FUNDAMENTALS EXAM 5 PRACTICE
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 2025
1) After the death of several long-term clients, which action indicates the nurse is
demonstrating ineffective coping?
A. The nurse talks at length to her partner about deaths
B. The nurse keeps busy with other actions and doesn't think about the deaths for several
days
C. The nurse offers to work extra shifts for several weeks
D. Several nurses schedule a group session with the agency clergy to discuss deaths -
CORRECT-ANSWERSC. The nurse offers to work extra shifts for several weeks
2) The nurse helps a 50 y/o client with diabetes who is to begin giving insulin injections
identify previously successful coping strategies that may be useful in the current situation.
Which stressor is closely related to the new stressor?
,A. Interviewing for a new job
B. Death of a pet while the person was a teenager
C. The person's partner filing for a divorce
D. Starting to wear eyeglasses at age 30 - CORRECT-ANSWERSD. Starting to wear
eyeglasses at age 30
3) Two people have been in a motor vehicle crash and have similar injuries. According to the
transaction-based model, their degree of stress from the crash would be
A. Based on previous experience and personal characteristics
B. Extremely similar since they had the same stimulus
C. The identical physiological alarm reaction
D. Different depending on their external resources and support levels - CORRECT-
ANSWERSA. Based on previous experience and personal characteristics
, 4) A client informed of a cancer diagnosis assures the nurse he is fine. Which of the following
is the most indicative physical evidence to the nurse of the client's stress?
A. Constricted pupils
B. Dilated peripheral blood vessels (flush)
C. Hyperventilation
D. Decreased heart rate - CORRECT-ANSWERSC. Hyperventilation
5) Immediately after the parents of a hospitalized child are informed that the child has
leukemia, the father responds by continuing his usual work schedule, rarely visiting, and
asking when the child can return to school. Of the following, which is the least likely to be an
appropriate nursing diagnosis at this time?
A. Ineffective denial
B. Caregiver role strain
C. Fear
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 2025
1) After the death of several long-term clients, which action indicates the nurse is
demonstrating ineffective coping?
A. The nurse talks at length to her partner about deaths
B. The nurse keeps busy with other actions and doesn't think about the deaths for several
days
C. The nurse offers to work extra shifts for several weeks
D. Several nurses schedule a group session with the agency clergy to discuss deaths -
CORRECT-ANSWERSC. The nurse offers to work extra shifts for several weeks
2) The nurse helps a 50 y/o client with diabetes who is to begin giving insulin injections
identify previously successful coping strategies that may be useful in the current situation.
Which stressor is closely related to the new stressor?
,A. Interviewing for a new job
B. Death of a pet while the person was a teenager
C. The person's partner filing for a divorce
D. Starting to wear eyeglasses at age 30 - CORRECT-ANSWERSD. Starting to wear
eyeglasses at age 30
3) Two people have been in a motor vehicle crash and have similar injuries. According to the
transaction-based model, their degree of stress from the crash would be
A. Based on previous experience and personal characteristics
B. Extremely similar since they had the same stimulus
C. The identical physiological alarm reaction
D. Different depending on their external resources and support levels - CORRECT-
ANSWERSA. Based on previous experience and personal characteristics
, 4) A client informed of a cancer diagnosis assures the nurse he is fine. Which of the following
is the most indicative physical evidence to the nurse of the client's stress?
A. Constricted pupils
B. Dilated peripheral blood vessels (flush)
C. Hyperventilation
D. Decreased heart rate - CORRECT-ANSWERSC. Hyperventilation
5) Immediately after the parents of a hospitalized child are informed that the child has
leukemia, the father responds by continuing his usual work schedule, rarely visiting, and
asking when the child can return to school. Of the following, which is the least likely to be an
appropriate nursing diagnosis at this time?
A. Ineffective denial
B. Caregiver role strain
C. Fear
