NURS 3514 ACTUAL EXAM PAPER 2026
QUESTIONS WITH SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
●● Interrelated roles of nurses.
Answer: communicator, teacher, counselor, leader, researcher, advocate,
collaborator
●● coping with disability and death.
Answer: nurses use optimal function of maximum strengths and
potentials, refer to community support systems; provide care to families
and patients during end-of-life care, hospice
●● The Nursing Process.
Answer: -one of major guidelines for nursing practice
-helps nurses implement their roles
-integrates art and science of nursing
-allows nurses to use critical thinking and clinical reasoning
-defines the areas of care that are within the domain of nursing
●● Nurse Practice Acts.
Answer: -define legal scope of nursing practice
-create state board of nursing to make and enforce rules and regulation
,-define important terms and activities in nursing, including legal
requirements and titles for RNs and LPNs
- established criteria for the education and licensure of nurses
●● 5 vital signs.
Answer: respirations, pulse rate, blood pressure, temperature, and pain
●● Nursing is recognized as profession based on what criteria.
Answer: -well defined body specific and unique knowledge
-strong service orientation
-recognized authority by a professional group (ANA)
-code of ethics
-professional organization that sets standards
-ongoing research
-autonomy and self-regulation
●● Florence Nightingale.
Answer: defined nursing as both an art and science, differentiated
nursing from medicine, created freestanding nursing education,
published books; founder of modern nursing
●● Clara Barton.
,Answer: established red cross; volunteered to care for wounds and feed
union soldiers during civil war; served as supervisor of nurses for the
army of James
●● sources of knowledge.
Answer: -traditional ( passed down from generation to generation)
-authoritative- comes from an expert, accepted as truth based on person's
perceived expertise
-scientific (obtained through the scientific method-research)
●● objective.
Answer: you can see the object
●● subjective.
Answer: coming from that subject
●● types of knowledge.
Answer: -science (observing, identifying, describing, investigating, and
explaining events and occurences that are perceived in world)
-philosophy (the study of wisdom, fundamental knowledge, and the
processes used to develop and construct on perception on life)
-process (a series of actions, changes, or functions intended to bring
about a desired result)
, ●● goals of nursing research.
Answer: -improve care in clinical setting
-study ppl and nurse process: education, policy development, ethics,
nursing history
-develop greater autonomy and strength as a profession
-provide evidence-based nursing practice
●● deductive reasoning.
Answer: examines a general idea and then considers specific actions or
ideas
●● inductive reasoning.
Answer: one builds from specific ideas or actions to conclusions about
general ideas
●● health.
Answer: a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being, not
merely the absence of disease or infirmity
●● illness.
Answer: the unique response of a person to a disease; an abnormal
process involving changed level of functioning
QUESTIONS WITH SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
●● Interrelated roles of nurses.
Answer: communicator, teacher, counselor, leader, researcher, advocate,
collaborator
●● coping with disability and death.
Answer: nurses use optimal function of maximum strengths and
potentials, refer to community support systems; provide care to families
and patients during end-of-life care, hospice
●● The Nursing Process.
Answer: -one of major guidelines for nursing practice
-helps nurses implement their roles
-integrates art and science of nursing
-allows nurses to use critical thinking and clinical reasoning
-defines the areas of care that are within the domain of nursing
●● Nurse Practice Acts.
Answer: -define legal scope of nursing practice
-create state board of nursing to make and enforce rules and regulation
,-define important terms and activities in nursing, including legal
requirements and titles for RNs and LPNs
- established criteria for the education and licensure of nurses
●● 5 vital signs.
Answer: respirations, pulse rate, blood pressure, temperature, and pain
●● Nursing is recognized as profession based on what criteria.
Answer: -well defined body specific and unique knowledge
-strong service orientation
-recognized authority by a professional group (ANA)
-code of ethics
-professional organization that sets standards
-ongoing research
-autonomy and self-regulation
●● Florence Nightingale.
Answer: defined nursing as both an art and science, differentiated
nursing from medicine, created freestanding nursing education,
published books; founder of modern nursing
●● Clara Barton.
,Answer: established red cross; volunteered to care for wounds and feed
union soldiers during civil war; served as supervisor of nurses for the
army of James
●● sources of knowledge.
Answer: -traditional ( passed down from generation to generation)
-authoritative- comes from an expert, accepted as truth based on person's
perceived expertise
-scientific (obtained through the scientific method-research)
●● objective.
Answer: you can see the object
●● subjective.
Answer: coming from that subject
●● types of knowledge.
Answer: -science (observing, identifying, describing, investigating, and
explaining events and occurences that are perceived in world)
-philosophy (the study of wisdom, fundamental knowledge, and the
processes used to develop and construct on perception on life)
-process (a series of actions, changes, or functions intended to bring
about a desired result)
, ●● goals of nursing research.
Answer: -improve care in clinical setting
-study ppl and nurse process: education, policy development, ethics,
nursing history
-develop greater autonomy and strength as a profession
-provide evidence-based nursing practice
●● deductive reasoning.
Answer: examines a general idea and then considers specific actions or
ideas
●● inductive reasoning.
Answer: one builds from specific ideas or actions to conclusions about
general ideas
●● health.
Answer: a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being, not
merely the absence of disease or infirmity
●● illness.
Answer: the unique response of a person to a disease; an abnormal
process involving changed level of functioning
