NR222 EXAM 1
NR222 EXAM 1 NEWEST 2025/2026 COMPLETE 150 QUESTIONS
AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS (VERIFIED ANSWERS)
|ALREADY GRADED A+||BRAND NEW!!
The nurses on an acute care medical floor notice an increase in pressure ulcer
formation in their patients. A nurse consultant decides to compare two types of
treatment. The first is the procedure currently used to assess for pressure ulcer
risk. The second uses a new assessment instrument to identify at-risk patients.
Given this information, the nurse consultant exemplifies which career?
A. Clinical nurse specialist
B. Nurse administrator
C. Nurse educator
D. Nurse researcher
D. Nurse researcher
The nurse researcher investigates problems to improve nursing care and to
further define and expand the scope of nursing practice. He or she often works
in an academic setting, hospital, or independent professional or community
service agency.
Nurses at a community hospital are in an education program to learn how to use a
new pressure-relieving device for patients at risk for pressure ulcers. This is which
type of education?
A. Continuing education
B. Graduate education
C. In-service education
D. Professional Registered Nurse Education
C. In-service education
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In-service education programs are instruction or training provided by a health
care agency or institution. An in-service program is held in the institution and is
designed to increase the knowledge, skills, and competencies of nurses and
other health care professionals employed by the institution.
Which of the following are components of the paradigm of nursing?
A. The person, health, environment, and theory
B. Health, theory, concepts, and environment
C. Nurses, physicians, health, and patient needs
D. The person, health, environment/situation, and nursing
D. The person, health, environment/situation, and nursing
The nursing paradigm focuses on person, health, environment/situation, and
nursing. All the elements interact with one another, with the patient being
central.
A theory is a set of concepts, definitions, relationships, and assumptions that:
A. Formulate legislation.
B. Explain a phenomenon.
C. Measure nursing functions.
D. Reflect the domain of nursing practice.
B. Explain a phenomenon.
Theories are designed to explain a phenomenon such as self-care or caring. A
theory is a way of seeing through a "set of relatively concrete and specific
concepts" and the propositions that describe or link the concepts.
A patient with diabetes is controlling the disease with insulin and diet. The nursing
health care provider is focusing efforts to teach the patient self-management.
Which of the following nursing theories is useful in promoting self management?
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A. Neuman
B. Orem
C. Roy
D. Peplau
B. Orem
Orem's theory of self-care provides a solid theoretical background for self-
management for a variety of diseases. This theory shows the nurse how to direct
the patient toward self-management to promote health and/or sustain wellness.
While working in a community health clinic, it is important to obtain nursing
histories and get to know the patients. Part of history taking is to develop the
nurse-patient relationship. Which of the following apply to Peplau's theory when
establishing the nurse-patient relationship? (Select all that apply.)
A. An interaction between the nurse and patient must develop.
B. The patient's needs must be clarified and described.
C. The nurse-patient relationship is influenced by patient and nurse
preconceptions.
D. The nurse-patient relationship is influenced only by the nurse's preconceptions.
A. An interaction between the nurse and patient must develop.
B. The patient's needs must be clarified and described.
C. The nurse-patient relationship is influenced by patient and nurse
preconceptions.
The nurse-patient relationship is influenced only by the nurse preconceptions; is
incorrect because the focus is only on the nurse.
Theory-based nursing practice uses a theoretical approach for nursing care. This
approach moves nursing forward as a science. This suggests that:
A. One theory will guide nursing practice.
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B. Scientists will decide nursing decisions.
C. Nursing will only base patient care on the practice of other sciences.
D. Theories will be tested to describe or predict patient outcomes
D. Theories will be tested to describe or predict patient outcomes
There are multiple theories for the practice of nursing; these theories are tested
to develop the evidence to describe or predict patient outcomes.
To practice in today's health care environment, nurses need a strong scientific
knowledge base from nursing and other disciplines such as the physical, social,
and behavioral sciences. This statement identifies the need for which of the
following?
A. Systems theories
B. Developmental theories
C. Interdisciplinary theories
D. Health and wellness models
C. Interdisciplinary theories
As the health system evolves and the health care needs of the patient focus on
health promotion, illness prevention, and treatment, more disciplines are
involved in patient care. To be effective in practice nurses need to be aware of
theoretical approaches of care arising from other disciplines and from nursing.
Which of the following theories describe the life processes of an older adult facing
chronic illness?
