Nurs 211 Test Questions and Answers With Verified Solutions 2025
1st level priority - ✔✔Emergent, life threatening, and immediate
2nd level priority - ✔✔Next in urgency, requiring attention so as to avoid further deterioration
3rd level priority - ✔✔Important to patient's health but can be addressed after more urgent problems
are addressed
Clinical decision making depends on these 4 factors - ✔✔evidence from research, patient's preferences,
clinician's experience, and physical exam and assessment
5 Step - Nursing Process (ADPIE) - ✔✔Assessment
Diagnosis
Planning
Implementation
Evaluation
Assessment - ✔✔perform physical assessment, obtain accurate history, review med records and
diagnostic tests, collab with health team
health - ✔✔A state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being; person is balanced
illness - ✔✔loss of a person's balance, a person's subjective experience of their symptoms
Disease - ✔✔underlying pathology, biologically defined, the practicioner's perspective
Sickness - ✔✔social and cultural conceptions of this condition: cultural beliefs and reactions such as fear
or rejection; these affect how the patient reacts. also covers what is considered a disorder suitable for
medical treatment
, Primary Prevention - ✔✔True prevention that lowers the chances that a disease will develop
(vaccinations, preventative screenings)
secondary prevention - ✔✔Focuses on those who have a disease or are at risk to develop a disease;
diagnosis and prompt intervention
Tertiary Prevention - ✔✔Occurs when a defect or disability is permanent or irreversible; aims to help pt
achieve as high a level of functioning as possible
Critical Thinking Principles - ✔✔-sequential steps from novice to expert
-multidimensional thinking approach
-nonjudgemental interpretation of data
-CLUSTER DATA information to
Evidence based assessment - ✔✔Current and best clinical practice based on research standards focused
on systematic reviews of randomized clinical trials (RCTs)
Utilizing evidenced-based practice (EBP) in conjunction with provider experience will lead to better
health outcomes for patients
Fostering a "culture of EBP" at both the undergraduate and graduate levels will assist health educators
to make EBP the "gold standard" of practice
Steps to Cultural Competence - ✔✔*Culturally Sensitive: caregivers possess basic knowledge
*Culturally Appropriate: apply knowledge to improve outcomes
*Culturally Competent: apply universal understanding to all contextual aspects of care
*Cultural Care: Provision of health care across cultural boundaries in consideration of context
Culture - ✔✔learned, shared, dynamic, adapted
1st level priority - ✔✔Emergent, life threatening, and immediate
2nd level priority - ✔✔Next in urgency, requiring attention so as to avoid further deterioration
3rd level priority - ✔✔Important to patient's health but can be addressed after more urgent problems
are addressed
Clinical decision making depends on these 4 factors - ✔✔evidence from research, patient's preferences,
clinician's experience, and physical exam and assessment
5 Step - Nursing Process (ADPIE) - ✔✔Assessment
Diagnosis
Planning
Implementation
Evaluation
Assessment - ✔✔perform physical assessment, obtain accurate history, review med records and
diagnostic tests, collab with health team
health - ✔✔A state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being; person is balanced
illness - ✔✔loss of a person's balance, a person's subjective experience of their symptoms
Disease - ✔✔underlying pathology, biologically defined, the practicioner's perspective
Sickness - ✔✔social and cultural conceptions of this condition: cultural beliefs and reactions such as fear
or rejection; these affect how the patient reacts. also covers what is considered a disorder suitable for
medical treatment
, Primary Prevention - ✔✔True prevention that lowers the chances that a disease will develop
(vaccinations, preventative screenings)
secondary prevention - ✔✔Focuses on those who have a disease or are at risk to develop a disease;
diagnosis and prompt intervention
Tertiary Prevention - ✔✔Occurs when a defect or disability is permanent or irreversible; aims to help pt
achieve as high a level of functioning as possible
Critical Thinking Principles - ✔✔-sequential steps from novice to expert
-multidimensional thinking approach
-nonjudgemental interpretation of data
-CLUSTER DATA information to
Evidence based assessment - ✔✔Current and best clinical practice based on research standards focused
on systematic reviews of randomized clinical trials (RCTs)
Utilizing evidenced-based practice (EBP) in conjunction with provider experience will lead to better
health outcomes for patients
Fostering a "culture of EBP" at both the undergraduate and graduate levels will assist health educators
to make EBP the "gold standard" of practice
Steps to Cultural Competence - ✔✔*Culturally Sensitive: caregivers possess basic knowledge
*Culturally Appropriate: apply knowledge to improve outcomes
*Culturally Competent: apply universal understanding to all contextual aspects of care
*Cultural Care: Provision of health care across cultural boundaries in consideration of context
Culture - ✔✔learned, shared, dynamic, adapted
