WGU C715 UPDATED EXAM 2025/2026
ACTUAL QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT
ANSWERS
▶ Nursing? Answer:the protection, promotion, and optimization of health
and abilities, prevention of illness and injury, alleviation of suffering through
the diagnosis and treatment of human response, and advocacy in the care
of individuals, families, communities, and populations
▶ Human Response? Answer:reactions to an event or stressor such as
disease or injury
▶ Holistic? Answer:concerning the whole rather than the parts
▶ Profession? Answer:a job that needs special education and training
▶ Care Provider? Answer:one who helps identify the health care needs of
an individual and also personally performs the caregiving service
▶ Nursing Process? Answer:five-step systematic method for giving patient
care; involves assessing, diagnosing, planning, implementing, and
evaluating
▶ Educator? Answer:Promoting health literacy towards your patients.
Ensuring that patients receive sufficient information on which to base
consent for care and related treatment.
▶ Advocate? Answer:Accepting and respecting the patient's decisions
even if they are different from the nurse's own beliefs. Supporting a
patient's wishes and communicating them to other health care providers.
▶ Leader? Answer:Providing direction and purpose to others, building a
sense of commitment toward common goals, effective communication, and
assisting with addressing that arise in caring for patients in a health care
setting.
,▶ Change Agent? Answer:Encourages change and provides strategies for
effecting change.
▶ Manager? Answer:Managing all activities and treatments for patients.
This may apply in the context of managing a team of patients or a unit in a
hospital.
▶ Researcher? Answer:Critiquing research studies and applying research
to practice.
▶ Collaborator? Answer:Two or more people working together toward a
common goal.
▶ Delegator? Answer:Entrusting or transferring the responsibility for certain
tasks to other personnel, including UAP and LPNs.
▶ Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs? Answer:Specifies the psychological and
physiologic factors that affect each person's physical and mental health. At
the base of the pyramid: oxygen, food, elimination, temperature control,
sex, movement, rest, and comfort. At the top: safety and security, love and
belonging, self-esteem, and self-actualization.
▶ Erikson's Psychosocial Theory? Answer:Based on individuals' interacting
and learning about their world.
▶ Altruism? Answer:Motivated by public service over personal gain.
▶ Accountability? Answer:Accepting responsibility for actions and
omissions.
▶ Autonomy? Answer:Making independent decisions within the scope of
practice and being responsible for the results and consequences of those
decisions.
▶ Code of Ethics? Answer:The standards of right and wrong behavior.
▶ Professional Organization? Answer:Any organization that supports and
encourages high standards in nursing.
, ▶ Licensure? Answer:to be given a license to practice nursing in a state or
province after successfully meeting requirements. An RN is committed to
professional development and is required to continue to learn and maintain
competency.
▶ Diversity? Answer:Respect for human rights, including cultural right, the
right to life and choice, to dignity and to be treated with respect. Nursing
care is respectful of and unrestricted by considerations of age, color, creed,
culture, disability or illness, gender, sexual orientation, nationality, politics,
race or social status.
▶ Cultural Competence? Answer:the ability to interact effectively with
people of different cultures
▶ American Nurses Association (ANA)? Answer:Professional organization
that represents all registered nurses.
▶ Standards of Nursing Practice? Answer:Assessment
Diagnosis
Outcomes identification
Planning
Implementation
Evaluation
▶ Licensed Practical Nurse? Answer:a nurse who has completed a 1-year
nursing program and has passed a licensing test
▶ Registered Nurse? Answer:A nurse who has completed a 2-, 3-, or 4-
year nursing program and has passed a licensing test
▶ Advanced Practice Nurse? Answer:a registered nurse having education
beyond the basic nursing education and certified by a nationally recognized
professional organization in a nursing specialty, or meeting other criteria
established by a Board of Nursing.
