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NURS 220 EXAM 1-4 REVIEW 2026
LATEST QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS|
ACE YOUR GRADES.
In holistic nursing, the nurse should emphasize the client's
personal responsibility in maintaining health. This idea is
most closely related to which concept in caring
interventions?
A. Nursing presence
B. Empowerment
C. Compassion
D. Competence
B. Empowerment
Empowerment is the process whereby the client develops the
autonomy to identify her own health needs in lieu of being
instructed how to do so. This helps the client take personal
responsibility in maintaining health. Nursing presence,
compassion, and competence are less likely to help clients take
personal responsibility for their own health.
A nurse forgets to return a client's bed to the low position
after performing a bed bath. When a colleague points this
out, the nurse states, "I should have returned the bed to the
low position. Thank you for pointing out my error." With
which characteristic is the nurse's response most
consistent?
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A) Compassion
B) Integrity
C) Fidelity
D) Justice
Answer: B- Integrity
Integrity involves adherence to a strict moral or ethical code.
Nurses demonstrate integrity in various ways, such as by
accepting feedback as a tool for improving their delivery of client
care and by maintaining accountability for their actions and freely
admitting when they make mistakes. By admitting to an error, this
nurse is demonstrating integrity. Justice has to do with being fair.
Fidelity means to be faithful to agreements and promises.
Compassion is an awareness of and concern for the suffering of
others.
A nurse in a rural community is employed in a facility that
has had a shortage of nurses for several years. As a result,
several nurses have left the institution citing burnout. To
avoid risking burnout, the nurse regularly works out,
practices yoga, socializes with friends once or twice a week,
and participates in at least one annual national or state
nursing conference. This approach to work-life balance
reflects which concept within the framework of Caring
Interventions?
Self-care
The nurse administers blood to a patient without verifying
the patient's identity. As a result, the patient receives the
wrong type of blood and has a severe reaction. Which
principle of ethical decision making is demonstrated by the
nurse's failure to verify the correct blood?
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A.) Justice
B.) Non maleficence
C.) Veracity
D.) Beneficence
B.) Non maleficence
During a care conference, the nursing student differentiates
between the different theories of caring when discussing
client care. Which type of knowledge is the student
demonstrating?
-Empirical knowledge is systematic and helps to describe,
explain, and predict phenomena. This student is exhibiting
empirical knowing as the student is able to analyze the different
theories of caring.
Rationale: Aesthetic knowing is the art of nursing and is
expressed in creativity and style in meeting the needs of the
client. Personal knowing is concerned with knowing,
encountering, and actualizing the concrete, individual self. Ethical
knowing focuses on matters of obligation or what ought to be
done, and goes beyond simply following the ethical codes of the
discipline.
Which action by the student nurse is most consistent with
commitment to the nursing profession?
A) The student calls in sick for clinicals in order to study for
a class exam.
B) The student declines to observe a new procedure for
giving a necessary bath.
C) The student misses class to attend a political rally.
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D) The student calls in sick for clinicals because of a
respiratory infection.
D) The student calls in sick for clinicals because of a respiratory
infection.
A nurse educator is talking to a student about how to
regarding actions during an ethical dilemma? deal with an
ethical dilemma in practice. Which does the nurse educator
explain to the student as important?
A) Examining all conflicts in the situation.
B) Investigating all aspects of the situation.
C) Relying on nursing judgment.
D) Making a decision based on the policy of the agency.
B) Investigating all aspects of the situation.
The nurse is caring for a client in the intensive care unit (ICU)
who was in a motor vehicle crash. The healthcare provider
asks the nurse to extubate The client because there is no
communication between the brain and body due to a cervical
fracture. The family agrees with the decision of the
healthcare provider, but the nurse is uncomfortable pulling
the tube. Which is the reason the nurse is experiencing
difficulty with this task?
The nurse is distressed because of personal values, which are in
conflict with causing the client's death. The decision is within
ethical principles.
Rationale: Cultural values are not in evidence in this instance.
Extubating this client would not be a legal decision.
