NUR 202 Midterm Exam Questions With
Correct Answers
Explain what is involved in each step of the nursing process as it relates
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to drug therapy - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Assess:
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- History
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- Process
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Diagnose:
- Primary medical problem
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- Secondary medical problem
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- Social, psychologic, educational, environmental, safety, nutritional
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problems
Plans
- Therapeutic Goal
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- Medication Knowledge
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- Special Needs Equipment (glucometer)
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- Teaching Needs
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Implement
,- Right Drug
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- Right Time
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- Right Dose
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- Right Practice
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- Right Route
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- Right Documentation
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Evaluate
- Therapeutic Effects
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- Adverse Effects
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- Allergy to medication
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Identify health history questions to ask during the assessment phase
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that are pertinent to medication administration. - CORRECT
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ANSWER✔✔-Essential questions to ask in the initial history relate to | | | | | | | | |
- chief complaint
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- history of drug allergy
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- past medical history
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- medications currently used (OTC drugs, dietary supplements, and
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herbal products)
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- personal and social history
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-use of alcohol/
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,tobacco/caffeine |
-use of street drugs/illicit substances
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- reproductive health questions
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- pregnancy status of women of childbearing age
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Discuss key nursing interventions required in the implementation phase
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of the nursing process for patients receiving medications. - CORRECT
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ANSWER✔✔-Implementation Phase (action phase): nurse applies the | | | | | | |
knowledge, skills, and principles of nursing care to help move the
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patient toward the desired goal and optimal wellness
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Key Nursing Interventions:
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- administering a drug
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- providing patient teaching/ education to ensure safe use of medication
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when discharged
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- interventions to maximize therapeutic response and prevent adverse
| | | | | | | | |
effects
- continue to assess patient and monitor drug effects (primary
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intervention)
Explain the importance of the evaluation phase of the nursing process
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as applied to pharmacotherapy. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Evaluation
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Phase: compares the patient's current health status with the desired
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outcome
, Importance:
-determines whether if the plan of care was appropriate, met, or needs
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revision
-If plan of care was met/ appropriate --> then address the next highest
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priority health need | |
-If plan of care was not met then the nursing process starts all over
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-checkpoint for the nurse to ensure safe and effective medication use
| | | | | | | | | | |
and active patient involvement
| | |
Relates to Pharmacotherapy:
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- Evaluation used to determine whether the therapeutic effects of the
| | | | | | | | | | |
drug were achieved, or adverse effects were prevented, or kept to
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acceptable levels |
Compare and contrast the different steps of the nursing process. -
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CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Assessing: Collect Data, Organize Data, Validate
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Data, Document Data
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Diagnosing: Analyze Data, Identify Health Problems, Risks & Strengths,
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Formulate Diagnostic Statements | |
Planning: Prioritizing problems/ diagnoses, formulate goals/ desired
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outcomes, select nursing interventions, write nursing interventions
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Correct Answers
Explain what is involved in each step of the nursing process as it relates
| | | | | | | | | | | | | |
to drug therapy - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Assess:
| | | | |
- History
|
- Process
|
Diagnose:
- Primary medical problem
| | |
- Secondary medical problem
| | |
- Social, psychologic, educational, environmental, safety, nutritional
| | | | | | |
problems
Plans
- Therapeutic Goal
| |
- Medication Knowledge
| |
- Special Needs Equipment (glucometer)
| | | |
- Teaching Needs
| |
Implement
,- Right Drug
| |
- Right Time
| |
- Right Dose
| |
- Right Practice
| |
- Right Route
| | |
- Right Documentation
| |
Evaluate
- Therapeutic Effects
| | |
- Adverse Effects
| |
- Allergy to medication
| | |
Identify health history questions to ask during the assessment phase
| | | | | | | | | |
that are pertinent to medication administration. - CORRECT
| | | | | | | |
ANSWER✔✔-Essential questions to ask in the initial history relate to | | | | | | | | |
- chief complaint
| |
- history of drug allergy
| | | |
- past medical history
| | |
- medications currently used (OTC drugs, dietary supplements, and
| | | | | | | | |
herbal products)
|
- personal and social history
| | | |
-use of alcohol/
| |
,tobacco/caffeine |
-use of street drugs/illicit substances
| | | |
- reproductive health questions
| | |
- pregnancy status of women of childbearing age
| | | | | | |
Discuss key nursing interventions required in the implementation phase
| | | | | | | | |
of the nursing process for patients receiving medications. - CORRECT
| | | | | | | | | |
ANSWER✔✔-Implementation Phase (action phase): nurse applies the | | | | | | |
knowledge, skills, and principles of nursing care to help move the
| | | | | | | | | | |
patient toward the desired goal and optimal wellness
| | | | | | |
Key Nursing Interventions:
| |
- administering a drug
| | |
- providing patient teaching/ education to ensure safe use of medication
| | | | | | | | | |
when discharged
| |
- interventions to maximize therapeutic response and prevent adverse
| | | | | | | | |
effects
- continue to assess patient and monitor drug effects (primary
| | | | | | | | | |
intervention)
Explain the importance of the evaluation phase of the nursing process
| | | | | | | | | | |
as applied to pharmacotherapy. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Evaluation
| | | | | | |
Phase: compares the patient's current health status with the desired
| | | | | | | | | |
outcome
, Importance:
-determines whether if the plan of care was appropriate, met, or needs
| | | | | | | | | | | |
revision
-If plan of care was met/ appropriate --> then address the next highest
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
priority health need | |
-If plan of care was not met then the nursing process starts all over
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
-checkpoint for the nurse to ensure safe and effective medication use
| | | | | | | | | | |
and active patient involvement
| | |
Relates to Pharmacotherapy:
| |
- Evaluation used to determine whether the therapeutic effects of the
| | | | | | | | | | |
drug were achieved, or adverse effects were prevented, or kept to
| | | | | | | | | | |
acceptable levels |
Compare and contrast the different steps of the nursing process. -
| | | | | | | | | | |
CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Assessing: Collect Data, Organize Data, Validate
| | | | | | |
Data, Document Data
| |
Diagnosing: Analyze Data, Identify Health Problems, Risks & Strengths,
| | | | | | | | |
Formulate Diagnostic Statements | |
Planning: Prioritizing problems/ diagnoses, formulate goals/ desired
| | | | | | |
outcomes, select nursing interventions, write nursing interventions
| | | | | |
