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NUR 110 FINAL EXAM 2024/2025 VERIFIED QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS WITH RATIONALE GRADED A+(SOLVED) WCU
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NUR 110 FINAL EXAM 2024/2025NUR 110 FINAL EXAM 2024/2025 VERIFIED
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS WITH RATIONALE
GRADED A+(SOLVED) 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.
,NUR 110 FINAL EXAM 2024/2025
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.
,NUR 110 FINAL EXAM 2024/2025
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.
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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?
A) Dorothea Dix
B) Lillian Wald
C) Clara Barton
D) Florence Nightingale
D. Florence Nightingale is the correct choice. Barton founded the Red Cross. Dix organized hospitals,
nurses, and supply lines to support the troops of the Union Army. Wald opened the first community
health service for the poor.
The professional nurse responsible for increasing respect for the individual and awareness of cultural
diversity was:
A) Harriet Tubman
B) Mary Mahoney
C) Isabel Hampton
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