Fundamentals of Nursing- Exam Questions and Answers Latest Update 2025 (Already Passed)
Aims of nursing - Answers promoting health, preventing illness, restoring health, facilitating coping with
disability or death
promoting health - Answers promoting good physical, mental and emotional health by identifying,
analyzing, and maximizing the patient's strengths as components of preventing illness, restoring health
and facilitating coping with disability or death
preventing illness - Answers reduce the risk of illness by avoiding or achieving early detection of illness
or to maintain function within the constraints of an illness. Teach by example, educational programs,
community programs, literature, and health assessments
restoring health - Answers performing assessments that detect an illness refering questions and findings
to other healthcare providers, providing direct care, collaborating, planning, teaching and carrying out
rehabilitation for illnesses, working in rehab programs
facilitating coping with disability or death - Answers hospice, refer to support groups
roles of nurses - Answers caregiver, communicator, teacher/educator, leader, advocate
LPN - Answers 1 year program, can do most nursing functions
RN - Answers AS or BSN degree, completes all nursing skills, specialized training, BSN level looking into
evidence-based practice, papers focused on research
Graduate education-masters - Answers nurse practitioner, educator, management
doctorate - Answers higher level of practice
professional nursing organizations - Answers to be considered a profession a professional organization
needs to be in place to set standards for practice and education. This sets education minimums, and
continuity of care
ANA - Answers Professional organization for RN's in the US. Publicizes standards of Practice to ensure
knowledgeable, safe, comprehensive, nursing care by those who will receive a license
Nurse practice act - Answers defines legal scope of practice, excludes untrained or unlicensed people
from practicing, establishes education and licensing criteria, creates a state board of nursing, makes and
enforces rules and regulations
nursing process - Answers assess, nursing diagnosis, identify expected outcomes, implement care,
evaluate results
assess - Answers collect, validate and communicate patient data, vital step-all remaining steps depend
on complete, accurate, factual data, made at the beginning of care and throughout the course of care,
goal is to come up with dx and interventions.
, four essential competencies - Answers cognitive, technical, interpersonal, ethical/legal
nursing diagnosis - Answers actual and potential health problems that nursing intervention can prevent
or resolve. the goal of the nursing diagnosis is to focus on the patient's responses to health problems
(NANDA)
identify expected outcomes - Answers what do we want the patient to achieve as a result of nursing
care?
Implement the care - Answers have patient exercise, eat more fiber, increase fluids, give meds for
constipation, etc.
evaluate the results - Answers was the outcome achieved-did the pt have a bowel movement within two
days?
initial comprehensive assessment - Answers completed after pt has been admitted to the floor, purpose
is to obtain all possible information about the pt, complete database for problem identification and care
planning, past hx, allergies, and all pertinent physical findings (skin breakdown)
focused assessment - Answers detailed assessment of a specific problem. pt has abdominal pain- Ask
questions about urinary problems, bowel problems, allergies, menstrual hx, assess vital signs and
abdominal structures
Emergency assessment - Answers done when there is a life threatening problem. Identify conditions that
could lead to worsening health problems, or death, BIGGEST emergency has to do with breathing, if not
breathing, nothing else matters
Nursing assessment - Answers looking for patient's response to health problems. Response to
medications ordered for HTN, Is BP at a normal reading, Information relayed to physician if patient is not
responding to tx
medical assessment - Answers Looking for pathological conditions to make a sx i.e. HTN, appendicitis,
CHF, determines the medical tx that will be ordered, surgery, meds, tx
subjective data - Answers what pt says. things that are not apparent to another person or can only be
felt or perceived by the pt
objective data - Answers observable and measurable data that can be seen heard or felt by someone
other than the pt. vital signs- a number or a lab
sources for obtaining information on an assessment - Answers Patient is number one source, family and
significant others, patient record, other health care professionals, nursing and healthcare literature
what is a nursing interview? - Answers planned communication to obtain a history
what are the phases of a nursing- interview - Answers Prepatory phase-read current and past records
