NURS 1160 MIDTERM #1 EXAM QUESTIONS
WITH 100% CORRECT ANSWERS
What is critical thinking?
The thinkings skills you use when analyzing client issues and problems —> allows you to look
at all options of a situation and make a well reasoned solution rather than carelessley
implementing a solution
What are the critical thinking skills?
Interpretation (recognize that an issue exists)
Analysis (examine information about the issue)
Evaluation (assess what information is best for the situation)
Inference (draw conclusions from the information and decide how to proceed)
Explanation (clarify your assumptions and the reasoning processes you followed)
What is evidence informed knowledge?
Knowledge based on research or clinical expertise
What are critical thinking competencies?
Cognitive processes that nurses use to make judgements about the clinical care of patients
What is diagnostic reasoning?
Process of determining a patient's health status after you make physical and behavioral
observations and assign meaning to the behaviors, physical signs and symptoms exhibited by the
patient
What is clinical reasoning?
Term used to describe the cognitive processes of thinking about patient issues, making
inferences, and deciding on the actions to be implemented in a particular situation.
What is clinical decision making?
Focuses on defining patient problems and selecting appropriate interventions.
What is the scientific method and what is it's steps?
A systematic, ordered approach to gathering data and solving problems.
1. Identify problem
2. Collect data
3. Formulate research questions/hypothesis
4. Test questions/hypothesis
5. Evaluate results of test/study
, What is the nursing process?
A clinical decision making approach; consists of 5 steps:
1. Assessment (collect data about patient)
2. Diagnosis (we don't do this in BC)
3. Planning (formal plan consisting of strategies and alternatives to attain the expected outcomes)
4. Implementation (putting the plan into effect)
5. Evaluation (look at the client's response to the interventions and determine whether the
interventions were effective)
*nursing process is a model that lays out how nursing care unfolds*
What is the main goal of the Langara decision making framework (DMF)?
Client centered caring
What 3 domains must be working together in order to achieve the main goal of client
centered caring?
1. Curriculum
2. Nurse educator
3. Students
What are langara DMFs version of the BCCNPs standards and competencies?
1. Coming to know (assessment; learning the client's story)
2. Salience (process of trying to figure what is going on with patient; analysis)
3. Pattern recognition (critical analysis of information attained through the process of Salience
which leads to discovering patterns of health issues; clinical impression)
4. Healing initiatives (develop a plan of care for the patient; nursing action)
5. Reflection/Praxis (evaluation)
*instructor, nursing student and client all work together through this DMF*
How long should you wait after food + drink to take oral temp.?
20-30 minutes
What is pulse pressure?
the difference between the systolic and diastolic pressure readings
How much of the arm circumference should the BP cuff surround?
40%
How much of the arm circumference should the bladder surround?
80%
WITH 100% CORRECT ANSWERS
What is critical thinking?
The thinkings skills you use when analyzing client issues and problems —> allows you to look
at all options of a situation and make a well reasoned solution rather than carelessley
implementing a solution
What are the critical thinking skills?
Interpretation (recognize that an issue exists)
Analysis (examine information about the issue)
Evaluation (assess what information is best for the situation)
Inference (draw conclusions from the information and decide how to proceed)
Explanation (clarify your assumptions and the reasoning processes you followed)
What is evidence informed knowledge?
Knowledge based on research or clinical expertise
What are critical thinking competencies?
Cognitive processes that nurses use to make judgements about the clinical care of patients
What is diagnostic reasoning?
Process of determining a patient's health status after you make physical and behavioral
observations and assign meaning to the behaviors, physical signs and symptoms exhibited by the
patient
What is clinical reasoning?
Term used to describe the cognitive processes of thinking about patient issues, making
inferences, and deciding on the actions to be implemented in a particular situation.
What is clinical decision making?
Focuses on defining patient problems and selecting appropriate interventions.
What is the scientific method and what is it's steps?
A systematic, ordered approach to gathering data and solving problems.
1. Identify problem
2. Collect data
3. Formulate research questions/hypothesis
4. Test questions/hypothesis
5. Evaluate results of test/study
, What is the nursing process?
A clinical decision making approach; consists of 5 steps:
1. Assessment (collect data about patient)
2. Diagnosis (we don't do this in BC)
3. Planning (formal plan consisting of strategies and alternatives to attain the expected outcomes)
4. Implementation (putting the plan into effect)
5. Evaluation (look at the client's response to the interventions and determine whether the
interventions were effective)
*nursing process is a model that lays out how nursing care unfolds*
What is the main goal of the Langara decision making framework (DMF)?
Client centered caring
What 3 domains must be working together in order to achieve the main goal of client
centered caring?
1. Curriculum
2. Nurse educator
3. Students
What are langara DMFs version of the BCCNPs standards and competencies?
1. Coming to know (assessment; learning the client's story)
2. Salience (process of trying to figure what is going on with patient; analysis)
3. Pattern recognition (critical analysis of information attained through the process of Salience
which leads to discovering patterns of health issues; clinical impression)
4. Healing initiatives (develop a plan of care for the patient; nursing action)
5. Reflection/Praxis (evaluation)
*instructor, nursing student and client all work together through this DMF*
How long should you wait after food + drink to take oral temp.?
20-30 minutes
What is pulse pressure?
the difference between the systolic and diastolic pressure readings
How much of the arm circumference should the BP cuff surround?
40%
How much of the arm circumference should the bladder surround?
80%
