obligations of the profession.
2. A nurse is caring for a patient with end-stage lung
disease. The patient wants to go home on oxygen and
be comfortable. The family wants the patient to have a
new surgical procedure. The nurse explains the risk and
benefits of the surgery to the family and discusses the
patient's wishes with them. The nurse is acting as the
patient's:
1. Educator. 2. Advocate. 3. Caregiver. 4. Communicator
- .....ANSWER ...✔✔ Answer: 2. An advocate protects
the patient's human and legal right to make choices
about his or her care. An advocate may also provide
additional information to help a patient decide whether
to accept a treatment or may find an interpreter to help
family members communicate their concerns
3. The nurse spends time with a patient and family
reviewing a dressing change procedure for the patient's
wound. The patient's spouse demonstrates how to
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change the dressing. The nurse is acting in which
professional role?
1. Educator 2. Advocate 3. Caregiver 4. Communicator -
.....ANSWER ...✔✔ Answer: 1. The nurse is
demonstrating the role of educator. An educator
explains concepts and facts about health, describes the
reason for routine care activities, demonstrates
procedures such as home-care activities, reinforces
learning or patient behavior, and evaluates the patient's
progress in learning through return demonstration.
4. The examination for registered nurse (RN) licensure is
the same in every state in the United States. This
examination:
1. Guarantees safe nursing care for all patients.
2. Ensures standard nursing care for all patients.
3. Provides a minimal standard of knowledge for an RN
in practice.
4. Guarantees standardized education across all
prelicensure programs. - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ Answer:
3. RN candidates must pass the NCLEX-RN® to attain
licensure. Regardless of educational preparation, the
examination for RN licensure is exactly the same in
every state in the United States
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5. Contemporary nursing requires that the nurse has
knowledge and skills for a variety of professional roles
and responsibilities. Which of the following are
examples of these roles and responsibilities? (Select all
that apply.)
1. Caregiver
2. Autonomy
3. Patient advocate
4. Health promotion
5. Genetic counselor - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ Answer: 1,
2, 3, 4. Each of these roles or skills includes activities for
the professional nurse. Each of these is used in direct
care or is part of the professionalism that guides nursing
practice.
6. Match the advanced practice nurse specialty with the
statement about the role.
1. Clinical nurse
specialist
2. Nurse anesthetist
3. Nurse practitioner
