ATI NURSING PROCESS ASSESSMENT TEST LATEST 2024
ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED
ANSWERS (VERIFIED ANSWERS) LATEST UPDATED
VERSION |GUARANTEED A+
What is Assessment? - ANSWER: The systematic gathering of information related to
the physical, mental, spiritual, socioeconomic, and cultural status of an individual,
group, or community.
What are 4 features of the assessment? - ANSWER: Collecting data, categorizing
data, recording data, and using a systematic and ongoing process.
What is the purpose of the assessment? - ANSWER: To obtain enough data to allow
you to help the patient.
Patient database - ANSWER: All the pertinent patient data obtained by nurses and
other health professionals. (Nursing interview and the physical assessment findings
are part of it)
Assessment - ANSWER: The first phase of the nursing process. Data must be accurate
and complete.
Diagnosis - ANSWER: Assessment provides the data necessary for identifying the
client's health problems and strengths.
Planning outcomes - ANSWER: Data about the patient's motivation, family, and
available resources help you formulate realistic goals.
Planning interventions - ANSWER: Assessment data help you to choose the
interventions most likely to be acceptable to and effective for the client.
Implementation - ANSWER: As you perform nursing actions, you will also gather data
by observing the client's responses.
Evaluation - ANSWER: After performing interventions for existing diagnoses, you
assess the client's responses. This reassessment provides the basis for changes in the
care plan.
What organization regulate the practice of nurses in individual states? - ANSWER:
Nurse practice acts
An RN must assess patients' needs for nursing care within _____ hours of inpatient
admission. - ANSWER: 24 hours.
, The joint Commission includes standards that require agencies to provide evidence
that: - ANSWER: - Assessments are written, comprehensive (physical, psychological,
and social status), and used to identify and assign priorities for care.
- Agency policy designates
(1) When each pt is to be reassessed
(2) Which disciplines can make which assessments.
- All pts are assessed for pain.
Can I delegate Assessments? - ANSWER: Nurse aides or other nursing assistive
personnel (NAP) may collect information such as TEMPERATURE, HEIGHT, and
WEIGHT. However, as a nurse, it is your responsibility to assign those tasks, validate
the data collected, conduct the interview, and complete the physical assessment.
Subjective data - ANSWER: (covert 은밀한 data, symptoms)
- nformation communicated to the nurse by the client, family, or community.
- It is the perspective, thoughts, feelings, beliefs, and sensations of the person giving
the data.
- What the patients tells the nurse.
Objective data - ANSWER: (overt 명백한 data, signs)
- Information gathered from a physical assessment or from laboratory or diagnostic
tests.
- They can be measured or observed by the nurse or other healthcare providers.
Ex) Vital signs, x-ray results, skin color, and urine output.
Primary data - ANSWER: The subjective and objective data obtained from the client:
What the client says or what you observe.
Secondary data - ANSWER: It is obtained "Second-hand", for example, from the
medical record or from another caregiver (family, nurses...).
Initial assessment (Admission) - ANSWER: - Completed when the client first comes to
the healthcare agency.
- First btain data related to the person's reason for seeking nursing or medical
assistance.
- Then complete a comprehensive assessment if the client's condition permits.
- Provide guidance for care and determine the need for further assessment.
- Initial assessment data tend to be static.
Ex) demographic data (marital status, occupation) are not likely to change often.
Ongoing assessment - ANSWER: - Performed as needed, at any time after the initial
database is completed.
- Ideally, you will make at least some observations at every contact with a client.
- Use ngoing assessments data to identify new problems or to follow up on
previously identified problems.
ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED
ANSWERS (VERIFIED ANSWERS) LATEST UPDATED
VERSION |GUARANTEED A+
What is Assessment? - ANSWER: The systematic gathering of information related to
the physical, mental, spiritual, socioeconomic, and cultural status of an individual,
group, or community.
What are 4 features of the assessment? - ANSWER: Collecting data, categorizing
data, recording data, and using a systematic and ongoing process.
What is the purpose of the assessment? - ANSWER: To obtain enough data to allow
you to help the patient.
Patient database - ANSWER: All the pertinent patient data obtained by nurses and
other health professionals. (Nursing interview and the physical assessment findings
are part of it)
Assessment - ANSWER: The first phase of the nursing process. Data must be accurate
and complete.
Diagnosis - ANSWER: Assessment provides the data necessary for identifying the
client's health problems and strengths.
Planning outcomes - ANSWER: Data about the patient's motivation, family, and
available resources help you formulate realistic goals.
Planning interventions - ANSWER: Assessment data help you to choose the
interventions most likely to be acceptable to and effective for the client.
Implementation - ANSWER: As you perform nursing actions, you will also gather data
by observing the client's responses.
Evaluation - ANSWER: After performing interventions for existing diagnoses, you
assess the client's responses. This reassessment provides the basis for changes in the
care plan.
What organization regulate the practice of nurses in individual states? - ANSWER:
Nurse practice acts
An RN must assess patients' needs for nursing care within _____ hours of inpatient
admission. - ANSWER: 24 hours.
, The joint Commission includes standards that require agencies to provide evidence
that: - ANSWER: - Assessments are written, comprehensive (physical, psychological,
and social status), and used to identify and assign priorities for care.
- Agency policy designates
(1) When each pt is to be reassessed
(2) Which disciplines can make which assessments.
- All pts are assessed for pain.
Can I delegate Assessments? - ANSWER: Nurse aides or other nursing assistive
personnel (NAP) may collect information such as TEMPERATURE, HEIGHT, and
WEIGHT. However, as a nurse, it is your responsibility to assign those tasks, validate
the data collected, conduct the interview, and complete the physical assessment.
Subjective data - ANSWER: (covert 은밀한 data, symptoms)
- nformation communicated to the nurse by the client, family, or community.
- It is the perspective, thoughts, feelings, beliefs, and sensations of the person giving
the data.
- What the patients tells the nurse.
Objective data - ANSWER: (overt 명백한 data, signs)
- Information gathered from a physical assessment or from laboratory or diagnostic
tests.
- They can be measured or observed by the nurse or other healthcare providers.
Ex) Vital signs, x-ray results, skin color, and urine output.
Primary data - ANSWER: The subjective and objective data obtained from the client:
What the client says or what you observe.
Secondary data - ANSWER: It is obtained "Second-hand", for example, from the
medical record or from another caregiver (family, nurses...).
Initial assessment (Admission) - ANSWER: - Completed when the client first comes to
the healthcare agency.
- First btain data related to the person's reason for seeking nursing or medical
assistance.
- Then complete a comprehensive assessment if the client's condition permits.
- Provide guidance for care and determine the need for further assessment.
- Initial assessment data tend to be static.
Ex) demographic data (marital status, occupation) are not likely to change often.
Ongoing assessment - ANSWER: - Performed as needed, at any time after the initial
database is completed.
- Ideally, you will make at least some observations at every contact with a client.
- Use ngoing assessments data to identify new problems or to follow up on
previously identified problems.
