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Final Exam: NURS110/ NURS 110 |
Questions and Answers (Latest 2025/ 2026
Update) Introduction to Professional Nursing
Review | Grade A| 100% Correct (Verified
Answers)- WCU

The nurse practices nursing in conformity with the code of ethics for professional
registered nurses. This code:
A) Improves self-health care
B) Protects the client from harm
C) Ensures identical care to all clients
D) Defines the principles by which nurses' provide care to their clients
D. The code of ethics is the philosophical ideals of right and wrong that define the
principles the nurse will use to provide care to clients. A code of ethics does not
ensure identical care to all clients (which would not be acceptable). The nursing
code of ethics does not protect clients from harm or improve self-health care.

An 18-year-old woman is in the emergency department with fever and cough. The
physician asks the nurse to measure vital signs, auscultate lung sounds, listen to
heart sounds, determine the level of comfort, and collect blood and sputum
samples for analysis. The nurse is performing what aspect of practice?
A) Diagnosis
B) Evaluation
C) Assessment
D) Implementation

,C. The nurse is assessing the client. Diagnosis occurs after all assessments are
completed. Then a plan is developed and implemented. The process is completed
with evaluation.

A client is wheezing and short of breath. The physician orders a medicated
nebulizer treatment now and in 4 hours. The nurse is providing what aspect of
care?
A) Planning
B) Evaluation
C) Assessment
D) Implementation
D. Implementation is the actual delivery of care. Assessment is data gathering.
Then the information is developed into a diagnosis and the planning occurs with
the diagnosis. Evaluation is the final step of the nursing process.

The nurse is caring for a client with end-stage lung disease. The client wants to go
home on oxygen therapy and be comfortable. The family wants the client to
undergo a new surgical procedure. The nurse explains the risk and benefits of the
surgery to the family and discusses the client's wishes with the family. The nurse is
acting as the client's:
A) Manager
B) Educator
C) Advocate
D) Caregiver

,C. An advocate helps speak for the client, communicating the client's concerns and
wishes to family and other caregivers. A caregiver assists in meeting all health care
needs of the client, including taking measures to restore emotional, spiritual, and
social well-being. A manager coordinates all the activities of the members of the
nursing staff in delivering nursing care and has personnel, policy, and budgetary
responsibilities for a specific nursing unit or agency. An educator explains
concepts and facts about health, demonstrates procedures such as self-care
activities, reinforces learning or client behavior, and evaluates the client's progress
in learning.

Evidence-based practice is defined as:
A) Nursing care based on tradition
B) Scholarly inquiry embodied in the nursing and biomedical research literature
C) A problem-solving approach to clinical practice based on best practices
D) Quality nursing care provided in an efficient and economically sound manner
C. Evidence-based practice is a problem-solving approach to clinical practice that
uses the best available evidence, along with the nurse's expertise and the client's
preference and values, in making decisions about care. The other answers are
incorrect.

The examination for the registered nurse (RN) licensure is exactly the same in
every state in the United States. This examination:
A) Guarantees safe nursing care for all clients
B) Ensures standard nursing care for all clients
C) Ensures that honest and ethical care is provided
D) Provides a minimal standard of knowledge for practice

, D. The RN licensure examination provides a minimum standard of knowledge for
nurses. The examination cannot guarantee or ensure care for clients.

Advanced practice nurses (APNs) generally:
A) Work in acute care settings
B) Function independently
C) Function as unit directors
D) Work in the university setting
B. APNs are generally the most independently functioning nurses. An APN can
work in a primary, acute, or restorative care setting. The setting may be a private,
public, or university facility. The APN may function as a clinician, educator, case
manager, consultant, or researcher.

Nursing practice in the twenty-first century is an art and science that is centered
on:
A) The client
B) The nursing process
C) Cultural diversity
D) The health care facility
A. The client is the correct choice. The health care facility is where the client goes
to receive treatment. The nursing process is how nurses proceed to plan care for the
client. Cultural diversity is not the correct choice.

Who acted to decrease mortality by improving sanitation in the battlefields, which
resulted in a decline in illness and infection?