NFDN COMPREHENSIVE TEST 2026
QUESTIONS WITH SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
●● Functions and roles of a home health nurse. Answer: - provide direct
care
- enhance self care skills
- link client with community services
- prevent complications in the chronically ill
- help minimize effects of disability and illness
●● Hospice Nursing. Answer: - Increase the quality of care for
terminally ill persons
- symptom management (pain and suffering) and support
- Setting: home, specially designated palliative care unit in hospital or
hospice facility
●● Hospice Nursing and roles. Answer: - reduce pain and suffering
- ensuring comfort
- support of client and family
●● Public Health Nursing. Answer: - population health approach
- protecting, promoting health for all Canadians
,- settings: home, work, school, clinical settings, community health centre
●● Public health nursing roles. Answer: - Advocate
- Manager
- Educator
- Counsellor
●● Hospice Nurses functions. Answer: - Pain assessment and
management
- assess clients response to treatment
- report findings to physician
- collaborate to modify care plan
●● Evidence informed practice in community nursing. Answer: - uses
evidence informed practice to identify the most effective strategies for
changing health behaviours
- guides nursing practice, help make decisions
●● Public health nursing functions. Answer: - plan and deliver services
- community program delivery
- emergency preparedness and planning
- at risk populations
, ●● role of community health nurses in rural areas. Answer: - community
health education
- case management
- advocacy
- case finding
- provide care to families across great distances in all regions of Canada
●● Corrections Nurse. Answer: - RN working in clinics within a
correctional facility
- provide health promotion, mental health focus, infectious disease
prevention
●● outreach Nurse. Answer: - RNs who work with marginalized people
who have difficulty accessing traditional health services (homeless,
substance use disorders)
- settings: alcohol and drug detoxification centre, community mental
health centres
- provide first aid, counselling, referral to community services, advocacy
●● Parish Nurse. Answer: - RN who is called to ministry and affirmed
by a faith community to promote health, healing and wholeness
- work with faith communities and the church
QUESTIONS WITH SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
●● Functions and roles of a home health nurse. Answer: - provide direct
care
- enhance self care skills
- link client with community services
- prevent complications in the chronically ill
- help minimize effects of disability and illness
●● Hospice Nursing. Answer: - Increase the quality of care for
terminally ill persons
- symptom management (pain and suffering) and support
- Setting: home, specially designated palliative care unit in hospital or
hospice facility
●● Hospice Nursing and roles. Answer: - reduce pain and suffering
- ensuring comfort
- support of client and family
●● Public Health Nursing. Answer: - population health approach
- protecting, promoting health for all Canadians
,- settings: home, work, school, clinical settings, community health centre
●● Public health nursing roles. Answer: - Advocate
- Manager
- Educator
- Counsellor
●● Hospice Nurses functions. Answer: - Pain assessment and
management
- assess clients response to treatment
- report findings to physician
- collaborate to modify care plan
●● Evidence informed practice in community nursing. Answer: - uses
evidence informed practice to identify the most effective strategies for
changing health behaviours
- guides nursing practice, help make decisions
●● Public health nursing functions. Answer: - plan and deliver services
- community program delivery
- emergency preparedness and planning
- at risk populations
, ●● role of community health nurses in rural areas. Answer: - community
health education
- case management
- advocacy
- case finding
- provide care to families across great distances in all regions of Canada
●● Corrections Nurse. Answer: - RN working in clinics within a
correctional facility
- provide health promotion, mental health focus, infectious disease
prevention
●● outreach Nurse. Answer: - RNs who work with marginalized people
who have difficulty accessing traditional health services (homeless,
substance use disorders)
- settings: alcohol and drug detoxification centre, community mental
health centres
- provide first aid, counselling, referral to community services, advocacy
●● Parish Nurse. Answer: - RN who is called to ministry and affirmed
by a faith community to promote health, healing and wholeness
- work with faith communities and the church
