NSGA 144 EXAM 3 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
An integration of the best evidence available, nursing expertise, and the values and preferences of the
individuals, families, and communities who are served - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Evidence-based nursing
Evidence - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Testimony of facts tending to prove or disprove a conclusion
Data - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅A collection of facts
How are evidence and data related? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅You CAN have a collection of unexamined
facts but no evidence. You CAN NOT have evidence w/o a collections of facts or data.
Replicability - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Findings are verified when repeated in other studies
Reliability - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Findings are consistent (a treatment given for similar disorders leads
to similar outcomes)
Reproducibility - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Original data is used to regenerate the findings
Validity - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Accuracy of application and findings
A problem-solving approach to clinical decision making that combines the best available scientific
evidence w/ best available patient and practitioner experiential evidence for optimal healthcare
outcomes - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Evidence-based practice
How do nurses use clinical judgement? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Nurses must use sound clinical
judgement to make decisions regarding patient care and to improve patient outcomes.
What information is relevant/irrelevant?
What information is most important?
What is of immediate concern? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Recognize cues
, What client conditions are consistent w/ the cues?
Are there cues that support or contraindicate a particular condition?
Why is a particular cue or subset of cues of concern?
What other information would help establish the significance of a cue or a set of cues? - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅Analyze cues
Which explanations are most/least likely?
Which possible explanations are the most serious? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Prioritize hypotheses
What are the desirable outcomes?
What interventions can achieve those outcomes?
What should be avoided? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Generate solutions
Which intervention or combination of interventions is most appropriate?
How should the interventions be accomplished (performed, requested, administered, communicated,
taught, documented, etc.)? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Take action
What signs point to improving/declining/unchanged status?
Were the interventions effective?
Would other interventions have been more effective? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Evaluate outcomes
Minimizing risk of harm to patients and providers through both system effectiveness and individual
performance - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Safety defined by QSEN
One of the major methods by which The Joint Commission establishes standards for ensuring patient
safety in all health care settings. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅National Patient Safety Goals
Adverse event - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Client harm that occurs as a result of nurse omission or
commission
An integration of the best evidence available, nursing expertise, and the values and preferences of the
individuals, families, and communities who are served - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Evidence-based nursing
Evidence - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Testimony of facts tending to prove or disprove a conclusion
Data - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅A collection of facts
How are evidence and data related? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅You CAN have a collection of unexamined
facts but no evidence. You CAN NOT have evidence w/o a collections of facts or data.
Replicability - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Findings are verified when repeated in other studies
Reliability - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Findings are consistent (a treatment given for similar disorders leads
to similar outcomes)
Reproducibility - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Original data is used to regenerate the findings
Validity - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Accuracy of application and findings
A problem-solving approach to clinical decision making that combines the best available scientific
evidence w/ best available patient and practitioner experiential evidence for optimal healthcare
outcomes - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Evidence-based practice
How do nurses use clinical judgement? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Nurses must use sound clinical
judgement to make decisions regarding patient care and to improve patient outcomes.
What information is relevant/irrelevant?
What information is most important?
What is of immediate concern? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Recognize cues
, What client conditions are consistent w/ the cues?
Are there cues that support or contraindicate a particular condition?
Why is a particular cue or subset of cues of concern?
What other information would help establish the significance of a cue or a set of cues? - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅Analyze cues
Which explanations are most/least likely?
Which possible explanations are the most serious? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Prioritize hypotheses
What are the desirable outcomes?
What interventions can achieve those outcomes?
What should be avoided? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Generate solutions
Which intervention or combination of interventions is most appropriate?
How should the interventions be accomplished (performed, requested, administered, communicated,
taught, documented, etc.)? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Take action
What signs point to improving/declining/unchanged status?
Were the interventions effective?
Would other interventions have been more effective? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Evaluate outcomes
Minimizing risk of harm to patients and providers through both system effectiveness and individual
performance - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Safety defined by QSEN
One of the major methods by which The Joint Commission establishes standards for ensuring patient
safety in all health care settings. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅National Patient Safety Goals
Adverse event - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Client harm that occurs as a result of nurse omission or
commission
