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NMC LICENSURE EXAMS 2017 GENERAL PAPER-1

NMC LICENSURE EXAMS 2017 GENERAL PAPER

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NMC LICENSURE EXAMS 2017 GENERAL PAPER-1

PART ONE (ETHICS AND WARD MANAGEMENT)
1. After administering medication to client, when is the appropriate time the nurse record it.
a. Before the end of shift
b. Before the next dose of medication is due
c. Immediately
d. Within an hour

2. Which of the following reasons is most important, as well as the most widely accepted for the nursing process?
a. Communicate with other members of the team
b. Help clients meet their actual and potential health problems
c. Increase the unique body of knowledge known as nursing
d. Standardize the care of clients with the same diagnosis

3. Which of the following is most likely to occur as nurses advance in their education?
a. Become less interested in bedside nursing
b. Have increased enjoyment when doing paper work
c. Learn to develop personal theory of nursing
d. Lose their ability to think critically in clinical areas

Alberta complained to the nurse that she had been given an injection without her consent. Which offence would the nurse be charged with?

a. Criminal assault

b. Maleficence

c. Technical assault

d. Tort

5. The lowest level of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs iS …………………

a. Love and belonging needs

b. Physiologic needs

c. Safety and security needs

d. Self-esteem needs

6. The fundamental responsibility of the nurse according to the international council of Nurses code for Ethics are the following except..

a. Prevention of illness

b. Promotion of illness

c. Renewal of health

d. Restoration of health

7. Informed consent is a method that promotes ……………

a. Autonomy

b. Beneficence

c. Justice

d. Non maleficence

8. The duty to respect privileged information is called ………….

a. Confidentiality

b. Fidelity

c. Justice

d. Veracity

9. Nursing ethics provides the standard for professional behavior and is the study of principles of right and wrong for nurse. This set of standard’s states the duties and obligations of nurses. …………..

i. Client

ii. Community

iii. Other health professionals

a. i and ii

b. i and iii only

c. ii and iii only

d. i, ii and iii

10. The execution of duties associated with the nurse’s particular role is called……….

a. Accountability

b. Non maleficence

c. Responsibility

d. veracity

11. Professional accountability serves for the following purpose except to…………

a. Evaluate new professional practices and reassess existing ones

b. Maintain standards for health

c. Promote basis for the ethical decision

d. Respect the decision of the client

12. The client on renal dialysis informs the nurse that he wants to stop the series of dialysis. The nurse should appropriately do which action in response to client’s decision?

a. Inform the client that the doctor must decide what to do

b. Leave the client and attend to other patient’s

c. Respect the client’s decision and provide comfort measures

d. Tell the client that he must finish the series of dialysis

13. Nurse Mensah failed to fix back the bed side rails after giving bed bath to Kojo, and epileptic patient. The patient fell and sustained a fracture. Which of the following offences will the nurse be charged with

a. Assault

b. Battery

c. Malpractice

d. misdemeanor

14. Hajia Mohammed is 30 weeks pregnant and believes that someone wants to take her body from her womb. Which of the following individuals would you involve when counseling her?

i. Hospital chaplain

ii. Husband of client

iii. Imam

iv. Ward in-charge

a. i and iv

b. i and iv

c. i, ii and iii

d. ii, iii and iv

15. A way of communicating our feelings, thoughts and beliefs in an open honest manner without violating the rights of others is known as …..

a. Aggressive assertive behavior

b. Assertive behavior

c. Non-verbal communication

d. Verbal communication

16. Nurse Ansah forgets to serve prescribed medicine to patient who had returned from surgery 24 hours ago. This act of the nurse is considered as:

a. Felony

b. Malpractice

c. Misdemeanor

d. Negligence

17. Which of the following should a nurse possess, when providing holistic care?

i. Data of client

ii. Knowledge in the area of practice

iii. Positive attitude

iv. Requisite skills

a. i, ii and iv

b. ii, iii and iv

c. i, iii and iv

d. i, ii and iv

18. Which of the following are the rights of a patient/client?

i. Consent or decline to a treatment

ii. Comply with prescribed treatment

iii. Personal safety and security

iv. Seek second medical opinion

a. i, ii and iv

b. i, ii and iii

c. i, iii and iv

d. ii, iii and iv

19. You are on night duty and a patient who has been on the ward for 3 days suddenly becomes aggressive, breaks a louver blade and stabs himself with it. The patient bleeds to death. What kind of report would you write on this patient?

a. Daily

b. Incident

c. Twenty-four hour

d. Nurses’

20. A palliative nurse fails to inform a patient the risk involved in radiotherapy. Bases on the information given, the patient gives her written consent to the treatment and thereafter sustained painful burns and scarring of her skin. The patient sues the nurse for..

a. Damages

b. Lack of informed consent

c. Malpractice

d. All the above

NMC LICENSURE EXAMS 2017 GENERAL PAPER-1

PART TWO

PSYCHIATRIC NURSING

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21. Kwame, a catatonic schizophrenic patient has been pacing up and down on the ward for the past one hour

a. help client to relax by engaging him in ward activities

b. monitor client closely

c. restrain client to prevent exhaustion and dehydration

d. serve client with his medication

22. A manic patient who is hyperactive and experiencing decrease need for food and sleep can best be assisted to eat by…..

a. restrain client and forcefully feeding him with food

b. serving client’s favorite food while pacing up and down

c. serving food that can easily be held by client while pacing up and down

d. waiting for client to calm down before he is served with food

23. A patient who normally complains that her food is poisoned and always insist that the nurse taste the food before she eats has …………….. personality.