A. Systems theories
B. Developmental theories
C. Interdisciplinary theories
D. Health and wellness models
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NR222 EXAM 1 NEWEST 2025/2026 COMPLETE 150 QUESTIONS
AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS (VERIFIED ANSWERS)
|ALREADY GRADED A+||BRAND NEW!!
The nurses on an acute care medical floor notice an increase in pressure ulcer
formation in their patients. A nurse consultant decides to compare two types of
treatment. The first is the procedure currently used to assess for pressure ulcer
risk. The second uses a new assessment instrument to identify at-risk patients.
Given this information, the nurse consultant exemplifies which career?
A. Clinical nurse specialist
B. Nurse administrator
C. Nurse educator
D. Nurse researcher
D. Nurse researcher
The nurse researcher investigates problems to improve nursing care and to
further define and expand the scope of nursing practice. He or she often works
in an academic setting, hospital, or independent professional or community
service agency.
Nurses at a community hospital are in an education program to learn how to use a
new pressure-relieving device for patients at risk for pressure ulcers. This is which
type of education?
A. Continuing education
B. Graduate education
C. In-service education
D. Professional Registered Nurse Education
C. In-service education
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, NR222 EXAM 1
In-service education programs are instruction or training provided by a health
care agency or institution. An in-service program is held in the institution and is
designed to increase the knowledge, skills, and competencies of nurses and
other health care professionals employed by the institution.
Which of the following are components of the paradigm of nursing?
A. The person, health, environment, and theory
B. Health, theory, concepts, and environment
C. Nurses, physicians, health, and patient needs
D. The person, health, environment/situation, and nursing
D. The person, health, environment/situation, and nursing
The nursing paradigm focuses on person, health, environment/situation, and
nursing. All the elements interact with one another, with the patient being
central.
A theory is a set of concepts, definitions, relationships, and assumptions that:
A. Formulate legislation.
B. Explain a phenomenon.
C. Measure nursing functions.
D. Reflect the domain of nursing practice.
B. Explain a phenomenon.
Theories are designed to explain a phenomenon such as self-care or caring. A
theory is a way of seeing through a "set of relatively concrete and specific
concepts" and the propositions that describe or link the concepts.
A patient with diabetes is controlling the disease with insulin and diet. The nursing
health care provider is focusing efforts to teach the patient self-management.
Which of the following nursing theories is useful in promoting self management?
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, NR222 EXAM 1
A. Neuman
B. Orem
C. Roy
D. Peplau
B. Orem
Orem's theory of self-care provides a solid theoretical background for self-
management for a variety of diseases. This theory shows the nurse how to direct
the patient toward self-management to promote health and/or sustain wellness.
While working in a community health clinic, it is important to obtain nursing
histories and get to know the patients. Part of history taking is to develop the
nurse-patient relationship. Which of the following apply to Peplau's theory when
establishing the nurse-patient relationship? (Select all that apply.)
A. An interaction between the nurse and patient must develop.
B. The patient's needs must be clarified and described.
C. The nurse-patient relationship is influenced by patient and nurse
preconceptions.
D. The nurse-patient relationship is influenced only by the nurse's preconceptions.
A. An interaction between the nurse and patient must develop.
B. The patient's needs must be clarified and described.
C. The nurse-patient relationship is influenced by patient and nurse
preconceptions.
The nurse-patient relationship is influenced only by the nurse preconceptions; is
incorrect because the focus is only on the nurse.
Theory-based nursing practice uses a theoretical approach for nursing care. This
approach moves nursing forward as a science. This suggests that:
A. One theory will guide nursing practice.
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B. Scientists will decide nursing decisions.
C. Nursing will only base patient care on the practice of other sciences.
D. Theories will be tested to describe or predict patient outcomes
D. Theories will be tested to describe or predict patient outcomes
There are multiple theories for the practice of nursing; these theories are tested
to develop the evidence to describe or predict patient outcomes.
To practice in today's health care environment, nurses need a strong scientific
knowledge base from nursing and other disciplines such as the physical, social,
and behavioral sciences. This statement identifies the need for which of the
following?
A. Systems theories
B. Developmental theories
C. Interdisciplinary theories
D. Health and wellness models
C. Interdisciplinary theories
As the health system evolves and the health care needs of the patient focus on
health promotion, illness prevention, and treatment, more disciplines are
involved in patient care. To be effective in practice nurses need to be aware of
theoretical approaches of care arising from other disciplines and from nursing.
Which of the following theories describe the life processes of an older adult facing
chronic illness?
A. Systems theories
B. Developmental theories
C. Interdisciplinary theories
D. Health and wellness models
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