NR509 Week 1&2 Exam
NR509 WEEK 1&2 EXAM NEWEST 2025/2026 COMPLETE
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS (VERIFIED
ANSWERS) |BRAND NEW VERSION!!
The nursing process is a sequential method of problem solving that nurses use and
includes which steps?
A. Assessment, treatment, planning, evaluation, discharge, and follow-up
B. Admission, assessment, diagnosis, treatment and discharge planning
C. Admission, diagnosis, treatment, evaluation and discharge planning
D. Assessment, diagnosis, outcome identification, planning, implementation, and
evaluation
D. Assessment, diagnosis, outcome identification, planning, implementation, and
evaluation
A newly admitted patient is in acute pain, has not been sleeping well lately, and is
having difficulty breathing. How should the nurse prioritize these problems
A. Breathing, pain, and sleep
B. Breathing, sleep and pain
C. Sleep, breathing and pain
D. Sleep, pain and breathing
A. Breathing, pain, and sleep
Which of these would be formulated by a nurse using diagnostic reasoning?
A. Nursing diagnosis
B. Medical diagnosis
C. Diagnostic hypothesis
D. Diagnostic assessment
C. Diagnostic hypothesis
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Barriers to EBP include:
A. Nurses lack research skills in evaluating the quality of research studies
B. Lack of significant research studies
C. Insufficient clinical skills of nurses
D. Inadequate physical assessment skills
A. Nurses lack research skills in evaluating the quality of research studies
What step of the nursing process includes data collection by health history,
physical examination and interview?
A. Planning
B. Diagnosis
C. Evaluation
D. Assessment
D. Assessment
During a staff meeting, nurses discuss the problems with accessing research
studies to incorporate evidence-based clinical decision making into their practice.
Which suggestion by the nurse manager would best help these problems?
A. Forma committee to conduct research studies
B. Post published research studies on the units bulletin boards
C. Encourage the nurse to visit the library to review studies
D. Teach the nurses how to conduct electronic searchers for research studies
D. Teach the nurses how to conduct electronic searchers for research studies
When reviewing the concepts of health, the nurse recalls that the components of
holistic health include which of these?
A. Disease originates from the external environment
B. The individual human is a closed system
C. Nurses are responsible for a patients health state
D. Holistic health views the mind, body, and spirit as interdependent
D. Holistic health views the mind, body, and spirit as interdependent
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The nurse recognizes that the concept of prevention in describing health is
essential because
A. Disease can be prevented by treating the external environment
B. The majority of deaths among Americans under age 65 years are not
preventable
C. Prevention places the emphasis on the link between health and personal
behavior
D. The means to prevention is through treatment provided by primary health care
practitioners
C. Prevention places the emphasis on the link between health and personal
behavior
The nurse is performing a physical assessment on a newly admitted patient. An
example of objective information obtained during the physical assessment
includes the
A. Patients history of allergies
B. Patients use of medications at home
C. Last menstrual period 1 month ago
D. 2.5 cm scar on the right lower forearm
D. 2.5 cm scar on the right lower forearm
A visiting nurse is making an initial home visit for a patient who has many chronic
health problems. Which type of data base is most appropriate to collect in this
setting?
A. A follow-up data base to evaluate changes at appropriate intervals
B. An episodic data base because of the continuing, complex medical problems of
this patient
C. A complete health data base because of the nurses primary responsibility for
monitoring the patients health
D. An emergency data base because of the need to collect information and make
accurate diagnoses rapidly
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C. A complete health data base because of the nurses primary responsibility for
monitoring the patients health
Which situation is most appropriate during which the nurse performs a focused or
problem-centered history?
A. Patient is admitted to a long-term care facility
B. Patient has a sudden and severe shortness of breath
C. Patient is admitted to the hospital for surgery the following day
D. Patient in an outpatient clinic has cold and influenza-like symptoms
D. Patient in an outpatient clinic has cold and influenza-like symptoms
A patient is in the clinic to have her blood pressure checked. She has been coming
to the clinic weekly since she changed medications 2 months ago. The nurse
should:
A. Collect a follow-up data base and then check her blood pressure
B. Ask her to read her health record and indicate any changes since her last visit
C. Check only her blood pressure because her complete health history was
documented 2 months ago
D. Obtain a complete health history before checking her blood pressure because
much of her history information may have changed
A. Collect a follow-up data base and then check her blood pressure
A patient is brought by ambulance to the ED with multiple traumas received in an
automobile accident. He is alert and cooperative, but his injuries are quite severe.
How would the nurse proceed with data collection?
A. Collect history information first, then perform a physical examination and
institute life-saving measures
B. Simultaneously ask history questions while performing the examination and
initiating life-saving measures
C. Collect all information on the history form, including social support patterns,
strengths, and coping patterns
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NR509 WEEK 1&2 EXAM NEWEST 2025/2026 COMPLETE
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS (VERIFIED
ANSWERS) |BRAND NEW VERSION!!
