NUR 302-PHARMACOLOGY TEST 1
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
\.The Nursing Process - ANSWERS✔-An organizational framework for the practice
of nursing. It encompasses all steps taken by the nurse in caring for a patient:
assessment, identification of human needs, planning (with goals and outcome
criteria), implementation of the plan (with patient teaching), and evaluation.
\.Compliance - ANSWERS✔-Implementation or fulfillment of a
prescriber's/caregiver's prescribed course of treatment or therapeutic plan by a
patient. Use of compliance versus the term adherence acknowledges the
consideration/acceptance of patient/family/caregiver participation in the use of
the nursing process.
\.Medication Error - ANSWERS✔-Any preventable adverse drug event involving
inappropriate medication use by a patient or health care professional; it may or
may not cause the patient harm.
\.Noncompliance - ANSWERS✔-An informed decision on the part of the patient
not to adhere to or follow a therapeutic plan or suggestion.
\.Outcomes - ANSWERS✔-Descriptions of specific patient behaviors or responses
that demonstrate meeting of or achievement of behaviors related to each
, patient's human needs. These statements are specific while framed in behavioral
terms and are measurable.
\.Prescriber - ANSWERS✔-Any health care professional licensed by the
appropriate regulatory board to prescribe medications.
\.Ten Rights of Medication Administration - ANSWERS✔-right drug, right patient,
right dose, right route and form, right time and frequency, right documentation,
right client education, right to refuse, right assessment, right evaluation
\.The Nursing Process: Assessment - ANSWERS✔-Methods of data collection
include interviewing, direct and indirect questioning, observation, medical records
review, head-to-toe physical examination, and a nursing assessment. Data are
categorized into objective and subjective data.
\.The Nursing Process: Diagnosis - ANSWERS✔-Nursing diagnoses are formulated
based on objective and subjective data and help to drive the nursing care plan by
suggesting specific goals and outcomes.
\.The Nursing Process: Planning - ANSWERS✔-The major purposes of the planning
phase are to prioritize the nursing diagnoses and specify goals and outcome
criteria, including the time frame for their achievement.
\.The Nursing Process: Implementation - ANSWERS✔-Implementation is guided by
the assessment, nursing diagnoses, and planning.
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
\.The Nursing Process - ANSWERS✔-An organizational framework for the practice
of nursing. It encompasses all steps taken by the nurse in caring for a patient:
assessment, identification of human needs, planning (with goals and outcome
criteria), implementation of the plan (with patient teaching), and evaluation.
\.Compliance - ANSWERS✔-Implementation or fulfillment of a
prescriber's/caregiver's prescribed course of treatment or therapeutic plan by a
patient. Use of compliance versus the term adherence acknowledges the
consideration/acceptance of patient/family/caregiver participation in the use of
the nursing process.
\.Medication Error - ANSWERS✔-Any preventable adverse drug event involving
inappropriate medication use by a patient or health care professional; it may or
may not cause the patient harm.
\.Noncompliance - ANSWERS✔-An informed decision on the part of the patient
not to adhere to or follow a therapeutic plan or suggestion.
\.Outcomes - ANSWERS✔-Descriptions of specific patient behaviors or responses
that demonstrate meeting of or achievement of behaviors related to each
, patient's human needs. These statements are specific while framed in behavioral
terms and are measurable.
\.Prescriber - ANSWERS✔-Any health care professional licensed by the
appropriate regulatory board to prescribe medications.
\.Ten Rights of Medication Administration - ANSWERS✔-right drug, right patient,
right dose, right route and form, right time and frequency, right documentation,
right client education, right to refuse, right assessment, right evaluation
\.The Nursing Process: Assessment - ANSWERS✔-Methods of data collection
include interviewing, direct and indirect questioning, observation, medical records
review, head-to-toe physical examination, and a nursing assessment. Data are
categorized into objective and subjective data.
\.The Nursing Process: Diagnosis - ANSWERS✔-Nursing diagnoses are formulated
based on objective and subjective data and help to drive the nursing care plan by
suggesting specific goals and outcomes.
\.The Nursing Process: Planning - ANSWERS✔-The major purposes of the planning
phase are to prioritize the nursing diagnoses and specify goals and outcome
criteria, including the time frame for their achievement.
\.The Nursing Process: Implementation - ANSWERS✔-Implementation is guided by
the assessment, nursing diagnoses, and planning.
