PN FUNDAMENTALS EXAM QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS UPDATED (2024/2025)
(VERIFIED ANSWERS)
A nurse is explaining the various levels of health care services to a group of
newly licensed nurses. Which of the following examples of care or care
settings should the nurse classify as tertiary care? (SATA) - ANS ✓ICU
Oncology treatment center
Burn center
Which clients should a nurse initiate a referral to a social worker - ANS ✓A
client with terminal cancer requests hospice care in home
A client asks about community resources available for older adults
A client requests an electric wheelchair for use after discharge
Who should you refer a patient to see that has trouble with self feeding -
ANS ✓Occupational therapist
Who can help a client understand medications and their effects? - ANS
✓Provider
Pharmacist
RN
A patient who has dysphagia should be referred to - ANS ✓Speech-language
pathologist
CNAs can assist with - ANS ✓Bathing
Ambulation
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Toileting
Vitals
A patient refuses surgery for his blockages, his choice is an example of -
ANS ✓Autonomy
Giving pain medicine to a client before ambulation is an example of - ANS
✓Beneficence
Organ donation requirements and qualifications ensures - ANS ✓Justice
A nurse questions a medication prescription as too extreme in light of the
client's advanced age
and unstable status. The nurse understands that this action is an example
of which of the following
ethical principles?
A. Fidelity
B. Autonomy
C. Justice
D. Nonmaleficence - ANS ✓Nonmaleficence
example of an ethical dilemma - ANS ✓Family has conflicting feelings about
initiation of enteral tube feedings
What information should be included in the change of shift report - ANS
✓Bone density scan scheduled for today
What information should a nurse include when teaching about HIPPA - ANS
✓Family members must provide a code communication should only be done at
the nurses station client can request a copy of their medical record and a medical
record maybe copy for transfer to another facility
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What are the legal requirements for documenting in a patient chart - ANS
✓Documenting the date and time on all injuries and documenting objective data
and leaving out opinions
What incidents require completion of an incident report - ANS ✓Medication
error
needle sticks
omission of prescription
Nurse nurse is receiving a phone order for morphine what actions are
appropriate - ANS ✓Repeat the details back to the provider
Have another nurse listen to the telephone prescription
Obtain the provider signature within 24 hours
This task may be delegated to the system personnel - ANS ✓Replace on a
condom catheter on a client who has urinary incontinence
Who should assess the patient immediately following back surgery with
ambulation - ANS ✓The RN
What information should the nurse share with a P about a patient who is
postop five days knee surgery - ANS ✓The client ambulate's with his slippers
on over his Antiembolic stockings
Client uses a front wheeled walker when walking
The patient had pain medication 30 minutes ago
Which assignment should the LPN question - ANS ✓Teaching a client who has
asthma to use a metered dose inhaler
What are some of the five rights of delegation - ANS ✓Right supervision and
evaluation right direction and communication right circumstances
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