NURS 1160 MIDTERM #1 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 100% CORRECT.
What is critical thinking? - (answer)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? - (answer)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? - (answer)Knowledge based on research or clinical expertise
What are critical thinking competencies? - (answer)Cognitive processes that nurses use to make
judgements about the clinical care of patients
What is diagnostic reasoning? - (answer)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? - (answer)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? - (answer)Focuses on defining patient problems and selecting
appropriate interventions.
What is the scientific method and what is it's steps? - (answer)A systematic, ordered approach to
gathering data and solving problems.
1. Identify problem
2. Collect data
, NURS 1160 MIDTERM #1 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 100% CORRECT.
3. Formulate research questions/hypothesis
4. Test questions/hypothesis
5. Evaluate results of test/study
What is the nursing process? - (answer)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)? - (answer)Client centered
caring
What 3 domains must be working together in order to achieve the main goal of client centered caring? -
(answer)1. Curriculum
2. Nurse educator
3. Students
What are langara DMFs version of the BCCNPs standards and competencies? - (answer)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)
What is critical thinking? - (answer)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? - (answer)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? - (answer)Knowledge based on research or clinical expertise
What are critical thinking competencies? - (answer)Cognitive processes that nurses use to make
judgements about the clinical care of patients
What is diagnostic reasoning? - (answer)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? - (answer)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? - (answer)Focuses on defining patient problems and selecting
appropriate interventions.
What is the scientific method and what is it's steps? - (answer)A systematic, ordered approach to
gathering data and solving problems.
1. Identify problem
2. Collect data
, NURS 1160 MIDTERM #1 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 100% CORRECT.
3. Formulate research questions/hypothesis
4. Test questions/hypothesis
5. Evaluate results of test/study
What is the nursing process? - (answer)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)? - (answer)Client centered
caring
What 3 domains must be working together in order to achieve the main goal of client centered caring? -
(answer)1. Curriculum
2. Nurse educator
3. Students
What are langara DMFs version of the BCCNPs standards and competencies? - (answer)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)
