Practice Test: Fundamentals Of Nursing Quiz

Explore the fundamental principles of nursing with our comprehensive Fundamentals of Nursing Quiz. This quiz covers crucial topics including patient care, health promotion, infection control, and nursing ethics. Test your understanding and knowledge of essential nursing concepts, whether you're a nursing student, a practicing nurse, or interested in healthcare. This quiz is designed to challenge and deepen your comprehension of nursing practice foundations. Prepare to enhance your skills and proficiency in nursing with our engaging and thorough quiz!

Edited by Me.bot Editorial Team Questions: 25 September 23, 2024

Character Test

1. Jake is complaining of shortness of breath. The nurse assesses his respiratory rate to be 30 breaths per minute and documents that Jake is tachypneic. The nurse understands that tachypnea means:

Respiratory rate greater than 20 breaths per minute

Pulse rate greater than 100 beats per minute

Blood pressure of 140/90

Frequent bowel sounds

2. The nurse listens to Mrs. Sullen’s lungs and notes a hissing or musical sound. The nurse documents this as:

Wheezes

Rhonchi

Gurgles

Vesicular

3. The nurse in charge measures a patient’s temperature at 101 degrees F. What is the equivalent centigrade temperature?

38.3 degrees C

36.3 degrees C

40.03 degrees C

38.01 degrees C

4. Which approach to problem-solving tests various solutions until one works for the problem at hand?

Trial and error

Intuition

Routine

Scientific method

5. What is the correct order of the nursing process?

Assessing, diagnosing, planning, implementing, and evaluating

Assessing, diagnosing, implementing, evaluating, and planning

Diagnosing, assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating

Planning, evaluating, diagnosing, assessing, and implementing

6. During the planning phase of the nursing process, which of the following is the outcome?

Nursing care plan

Nursing history

Nursing notes

Nursing diagnosis

7. What is an example of subjective data?

Client verbalized, “I feel pain when urinating.”

Heart rate of 68 beats per minute

Yellowish sputum

Noisy breathing

8. Which expected outcome is correctly written?

The patient will identify all the high-salt food from a prepared list by discharge.

The patient will feel less nauseated in 24 hours.

The patient will eat the right amount of food daily.

The patient will have enough sleep.

9. Which of the following behaviors by Nurse Jane Robles demonstrates that she understands well the elements of effective charting?

She signs on the medication sheet after administering the medication.

She signs her charting as follows: J.R

She writes in the chart using a no. 2 pencil.

She noted: appetite is good this afternoon.

10. What is the disadvantage of computerized documentation of the nursing process?

Concern for privacy

Accuracy

Legibility

Rapid communication

11. The theorist who believes that adaptation and manipulation of stressors are related to fostering change is:

Sister Callista Roy

Dorothea Orem

Imogene King

Virginia Henderson

12. Formulating a nursing diagnosis is a joint function of:

Nurse and patient

Patient and relatives

Doctor and family

Nurse and doctor

13. Mrs. Caperlac has been diagnosed with hypertension for 10 years. Since then, she has maintained a low-sodium, low-fat diet to control her blood pressure. This practice is viewed as:

Health belief

Cultural belief

Personal belief

Superstitious belief

14. Becky has been NPO since midnight in preparation for a blood test. The adreno-cortical response is activated. Which of the following is an expected response?

Decreased urine output

Low blood pressure

Warm, dry skin

Decreased serum sodium levels

15. What nursing action is appropriate when obtaining a sterile urine specimen from an indwelling catheter to prevent infection?

Aspirate urine from the tubing port using a sterile syringe.

Use sterile gloves when obtaining urine.

Open the drainage bag and pour out the urine.

Disconnect the catheter from the tubing and get urine.

16. A client is receiving 115 ml/hr of continuous IV fluids. The nurse notices that the venipuncture site was red and swollen. Which of the following interventions would the nurse perform first?

Stop the infusion

Call the attending physician

Slow the infusion to 20 ml/hr

Place a cold towel on the site

17. The nurse enters the room to give a prescribed medication, but the patient is inside the bathroom. What should the nurse do?

After a few minutes, return to that patient’s room and do not leave until the patient takes the medication.

Leave the medication at the bedside and leave the room.

Instruct the patient to take the medication and leave it at the bedside.

Wait for the patient to return to bed and just leave the medication at the bedside.

18. Which of the following is inappropriate nursing action when administering NGT feeding?

Place the feeding 20 inches above the point of insertion of NGT.

Introduce the feeding slowly.

Instill 60ml of water into the NGT after feeding.

Assist the patient in Fowler’s position.

19. A female patient is being discharged after a thyroidectomy. After providing the medication teaching, the nurse asks the patient to repeat the instructions. The nurse is performing which professional role?

Educator

Manager

Caregiver

Patient advocate

20. Which data would be of greatest concern to the nurse when completing the nursing assessment of a 68-year-old woman hospitalized due to Pneumonia?

Capillary refill greater than 3 seconds and buccal cyanosis

Oriented to date, time and place.

Clear breath sounds.

Hemoglobin of 13 g/dl.

21. During a change-of-shift report, it would be important for the nurse relinquishing responsibility for the care of the patient to communicate which of the following facts to the nurse assuming responsibility for the care of the patient?

The patient’s NGT was removed 2 hours ago

The patient verbalized, 'My headache is gone.'

The patient’s barium enema performed 3 days ago was negative.

The patient’s family came for a visit this morning.

22. Which statement is the most appropriate goal for a nursing diagnosis of diarrhea?

The patient will experience a decreased frequency of bowel elimination.

The patient will take anti-diarrheal medication.

The patient will give a stool specimen for laboratory examination.

The patient will save urine for inspection by the nurse.

23. Which of the following is the most important purpose of planning care with a patient?

Making of individualized patient care

Development of a standardized nursing care plan

Expansion of the current taxonomy of nursing diagnosis

Incorporation of both nursing and medical diagnoses in patient care

24. Using Maslow’s hierarchy of basic human needs, which of the following nursing diagnoses has the highest priority?

Ineffective breathing pattern related to pain, as evidenced by shortness of breath.

Anxiety related to impending surgery, as evidenced by insomnia.

Risk of injury related to autoimmune dysfunction.

Impaired verbal communication related to tracheostomy, as evidenced by the inability to speak.

25. When performing an abdominal examination, the patient should be in a supine position with the head of the bed at what position?

0 degree

30 degrees

45 degrees

90 degrees

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