a. Antisocial

b. Asthenic

c. Paranoid

d. Schizoid

24. Mental illness is believed to be …….

a. A product of learning

b. A result of nature conflict

c. High intelligence

d. The effect of affluence

25. All the following are chromosomal abnormalities EXCEPT

a. Down’s syndrome

b. Klinefelter’s syndrome

c. Korsakoff’s syndrome

d. Turner’s syndrome

26. Nurse James has assisted the psychiatrist to perform an electroconvulsive therapy on a patient who has refused to give his consent to the treatment. Nurse James could be charged with which of the following.

a. Assault

b. Battery

c. Breach of confidentiality

d. False imprisonment

27. Attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder is BEST diagnosed at the age of.

a. 1 year

b. 2 years

c. 3 years

d. 4 years

28. The following are disorders of mood EXCEPT

a. Apathy

b. Catalepsy

c. Elation

d. Incongruity of affect

29. The patient sees a stick and screams snake, what symptom is the patient exhibiting

a. Delusion

b. Hallucination

c. Illusion

d. Phobia

30. In Freud’s stages of personality development, the period where the focus of the child centers on group activities, learning and socialization with peers is at the …………………..

a. Genital

b. Latency

c. Oral

d. Phallic

31. …………. a technique of modifying behavior that pairs relaxation with the object of fear/phobic stimulus.

a. Flooding

b. Modeling

c. Shaping

d. Systematic desensitization

32. A client with moderate level of anxiety will manifest

i. Diaphoresis

ii. Difficulty in sleeping

iii. Headache

iv. Pounding pulse

a. i, ii, and iii

b. i, iii, and iv

c. i, ii, and iv

d. ii, iii, and iv

33. Which of the following is an anxiety disorder

a. Delirium tremens

b. Depression

c. Obsessive compulsive disorder

d. Schizophrenia

34. Which of the following eating disorders will the client show severe underweight in addition to having the fear of gaining weight or becoming fat.

a. Anorexia nervosa

b. Binge eating

c. Bulmia Nervosa

d. Pica

35. Which of the following strategies can be used to minimize stress

i. Attitude control

ii. Cultivating low self-esteem

iii. Exercising

iv. Using defense mechanisms

a. i, ii, and iii

b. i, ii, and iv

c. i, iii, and iv

d. i, ii, iii, and iv

36. A patient with bulimia nervosa frequent secret eating is followed by a feeling of ……..

a. Anger

b. Humiliation

c. Depression

d. Unreality

NMC LICENSURE EXAMS 2017 GENERAL PAPER-1

PART THREE

PUBLIC HEALTH NURSING

37. A period of transition from breast milk or bottle feeding to solid food is termed as

a. Dieting

b. Digestion

c. Nutrition

d. Weaning

38. The following are complications of measles

EXCEPT…

a. Encephalitis

b. Otitis media

c. Pneumonia

d. Septic Arthritis

39. What is the right dose of BCG vaccine in vaccine administration?

a. 0.05ml

b. 0.5ml

c. 0.1ml

d. 0.1.5ml

40. Which of the following is the correct incubation period for yellow fever disease.

a. 3-6 hours

b. 3-6 days

c. 3-6 months

d. 3-6 weeks

41. Which of these are the cardinal signs of leprosy?

i. Infiltration of the ear lobe

ii. Loss of sensation of the skin

iii. Presence of acid fast bacilli

iv. Ulceration

a. i and ii

b. i and iv

c. ii and iii

d. ii and iv

42. Which of the following is the best way of determining the nutritional status of a child?

a. Examining the colour of the hair

b. Examining the colour of the eyes

c. Measuring of BP of the child

d. Measuring of mid-upper arm circumference

43. Which of the following is an epidemic prone disease?

a. Diabetes

b. Duodenal ulcer

c. Malaria

d. Poliomyelitis

44. In assessing a child with the history of diarrhea, which of the following factors would you look for?

i. Blood in the stool

ii. Dehydration

iii. Duration

iv. Sunken eyes

a. i, ii and iii

b. i, iii and iv

c. ii, iii and iv

d. i, ii, iii and iv

45. The principles involved in primary health care include …………..

a. Equitable distribution of health services

b. Fair distribution of health services

c. Inappropriate technology

d. Sectoral approach

46. Which type of immunity requires introducing antibodies into the human body to elicit an immune response?

a. Artificially acquired active immunity

b. Artificially acquired passive immunity

c. Naturally acquired active immunity

d. Naturally acquired passive immunity

47. When a disease condition is almost always found in an area it is known as

a. Endemic

b. Epidemic

c. Pandemic

d. Outbreak

48. The following are cardinal clinical manifestation of cholera infection except……

a. Dehydration

b. Diarrhoea

c. Hyperaemia

d. Vomiting

49. A disease is said to be sporadic in nature

a. It has world-wide occurrence

b. It is scattered in various places

c. Its occurrence can usually not be determined

d. Its occurrence is beyond normal expectation

50. Madam Brago brought her three months old baby to your clinic with swelling on the right thigh after the child was immunized one week ago. What immunization was the child given?

a. BCG

b. DPT/Hibhep

c. Pneumococcal vaccine

d. Polio Vaccine

51. In dealing with temper tantrums, parents should ………..

a. Give in to child’s demands

b. Relax rules of the house

c. Remain calm

d. Shout at child

52. One main objectives of school health services is to…

a. Ensure learning opportunities are available and conducive to the level of the children

b. Foster teacher-parent relationship through cooperation