Introduction
A 24-item NCLEX style exam all about the ADPIE or the Nursing Process.
Topics
• Nursing Process
Guidelines
• Read each question carefully and choose the best answer.
• You are given one minute per question. Spend your time wisely!
• Answers and rationales are given below. Be sure to read them.
• If you need more clarifications, please direct them to the comments section.
Questions
1. Once a nurse assesses a client’s condition and identifies appropriate nursing
diagnoses,a:
1. Plan is developed for nursing care.
2. Physical assessment begins
3. List of priorities is determined.
4. Review of the assessment is conducted with other team members.
2. Planning is a category of nursing behaviors in which:
1. The nurse determines the health care needed for the client.
2. The Physician determines the plan of care for the client.
3. Client-centered goals and expected outcomes are established.
4. The client determines the care needed.
3. Priorities are established to help the nurse anticipate and sequence nursing
interventions when a client has multiple problems or alterations. Priorities are
determined by the client’s:
1. Physician
2. Non Emergent, non-life threatening needs
3. Future well-being.
4. Urgency of problems
4. A client centered goal is a specific and measurable behavior or response that
reflects aclient’s:
1. Desire for specific health care interventions
2. Highest possible level of wellness and independence in function.
3. Physician‘s goal for the specific client.
4. Response when compared to another client with a like problem.
5. For clients to participate in goal setting, they should be:
1. Alert and have some degree of independence.
2. Ambulatory and mobile.
3. Able to speak and write.
4. Able to read and write.
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,6. The nurse writes an expected outcome statement in measurable terms. An
example is:
1. Client will have less pain.
2. Client will be pain free.
3. Client will report pain acuity less than 4 on a scale of 0-10.
4. Client will take pain medication every 4 hours around the clock.
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,7. As goals, outcomes, and interventions are developed, the nurse must:
1. Be in charge of all care and planning for the client.
2. Be aware of and committed to accepted standards of practice from nursing and other disciples.
3. Not change the plan of care for the client.
4. Be in control of all interventions for the client.
8. When establishing realistic goals, the nurse:
1. Bases the goals on the nurse‘s personal knowledge.
2. Knows the resources of the health care facility, family, and the client.
3. Must have a client who is physically and emotionally stable.
4. Must have the client‘s cooperation.
9. To initiate an intervention the nurse must be competent in three areas, which
include:
1. Knowledge, function, and specific skills
2. Experience, advanced education, and skills.
3. Skills, finances, and leadership.
4. Leadership, autonomy, and skills.
10. Collaborative interventions are therapies that require:
1. Physician and nurse interventions.
2. Nurse and client interventions.
3. Client and Physician intervention.
4. Multiple health care professionals.
11. Well formulated, client-centered goals should:
1. Meet immediate client needs.
2. Include preventative health care.
3. Include rehabilitation needs.
4. All of the above.
12. The following statement appears on the nursing care plan for an
immunosuppressed client: The client will remain free from infection throughout
hospitalization. This statementis an example of a (an):
1. Nursing diagnosis
2. Short-term goal
3. Long-term goal
4. Expected outcome
13. The following statements appear on a nursing care plan for a client after a
mastectomy: Incision site approximated; absence of drainage or prolonged
erythema atincision site; and client remains afebrile. These statements are
examples of:
1. Nursing interventions
2. Short-term goals
3. Long-term goals
4. Expected outcomes.
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, 14. The planning step of the nursing process includes which of the following
activities?
1. Assessing and diagnosing
2. Evaluating goal achievement.
3. Performing nursing actions and documenting them.
4. Setting goals and selecting interventions.
15. The nursing care plan is:
1. A written guideline for implementation and evaluation.
2. A documentation of client care.
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A 24-item NCLEX style exam all about the ADPIE or the Nursing Process.
Topics
• Nursing Process
Guidelines
• Read each question carefully and choose the best answer.
• You are given one minute per question. Spend your time wisely!
• Answers and rationales are given below. Be sure to read them.
• If you need more clarifications, please direct them to the comments section.
Questions
1. Once a nurse assesses a client’s condition and identifies appropriate nursing
diagnoses,a:
1. Plan is developed for nursing care.
2. Physical assessment begins
3. List of priorities is determined.
4. Review of the assessment is conducted with other team members.
2. Planning is a category of nursing behaviors in which:
1. The nurse determines the health care needed for the client.
2. The Physician determines the plan of care for the client.
3. Client-centered goals and expected outcomes are established.
4. The client determines the care needed.
3. Priorities are established to help the nurse anticipate and sequence nursing
interventions when a client has multiple problems or alterations. Priorities are
determined by the client’s:
1. Physician
2. Non Emergent, non-life threatening needs
3. Future well-being.
4. Urgency of problems
4. A client centered goal is a specific and measurable behavior or response that
reflects aclient’s:
1. Desire for specific health care interventions
2. Highest possible level of wellness and independence in function.
3. Physician‘s goal for the specific client.
4. Response when compared to another client with a like problem.
5. For clients to participate in goal setting, they should be:
1. Alert and have some degree of independence.
2. Ambulatory and mobile.
3. Able to speak and write.
4. Able to read and write.
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,6. The nurse writes an expected outcome statement in measurable terms. An
example is:
1. Client will have less pain.
2. Client will be pain free.
3. Client will report pain acuity less than 4 on a scale of 0-10.
4. Client will take pain medication every 4 hours around the clock.
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,7. As goals, outcomes, and interventions are developed, the nurse must:
1. Be in charge of all care and planning for the client.
2. Be aware of and committed to accepted standards of practice from nursing and other disciples.
3. Not change the plan of care for the client.
4. Be in control of all interventions for the client.
8. When establishing realistic goals, the nurse:
1. Bases the goals on the nurse‘s personal knowledge.
2. Knows the resources of the health care facility, family, and the client.
3. Must have a client who is physically and emotionally stable.
4. Must have the client‘s cooperation.
9. To initiate an intervention the nurse must be competent in three areas, which
include:
1. Knowledge, function, and specific skills
2. Experience, advanced education, and skills.
3. Skills, finances, and leadership.
4. Leadership, autonomy, and skills.
10. Collaborative interventions are therapies that require:
1. Physician and nurse interventions.
2. Nurse and client interventions.
3. Client and Physician intervention.
4. Multiple health care professionals.
11. Well formulated, client-centered goals should:
1. Meet immediate client needs.
2. Include preventative health care.
3. Include rehabilitation needs.
4. All of the above.
12. The following statement appears on the nursing care plan for an
immunosuppressed client: The client will remain free from infection throughout
hospitalization. This statementis an example of a (an):
1. Nursing diagnosis
2. Short-term goal
3. Long-term goal
4. Expected outcome
13. The following statements appear on a nursing care plan for a client after a
mastectomy: Incision site approximated; absence of drainage or prolonged
erythema atincision site; and client remains afebrile. These statements are
examples of:
1. Nursing interventions
2. Short-term goals
3. Long-term goals
4. Expected outcomes.
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, 14. The planning step of the nursing process includes which of the following
activities?
1. Assessing and diagnosing
2. Evaluating goal achievement.
3. Performing nursing actions and documenting them.
4. Setting goals and selecting interventions.
15. The nursing care plan is:
1. A written guideline for implementation and evaluation.
2. A documentation of client care.
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