NURS 220 EXAM 1-4 REVIEW 2026
LATEST QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS|
ACE YOUR GRADES.
In holistic nursing, the nurse should emphasize the client's
personal responsibility in maintaining health. This idea is
most closely related to which concept in caring
interventions?
A. Nursing presence
B. Empowerment
C. Compassion
D. Competence
B. Empowerment
Empowerment is the process whereby the client develops the
autonomy to identify her own health needs in lieu of being
instructed how to do so. This helps the client take personal
responsibility in maintaining health. Nursing presence,
compassion, and competence are less likely to help clients take
personal responsibility for their own health.
A nurse forgets to return a client's bed to the low position
after performing a bed bath. When a colleague points this
out, the nurse states, "I should have returned the bed to the
low position. Thank you for pointing out my error." With
which characteristic is the nurse's response most
consistent?
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A) Compassion
B) Integrity
C) Fidelity
D) Justice
Answer: B- Integrity
Integrity involves adherence to a strict moral or ethical code.
Nurses demonstrate integrity in various ways, such as by
accepting feedback as a tool for improving their delivery of client
care and by maintaining accountability for their actions and freely
admitting when they make mistakes. By admitting to an error, this
nurse is demonstrating integrity. Justice has to do with being fair.
Fidelity means to be faithful to agreements and promises.
Compassion is an awareness of and concern for the suffering of
others.
A nurse in a rural community is employed in a facility that
has had a shortage of nurses for several years. As a result,
several nurses have left the institution citing burnout. To
avoid risking burnout, the nurse regularly works out,
practices yoga, socializes with friends once or twice a week,
and participates in at least one annual national or state
nursing conference. This approach to work-life balance
reflects which concept within the framework of Caring
Interventions?
Self-care
The nurse administers blood to a patient without verifying
the patient's identity. As a result, the patient receives the
wrong type of blood and has a severe reaction. Which
principle of ethical decision making is demonstrated by the
nurse's failure to verify the correct blood?
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A.) Justice
B.) Non maleficence
C.) Veracity
D.) Beneficence
B.) Non maleficence
During a care conference, the nursing student differentiates
between the different theories of caring when discussing
client care. Which type of knowledge is the student
demonstrating?
-Empirical knowledge is systematic and helps to describe,
explain, and predict phenomena. This student is exhibiting
empirical knowing as the student is able to analyze the different
theories of caring.
Rationale: Aesthetic knowing is the art of nursing and is
expressed in creativity and style in meeting the needs of the
client. Personal knowing is concerned with knowing,
encountering, and actualizing the concrete, individual self. Ethical
knowing focuses on matters of obligation or what ought to be
done, and goes beyond simply following the ethical codes of the
discipline.
Which action by the student nurse is most consistent with
commitment to the nursing profession?
A) The student calls in sick for clinicals in order to study for
a class exam.
B) The student declines to observe a new procedure for
giving a necessary bath.
C) The student misses class to attend a political rally.
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D) The student calls in sick for clinicals because of a
respiratory infection.
D) The student calls in sick for clinicals because of a respiratory
infection.
A nurse educator is talking to a student about how to
regarding actions during an ethical dilemma? deal with an
ethical dilemma in practice. Which does the nurse educator
explain to the student as important?
A) Examining all conflicts in the situation.
B) Investigating all aspects of the situation.
C) Relying on nursing judgment.
D) Making a decision based on the policy of the agency.
B) Investigating all aspects of the situation.
The nurse is caring for a client in the intensive care unit (ICU)
who was in a motor vehicle crash. The healthcare provider
asks the nurse to extubate The client because there is no
communication between the brain and body due to a cervical
fracture. The family agrees with the decision of the
healthcare provider, but the nurse is uncomfortable pulling
the tube. Which is the reason the nurse is experiencing
difficulty with this task?
The nurse is distressed because of personal values, which are in
conflict with causing the client's death. The decision is within
ethical principles.
Rationale: Cultural values are not in evidence in this instance.
Extubating this client would not be a legal decision.
