NURSING FUNDAMENTALS
FINAL EXAM
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS LATEST UPDATE NEWLY
MODIFIED
The word ACUTE when used to define illness means:
a. an illness for which there is no reasonable expectation of recovery
b. an ongoing illness for which there is no cure
c. a sudden onset to an illness
d. an illness that is gradual - ANS✔✔---C
In your role as a nursing assistant, you are able to:
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,a. You can take verbal orders over the phone from doctors
b. Give medications
c. Insert a foley in the patients vagina or penis
d. Report changes in the residents condition to the nurse - ANS✔✔-
--D
A federal insurance plan providing benefits for older persons and some younger
persons with disabilities is called:
a. Medicaid
b. Medicare
c. Blue Cross/ Blue Shield
d. Coventry - ANS✔✔---B
Which nursing care pattern focuses on tasks and jobs?
a. Functional nursing
b. Team nursing
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,c. Primary nursing
d. Care management - ANS✔✔---A
You promote quality of life by:
a. Delegating tasks to your coworkers
b. Making sure you bring your resident chocolate and Starbucks
c. Doing everything for the patient, they don't need to lift a finger
d. Speaking to individuals in a respectful manner - ANS✔✔---D
Your patient has left sided weakness, how do you put on their shirt?
a. Clients choice
b. Right sleeve
c. Left sleeve
d. Both sleeve together - ANS✔✔---C
Exercises that move each muscle and joint care called?
a. Rotation
, b. Adduction
c. Range of Motion
d. Abduction - ANS✔✔---C
Your patient's roommate has just died, how can you BEST help the client with the
loss?
a. Discourage individual activity
b. Encourage the client talk
c. Convince the client its no big loss. The roommate was a complainer
d. Leave the client alone - ANS✔✔---B
You go to check on Mrs. Jones, she is very agitated. Your task is to give her a bed
bath, When you walk in the room, she tells you "Get out of here. I do not want a
bed bath". What should you do?
a. Speak loudly because maybe Mrs. Jones didn't hear or understand you.
b. Run
c. Tell the client they have no choice, shut up and lets get cleaned up
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FINAL EXAM
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS LATEST UPDATE NEWLY
MODIFIED
The word ACUTE when used to define illness means:
a. an illness for which there is no reasonable expectation of recovery
b. an ongoing illness for which there is no cure
c. a sudden onset to an illness
d. an illness that is gradual - ANS✔✔---C
In your role as a nursing assistant, you are able to:
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,a. You can take verbal orders over the phone from doctors
b. Give medications
c. Insert a foley in the patients vagina or penis
d. Report changes in the residents condition to the nurse - ANS✔✔-
--D
A federal insurance plan providing benefits for older persons and some younger
persons with disabilities is called:
a. Medicaid
b. Medicare
c. Blue Cross/ Blue Shield
d. Coventry - ANS✔✔---B
Which nursing care pattern focuses on tasks and jobs?
a. Functional nursing
b. Team nursing
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,c. Primary nursing
d. Care management - ANS✔✔---A
You promote quality of life by:
a. Delegating tasks to your coworkers
b. Making sure you bring your resident chocolate and Starbucks
c. Doing everything for the patient, they don't need to lift a finger
d. Speaking to individuals in a respectful manner - ANS✔✔---D
Your patient has left sided weakness, how do you put on their shirt?
a. Clients choice
b. Right sleeve
c. Left sleeve
d. Both sleeve together - ANS✔✔---C
Exercises that move each muscle and joint care called?
a. Rotation
, b. Adduction
c. Range of Motion
d. Abduction - ANS✔✔---C
Your patient's roommate has just died, how can you BEST help the client with the
loss?
a. Discourage individual activity
b. Encourage the client talk
c. Convince the client its no big loss. The roommate was a complainer
d. Leave the client alone - ANS✔✔---B
You go to check on Mrs. Jones, she is very agitated. Your task is to give her a bed
bath, When you walk in the room, she tells you "Get out of here. I do not want a
bed bath". What should you do?
a. Speak loudly because maybe Mrs. Jones didn't hear or understand you.
b. Run
c. Tell the client they have no choice, shut up and lets get cleaned up
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