ECPI Nur164 Exam 1 with Complete Questions and Answers (2025-2026
Updated)
2. Nurses' role in Consents - ✔✔✔-Informed Consent- nurses role is to witness the clients
signature on the informed consent form to ensure provider has obtained consent properly
Apical pulse vs. Radial Pulse - ✔✔✔-how and where to obtain
Radial Pulse on the wrist, palpitate the wrist to feel the pulse for 30 secs and multiply it times 2.
Apical Pulse, taken on the 5th intercoastal rib on the mid-clavicular line. Taken using a
stethoscope. Assessed when giving meds that affect heart rate and rhythm. Used for infants and
children less than 2 years of age.
Autonomy - ✔✔✔-the right to make one's own personal decision, even when they might not be
in the best interest
Culture care - ✔✔✔-who makes the decisions, what do different cultures believe?
Care is implemented in a way that is planned and implemented in a way that is sensitive to the
needs of individuals, families and groups from diverse populations within society. Nurses are
responsible for providing culturally respectable care.
Determining the priority patient - ✔✔✔-airway (breathing) priority
ABC's (Airway, Breathing Circulatory) and Safety. Pain after.
Ethical Principles - ✔✔✔-Autonomy, Justice, beneficence, and nonmaleficence. All things being
equal, we ought to act at all times in a manner that respects the autonomy of others, does not
harm, does benefit others, treats others fairly, and is faithful to the promises we make to others.
fidelity - ✔✔✔-Keep promises follow through
health promotion - ✔✔✔-Health Promotion is a motivation by the desire to increase a patients
level of well-being and health potential. Health Promotion guidelines: attain health quality
(longer lives free of preventable disease, disability, injury and premature death). Achieve health
Updated)
2. Nurses' role in Consents - ✔✔✔-Informed Consent- nurses role is to witness the clients
signature on the informed consent form to ensure provider has obtained consent properly
Apical pulse vs. Radial Pulse - ✔✔✔-how and where to obtain
Radial Pulse on the wrist, palpitate the wrist to feel the pulse for 30 secs and multiply it times 2.
Apical Pulse, taken on the 5th intercoastal rib on the mid-clavicular line. Taken using a
stethoscope. Assessed when giving meds that affect heart rate and rhythm. Used for infants and
children less than 2 years of age.
Autonomy - ✔✔✔-the right to make one's own personal decision, even when they might not be
in the best interest
Culture care - ✔✔✔-who makes the decisions, what do different cultures believe?
Care is implemented in a way that is planned and implemented in a way that is sensitive to the
needs of individuals, families and groups from diverse populations within society. Nurses are
responsible for providing culturally respectable care.
Determining the priority patient - ✔✔✔-airway (breathing) priority
ABC's (Airway, Breathing Circulatory) and Safety. Pain after.
Ethical Principles - ✔✔✔-Autonomy, Justice, beneficence, and nonmaleficence. All things being
equal, we ought to act at all times in a manner that respects the autonomy of others, does not
harm, does benefit others, treats others fairly, and is faithful to the promises we make to others.
fidelity - ✔✔✔-Keep promises follow through
health promotion - ✔✔✔-Health Promotion is a motivation by the desire to increase a patients
level of well-being and health potential. Health Promotion guidelines: attain health quality
(longer lives free of preventable disease, disability, injury and premature death). Achieve health