▶ Doctor of Nursing Practice? Answer:nurses who earn a PhD in nursing
required to assume advanced practice roles such as nurse practitioner,
clinical nurse specialist, nurse midwife, and nurse anesthetist
ACTUAL QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT
ANSWERS
▶ Nursing? Answer:the protection, promotion, and optimization of health
and abilities, prevention of illness and injury, alleviation of suffering through
the diagnosis and treatment of human response, and advocacy in the care
of individuals, families, communities, and populations
▶ Human Response? Answer:reactions to an event or stressor such as
disease or injury
▶ Holistic? Answer:concerning the whole rather than the parts
▶ Profession? Answer:a job that needs special education and training
▶ Care Provider? Answer:one who helps identify the health care needs of
an individual and also personally performs the caregiving service
▶ Nursing Process? Answer:five-step systematic method for giving patient
care; involves assessing, diagnosing, planning, implementing, and
evaluating
▶ Educator? Answer:Promoting health literacy towards your patients.
Ensuring that patients receive sufficient information on which to base
consent for care and related treatment.
▶ Advocate? Answer:Accepting and respecting the patient's decisions
even if they are different from the nurse's own beliefs. Supporting a
patient's wishes and communicating them to other health care providers.
▶ Leader? Answer:Providing direction and purpose to others, building a
sense of commitment toward common goals, effective communication, and
assisting with addressing that arise in caring for patients in a health care
setting.
,▶ Change Agent? Answer:Encourages change and provides strategies for
effecting change.
▶ Manager? Answer:Managing all activities and treatments for patients.
This may apply in the context of managing a team of patients or a unit in a
hospital.
▶ Researcher? Answer:Critiquing research studies and applying research
to practice.
▶ Collaborator? Answer:Two or more people working together toward a
common goal.
▶ Delegator? Answer:Entrusting or transferring the responsibility for certain
tasks to other personnel, including UAP and LPNs.
▶ Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs? Answer:Specifies the psychological and
physiologic factors that affect each person's physical and mental health. At
the base of the pyramid: oxygen, food, elimination, temperature control,
sex, movement, rest, and comfort. At the top: safety and security, love and
belonging, self-esteem, and self-actualization.
▶ Erikson's Psychosocial Theory? Answer:Based on individuals' interacting
and learning about their world.
▶ Altruism? Answer:Motivated by public service over personal gain.
▶ Accountability? Answer:Accepting responsibility for actions and
omissions.
▶ Autonomy? Answer:Making independent decisions within the scope of
practice and being responsible for the results and consequences of those
decisions.
▶ Code of Ethics? Answer:The standards of right and wrong behavior.
▶ Professional Organization? Answer:Any organization that supports and
encourages high standards in nursing.
, ▶ Licensure? Answer:to be given a license to practice nursing in a state or
province after successfully meeting requirements. An RN is committed to
professional development and is required to continue to learn and maintain
competency.
▶ Diversity? Answer:Respect for human rights, including cultural right, the
right to life and choice, to dignity and to be treated with respect. Nursing
care is respectful of and unrestricted by considerations of age, color, creed,
culture, disability or illness, gender, sexual orientation, nationality, politics,
race or social status.
▶ Cultural Competence? Answer:the ability to interact effectively with
people of different cultures
▶ American Nurses Association (ANA)? Answer:Professional organization
that represents all registered nurses.
▶ Standards of Nursing Practice? Answer:Assessment
Diagnosis
Outcomes identification
Planning
Implementation
Evaluation
▶ Licensed Practical Nurse? Answer:a nurse who has completed a 1-year
nursing program and has passed a licensing test
▶ Registered Nurse? Answer:A nurse who has completed a 2-, 3-, or 4-
year nursing program and has passed a licensing test
▶ Advanced Practice Nurse? Answer:a registered nurse having education
beyond the basic nursing education and certified by a nationally recognized
professional organization in a nursing specialty, or meeting other criteria
established by a Board of Nursing.
▶ Doctor of Nursing Practice? Answer:nurses who earn a PhD in nursing
required to assume advanced practice roles such as nurse practitioner,
clinical nurse specialist, nurse midwife, and nurse anesthetist
