NEW 2025/2026 NCLEX PN- ACTUAL REAL EXAM
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NCLEX PN
Pass the NCLEX-PN Exam 2025/2026 with confidence. This exam resource
features questions in areas like: patient care, pharmacology, safety, health
promotion, psychosocial integrity, and physiological adaptation. Best ideal
to practical/vocational nursing students to obtain licensure as a Licensed
Practical Nurse (LPN) or Licensed Vocational Nurse (LVN).
1. A client is referred to a surgeon by the general practitioner. After
meeting the surgeon, the client decides to find a different surgeon to
continue treatment. The nurse supports the client's action, utilizing which
ethical principle
1. Beneficence
2.Veracity
3. Autonomy
4. Privacy ...... ANSWER ...... Answer 3: Autonomy
Rationale: Autonomy is the right of individuals to take action for
themselves. Beneficence is duty to help others by doing what is best for
them, whereas negligence is a legal term. Veracity is truthfulness. Privacy
is the nondisclosure of information by the health care team.
, 2. A nurse forgets to administer a client's diuretic and the client
experiences an episode of pulmonary edema. This medication error
would be considered negligence if it constituted which of the following?
Page | 2 1. The purposeful failure to perform a health care procedure
2. The unintentional failure to perform a health care procedure
3. The act of substituting a different medication for the one
ordered</choice
4. Failure to follow a direct order by a physician ...... ANSWER ......
Answer 2: The unintentional failure to perform a health care
procedure.
Rationale: Negligence is the unintentional failure of an individual to
perform or not perform an act that a reasonable person would or would
not do in the same or similar circumstances.
3. A new graduate nurse orientee plans to show an adolescent client a
video about self-injection technique. A staff nurse remarks, "I gave the
client written literature yesterday, so the video probably isn't necessary."
The nurse orientee proceeds with showing the video and discussing the
skill with the adolescent after engaging in decision making related to
which of the following?
1. Autonomy
2. Informed consent
3. Paternalism
4. Noncompliance ...... ANSWER ...... 1 - The nurse is exercising
autonomy
Rationale: the right to make one's own decision. Nurses who follow this
principle recognize that each client is unique. In this situation, perhaps
, because of the developmental level, the nurse assessed that a video would
be a better teaching-learning method than written literature. Paternalism
restricts the freedom of the individual because another determines
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choices. Noncompliance occurs when an individual is fully aware of the
consequences yet chooses the action anyway. Informed consent is
providing agreement to undergo treatment following a description of a
procedure with the risks, benefits, and alternatives explained.
4.A client asks why a diagnostic test has been ordered and the nurse
replies, "I'm unsure but will find out for you." When the nurse later
returns and provides an explanation, the nurse is acting under which
principle?
1. Nonmaleficence
2. Veracity
3. Beneficence
4. Fidelity ...... ANSWER ...... 4. - Fidelity
Rationale: means to be faithful to agreements and promises. This nurse is
acting on the client's behalf to obtain needed information and report it
back to the client. Nonmaleficence is duty to do no harm. Veracity refers
to telling the truth. Beneficence means doing good
5. An individual has a seizure while walking down the street. During the
seizure, a nurse from a physician's office is noticed driving past without
stopping to assist. The individual sues the nurse for negligence but fails to
win a judgment for which of the following reasons
1. The nurse had no duty to the individual.
2. The nurse did what most nurses would do in the same circumstance.
, 3. The nurse did not cause the client's injuries.
4.The nurse was off-duty at that time ...... ANSWER ...... 1. The
nurse must have a relationship with the client that involves providing
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6. The nurse is participating in a seminar about legal and ethical practice
of nursing for continuing education credit. Which statement by a nurse
best describes the relationship between law and ethics for the practice of
nursing?
1. "The ethics of a discipline attempt to formulate and justify responses to
moral dilemmas and may or may not be regulated by law."
2. "Laws dictate the ethics of nursing as they reflect societal choices about
the ordering of relationships in society."
3. "Ethics represent the moral customs of an individual nurse; therefore,
they cannot be regulated by the law."
4. "Ethical practice decreases the threat of a lawsuit, which is the primary
source of legal influence on nursing practice." ...... ANSWER ...... 1.
Rationale: Law is not the sole source of the ethical practice of nursing;
numerous legal sources influence nursing practice. An individual should
understand the ethics of a profession before becoming a member of that
profession because those ethics may differ from personal
ones.</rationale>
8.The client has decided to discontinue further treatment for cancer.
