PNC - Practical Nursing Diploma COMPREHENSIVE TEST
BANK FINAL EXAM 2026-2027 Vancouver Island University
ACTUAL COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
DETAILED ANSWERS (VERIFIED ANSWERS)
|ALREADY GRADED A+
Actual Nursing Diagnoses
These nursing diagnoses represent problems that have been validated by the
presence of major defining characteristics. This type of nursing diagnosis has
four components: label, definition, defining characteristics, and related
factor.
Risk Nursing Diagnoses
These nursing diagnoses are clinical judgments that a person, family, or
community is more vulnerable to develop the problem than others in the
same or similar
situation.
Possible Nursing Diagnoses
These nursing diagnoses are statements describing a suspected problem for
which additional data are needed. Additional data are used to confirm or
rule out the
suspected problem.
,Wellness Diagnoses
These nursing diagnoses are clinical judgments about a person, group,
or community in transition from a specific level of wellness to a higher
level of
wellness. These diagnoses are often more applicable in nursing settings
that deal primarily with healthy patients. The diagnostic statement is a
one-part statement that contains the label Readiness for Enhanced,
followed by the desired higher-level wellness.
1. A desire for a higher level of wellness
2. An effective present status or function
What two cues must be present for a valid wellness diagnosis?
Syndrome Nursing Diagnoses
These nursing diagnoses comprise a cluster of actual or risk nursing
diagnoses that are predicted to be present because of a certain event or
situation.
Utilitarian.
What ethical form is described as:
The rightness or wrongness of an action depends on the consequences of
the action.
,Deontologic
What ethical form is described as:
An action is right or wrong based on a rule, independent of its consequences.
1. It is a succinct statement of the ethical obligations and duties of every
individual who enters the nursing profession.
2. It is the profession's nonnegotiable ethical standard.
3. It is an expression of nursing's own understanding of its commitment to
society.
The Code of Ethics for Nurses serves the following purposes:
1. Nurses and People
2. Nurses and Practice
3. Nurses and the Profession
4. Nurses and Co-Workers
The ICN Code of Ethics for Nurses has four principal elements that outline the
standards of ethical conduct. Note these four principal elements.
Autonomy/Self-Determination
A term for respecting the rights of patients or their surrogates to make health
care decisions.
, Nonmaleficence
A term for the avoidance of causing harm
Beneficence
A term for being of benefit to the patient, and balancing benefits against risks
and harms.
Justice
A term to describe giving each his or her due; acting fairly.
Fidelity
A term for keeping promises
As intentional or unintentional acts of wrongdoing
How may torts be broadly classified?
1. Assault and Battery
2. Defamation of Character
3. Invasion of Privacy
4. False Imprisonment
5. Fraud
Note the 5 intentional tort categories.
BANK FINAL EXAM 2026-2027 Vancouver Island University
ACTUAL COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
DETAILED ANSWERS (VERIFIED ANSWERS)
|ALREADY GRADED A+
Actual Nursing Diagnoses
These nursing diagnoses represent problems that have been validated by the
presence of major defining characteristics. This type of nursing diagnosis has
four components: label, definition, defining characteristics, and related
factor.
Risk Nursing Diagnoses
These nursing diagnoses are clinical judgments that a person, family, or
community is more vulnerable to develop the problem than others in the
same or similar
situation.
Possible Nursing Diagnoses
These nursing diagnoses are statements describing a suspected problem for
which additional data are needed. Additional data are used to confirm or
rule out the
suspected problem.
,Wellness Diagnoses
These nursing diagnoses are clinical judgments about a person, group,
or community in transition from a specific level of wellness to a higher
level of
wellness. These diagnoses are often more applicable in nursing settings
that deal primarily with healthy patients. The diagnostic statement is a
one-part statement that contains the label Readiness for Enhanced,
followed by the desired higher-level wellness.
1. A desire for a higher level of wellness
2. An effective present status or function
What two cues must be present for a valid wellness diagnosis?
Syndrome Nursing Diagnoses
These nursing diagnoses comprise a cluster of actual or risk nursing
diagnoses that are predicted to be present because of a certain event or
situation.
Utilitarian.
What ethical form is described as:
The rightness or wrongness of an action depends on the consequences of
the action.
,Deontologic
What ethical form is described as:
An action is right or wrong based on a rule, independent of its consequences.
1. It is a succinct statement of the ethical obligations and duties of every
individual who enters the nursing profession.
2. It is the profession's nonnegotiable ethical standard.
3. It is an expression of nursing's own understanding of its commitment to
society.
The Code of Ethics for Nurses serves the following purposes:
1. Nurses and People
2. Nurses and Practice
3. Nurses and the Profession
4. Nurses and Co-Workers
The ICN Code of Ethics for Nurses has four principal elements that outline the
standards of ethical conduct. Note these four principal elements.
Autonomy/Self-Determination
A term for respecting the rights of patients or their surrogates to make health
care decisions.
, Nonmaleficence
A term for the avoidance of causing harm
Beneficence
A term for being of benefit to the patient, and balancing benefits against risks
and harms.
Justice
A term to describe giving each his or her due; acting fairly.
Fidelity
A term for keeping promises
As intentional or unintentional acts of wrongdoing
How may torts be broadly classified?
1. Assault and Battery
2. Defamation of Character
3. Invasion of Privacy
4. False Imprisonment
5. Fraud
Note the 5 intentional tort categories.
