CORRECT Answers
Defintion of Nursing Process - CORRECT ANSWER - decision-making approach that enhances critical thinking
Use of Nursing Process - CORRECT ANSWER - focus of nursing care, addresses the response of the client to
illness, primary purpose of nursing care plan is communication with the healthcare team
Sources of data in data collection portion of assessment - CORRECT ANSWER - client (usually most reliable)
family&signifigant other
medical records
What is the process of data analysis - CORRECT ANSWER - cluster data
What do you do during the planning phase - CORRECT ANSWER - Develop a list of nursing interventions and
outcomes that are realistic
When does discharge planning begin? - CORRECT ANSWER - Begins on admission
What do you do during the implementation phase - CORRECT ANSWER - Carry out interventions with on going
assessment
Document
Why do we document? - CORRECT ANSWER - legal requirement, used for baseline data
Evaulation phase - CORRECT ANSWER - Validate for effectiveness
Define critical thinking/reasoning/judgement - CORRECT ANSWER - Purposeful, informed, outcome-focused
thinking
Critical thinking is guided by - CORRECT ANSWER - it is guided by standards,ethics, laws
What is critical thinking based on - CORRECT ANSWER - nursing process, problem solving, SCIENTIFIC
METHOD
what does critical thinking focus on - CORRECT ANSWER - safety and quality (QSEN)
what does critical thinking identify - CORRECT ANSWER - key problems, issues, risks
A critical thinker applies - CORRECT ANSWER - logic, intuition, creativity
What does critical thinking help you do? - CORRECT ANSWER - gain confidence, be safe and autonomous
Improve outcomes and job satisfaction
Critcial thinkers have these attitudes - CORRECT ANSWER - Think independently, fair minded and consider all
view points
Critical thinkers have these attitudes - CORRECT ANSWER - intellectual empathy, intellectual sense of justice,
intellectual humbleness, consider alternatives, creative and self confident
what does intellecual sense of justice mean - CORRECT ANSWER - consider all viewpoints
What is divergent thinking - CORRECT ANSWER - weigh the importance of information, what is relevant
What is reasoning - CORRECT ANSWER - discriminate between facts and guesses
What is clarifying - CORRECT ANSWER - defining terms, noting similarities and differences