Study Guide
What is evidence based practice? - correct answer ✔✔an approach that uses firm scientific data
rather than anecdote, tradition, intuition or folklore in making decisions about medical and
nursing practice
Why is evidence based practice important? - correct answer ✔✔It is effective and assured
everyone has the same treatment. Patients are sicker and leaving quicker.
Subjective data - correct answer ✔✔things a person tells you about that you cannot observe
through your senses; symptoms
Objective data - correct answer ✔✔information that is seen, heard, felt, or smelled by an
observer; signs
The six functions of clinical judgment order - correct answer ✔✔Recognize clothes, analyze,
clues, prioritize, hypothesis, generate solutions, take action, evaluate outcomes
The nursing process in order - correct answer ✔✔Assessment, analysis, planning,
implementation, evaluation
What do we need to have for diagnostic reasoning and clinical judgment? - correct answer
✔✔Clinical thinking and ability to decipher relevant and relevant information
First level of care - correct answer ✔✔Emergent life-threatening or limb, threatening
Second level of care - correct answer ✔✔Urgency to stop further deterioration
,Third level of care - correct answer ✔✔Important to overall health, but can wait until urgent
problems addressed
Complete total health database - correct answer ✔✔Includes complete health history and full
physical examination. Never seen patient before
Focus or Problem-Centered Database - correct answer ✔✔Specific care for the problem a
patient came in for
Follow up database - correct answer ✔✔Chronic or acute follow up mostly a routine check
emergent database - correct answer ✔✔Rapid collection; possible life-threatening problem
Novice - correct answer ✔✔New at something (checking a box, guideline driven) first 2-3 years
Proficient - correct answer ✔✔Confident, understand patient, long-term goals. Longer than 2-3
years
Expert - correct answer ✔✔Gut feeling, can immediately spot the problem
Holistic health - correct answer ✔✔Looking at everything that complements a person's well-
being (physically mentally and spiritually)
Health prevention - correct answer ✔✔Avoid these things (negative)
Health promotion - correct answer ✔✔Do these things (positive)
, Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) - correct answer ✔✔Conditions in which people are born,
grow, live, work, and age that affect health outcomes.
Naturalistic theory of illness - correct answer ✔✔Yin/ yang theory & hot/ cold theory
yin/yang theory - correct answer ✔✔Health exists when all aspects of the person are in perfect
balance.
hot/cold theory - correct answer ✔✔The four humors of the body--blood, phlegm, black bile
and yellow bile--regulate basic bodily functions and are described in terms of temperature,
dryness, and moisture.
Magicoreligious - correct answer ✔✔Understanding background and ethnicity
Examples of Magicoreligious - correct answer ✔✔voodoo, witchcraft, faith healing
Health Interview - correct answer ✔✔First part of data collection, establish rapid and trust,
collect objective data, record a complete health, history, bridge to physical examination,
opportunity for teaching, should be structured, but approach should change
nonverbal communication - correct answer ✔✔communication using body movements,
gestures, and facial expressions rather than speech
verbal communication - correct answer ✔✔expressing ideas to others by using spoken words
Internal factors affecting communication - correct answer ✔✔Liking others, empathy, ability to
listen, self-awareness