NURSING 251 FINAL EXAM QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS 100% CORRECT!!
Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) - ANSWER an initiative to help
prepare future nurses who will have the knowledge, skills, and attitudes (KSAs)
necessary to continuously improve the quality and safety of the healthcare system
within which they work.
patient-centered care, quality improvement, teamwork and collaboration, safety,
evidence-based practice, and informatics - ANSWER What does Quality and Safety
Education for Nurses (QSEN) address?
Patient-Centered Care - ANSWER Recognize the patient or designee as the source of
control and full partner in providing compassionate and coordinated care based on
respect for the patient's preferences, values, and needs
1. Assessment
2. Diagnosis
3. Planning
4. Implementation
5. Evaluation - ANSWER What are the steps in the nursing process?
Nurses must gather data about the patient's health and situation and document the data
collected. - ANSWER ANA Standard 1: Assessment
Assessment - ANSWER ________________ is the first step in determining priorities to
individualize care
Assessment - ANSWER The systematic collection and verification of data
To establish baseline data about the client - ANSWER What is the purpose of
assessment?
, observation, interview, examination, and medical record review - ANSWER What are
the data collection methods?
Pre-interaction phase - ANSWER everything you do before you introduce yourself to the
patient
Orientation phase - ANSWER Introduce yourself to the patient
Working phase - ANSWER Start to do assessments and gather data. Build patient-care
relationship
Termination phrase - ANSWER Letting the patient know when the relationship is over
Physiological needs, safety/security needs, love and belonging, self-esteem, and self-
acutalization - ANSWER List out Maslow's basic needs
Subjective - ANSWER what data the patient tells you
Objective - ANSWER what data you observe; vital signs
Subjective and objective data - ANSWER What are the two types of collected data?
Nursing diagnosis - ANSWER The client's actual or potential response to a health
problem used as a basis for nursing intervention to achieve outcomes
Analyze data and determine the diagnosis - ANSWER ANA Standard 2: Diagnosis
Medical diagnosis - ANSWER Identified illness and design treatment plan to cure
patient
Nursing diagnosis - ANSWER Clinical judgment about the patient is used to direct a
plan of care and assist client and their families to adapt to their illness and resolve
health related problems
Clustering data - ANSWER Making groups of what symptoms have to do with each
other
Defining characteristics - ANSWER proof that the patient is experiencing a problem
Actual problem - ANSWER The nursing diagnosis must be supported by assessment
data; clinical signs and symptoms
AND ANSWERS 100% CORRECT!!
Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) - ANSWER an initiative to help
prepare future nurses who will have the knowledge, skills, and attitudes (KSAs)
necessary to continuously improve the quality and safety of the healthcare system
within which they work.
patient-centered care, quality improvement, teamwork and collaboration, safety,
evidence-based practice, and informatics - ANSWER What does Quality and Safety
Education for Nurses (QSEN) address?
Patient-Centered Care - ANSWER Recognize the patient or designee as the source of
control and full partner in providing compassionate and coordinated care based on
respect for the patient's preferences, values, and needs
1. Assessment
2. Diagnosis
3. Planning
4. Implementation
5. Evaluation - ANSWER What are the steps in the nursing process?
Nurses must gather data about the patient's health and situation and document the data
collected. - ANSWER ANA Standard 1: Assessment
Assessment - ANSWER ________________ is the first step in determining priorities to
individualize care
Assessment - ANSWER The systematic collection and verification of data
To establish baseline data about the client - ANSWER What is the purpose of
assessment?
, observation, interview, examination, and medical record review - ANSWER What are
the data collection methods?
Pre-interaction phase - ANSWER everything you do before you introduce yourself to the
patient
Orientation phase - ANSWER Introduce yourself to the patient
Working phase - ANSWER Start to do assessments and gather data. Build patient-care
relationship
Termination phrase - ANSWER Letting the patient know when the relationship is over
Physiological needs, safety/security needs, love and belonging, self-esteem, and self-
acutalization - ANSWER List out Maslow's basic needs
Subjective - ANSWER what data the patient tells you
Objective - ANSWER what data you observe; vital signs
Subjective and objective data - ANSWER What are the two types of collected data?
Nursing diagnosis - ANSWER The client's actual or potential response to a health
problem used as a basis for nursing intervention to achieve outcomes
Analyze data and determine the diagnosis - ANSWER ANA Standard 2: Diagnosis
Medical diagnosis - ANSWER Identified illness and design treatment plan to cure
patient
Nursing diagnosis - ANSWER Clinical judgment about the patient is used to direct a
plan of care and assist client and their families to adapt to their illness and resolve
health related problems
Clustering data - ANSWER Making groups of what symptoms have to do with each
other
Defining characteristics - ANSWER proof that the patient is experiencing a problem
Actual problem - ANSWER The nursing diagnosis must be supported by assessment
data; clinical signs and symptoms
