FUNDAMENTALS OF NURSING FINAL EXAM
2025/2026 ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND
VERIFIED SOLUTIONS
▶ 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
2025/2026 ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND
VERIFIED SOLUTIONS
▶ 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
