2nd Year Nursing Comprehensive Exam Questions with Complete Solutions
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B. - Answer-The nurse uses a diagram to demonstrate how Dunn’s theory of health and illness can be compared with a:
A. plant that grows from a seed, blossoms, wilts, and dies.
B. continuum, with peak wellness and death at opposite ends; the person moves back and forth in a dynamic
C. - Ans...
2nd Year Nursing Comprehensive Exam
Questions with Complete Solutions
B. - Answer-The nurse uses a diagram to demonstrate how Dunn’s theory of health and
illness can be compared with a:
A. plant that grows from a seed, blossoms, wilts, and dies.
B. continuum, with peak wellness and death at opposite ends; the person moves back
and forth in a dynamic
C. - Answer-In 1946, the World Health Organization redefined health as the:
A. - Answer-The Nursing Diagnosis is Sleep Pattern Disturbance Related to Noisy
Environment. The concepts for this nursing diagnosis would be supported by the theory
of:
a. Florence Nightingale.
b. Dorothy Johnson.
c. Myra Levine.
d. Dorothea Orem
A. - Answer-The nursing theorist who focuses on the interpersonal relationship between
the nurse and the client where the
three phases of this relationship are orientation, working, and termination is:
a. Hildegard Peplau.
b. Ernestine Weidenbach.
c. Ida Jean Orlando.
d. Joyce Travelbee.
D. - Answer-The nurse is reviewing Virginia Henderson's definition of nursing. Which of
the following statements by the nurse
indicates an accurate understanding about Henderson's theory?
a. "Her major focus about communication with patients is regarding the information that
is shared verbally
between the nurse and client."
b. "She didn't feel that the physical sciences were important for the nurse to understand
when providing
nursing care."
c. "She did a great job of defining specific concepts and their relationship to other
concepts that she used in
this theory."
,d. "Her idea surrounding the 14 basic components of nursing care fits really well with
Maslow's hierarchy of
human needs."
d. - Answer-Which statement would the nurse include in a report on Jean Watson's
theory of human caring?
a. There should be guidelines for including the family in client care
b. There are ten adaptive mechanisms commonly used by clients
c. There are environmental factors related to client care
d. There are ten creative factors related to human care
b. - Answer-A patient with diabetes is controlling the disease with insulin and diet. The
nursing health care provider is focusing efforts to teach the patient self-management.
Which of the following nursing theories is useful in promoting self-management?
a. Neuman
b. Orem
c. Roy
d. Peplau
a. - Answer-Which of the following is closely aligned with Leininger's theory?
a. Caring for patients from unique cultures
b. Understanding the humanistic aspects of life
c. Variables affecting a patient's response to a stressor
d. Caring for patients who cannot adapt to internal and external environmental demands
c. - Answer-Which intervention would the nurse use to implement Imogene King's theory
of goal attainment?
a. Listing self-care deficits
b. Interactions with the environment
c. Purposeful transactions
d. Determining how the client adapts to stress
a. - Answer-A communication skill is one of the important competencies expected of a
nurse. Interpersonal process is viewed
as human to human relationship. This statement is an application of whose nursing
model?
a. Joyce Travelbee
b. Martha Rogers
c. Callista Roy
d. Imogene King
, c. - Answer-The nurse is reviewing Dorothea Orem's Self-Care Deficit Theory. Which of
the following statements by the nurse
indicates further education is required regarding the nurse's function according to
Orem?
a. "The nurse steps in to help the client when the client can't take care of his or her own
needs."
b. "A nurse will provide assistance to a child when the caregiver cannot provide the care
that the child requires."
c. "The nurse is noted to take over as another parent for the adult client when they are
unable to meet their own
needs."
d. "When individuals are able, they take care of their own needs."
a. - Answer-The nursing students are discussing Dorothy Johnson's Behavioral System
Model. Which of the following
statements regarding the way this model can be related to patients is most accurate?
a. "The nurse attempts to help the client meet all of their behavioral needs, which are
not necessarily aligned
well with the client's biological needs."
b. "This model is easily applicable when guiding caring for large groups of clients with
similar issues."
c. "The nurse finds that this model is easily applied to the quadriplegic client."
d. "This model is not appropriate to use in clients with psychiatric disorders."
b. - Answer-The nurse is preparing to percuss the abdomen of a patient. The purpose of
the percussion is to assess
the underlying tissue:
a. Turgor
b. Density
c. Texture
d. Consistency
b. - Answer-The nurse is teaching a class on basic assessment skills. Which of these
statements is true regarding the stethoscope and its use?
a. The slope of the earpieces should point (toward the occiput)
b. The stethoscope does not magnify sound but does block out extraneous room noise.
c. The fit and quality of the stethoscope are not as important as its ability to magnify
sound.
d. The ideal tubing length should be 22 inches to dampen distortion of sound
b. - Answer-The nurse is unable to palpate the right radial pulse on a patient. The best
action would be to:
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