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NURS 201 FINAL EXAM ACTUAL COMPLETE REAL
EXAM NEWEST 2026-2027 QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS ( EXPERT VERIFIED AND DETAILED
ANSWERS) WITH RATIONALES FOR QUARANTEED
PASS | ALREADY A+ GRADED | GET IT 100%
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A nurse is providing care to a client admitted to the hospital with a
diagnosis of acute anxiety disorder. The
client says to the nurse, "I have a secret that I want to tell you. You won't
tell anyone about it, will you?"
The appropriate nursing response would be which of the
following? a. "No, I won't tell anyone."
b. "I cannot promise to keep a secret."
c. "If you tell me the secret, I will tell it to your doctor."
d. "If you tell me the secret, I will need to document it in your
record." -
ANSWER-b
Rationale: The nurse should never promise to keep a secret because they
are not appropriate in therapeutic relationships. The nurse needs to be
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honest with the client and tell the client that a promise cannot be made to
keep the secret.
A nurse is reviewing therapeutic and nontherapeutic
communication techniques with a student. Which of the
following are therapeutic communication techniques? select all
that apply
a. Restating
b. Listening
c. Asking the client, "Why?"
d. Maintaining neutral responses
e. giving advice, approval, or disapproval
f. providing acknowledgement and feedback - ANSWER-a, b, d, f
Rationale: Therapeutic techniques include listening, maintaining
silence, maintaining neutral responses, using broad openings, open-
ended questions, focusing and refocusing, restating, clarifying,
validating, sharing perceptions, reflecting, acknowledgement, feedback,
giving information, planning, presenting reality, summarizing, and
nonverbal encouragement.
The nurse is aware that in the working phase of the nurse client
relationship, clients:
a. Often focus the conversation on the nurse
b. Accept limits and initiate topics for discussion
c. Commonly exhibit testing behaviors such as flirtation and
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lateness
d. May repress emotionally charged material to avoid shocking
the nurse. -
ANSWER-b
Rationale: This is a correct description of the working phase of a
relationship; trust has been established and a relationship has been
developed based on mutual respect.
. A client scheduled for bowel surgery states to a nurse, "I'm not sure if
I should have this surgery." Which response by the nurse is
appropriate?" a. "It's your decision."
b. "Don't worry. Everything will be fine."
c. "Why don't you want to have this surgery?"
d. "Tell me what concerns you have about the surgery." - ANSWER-d
Rationale: This technique is therapeutic and allows the client to
communicate thoughts, feelings, concerns, anxiety, and fears. This is the
only response that addresses the client's concern.
A community health nurse visits a client at home. The client states, "I
haven't slept at all the last couple of nights." Which response by the nurse
illustrates a therapeutic communication technique for this client? a.
"That's normal." b. "Sleeping?"
c. "You're having difficulty sleeping?"
d. Sometimes, I have trouble sleeping too." - ANSWER-c Rationale: This
is restatement, used to repeat the client's major theme and assists the
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nurse to obtain a more specific perception of the problem from the
client.
All treatment team members are seen as equally important in helping
clients meet their treatment goals. This type of therapy approach is:
a. Milieu therapy
b. interpersonal therapy
c. behavior modification
d. rational emotive therapy - ANSWER-a
Rationale: All treatment team members are viewed as significant and
valuable to the client's successful treatment outcomes in milieu therapy.
Behavior modification is based on rewards and punishment. Rational
emotive therapy deals with the correction of distorted thinking.
Interpersonal therapy is based on a one to one or group therapy approach
where the client examines relationships in his or her life.
When a nurse revises a client's nursing care plan based on the client's
responses that show evidence that goals were not attained, the phase of
the nursing process being applied is:
a. planning
b. evaluation
c. assessment
d. implementation - ANSWER-b
NURS 201 FINAL EXAM ACTUAL COMPLETE REAL
EXAM NEWEST 2026-2027 QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS ( EXPERT VERIFIED AND DETAILED
ANSWERS) WITH RATIONALES FOR QUARANTEED
PASS | ALREADY A+ GRADED | GET IT 100%
ACCURATE!!
A nurse is providing care to a client admitted to the hospital with a
diagnosis of acute anxiety disorder. The
client says to the nurse, "I have a secret that I want to tell you. You won't
tell anyone about it, will you?"
The appropriate nursing response would be which of the
following? a. "No, I won't tell anyone."
b. "I cannot promise to keep a secret."
c. "If you tell me the secret, I will tell it to your doctor."
d. "If you tell me the secret, I will need to document it in your
record." -
ANSWER-b
Rationale: The nurse should never promise to keep a secret because they
are not appropriate in therapeutic relationships. The nurse needs to be
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honest with the client and tell the client that a promise cannot be made to
keep the secret.
A nurse is reviewing therapeutic and nontherapeutic
communication techniques with a student. Which of the
following are therapeutic communication techniques? select all
that apply
a. Restating
b. Listening
c. Asking the client, "Why?"
d. Maintaining neutral responses
e. giving advice, approval, or disapproval
f. providing acknowledgement and feedback - ANSWER-a, b, d, f
Rationale: Therapeutic techniques include listening, maintaining
silence, maintaining neutral responses, using broad openings, open-
ended questions, focusing and refocusing, restating, clarifying,
validating, sharing perceptions, reflecting, acknowledgement, feedback,
giving information, planning, presenting reality, summarizing, and
nonverbal encouragement.
The nurse is aware that in the working phase of the nurse client
relationship, clients:
a. Often focus the conversation on the nurse
b. Accept limits and initiate topics for discussion
c. Commonly exhibit testing behaviors such as flirtation and
,3|Page
lateness
d. May repress emotionally charged material to avoid shocking
the nurse. -
ANSWER-b
Rationale: This is a correct description of the working phase of a
relationship; trust has been established and a relationship has been
developed based on mutual respect.
. A client scheduled for bowel surgery states to a nurse, "I'm not sure if
I should have this surgery." Which response by the nurse is
appropriate?" a. "It's your decision."
b. "Don't worry. Everything will be fine."
c. "Why don't you want to have this surgery?"
d. "Tell me what concerns you have about the surgery." - ANSWER-d
Rationale: This technique is therapeutic and allows the client to
communicate thoughts, feelings, concerns, anxiety, and fears. This is the
only response that addresses the client's concern.
A community health nurse visits a client at home. The client states, "I
haven't slept at all the last couple of nights." Which response by the nurse
illustrates a therapeutic communication technique for this client? a.
"That's normal." b. "Sleeping?"
c. "You're having difficulty sleeping?"
d. Sometimes, I have trouble sleeping too." - ANSWER-c Rationale: This
is restatement, used to repeat the client's major theme and assists the
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nurse to obtain a more specific perception of the problem from the
client.
All treatment team members are seen as equally important in helping
clients meet their treatment goals. This type of therapy approach is:
a. Milieu therapy
b. interpersonal therapy
c. behavior modification
d. rational emotive therapy - ANSWER-a
Rationale: All treatment team members are viewed as significant and
valuable to the client's successful treatment outcomes in milieu therapy.
Behavior modification is based on rewards and punishment. Rational
emotive therapy deals with the correction of distorted thinking.
Interpersonal therapy is based on a one to one or group therapy approach
where the client examines relationships in his or her life.
When a nurse revises a client's nursing care plan based on the client's
responses that show evidence that goals were not attained, the phase of
the nursing process being applied is:
a. planning
b. evaluation
c. assessment
d. implementation - ANSWER-b
