NR222 Nursing Course Final Exam Study
Guide 2025–2026 – Practice Questions
with Verified Answers
Introduction:
This document contains a comprehensive collection of practice
questions and verified answers for the NR222 nursing course,
covering topics such as health promotion, patient assessment,
ethics, communication, nutrition, and lifespan development. It
includes rationales for answers and aligns closely with common
nursing exam content, making it useful for revision and exam
preparation.
Exam Questions and Verified Answers:
A patient had surgery for a total knee replacement a week ago and
is currently participating in daily physical rehabilitation sessions at
the surgeon's office. In what level of prevention is the patient
participating? ---Correct precise answer---Tertiary prevention.
Tertiary prevention involves minimizing the effects of long-term
disease or disability by interventions directed at preventing
complications and deterioration following surgery. Tertiary
prevention activities are directed at rehabilitation rather than
diagnosis and treatment. Care at this level aims to help patients
,achieve as high a level of functioning as possible, despite the
limitations caused by illness or impairment. This level of care is
called
A nurse is conducting a home visit with an older-adult couple.
While in the home the nurse weighs each individual and reviews
the 3-day food diary with them. She also checks their blood
pressure and encourages them to increase their fluids and activity
levels to help with their voiced concern about constipation. The
nurse is addressing which level of need according to Maslow? ---
Correct precise answer---Physiological.
The nurse's actions address the basic physiological needs of
nutrition, fluids, elimination, and oxygen. According to Maslow,
basic needs must be met before meeting higher level needs.
After a class on Pender's health promotion model, students make
the following statements. Which statement does the faculty member
need to clarify? ---Correct precise answer---"Perceived self-efficacy
is not related to the model."
Within the model, perceived self-efficacy is one of the behavior-
specific cognitions and affect. The behavior-specific cognitions have
motivational significance within the model.
,* Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) is used by many patients.
Which statement most accurately describes intervention(s) offered
by TCM providers? ---Correct precise answer---Uses many
modalities based on the individual's needs.
TCM practitioners use a variety of interventions that are based on
individual patient assessment findings and needs. Modalities
include herbal therapies, acupuncture, moxibustion, cupping,
prescribed exercise such as tai chi or
* Which complementary therapies are most easily learned and
applied by a nurse? ---Correct precise answer---Progressive
relaxation.
Breathwork and guided imagery.
These were identified as nurse-accessible complementary therapies.
Massage therapists are licensed by local governmental agencies,
and additional educational preparation is required to practice.
Traditional Chinese medicine practitioners also attend
training/educational programs, typically accredited by the
Accreditation Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine.
* Which statement best describes the evidence associated with
complementary therapies as a whole? ---Correct precise answer---
The science supporting the effectiveness of complementary
therapies is early in its development.
, Science in the field is just beginning. Before the 1990s little
attention was paid in the United States at the National Institutes of
Health to support funding for studies about complementary
therapies. Most of the evidence cited in systematic reviews
throughout this chapter indicates preliminary support for the
effectiveness of a variety of complementary therapies. Conditions
that appear to be particularly responsive include chronic pain,
chronic autoimmune disorders, anxiety, depression, impaired well-
being and quality of life that accompany cancer and other chronic
conditions, and some time-limited acute illnesses and the symptoms
that accompany them (e.g., gastrointestinal disturbances,
colds/flus).
* A nurse is planning care for a group of patients who have
requested the use of complementary health modalities. Which
patient is not a good candidate for guided imagery? ---Correct
precise answer---Patient with posttraumatic stress disorder
(PTSD).
Imagery can often recreate the traumatic experience, intensifying
the sensations and emotions that accompany the memory of it and
bringing the PTSD to a crisis level.
* Several nurses on a busy unit are using relaxation strategies
while at work. What is the desired workplace outcome from this
Guide 2025–2026 – Practice Questions
with Verified Answers
Introduction:
This document contains a comprehensive collection of practice
questions and verified answers for the NR222 nursing course,
covering topics such as health promotion, patient assessment,
ethics, communication, nutrition, and lifespan development. It
includes rationales for answers and aligns closely with common
nursing exam content, making it useful for revision and exam
preparation.
Exam Questions and Verified Answers:
A patient had surgery for a total knee replacement a week ago and
is currently participating in daily physical rehabilitation sessions at
the surgeon's office. In what level of prevention is the patient
participating? ---Correct precise answer---Tertiary prevention.
Tertiary prevention involves minimizing the effects of long-term
disease or disability by interventions directed at preventing
complications and deterioration following surgery. Tertiary
prevention activities are directed at rehabilitation rather than
diagnosis and treatment. Care at this level aims to help patients
,achieve as high a level of functioning as possible, despite the
limitations caused by illness or impairment. This level of care is
called
A nurse is conducting a home visit with an older-adult couple.
While in the home the nurse weighs each individual and reviews
the 3-day food diary with them. She also checks their blood
pressure and encourages them to increase their fluids and activity
levels to help with their voiced concern about constipation. The
nurse is addressing which level of need according to Maslow? ---
Correct precise answer---Physiological.
The nurse's actions address the basic physiological needs of
nutrition, fluids, elimination, and oxygen. According to Maslow,
basic needs must be met before meeting higher level needs.
After a class on Pender's health promotion model, students make
the following statements. Which statement does the faculty member
need to clarify? ---Correct precise answer---"Perceived self-efficacy
is not related to the model."
Within the model, perceived self-efficacy is one of the behavior-
specific cognitions and affect. The behavior-specific cognitions have
motivational significance within the model.
,* Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) is used by many patients.
Which statement most accurately describes intervention(s) offered
by TCM providers? ---Correct precise answer---Uses many
modalities based on the individual's needs.
TCM practitioners use a variety of interventions that are based on
individual patient assessment findings and needs. Modalities
include herbal therapies, acupuncture, moxibustion, cupping,
prescribed exercise such as tai chi or
* Which complementary therapies are most easily learned and
applied by a nurse? ---Correct precise answer---Progressive
relaxation.
Breathwork and guided imagery.
These were identified as nurse-accessible complementary therapies.
Massage therapists are licensed by local governmental agencies,
and additional educational preparation is required to practice.
Traditional Chinese medicine practitioners also attend
training/educational programs, typically accredited by the
Accreditation Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine.
* Which statement best describes the evidence associated with
complementary therapies as a whole? ---Correct precise answer---
The science supporting the effectiveness of complementary
therapies is early in its development.
, Science in the field is just beginning. Before the 1990s little
attention was paid in the United States at the National Institutes of
Health to support funding for studies about complementary
therapies. Most of the evidence cited in systematic reviews
throughout this chapter indicates preliminary support for the
effectiveness of a variety of complementary therapies. Conditions
that appear to be particularly responsive include chronic pain,
chronic autoimmune disorders, anxiety, depression, impaired well-
being and quality of life that accompany cancer and other chronic
conditions, and some time-limited acute illnesses and the symptoms
that accompany them (e.g., gastrointestinal disturbances,
colds/flus).
* A nurse is planning care for a group of patients who have
requested the use of complementary health modalities. Which
patient is not a good candidate for guided imagery? ---Correct
precise answer---Patient with posttraumatic stress disorder
(PTSD).
Imagery can often recreate the traumatic experience, intensifying
the sensations and emotions that accompany the memory of it and
bringing the PTSD to a crisis level.
* Several nurses on a busy unit are using relaxation strategies
while at work. What is the desired workplace outcome from this
