INTRODUCTION TO NURSING EXAM 1
LATEST EXAM 2026
The development of nursing diagnoses was an effort to __________ of care by nurses
1) To facilitate the use of standardized nursing diagnostics terminology
2) To improve the health care of all people
3) When their usefulness if limited/outdated (Ex: disturbed thought process)
North American Nursing Diagnosis Association (NANDA):
1) What was their mission?
2) What was their goal?
3) When are diagnoses retired?
1) Assessment
2) Analysis/identification of the problem (Diagnosis)
3) Planning
4) Implementation of planned interventions
5) Evaluation
What are the 5 steps of the nursing process? (ADPIE)
1) Assessment
2) Diagnosis
3) Planning
4) Implementation
5) Evaluation
,Steps of the Nursing Process:
1) Gathering information/data about the individual, family, or community
2) Analysis and identification of the problem using data clustering
3) Bloom's taxonomy and domains of learning
4) Occurs when nursing orders are actually carried out
5) When the nurse examines the patient's progress in relation to the goals and
outcome to determine is a problem is resolved
1) Assessment
2) Disease process
3) By depending on an accurate diagnosis
4) Evaluation
Steps of the Nursing Process:
1) Physical examination, interview, taking subjective and objective data would be under
which step?
2) The nursing diagnosis identifies the problems the patient is experiencing as a result
of the _________
3) How do we provide effective interventions in diagnosing?
4) Under which step of the nursing process does documentation occur?
1) False- it does not have universal support
2) Prioritize it by relative danger to patient
3) False- they should
Phase 2 of the Nursing Process: Diagnosis:
1) (True/False) The use of nursing diagnosis is used among various institutions and has
,universal support
2) After a diagnosis is identified, what must you do next?
3) (True/False) Nurses should not involve patients in identifying priority diagnoses
1) PES (P-problem, E- etiology, and S- signs and symptoms)
2)
-Nurses themselves as effective diagnosticians
-How nurses are educated about nursing diagnoses
-Complexity of a patient's situation
-Degree to which a hospital's policy/environment supports nursing diagnosis
Phase 2 of the Nursing Process: Diagnosis:
1) What are the three parts of writing nursing diagnosis?
2) What four domains of factors affect nurses' accurate documentation of diagnoses?
1) Cognitive, psychomotor, and affective domains
2) They are statements of what is to be accomplished and are derived from the
diagnosis
3) Plan of care; selecting interventions
Phase 3 of the Nursing Process: Planning:
1) What are the three domains of learning under planning (bloom's taxonomy)?
2) What are goals/objectives and where are they derived from?
3) This phase includes writing the _________ and selecting _______
1) Cognitive
2) Psychomotor domain
3) Affective domain
, Phase 3 of the Nursing Process: Planning:
1) This domain of learning involves knowledge and intellectual skills
2) This domain involves physical movement and complex activities in the motor-skill
arena
3) Involves the emotions, such as feelings, values and attitudes
1) Outcome critera
2) Cultural congruent intervention
3) Protocols
Phase 3 of the Nursing Process: Planning:
1) This defines the terms under which the goal is said to be met
2) Developed within the broad social, cultural and demographic context of the patient's
life
3) What defines under what conditions a nurse is allowed to treat the patient as well as
what treatments are permissible?
1) Nurses are continuously moving from one phase to another and then
beginning the process again
2) Often a nurse performs two or more phases at the same time
How is the nursing process dynamic? (2 ways)
1) Informed opinions
2) Informed decisions
3) Empirical knowledge/experience
Clinical judgment in nursing consists of ___1___ and ___2__ based on empirical
____3____
LATEST EXAM 2026
The development of nursing diagnoses was an effort to __________ of care by nurses
1) To facilitate the use of standardized nursing diagnostics terminology
2) To improve the health care of all people
3) When their usefulness if limited/outdated (Ex: disturbed thought process)
North American Nursing Diagnosis Association (NANDA):
1) What was their mission?
2) What was their goal?
3) When are diagnoses retired?
1) Assessment
2) Analysis/identification of the problem (Diagnosis)
3) Planning
4) Implementation of planned interventions
5) Evaluation
What are the 5 steps of the nursing process? (ADPIE)
1) Assessment
2) Diagnosis
3) Planning
4) Implementation
5) Evaluation
,Steps of the Nursing Process:
1) Gathering information/data about the individual, family, or community
2) Analysis and identification of the problem using data clustering
3) Bloom's taxonomy and domains of learning
4) Occurs when nursing orders are actually carried out
5) When the nurse examines the patient's progress in relation to the goals and
outcome to determine is a problem is resolved
1) Assessment
2) Disease process
3) By depending on an accurate diagnosis
4) Evaluation
Steps of the Nursing Process:
1) Physical examination, interview, taking subjective and objective data would be under
which step?
2) The nursing diagnosis identifies the problems the patient is experiencing as a result
of the _________
3) How do we provide effective interventions in diagnosing?
4) Under which step of the nursing process does documentation occur?
1) False- it does not have universal support
2) Prioritize it by relative danger to patient
3) False- they should
Phase 2 of the Nursing Process: Diagnosis:
1) (True/False) The use of nursing diagnosis is used among various institutions and has
,universal support
2) After a diagnosis is identified, what must you do next?
3) (True/False) Nurses should not involve patients in identifying priority diagnoses
1) PES (P-problem, E- etiology, and S- signs and symptoms)
2)
-Nurses themselves as effective diagnosticians
-How nurses are educated about nursing diagnoses
-Complexity of a patient's situation
-Degree to which a hospital's policy/environment supports nursing diagnosis
Phase 2 of the Nursing Process: Diagnosis:
1) What are the three parts of writing nursing diagnosis?
2) What four domains of factors affect nurses' accurate documentation of diagnoses?
1) Cognitive, psychomotor, and affective domains
2) They are statements of what is to be accomplished and are derived from the
diagnosis
3) Plan of care; selecting interventions
Phase 3 of the Nursing Process: Planning:
1) What are the three domains of learning under planning (bloom's taxonomy)?
2) What are goals/objectives and where are they derived from?
3) This phase includes writing the _________ and selecting _______
1) Cognitive
2) Psychomotor domain
3) Affective domain
, Phase 3 of the Nursing Process: Planning:
1) This domain of learning involves knowledge and intellectual skills
2) This domain involves physical movement and complex activities in the motor-skill
arena
3) Involves the emotions, such as feelings, values and attitudes
1) Outcome critera
2) Cultural congruent intervention
3) Protocols
Phase 3 of the Nursing Process: Planning:
1) This defines the terms under which the goal is said to be met
2) Developed within the broad social, cultural and demographic context of the patient's
life
3) What defines under what conditions a nurse is allowed to treat the patient as well as
what treatments are permissible?
1) Nurses are continuously moving from one phase to another and then
beginning the process again
2) Often a nurse performs two or more phases at the same time
How is the nursing process dynamic? (2 ways)
1) Informed opinions
2) Informed decisions
3) Empirical knowledge/experience
Clinical judgment in nursing consists of ___1___ and ___2__ based on empirical
____3____
