NUR 215: EXAM 1 QUESTIONS
WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS
1) What is a nurse? -- Answer ✔✔ Nurses are highly trained, well
educated, caring, and competent.
2) Why is nursing considered a profession? -- Answer ✔✔ - Standard
education
- Knowledge to role
- Selfless concern for others
- Code of ethics
- Autonomy, Accountability, Responsibility
- Professional organizations
3) Name 6 skills a nurse must have -- Answer ✔✔ - Critical thinking
skills
- Communication skills
- Organizational skills
- Leadership skills
- Advocacy
- Technical skills
4) What are the 4 basic principles of nursing? -- Answer ✔✔ -
Advocacy
- Responsibility
- Accountability
, - Confidentiality
5) What are the 6 ethical principles of nursing? -- Answer ✔✔ -
Autonomy
- Beneficence
- Fidelity
- Justice
- Non- Maleficence
- Veracity
6) Autonomy -- Answer ✔✔ the right of patients to make decisions
about their medical care without their healthcare provider trying to
influence the decision
7) Beneficence -- Answer ✔✔ addresses the idea that a nurse's actions
should promote good
8) Fidelity -- Answer ✔✔ nurse's must be faithful to the promises they
made as professionals to provide quality care
9) Justice -- Answer ✔✔ being impartial and fair
10) Non- Maleficence -- Answer ✔✔ non- harming or inflicting the
least harm possible to reach a beneficial outcome
11) Veracity -- Answer ✔✔ being honest and telling the truth
WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS
1) What is a nurse? -- Answer ✔✔ Nurses are highly trained, well
educated, caring, and competent.
2) Why is nursing considered a profession? -- Answer ✔✔ - Standard
education
- Knowledge to role
- Selfless concern for others
- Code of ethics
- Autonomy, Accountability, Responsibility
- Professional organizations
3) Name 6 skills a nurse must have -- Answer ✔✔ - Critical thinking
skills
- Communication skills
- Organizational skills
- Leadership skills
- Advocacy
- Technical skills
4) What are the 4 basic principles of nursing? -- Answer ✔✔ -
Advocacy
- Responsibility
- Accountability
, - Confidentiality
5) What are the 6 ethical principles of nursing? -- Answer ✔✔ -
Autonomy
- Beneficence
- Fidelity
- Justice
- Non- Maleficence
- Veracity
6) Autonomy -- Answer ✔✔ the right of patients to make decisions
about their medical care without their healthcare provider trying to
influence the decision
7) Beneficence -- Answer ✔✔ addresses the idea that a nurse's actions
should promote good
8) Fidelity -- Answer ✔✔ nurse's must be faithful to the promises they
made as professionals to provide quality care
9) Justice -- Answer ✔✔ being impartial and fair
10) Non- Maleficence -- Answer ✔✔ non- harming or inflicting the
least harm possible to reach a beneficial outcome
11) Veracity -- Answer ✔✔ being honest and telling the truth
