Nurs 220 Midterm 2026 Exam
Questions and Verified Answers
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Which critical thinking skill helps the nurse to see relationships among the
data?
A) Validation
B) Clustering related cues
C) Identifying gaps in data
,D) Distinguishing relevant from irrelevant - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔B. Clustering
related cues
The nurse knows that developing appropriate nursing interventions for a
patient relies on the appropriateness of the _____ diagnosis.
A) nursing
B) medical
C) admission
D) collaborative - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A. Nursing
The nursing process is a sequential method of problem solving that nurses
use, and includes which steps?
A) Assessment, treatment, planning, evaluation, discharge, follow-up
B) Admission, assessment, diagnosis, treatment, discharge planning
C) Admission, diagnosis, treatment, evaluation, discharge planning
D) Assessment, diagnosis, outcome identification, planning,
implementation,
evaluation - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔D. Assessment, diagnosis, outcome
identification, planning, implementing, evaluation
,A newly admitted patient is in acute pain, has not been sleeping well lately,
and is having difficulty breathing. How should the nurse prioritize these
problems?
A) Breathing, pain, sleep
B) Breathing, sleep, pain
C) Sleep, breathing, pain
D) Sleep, pain, breathing - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A. Breathing, pain, sleep
Which of these would be formulated by a nurse using diagnostic
reasoning?
A) Nursing diagnosis
B) Medical diagnosis
C) Diagnostic hypothesis
D) Diagnostic assessment - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔C. Diagnostic hypothesis
Barriers to incorporating evidence-based practice (EBP) include:
A) nurses' lack of research skills in evaluating quality of research studies.
B) lack of significant research studies.
C) insufficient clinical skills of nurses.
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, D) inadequate physical assessment skills. - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A. Nurses' lack
of research skills in evaluating quality of research studies
What is the step of the nursing process that includes data collection by
health history, physical examination, and interview?
A) Planning
B) Diagnosis
C) Evaluation
D) Assessment - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔D. Assessment
During a staff meeting, nurses discuss the problems with accessing
research studies in order to incorporate evidence-based clinical decision
making into their practice. Which suggestion by the nurse manager would
best help this problem?
A) Form a committee to conduct research studies.
B) Post published research studies on the unit's bulletin boards.
C) Encourage the nurses to visit the library to review studies.
Questions and Verified Answers
| Already Graded A+
Which critical thinking skill helps the nurse to see relationships among the
data?
A) Validation
B) Clustering related cues
C) Identifying gaps in data
,D) Distinguishing relevant from irrelevant - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔B. Clustering
related cues
The nurse knows that developing appropriate nursing interventions for a
patient relies on the appropriateness of the _____ diagnosis.
A) nursing
B) medical
C) admission
D) collaborative - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A. Nursing
The nursing process is a sequential method of problem solving that nurses
use, and includes which steps?
A) Assessment, treatment, planning, evaluation, discharge, follow-up
B) Admission, assessment, diagnosis, treatment, discharge planning
C) Admission, diagnosis, treatment, evaluation, discharge planning
D) Assessment, diagnosis, outcome identification, planning,
implementation,
evaluation - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔D. Assessment, diagnosis, outcome
identification, planning, implementing, evaluation
,A newly admitted patient is in acute pain, has not been sleeping well lately,
and is having difficulty breathing. How should the nurse prioritize these
problems?
A) Breathing, pain, sleep
B) Breathing, sleep, pain
C) Sleep, breathing, pain
D) Sleep, pain, breathing - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A. Breathing, pain, sleep
Which of these would be formulated by a nurse using diagnostic
reasoning?
A) Nursing diagnosis
B) Medical diagnosis
C) Diagnostic hypothesis
D) Diagnostic assessment - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔C. Diagnostic hypothesis
Barriers to incorporating evidence-based practice (EBP) include:
A) nurses' lack of research skills in evaluating quality of research studies.
B) lack of significant research studies.
C) insufficient clinical skills of nurses.
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, D) inadequate physical assessment skills. - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A. Nurses' lack
of research skills in evaluating quality of research studies
What is the step of the nursing process that includes data collection by
health history, physical examination, and interview?
A) Planning
B) Diagnosis
C) Evaluation
D) Assessment - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔D. Assessment
During a staff meeting, nurses discuss the problems with accessing
research studies in order to incorporate evidence-based clinical decision
making into their practice. Which suggestion by the nurse manager would
best help this problem?
A) Form a committee to conduct research studies.
B) Post published research studies on the unit's bulletin boards.
C) Encourage the nurses to visit the library to review studies.