Although the nurse would like the client to continue treatment, the nurse
COMPLETE TESTED QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT
ACCURATE DETAILED ANSWERS|WITH
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TOP RATED A+.
NCLEX PN
Pass the NCLEX-PN Exam 2025/2026 with confidence. This exam resource
features questions in areas like: patient care, pharmacology, safety, health
promotion, psychosocial integrity, and physiological adaptation. Best ideal
to practical/vocational nursing students to obtain licensure as a Licensed
Practical Nurse (LPN) or Licensed Vocational Nurse (LVN).
1. A client is referred to a surgeon by the general practitioner. After
meeting the surgeon, the client decides to find a different surgeon to
continue treatment. The nurse supports the client's action, utilizing which
ethical principle
1. Beneficence
2.Veracity
3. Autonomy
4. Privacy ...... ANSWER ...... Answer 3: Autonomy
Rationale: Autonomy is the right of individuals to take action for
themselves. Beneficence is duty to help others by doing what is best for
them, whereas negligence is a legal term. Veracity is truthfulness. Privacy
is the nondisclosure of information by the health care team.
, 2. A nurse forgets to administer a client's diuretic and the client
experiences an episode of pulmonary edema. This medication error
would be considered negligence if it constituted which of the following?
Page | 2 1. The purposeful failure to perform a health care procedure
2. The unintentional failure to perform a health care procedure
3. The act of substituting a different medication for the one
ordered</choice
4. Failure to follow a direct order by a physician ...... ANSWER ......
Answer 2: The unintentional failure to perform a health care
procedure.
Rationale: Negligence is the unintentional failure of an individual to
perform or not perform an act that a reasonable person would or would
not do in the same or similar circumstances.
3. A new graduate nurse orientee plans to show an adolescent client a
video about self-injection technique. A staff nurse remarks, "I gave the
client written literature yesterday, so the video probably isn't necessary."
The nurse orientee proceeds with showing the video and discussing the
skill with the adolescent after engaging in decision making related to
which of the following?
1. Autonomy
2. Informed consent
3. Paternalism
4. Noncompliance ...... ANSWER ...... 1 - The nurse is exercising
autonomy
Rationale: the right to make one's own decision. Nurses who follow this
principle recognize that each client is unique. In this situation, perhaps
, because of the developmental level, the nurse assessed that a video would
be a better teaching-learning method than written literature. Paternalism
restricts the freedom of the individual because another determines
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choices. Noncompliance occurs when an individual is fully aware of the
consequences yet chooses the action anyway. Informed consent is
providing agreement to undergo treatment following a description of a
procedure with the risks, benefits, and alternatives explained.
4.A client asks why a diagnostic test has been ordered and the nurse
replies, "I'm unsure but will find out for you." When the nurse later
returns and provides an explanation, the nurse is acting under which
principle?
1. Nonmaleficence
2. Veracity
3. Beneficence
4. Fidelity ...... ANSWER ...... 4. - Fidelity
Rationale: means to be faithful to agreements and promises. This nurse is
acting on the client's behalf to obtain needed information and report it
back to the client. Nonmaleficence is duty to do no harm. Veracity refers
to telling the truth. Beneficence means doing good
5. An individual has a seizure while walking down the street. During the
seizure, a nurse from a physician's office is noticed driving past without
stopping to assist. The individual sues the nurse for negligence but fails to
win a judgment for which of the following reasons
1. The nurse had no duty to the individual.
2. The nurse did what most nurses would do in the same circumstance.
, 3. The nurse did not cause the client's injuries.
4.The nurse was off-duty at that time ...... ANSWER ...... 1. The
nurse must have a relationship with the client that involves providing
Page | 4 care
6. The nurse is participating in a seminar about legal and ethical practice
of nursing for continuing education credit. Which statement by a nurse
best describes the relationship between law and ethics for the practice of
nursing?
1. "The ethics of a discipline attempt to formulate and justify responses to
moral dilemmas and may or may not be regulated by law."
2. "Laws dictate the ethics of nursing as they reflect societal choices about
the ordering of relationships in society."
3. "Ethics represent the moral customs of an individual nurse; therefore,
they cannot be regulated by the law."
4. "Ethical practice decreases the threat of a lawsuit, which is the primary
source of legal influence on nursing practice." ...... ANSWER ...... 1.
Rationale: Law is not the sole source of the ethical practice of nursing;
numerous legal sources influence nursing practice. An individual should
understand the ethics of a profession before becoming a member of that
profession because those ethics may differ from personal
ones.</rationale>
8.The client has decided to discontinue further treatment for cancer.
Although the nurse would like the client to continue treatment, the nurse
