QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED ANSWER 2026
the process of analyzing health data and drawing conclusions to identify diagnoses
- CORRECT ANSWER Diagnostic Reasoning
a six-step process that includes assessment, diagnosis, outcome identification,
planning, implementation, and evaluation - CORRECT ANSWER Nursing Process
Collect data
· Review of the clinical record
· Health history
· Physical examination
· Functional examination
· Risk assessment
· Review of the literature
Use evidence-based assessment techniques
Document relevant data - CORRECT ANSWER Nursing Process: assessment
Compare clinical findings with normal and abnormal variation and developmental
events
Interpret data
· Identify clusters of clues
· Make hypothesis
· Test hypothesis
,· Derive diagnosis
Validate diagnoses
Document diagnoses - CORRECT ANSWER Nursing Process: diagnosis
Identify expected outcomes
Individualized to the person
Identify expected culturally appropriate outcomes
Establish realistic and measurable outcomes
Develop a timeline - CORRECT ANSWER Nursing Process: outcome identification
Establish priorities
Develop outcomes
Set timelines for outcomes
Identify interventions
Integrate evidence-based trends and research
Document plan of care - CORRECT ANSWER Nursing Process: planning
Implement in a safe and timely manner
Use evidence-based interventions
Collaborate with colleagues
Use community resources
Coordinate care delivery
Provide health teaching and health promotion
,Document implementation and any modification - CORRECT ANSWER Nursing
Process: implementation
Progress toward outcomes
Conduct systematic, ongoing, criterion-based evaluation
Include patient and significant others
Use ongoing assessment to revise diagnoses, outcomes, plan
Disseminate results to patient and family - CORRECT ANSWER Nursing Process:
evaluation
developed as a way of structuring nursing education to enhance clinical judgment
skills of novice practitioners. - CORRECT ANSWER Clinical judgement model
allows you to make the best evidence-based decisions for patient care and is an
essential skill for nursing practice - CORRECT ANSWER Clinical Judgement
Emergent, life threatening, and immediate
Airway, breathing, circulation - CORRECT ANSWER First level priority problem
Next in urgency, requiring prompt intervention to forestall further deterioration
Mental status change, acute pain, elimination problems, abnormal lab values, risk
of infection, risk to safety or security - CORRECT ANSWER Second level priority
problem
, Important to health, but can attended to after more urgent health problems are
addressed
Usually long term, response is expected to take more time, may require
collaboration
lack of knowledge, nutrition consults, referral to support group - CORRECT
ANSWER Third level priority problem
complete, focused or problem-centered, follow-up, and emergency - CORRECT
ANSWER Four types of patient data
includes a complete health history and a full physical examination. It describes the
current and past health state and forms a baseline against which all future
changes can be measured. It yields the first diagnoses. The complete database
often is collected in a primary care setting such as a pediatric or family practice
clinic, independent or group private practice, college health service, women's
health care agency, visiting nurse agency, or community health agency - CORRECT
ANSWER Patient data type 1: complete
This is for a limited or short-term problem. Here you collect a "mini" database,
smaller in scope and more targeted than the complete database. It concerns
mainly one problem, one cue complex, or one body system. It is used in all
settings—hospital, primary care, or long-term care - CORRECT ANSWER Patient
data type 2: focused/problem-centered
The status of any identified problems should be evaluated at regular and
appropriate intervals. What change has occurred? Is the problem getting better or
worse? Which coping strategies are used? This type of database is used in all
settings to follow up both short-term and chronic health problems - CORRECT
ANSWER Patient data type 3: follow-up