FUNDAMENTALS OF NURSING UPDATED
EXAM 2025/2026 ACTUAL QUESTIONS WITH
CORRECT ANSWERS
▶ 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
▶ Benner's Novice to Expert Model? Answer:novice, advanced beginner,
competent, proficient, expert
▶ National Council Licensure Examination (NCLEX)? Answer:Examination
used to test critical thinking and nursing competency.
▶ Nursing Shortage? Answer:Caused By: Changes in reimbursements,
Quality and safety movement and National and local economics
Typically a nursing shortage increases with robust economy, decreases
with receding economy
▶ Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN)? Answer:addresses the
challenge to prepare nurses with the competencies needed to continuously
improve the quality of care in their work environments
▶ Institute of Medicine Report? Answer:Nurses should practice to the full
extent of their education and training, achieve higher levels of education
and training through an improved education system that promotes
seamless academic progression, full partners with physicians and other
health care professionals in redesigning health care in the United States,
effective workforce planning and policy requiring better data collection and
an improved information infrastructure.
▶ National Patient Safety Goals? Answer:1. Improve the accuracy of
patient identification.
2. Improve the effectiveness of communication among caregivers.
3. Improve the safety of using medications.
4. Reduce the harm associated with clinical alarm systems.
5. Reduce the risk of health care-associated infections
▶ Independent Nursing Practice? Answer:- Degree of autonomy
- Code of ethics to reflect current issues
- Not always free to decide patient care
- Nurse Practitioners increase the practice's independence
▶ Professional Image? Answer:The impression you project through both
your outward appearance and your conduct in the workplace.
EXAM 2025/2026 ACTUAL QUESTIONS WITH
CORRECT ANSWERS
▶ 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
▶ Benner's Novice to Expert Model? Answer:novice, advanced beginner,
competent, proficient, expert
▶ National Council Licensure Examination (NCLEX)? Answer:Examination
used to test critical thinking and nursing competency.
▶ Nursing Shortage? Answer:Caused By: Changes in reimbursements,
Quality and safety movement and National and local economics
Typically a nursing shortage increases with robust economy, decreases
with receding economy
▶ Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN)? Answer:addresses the
challenge to prepare nurses with the competencies needed to continuously
improve the quality of care in their work environments
▶ Institute of Medicine Report? Answer:Nurses should practice to the full
extent of their education and training, achieve higher levels of education
and training through an improved education system that promotes
seamless academic progression, full partners with physicians and other
health care professionals in redesigning health care in the United States,
effective workforce planning and policy requiring better data collection and
an improved information infrastructure.
▶ National Patient Safety Goals? Answer:1. Improve the accuracy of
patient identification.
2. Improve the effectiveness of communication among caregivers.
3. Improve the safety of using medications.
4. Reduce the harm associated with clinical alarm systems.
5. Reduce the risk of health care-associated infections
▶ Independent Nursing Practice? Answer:- Degree of autonomy
- Code of ethics to reflect current issues
- Not always free to decide patient care
- Nurse Practitioners increase the practice's independence
▶ Professional Image? Answer:The impression you project through both
your outward appearance and your conduct in the workplace.