The nursing process is a sequential method of problem solving that nurses use and
includes which steps?
A. Assessment, treatment, planning, evaluation, discharge, and follow-up
B. Admission, assessment, diagnosis, treatment and discharge planning
C. Admission, diagnosis, treatment, evaluation and discharge planning
D. Assessment, diagnosis, outcome identification, planning, implementation, and
evaluation
D. Assessment, diagnosis, outcome identification, planning, implementation, and
evaluation
A newly admitted patient is in acute pain, has not been sleeping well lately, and is
having difficulty breathing. How should the nurse prioritize these problems
A. Breathing, pain, and sleep
B. Breathing, sleep and pain
C. Sleep, breathing and pain
D. Sleep, pain and breathing
A. Breathing, pain, and sleep
Which of these would be formulated by a nurse using diagnostic reasoning?
A. Nursing diagnosis
B. Medical diagnosis
C. Diagnostic hypothesis
D. Diagnostic assessment
C. Diagnostic hypothesis
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, NR509 Week 1&2 Exam
Barriers to EBP include:
A. Nurses lack research skills in evaluating the quality of research studies
B. Lack of significant research studies
C. Insufficient clinical skills of nurses
D. Inadequate physical assessment skills
A. Nurses lack research skills in evaluating the quality of research studies
What step of the nursing process includes data collection by health history,
physical examination and interview?
A. Planning
B. Diagnosis
C. Evaluation
D. Assessment
D. Assessment
During a staff meeting, nurses discuss the problems with accessing research
studies to incorporate evidence-based clinical decision making into their practice.
Which suggestion by the nurse manager would best help these problems?
A. Forma committee to conduct research studies
B. Post published research studies on the units bulletin boards
C. Encourage the nurse to visit the library to review studies
D. Teach the nurses how to conduct electronic searchers for research studies
D. Teach the nurses how to conduct electronic searchers for research studies
When reviewing the concepts of health, the nurse recalls that the components of
holistic health include which of these?
A. Disease originates from the external environment
B. The individual human is a closed system
C. Nurses are responsible for a patients health state
D. Holistic health views the mind, body, and spirit as interdependent
D. Holistic health views the mind, body, and spirit as interdependent
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, NR509 Week 1&2 Exam
The nurse recognizes that the concept of prevention in describing health is
essential because
A. Disease can be prevented by treating the external environment
B. The majority of deaths among Americans under age 65 years are not
preventable
C. Prevention places the emphasis on the link between health and personal
behavior
D. The means to prevention is through treatment provided by primary health care
practitioners
C. Prevention places the emphasis on the link between health and personal
behavior
The nurse is performing a physical assessment on a newly admitted patient. An
example of objective information obtained during the physical assessment
includes the
A. Patients history of allergies
B. Patients use of medications at home
C. Last menstrual period 1 month ago
D. 2.5 cm scar on the right lower forearm
D. 2.5 cm scar on the right lower forearm
A visiting nurse is making an initial home visit for a patient who has many chronic
health problems. Which type of data base is most appropriate to collect in this
setting?
A. A follow-up data base to evaluate changes at appropriate intervals
B. An episodic data base because of the continuing, complex medical problems of
this patient
C. A complete health data base because of the nurses primary responsibility for
monitoring the patients health
D. An emergency data base because of the need to collect information and make
accurate diagnoses rapidly
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C. A complete health data base because of the nurses primary responsibility for
monitoring the patients health
Which situation is most appropriate during which the nurse performs a focused or
problem-centered history?
A. Patient is admitted to a long-term care facility
B. Patient has a sudden and severe shortness of breath
C. Patient is admitted to the hospital for surgery the following day
D. Patient in an outpatient clinic has cold and influenza-like symptoms
D. Patient in an outpatient clinic has cold and influenza-like symptoms
A patient is in the clinic to have her blood pressure checked. She has been coming
to the clinic weekly since she changed medications 2 months ago. The nurse
should:
A. Collect a follow-up data base and then check her blood pressure
B. Ask her to read her health record and indicate any changes since her last visit
C. Check only her blood pressure because her complete health history was
documented 2 months ago
D. Obtain a complete health history before checking her blood pressure because
much of her history information may have changed
A. Collect a follow-up data base and then check her blood pressure
A patient is brought by ambulance to the ED with multiple traumas received in an
automobile accident. He is alert and cooperative, but his injuries are quite severe.
How would the nurse proceed with data collection?
A. Collect history information first, then perform a physical examination and
institute life-saving measures
B. Simultaneously ask history questions while performing the examination and
initiating life-saving measures
C. Collect all information on the history form, including social support patterns,
strengths, and coping patterns
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