NUR 110 EXAM 1-QUESTIONS AND CORRECT VERIFIED ANSWERS (HARPER
COLLEGE) 2024
1. What is independent thinking?
While you learn or hear A LOT of information, you take your time to understand how it will impact your
practice and patients and think for yourself before blindly agreeing to do something
2. What are the skills needed in good critical thinking?
Independent thinking, intellectual curiosity, intellectual humility, intellectual empathy, intellectual
courage, intellectual perserverance, fair-mindedness
3. Theoretical knowledge
Think of this type of knowledge as the content you learn from your theory classes. You get facts,
information and will ultimately use the knowledge you gain to educate your patients, to choose the
correct intervention or to intervene when you see fit. Practical knowledge = As your book states, it is
"knowing what to do and how to do it. Consists of processes (e.g., the decision process and the nursing
process) and procedures (e.g., how to give an injection) and is an aspect of nursing expertise."
4. Self-knowledge
You will be doing a lot of reflecting throughout your nursing student career and this knowledge is just
that- you are reflecting on your values, religious and cultural beliefs and how it will impact the care you
provide and the decisions you make
5. Ethical knowledge
Just as it implies, the knowledge to know what is right to do and what is wrong.
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, 6. What are a few characteristics of the nursing process?
Step-wise process, Cyclical, continuously changes rather than staying static, Client
centered/individualized for your patient, Use critical thinking/decision making, Evidenced-based
practice, Problem solving, Universally applicable, Interpersonal, Prioritize, process focuses on client's
responses to real or potential disease or illness
7. What are the 5 Steps of the Nursing Process?
ADPIE; Assessment, Analysis/Diagnosing, Planning, Implementation, Evaluation
8. What is done during the assessment phase of the nursing process?
Collect and organize data
9. What is primary data?
data obtained from the patient
10. What is secondary data?
data obtained from the medical chart, labs, family, and other healthcare providers
11. What is subjective data?
Data that the patient states or feels; ex- nausea, pain, anxiety, fear, depression
12. What is objective data?
Data that uses your own senses
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, 13. What is done during the diagnosing phase of the nursing process?
Analyze data, work with the client to come up with a nursing diagnosis, and develop a diagnosis
statement
14. What is are the three parts of a nursing diagnosis?
Actual, risk, and wellness
15. What is a risk diagnosis?
Only includes the etiology; includes what the patient is at risk for based upon their assessment; ex:
Observed patient has unstable gait, so is at risk for falls, even though the patient is not admitted for
falling
16. What is an actual diagnosis?
The actual problem that is going on (NOT THE MEDICAL DIAGNOSIS); ex- Constipation related to narcotic
use and inadequate dietary fiber, as evidenced by hard formed stool and hypoactive bowel sounds
17. What is a wellness diagnosis?
Clinical judgement about a person, family, community's desire to increase wellbeing and enhance
healthy behaviors
18. What is done during the planning phase of the nursing diagnosis?
Prioritize problems, make short term goals to slowly reach long term goals, formulate client goals
NUR 110 EXAM 1
COLLEGE) 2024
1. What is independent thinking?
While you learn or hear A LOT of information, you take your time to understand how it will impact your
practice and patients and think for yourself before blindly agreeing to do something
2. What are the skills needed in good critical thinking?
Independent thinking, intellectual curiosity, intellectual humility, intellectual empathy, intellectual
courage, intellectual perserverance, fair-mindedness
3. Theoretical knowledge
Think of this type of knowledge as the content you learn from your theory classes. You get facts,
information and will ultimately use the knowledge you gain to educate your patients, to choose the
correct intervention or to intervene when you see fit. Practical knowledge = As your book states, it is
"knowing what to do and how to do it. Consists of processes (e.g., the decision process and the nursing
process) and procedures (e.g., how to give an injection) and is an aspect of nursing expertise."
4. Self-knowledge
You will be doing a lot of reflecting throughout your nursing student career and this knowledge is just
that- you are reflecting on your values, religious and cultural beliefs and how it will impact the care you
provide and the decisions you make
5. Ethical knowledge
Just as it implies, the knowledge to know what is right to do and what is wrong.
NUR 110 EXAM 1
, 6. What are a few characteristics of the nursing process?
Step-wise process, Cyclical, continuously changes rather than staying static, Client
centered/individualized for your patient, Use critical thinking/decision making, Evidenced-based
practice, Problem solving, Universally applicable, Interpersonal, Prioritize, process focuses on client's
responses to real or potential disease or illness
7. What are the 5 Steps of the Nursing Process?
ADPIE; Assessment, Analysis/Diagnosing, Planning, Implementation, Evaluation
8. What is done during the assessment phase of the nursing process?
Collect and organize data
9. What is primary data?
data obtained from the patient
10. What is secondary data?
data obtained from the medical chart, labs, family, and other healthcare providers
11. What is subjective data?
Data that the patient states or feels; ex- nausea, pain, anxiety, fear, depression
12. What is objective data?
Data that uses your own senses
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, 13. What is done during the diagnosing phase of the nursing process?
Analyze data, work with the client to come up with a nursing diagnosis, and develop a diagnosis
statement
14. What is are the three parts of a nursing diagnosis?
Actual, risk, and wellness
15. What is a risk diagnosis?
Only includes the etiology; includes what the patient is at risk for based upon their assessment; ex:
Observed patient has unstable gait, so is at risk for falls, even though the patient is not admitted for
falling
16. What is an actual diagnosis?
The actual problem that is going on (NOT THE MEDICAL DIAGNOSIS); ex- Constipation related to narcotic
use and inadequate dietary fiber, as evidenced by hard formed stool and hypoactive bowel sounds
17. What is a wellness diagnosis?
Clinical judgement about a person, family, community's desire to increase wellbeing and enhance
healthy behaviors
18. What is done during the planning phase of the nursing diagnosis?
Prioritize problems, make short term goals to slowly reach long term goals, formulate client goals
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