Cognitive Level: Understanding (Comprehension) Psychology practice test bank questions and correct answers explained

Cognitive Level: Understanding (Comprehension) Psychology practice test bank questions and correct answers explained Exam One (Chapter 1,3,4,8,9,18,21) Chapter 1 1. After completing an initial assessment of a patient, the nurse has charted that his respirations are eupneic and his pulse is 58 beats per minute. These types of data would be: a. Objective. b. Reflective. c. Subjective. d. Introspective. 2. A patient tells the nurse that he is very nervous, is nauseated, and feels hot. These types of data would be: a. Objective. b. Reflective. c. Subjective. d. Introspective. 3. The patients record, laboratory studies, objective data, and subjective data combine to form the: a. Data base. b. Admitting data. c. Financial statement. d. Discharge summary. 4. When listening to a patients breath sounds, the nurse is unsure of a sound that is heard. The nurses next action should be to: a. Immediately notify the patients physician. b. Document the sound exactly as it was heard. c. Validate the data by asking a coworker to listen to the breath sound d. Assess again in 20 minutes to note whether the sound is still presen 5. The nurse is conducting a class for new graduate nurses. During the teaching session, the nurse should keep in mind that novice nurses, without a background of skills and experience from which to draw, are more likely to make their decisions using: a. Intuition. b. A set of rules. c. Articles in journals. d. Advice from supervisors. 6. Expert nurses learn to attend to a pattern of assessment data and act without consciously labeling it. These responses are referred to as: a. Intuition. b. The nursing process. c. Clinical knowledge. d. Diagnostic reasoning. 7. The nurse is reviewing information about evidence-based practice (EBP). Which statement best reflects EBP? a. EBP relies on tradition for support of best practices. b. EBP is simply the use of best practice techniques for the treatment c. EBP emphasizes the use of best evidence with the clinicians experie d. The patients own preferences are not important with EBP. 8. The nurse is conducting a class on priority setting for a group of new graduate nurses. Which is an example of a first-level priority problem? a. Patient with postoperative pain b. Newly diagnosed patient with diabetes who needs diabetic teaching c. Individual with a small laceration on the sole of the foot d. Individual with shortness of breath and respiratory distress 9. When considering priority setting of problems, the nurse keeps in mind that second-level priority problems include which of these aspects? a. Low self-esteem b. Lack of knowledge c. Abnormal laboratory values d. Severely abnormal vital signs 10. Which critical thinking skill helps the nurse see relationships among the data? a. Validation b. Clustering related cues c. Identifying gaps in data d. Distinguishing relevant from irrelevant 11. The nurse knows that developing appropriate nursing interventions for a patient relies on the appropriateness of the diagnosis. a. Nursing b. Medical c. Admission d. Collaborative 12. The nursing process is a sequential method of problem solving that nurses use and includes which steps? a. Assessment, treatment, planning, evaluation, discharge, and follow- b. Admission, assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and discharge plannin c. Admission, diagnosis, treatment, evaluation, and discharge planning Assessment, diagnosis, outcome identification, planning, implement d. evaluation A newly admitted patient is in acute pain, has not been sleeping well lately, and is having difficulty breathing. How should the nurse prioritize these problems? d. Breathing, pain, and sleep e. Breathing, sleep, and pain f. Sleep, breathing, and pain g. Sleep, pain, and breathing 13. Which of these would be formulated by a nurse using diagnostic reasoning? a. Nursing diagnosis b. Medical diagnosis c. Diagnostic hypothesis d. Diagnostic assessment 14. Barriers to incorporating EBP include: a. Nurses lack of research skills in evaluating the quality of research st b. Lack of significant research studies. c. Insufficient clinical skills of nurses. d. Inadequate physical assessment skills. 15. What step of the nursing process includes data collection by health history, physical examination, and interview? a. Planning b. Diagnosis c. Evaluation d. Assessment 16. During a staff meeting, nurses discuss the problems with accessing research studies to incorporate evidence-based clinical decision making into their practice. Which suggestion by the nurse manager would best help these problems? a. Form a committee to conduct research studies. b. Post published research studies on the units bulletin boards. c. Encourage the nurses to visit the library to review studies. d. Teach the nurses how to conduct electronic searches for research st 17. When reviewing the concepts of health, the nurse recalls that the components of holistic health include which of these? a. Disease originates from the external environment. b. The individual human is a closed system. c. Nurses are responsible for a patients health state. d. Holistic health views the mind, body, and spirit as interdependent. 18. The nurse recognizes that the concept of prevention in describing health is essential because: a. Disease can be prevented by treating the external environment. b. The majority of deaths among Americans under age 65 years are no c. Prevention places the emphasis on the link between health and per The means to prevention is through treatment provided by primary d. practitioners. The nurse is performing a physical assessment on a newly admitted patient. An example of objective information obtained during the physical assessment includes the: d. Patients history of allergies. e. Patients use of medications at home. f. Last menstrual period 1 month ago. g. 2 5 cm scar on the right lower forearm. 19. A visiting nurse is making an initial home visit for a patient who has many chronic medical problems. Which type of data base is most appropriate to collect in this setting? a. A follow-up data base to evaluate changes at appropriate intervals An episodic data base because of the continuing, complex medical b. patient A complete health data base because of the nurses primary respons c. d. monitoring the patients health An emergency data base because of the need to collect information accurate diagnoses rapidly Which situation is most appropriate during which the nurse performs a focused or problem-centered history? c. Patient is admitted to a long-term care facility. d. Patient has a sudden and severe shortness of breath. e. Patient is admitted to the hospital for surgery the following day. f. Patient in an outpatient clinic has cold and influenza-like symptoms. 20. A patient is at the clinic to have her blood pressure checked. She has been coming to the clinic weekly since she changed medications 2 months ago. The nurse should: a. Collect a follow-up data base and then check her blood pressure. b. Ask her to read her health record and indicate any changes since he c. Check only her blood pressure because her complete health history 2 months ago. Obtain a complete health history before checking her blood pressur her history information may have changed