NR 224 FUNDAMENTALS STUDY GUIDE
2026 ACTUAL QUESTIONS WITH
SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
● clinical judgement. Answer: conclusion about a patient's needs or
health problems and/or the decisions to take or avoid action, use or
modify standard approaches, or create new approaches based on the
patient's response
● concept map. Answer: visual representation of patient problems and
interventions that shows their relationships to one another
● critical thinking. Answer: -Essential in the nursing process safe,
efficient, and skillful nursing intervention
-Involves knowing as much as possible about each patient
-Need to sort out the information into patterns to clarify problems,
recognize changes, and make appropriate care decisions under pressure
-Improves patients' outcomes
● nursing process. Answer: -The nursing process is a 5-step process
(critical thinking) which allows us as nurses to provide holistic patient
centered care
-Assessment: gathers information about the patient and the condition of
the patient
, -Diagnosis (nursing): identifies the patient's problem
-Planning: set goals of care and desired outcomes and identify
appropriate nursing actions (SMART)
-Implementation: perform the nursing actions identified in planning
-Evaluation: determine if goals and expected outcomes are achieved
-REFLECTION: look at your process and see if there is another way to
accomplish the same
● reflection. Answer: a part of critical thinking that involves
purposefully reviewing a situation to discover its purpose or meaning
● subjective data. Answer: -your patients' verbal descriptions of their
health problems
-include patient feelings, perceptions, and self-reported symptoms
-is the history or story of what is or has happened
● objective data. Answer: findings resulting from direct observation or
measurement, including what you see, hear, and touch
● open ended questions. Answer: questions that allow respondents to
answer however they want
● closed-ended questions. Answer: questions a person must answer by
choosing from a limited, predetermined set of responses
2026 ACTUAL QUESTIONS WITH
SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
● clinical judgement. Answer: conclusion about a patient's needs or
health problems and/or the decisions to take or avoid action, use or
modify standard approaches, or create new approaches based on the
patient's response
● concept map. Answer: visual representation of patient problems and
interventions that shows their relationships to one another
● critical thinking. Answer: -Essential in the nursing process safe,
efficient, and skillful nursing intervention
-Involves knowing as much as possible about each patient
-Need to sort out the information into patterns to clarify problems,
recognize changes, and make appropriate care decisions under pressure
-Improves patients' outcomes
● nursing process. Answer: -The nursing process is a 5-step process
(critical thinking) which allows us as nurses to provide holistic patient
centered care
-Assessment: gathers information about the patient and the condition of
the patient
, -Diagnosis (nursing): identifies the patient's problem
-Planning: set goals of care and desired outcomes and identify
appropriate nursing actions (SMART)
-Implementation: perform the nursing actions identified in planning
-Evaluation: determine if goals and expected outcomes are achieved
-REFLECTION: look at your process and see if there is another way to
accomplish the same
● reflection. Answer: a part of critical thinking that involves
purposefully reviewing a situation to discover its purpose or meaning
● subjective data. Answer: -your patients' verbal descriptions of their
health problems
-include patient feelings, perceptions, and self-reported symptoms
-is the history or story of what is or has happened
● objective data. Answer: findings resulting from direct observation or
measurement, including what you see, hear, and touch
● open ended questions. Answer: questions that allow respondents to
answer however they want
● closed-ended questions. Answer: questions a person must answer by
choosing from a limited, predetermined set of responses
