HESI A2 CRITICAL THINKING 2026 LOGICAL
REASONING REVIEW QUESTIONS ANSWERS
VERIFIED GUIDE
◉ The nursing process is...
Answer: overlapping and dynamic
◉ What does P-I-E stand for?
Answer: Problem, Implement, Evaluate
◉ What is the acronym COVD used for?
Answer: Used during assessing?
Collecting Data
Organizing Data
Validating
Documenting Data
◉ What are the sources of data that you retrieve during assessment?
Answer: patient, support peoples, client records
,◉ What type of client records could you get data from?
Answer: Other healthcare professionals, nursing and scientific
literature
◉ What are the two types of data you will take from the patient?
Answer: Subjective and Objective data
◉ What is subjective data?
Answer: Data that only the subject or "patient" can feel and will tell
you. Usually in a statement.
◉ What is objective data?
Answer: What you observe and can measure
◉ Besides measurable data for your objective data, what other
objective data should you collect?
Answer: What you see, hear, and smell.
◉ What do you do with your data sometimes if it is off or you are not
sure of it?
Answer: VALIDATE
◉ How do you record subjective data?
,Answer: In clients, "own words."
◉ What does the diagnoses do?
Answer: Describes the patients health problem in nursing
terminology - NOT medical.
◉ What are some qualifiers for diagnoses?
Answer: deficient, impaired, decreased, ineffective or compromised
◉ What is etiology?
Answer: The "related to" part....it is NURSE FIXABLE?
◉ What does the etiology or "related to" part do?
Answer: Directs the nursing intervention
◉ What does the correctly stated nursing problem have....PES....?
Answer: Problem Statement (NANDA) only, Etiology "related to", and
the supporting data (subj. obj assessment findings)
◉ What is planning?
Answer: involved determining pt goals/outcomes
, ◉ You cannot have an intervention....
Answer: without a goal.
◉ You cannot have a goal...
Answer: without an intervention
◉ A goal is a direct result of an...
Answer: intervention
◉ When planning what do you always want to do?
Answer: BE SPECIFIC...WHO, WHAT, WHEN, HOW OFTEN, HOW
MUCH
◉ For every nursing diagnoses....the nurse...
Answer: must write atleast one desired outcome
◉ The purpose of an intervention...
Answer: is a goal!
◉ What does evaluation mean?
Answer: A patient response to an intervention
REASONING REVIEW QUESTIONS ANSWERS
VERIFIED GUIDE
◉ The nursing process is...
Answer: overlapping and dynamic
◉ What does P-I-E stand for?
Answer: Problem, Implement, Evaluate
◉ What is the acronym COVD used for?
Answer: Used during assessing?
Collecting Data
Organizing Data
Validating
Documenting Data
◉ What are the sources of data that you retrieve during assessment?
Answer: patient, support peoples, client records
,◉ What type of client records could you get data from?
Answer: Other healthcare professionals, nursing and scientific
literature
◉ What are the two types of data you will take from the patient?
Answer: Subjective and Objective data
◉ What is subjective data?
Answer: Data that only the subject or "patient" can feel and will tell
you. Usually in a statement.
◉ What is objective data?
Answer: What you observe and can measure
◉ Besides measurable data for your objective data, what other
objective data should you collect?
Answer: What you see, hear, and smell.
◉ What do you do with your data sometimes if it is off or you are not
sure of it?
Answer: VALIDATE
◉ How do you record subjective data?
,Answer: In clients, "own words."
◉ What does the diagnoses do?
Answer: Describes the patients health problem in nursing
terminology - NOT medical.
◉ What are some qualifiers for diagnoses?
Answer: deficient, impaired, decreased, ineffective or compromised
◉ What is etiology?
Answer: The "related to" part....it is NURSE FIXABLE?
◉ What does the etiology or "related to" part do?
Answer: Directs the nursing intervention
◉ What does the correctly stated nursing problem have....PES....?
Answer: Problem Statement (NANDA) only, Etiology "related to", and
the supporting data (subj. obj assessment findings)
◉ What is planning?
Answer: involved determining pt goals/outcomes
, ◉ You cannot have an intervention....
Answer: without a goal.
◉ You cannot have a goal...
Answer: without an intervention
◉ A goal is a direct result of an...
Answer: intervention
◉ When planning what do you always want to do?
Answer: BE SPECIFIC...WHO, WHAT, WHEN, HOW OFTEN, HOW
MUCH
◉ For every nursing diagnoses....the nurse...
Answer: must write atleast one desired outcome
◉ The purpose of an intervention...
Answer: is a goal!
◉ What does evaluation mean?
Answer: A patient response to an intervention
