Clinical Readiness Exam ACTUAL
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
What are guidelines under a general rule, that nursing students MAY NOT do? Select all that
apply.
A. Administer Chemotherapy
B. Administer Blood or Blood Products
C. Take verbal or telephone orders from another healthcare provider (HCP). The student
should explain that the HCP should document the order in the patient's chart
D. Transcribe orders to the medication administration record (MAR)
E. Initiate/implement restraints. Nursing students may perform and document observations
and other delegated activities
F. Serve as witnesses for informed consent or advance directives - CORRECT
ANSWERS✅✅All of the above
How do nurses correctly identify a patient?
A. patient's address and last name
B. patient's legal guardians and phone number
C. patient's name and date of birth
D. patient's allergies and first name - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅C. Patient's name and date
of birth
What do nurses need to have before disclosure of any healthcare information is provided?
A. written authorization or patient's verbal consent
B. patient's verbal consent or legal guardian's verbal consent
C. patient's date of birth and full name
D. written date of birth or job authorization - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅A. written
authorization or patient's verbal consent
What does HIPAA stand for?
A. Health Incorporate Portability and Accountability Act
B. Health Instant Portability and Accountability Act
, C. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
D. Health Insure Portability and Accountability Act - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅C. Health
Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
What are ways of safeguarding Protected Health Information (PHI)?
A. PHI should not be stored on a local or C drive of a computer. Important data could be lost
if the drive failed, or PHI could be accidentally disclosed if the computer was stolen.
B. Files and charts should be secured when they are left unattended or reasonable effort
should be taken to help prevent wandering eyes from viewing PHI
C. Always protect passwords and never use anyone else's user ID or password
D. All of the above - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅D. All of the Above
What is an example of Patient's Bill of Rights?
A. The accommodation of special needs such as equipment or language interpreters,
accommodation to physical limitations, or to meet cultural or religious needs
B. To have a representative participate in consideration of ethical issues. The hospital ethics
committee can be accessed by calling hospital administration staff
C. To appropriate assessment and management of pain
D. Be free of restraints of any form that are not medically necessary or are used as a means of
coercion, discipline, convenience, or retaliation by staff
E. Receive information about advance directives and have them followed
F. All of the above - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅F. All of the above
Healthcare organizations function under an organization called what?
A. Code of Ethics and Conduct
B. Patient's Bill of Rights
C. National Nurse's Association
D. Nursing Scope of Practices - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅A. Code of Ethics and Conduct
True or False: Can Nursing Students or other students serve as a witness for Informed
Consent? - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅False
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
What are guidelines under a general rule, that nursing students MAY NOT do? Select all that
apply.
A. Administer Chemotherapy
B. Administer Blood or Blood Products
C. Take verbal or telephone orders from another healthcare provider (HCP). The student
should explain that the HCP should document the order in the patient's chart
D. Transcribe orders to the medication administration record (MAR)
E. Initiate/implement restraints. Nursing students may perform and document observations
and other delegated activities
F. Serve as witnesses for informed consent or advance directives - CORRECT
ANSWERS✅✅All of the above
How do nurses correctly identify a patient?
A. patient's address and last name
B. patient's legal guardians and phone number
C. patient's name and date of birth
D. patient's allergies and first name - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅C. Patient's name and date
of birth
What do nurses need to have before disclosure of any healthcare information is provided?
A. written authorization or patient's verbal consent
B. patient's verbal consent or legal guardian's verbal consent
C. patient's date of birth and full name
D. written date of birth or job authorization - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅A. written
authorization or patient's verbal consent
What does HIPAA stand for?
A. Health Incorporate Portability and Accountability Act
B. Health Instant Portability and Accountability Act
, C. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
D. Health Insure Portability and Accountability Act - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅C. Health
Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
What are ways of safeguarding Protected Health Information (PHI)?
A. PHI should not be stored on a local or C drive of a computer. Important data could be lost
if the drive failed, or PHI could be accidentally disclosed if the computer was stolen.
B. Files and charts should be secured when they are left unattended or reasonable effort
should be taken to help prevent wandering eyes from viewing PHI
C. Always protect passwords and never use anyone else's user ID or password
D. All of the above - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅D. All of the Above
What is an example of Patient's Bill of Rights?
A. The accommodation of special needs such as equipment or language interpreters,
accommodation to physical limitations, or to meet cultural or religious needs
B. To have a representative participate in consideration of ethical issues. The hospital ethics
committee can be accessed by calling hospital administration staff
C. To appropriate assessment and management of pain
D. Be free of restraints of any form that are not medically necessary or are used as a means of
coercion, discipline, convenience, or retaliation by staff
E. Receive information about advance directives and have them followed
F. All of the above - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅F. All of the above
Healthcare organizations function under an organization called what?
A. Code of Ethics and Conduct
B. Patient's Bill of Rights
C. National Nurse's Association
D. Nursing Scope of Practices - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅A. Code of Ethics and Conduct
True or False: Can Nursing Students or other students serve as a witness for Informed
Consent? - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅False
