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Sherpath for Harding Lewis's Medical-
Surgical Nursing, 12th Edition - Patient-
Centered Care (NUR1023) Exam Practice
Questions and Answers
Patient-centered care - Ans:✔✔-It is interrelated with quality and safety. With patient-centered care,
patients and caregivers seek and receive care from competent and knowledgeable health care
professionals.
Clinical Judgment - Ans:✔✔-Your ability to make decisions and solve problems by making sense of
information in a situation.
It is not memorizing a list of facts or the steps of a procedure. Instead, you use nursing knowledge to
assess situations, identify priority problems, and generate the best possible solutions to deliver safe
patient care.
What do you use when you identify a change in a patient's status, consider the context and patient and
caregiver concerns, and decide what to do? - Ans:✔✔-Clinical judgment
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What is the nursing process? - Ans:✔✔-A problem-solving approach to the identification and treatment
of patient problems. It is the foundation of nursing practice.
The nursing process framework provides a structure for delivering nursing care and the knowledge,
judgments, and actions that nurses use to achieve the best patient outcomes.
What are the 5 phases of the nursing process? - Ans:✔✔-ADPIE
Assessment, diagnosis, planning, implementation, and evaluation.
Assessment - Ans:✔✔-The collection of subjective and objective patient information on which you will
base your care plan
Diagnosis - Ans:✔✔-The act of analyzing the assessment data and making conclusions
Planning - Ans:✔✔-During planning, you develop patient outcomes or goals and identify nursing
interventions to accomplish the outcomes. Identifying the right expected outcomes provides criteria you
can use to measure and evaluate the impact of the interventions you provide.
Implementation - Ans:✔✔-The action phase of the plan with the use of nursing interventions.
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