NUR 102 Exam 1 Study Guide Questions And
Answers Latest Update 2024/2025
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 of the following statements 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 ANS✔✔
4. Defines the principles of right and wrong to provide patient care
An 18 year old woman is in the emergency department with fever and
cough. The nurse obtains her vital signs, listens to her lung and heart
sounds, determines her level of comfort, and collects blood and sputum
samples for analysis. Which standard of practice is performed?
1. Diagnosis
2. Evaluation
3. Assessment
4. Implementation ANS✔✔ 3. Assessment
A patient in the emergency department has developed wheezing and
shortness of breath. The nurse gives the ordered medicated nebulizer
treatment now and in 4 hours. Which standard of practice is performed?
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1. Planning
2. Evaluation
3. Assessment
4. Implementation ANS✔✔ 4. Implementation
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. Case manager ANS✔✔ 2. Advocate
The nurse spends time with the patient and family reviewing the dressing
change procedure for the patient's wound. The patient's spouse
demonstrates how to change the dressing. The nurse is acting in which
professional role?
1. Educator
2. Advocate
3. Caregiver
4. Case manager ANS✔✔ 1. Educator
The examination for RN licensure is exactly the same in every state in the
United States. This examination
1. Guarantees safe nursing care for all patients
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2. Ensures standard nursing care for all patients
3. Ensures that honest and ethical care is provided
4. Provides a minimal standard of knowledge for an RN in practice ANS✔✔ 4.
Provides a minimal standard of knowledge for an RN in practice
Contemporary nursing requires that the nurse has knowledge and skills for a
variety of professional roles and responsibilities. Which of the following are
examples? (Select all that apply.)
A. Caregiver
B. Autonomy and accountability
C. Patient advocate
D. Health promotion
E. Lobbyist ANS✔✔ 1, 2, 3, 4
Health care reform will bring changes in the emphasis of care. Which of the
following models is expected from health care reform?
1. Moving from an acute illness to a health promotion, illness prevention
model
2. Moving from an illness prevention to a health promotion model
3. Moving from an acute illness to a disease management model
4. Moving from a chronic care to an illness prevention model ANS✔✔ 1.
Moving from an acute illness to a health promotion, illness prevention model
A nurse meets with the registered dietician and physical therapist to
develop a plan of care that focuses on improving nutrition and mobility for a
patient. This is an example of which Quality and Safety in the Education of
Nurses (QSEN) competency?
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1. patient-centered care
2. safety
3. teamwork and collaboration
4. informatics ANS✔✔ 3. teamwork and collaboration
A critical care nurse is using a computerized decision support system to
correctly position her ventilated patients to reduce pneumonia caused by
accumulated respiratory secretions. This is an example of which QSEN
competency?
1. Patient-centered care
2. safety
3. teamwork and collaboration
4. informatics ANS✔✔ 4. informatics
The nurses on an acute care medical floor notice an increase in pressure
ulcer formation in their patients. A nurse consultant decides to compare two
types of treatment. The first is the procedure currently used to assess for
pressure ulcer risk. The second uses a new assessment instrument to
identify at-risk patients. Given this information, the nurse consultant
exemplifies which career?
1. clinical nurse specialist
2. nurse administrator
3. nurse educator
4. nurse researcher ANS✔✔ 4. nurse researcher
Nurses in an acute care hospital are attending a unit based education
program to learn how to use a new pressure-relieving device for patients at
risk for pressure ulcers. This is which type of education?
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