NUR1023C Nursing Fundamentals — Final
Exam Review with Practice Questions and
Key Concept Summaries
Introduction:
This document provides a comprehensive review for the NUR1023C
Nursing Fundamentals final exam. It includes explanations and
practice questions covering the nursing process, nursing diagnoses,
glucose regulation, cognition, gas exchange, acid–base balance, and
professional nursing concepts.
Additional topics include leadership styles, ethics, healthcare law,
communication, care coordination, nutrition, perfusion, and end-of-
life care. The material is structured as question-and-answer review
content to help reinforce key exam concepts.
Exam Questions and Detailed Answers:
1. The collection of subjective and objective patient information
on which you will base your care plan.-Answer:-assessment
2. The act of analyzing the assessment data and making
conclusions.-Answer:-diagnosing
3. The action phase of the plan with the use of nursing
interventions-Answer:-implementa- tion
,4. Which part of the nursing process is a continual activity of
deciding whether the patient outcomes were met?
a. Assessment
b. Diagnosis
c. Planning
d. Implementation
e. Evaluation-Answer:-e. Evaluation
5. Which part of the nursing process do you develop patient
outcomes or goals and identify nursing interventions to accomplish
the outcomes?
a. Assessment
b. Diagnosis
c. Planning
d. Implementation
e. Evaluation-Answer:-c. Planning
6. Subjective data is considered as
a. signs
b. symptoms-Answer:-b. symptoms
7. Objective data is considered as
a. signs
b. symptoms-Answer:-a. signs
8. Data collected by interviewing the patient and/or caregiver-
Answer:-subjective data
,9. Data collected by observing or measuring.-Answer:-objective
data
10. How do you obtain objective data?-Answer:-Using inspection,
palpation, percussion, and auscultation, as well as by diagnostic
testing
11. Goals should be-Answer:-SMART:specific, measurable,
attainable, relevant, time-bound
12. Short-term goals are goals to be achieved within-Answer:-a
few hours or days
13. Long-term goals are goals to be achieved over a longer period
such as-Answer:-a week, month, or more
14. Flip for examples of patient goals-Answer:-1. The client will
demonstrate the proper application and securing of his abdominal
dressing without contaminating the wound before his discharge on
Thursday at 2:00 PM.
2. The client will ambulate to the nurses station without assistance
by 3rd day post-op
15. In which stage of the nursing process does the nurse initiate
the care plan and perform interventions?
a. Assessment
b. Diagnosis
c. Planning
d. Implementation
e. Evaluation-Answer:-d. Implementation
, 16. Which of the following is an example of objective data?
A. Pain
B. Weight
C. Dizziness
D. Nausea-Answer:-B. Weight
17. Which of the following is an example of subjective data?
A. Wound appearance
B. Heart Rate
C. Temperature
D. Anxiety-Answer:-D. Anxiety
18. What does the "I" in in the acronym ADPIE represent?
A. Imply
B. Intervention
C. Implementation
D. Interest-Answer:-C. Implementation
19. A nursing assessment will include information from which
sources? (Select all that apply.)
A. Physical assessment
B. Family members
C. Other clients
D. Health history
E. Closed-ended questions-Answer:-A. Physical assessment
Exam Review with Practice Questions and
Key Concept Summaries
Introduction:
This document provides a comprehensive review for the NUR1023C
Nursing Fundamentals final exam. It includes explanations and
practice questions covering the nursing process, nursing diagnoses,
glucose regulation, cognition, gas exchange, acid–base balance, and
professional nursing concepts.
Additional topics include leadership styles, ethics, healthcare law,
communication, care coordination, nutrition, perfusion, and end-of-
life care. The material is structured as question-and-answer review
content to help reinforce key exam concepts.
Exam Questions and Detailed Answers:
1. The collection of subjective and objective patient information
on which you will base your care plan.-Answer:-assessment
2. The act of analyzing the assessment data and making
conclusions.-Answer:-diagnosing
3. The action phase of the plan with the use of nursing
interventions-Answer:-implementa- tion
,4. Which part of the nursing process is a continual activity of
deciding whether the patient outcomes were met?
a. Assessment
b. Diagnosis
c. Planning
d. Implementation
e. Evaluation-Answer:-e. Evaluation
5. Which part of the nursing process do you develop patient
outcomes or goals and identify nursing interventions to accomplish
the outcomes?
a. Assessment
b. Diagnosis
c. Planning
d. Implementation
e. Evaluation-Answer:-c. Planning
6. Subjective data is considered as
a. signs
b. symptoms-Answer:-b. symptoms
7. Objective data is considered as
a. signs
b. symptoms-Answer:-a. signs
8. Data collected by interviewing the patient and/or caregiver-
Answer:-subjective data
,9. Data collected by observing or measuring.-Answer:-objective
data
10. How do you obtain objective data?-Answer:-Using inspection,
palpation, percussion, and auscultation, as well as by diagnostic
testing
11. Goals should be-Answer:-SMART:specific, measurable,
attainable, relevant, time-bound
12. Short-term goals are goals to be achieved within-Answer:-a
few hours or days
13. Long-term goals are goals to be achieved over a longer period
such as-Answer:-a week, month, or more
14. Flip for examples of patient goals-Answer:-1. The client will
demonstrate the proper application and securing of his abdominal
dressing without contaminating the wound before his discharge on
Thursday at 2:00 PM.
2. The client will ambulate to the nurses station without assistance
by 3rd day post-op
15. In which stage of the nursing process does the nurse initiate
the care plan and perform interventions?
a. Assessment
b. Diagnosis
c. Planning
d. Implementation
e. Evaluation-Answer:-d. Implementation
, 16. Which of the following is an example of objective data?
A. Pain
B. Weight
C. Dizziness
D. Nausea-Answer:-B. Weight
17. Which of the following is an example of subjective data?
A. Wound appearance
B. Heart Rate
C. Temperature
D. Anxiety-Answer:-D. Anxiety
18. What does the "I" in in the acronym ADPIE represent?
A. Imply
B. Intervention
C. Implementation
D. Interest-Answer:-C. Implementation
19. A nursing assessment will include information from which
sources? (Select all that apply.)
A. Physical assessment
B. Family members
C. Other clients
D. Health history
E. Closed-ended questions-Answer:-A. Physical assessment
