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N334 EXAM 1 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS WITH
COMPLETE SOLUTIONS VERIFIED UPDATED
2025/2026
Terms in this set (283)
Respect for patients' values, preferences, and
Patient-Centered Care expressed needs; coordination and integration
include attributes such of care; information, communication, and
as education; physical comfort; emotional
support and alleviation of fear and anxiety;
involvement of family and
friends; transition and continuity; access to care
Deliberate organization of and communication about
patient care activities; takes
What does Care places between two or more health care team
Coordination mean? members (includes patient); facilitates
appropriate, continuous health care to meet the
patient's needs; includes case
management and care transition
S: Situation
B:
What does SBAR stand Backgro
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R: Recommendation/Request
Define delegation and Nurse delegates to assistive personnel (AP),
supervision patient care technicians (PCT), and nursing
assistants
What is the EBP process? Nurses and interprofessional team use data to
monitor care outcomes and develop solutions
to change and improve care
Iterative process using nursing knowledge;
What is clinical judgment? observed outcome of critical thinking and
decision-making; appropriate clinical judgment
leads to positive outcomes;
inappropriate clinical judgments leads to risk or safety
issues for patients and/or staff
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What are the steps of Analysi
the nursing process in s
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Why do we want to Provides insight into the opportunities to
understand the natural prevent or treat disease with the goal to
history of disease? intercede or change the natural course
Stage 1: begins with exposure or factors that provide
the opportunity of a
Define the 5 stages susceptible host (infectious disease starts
of infection/disease with exposure to a microorganism); Stage 2:
progression and give epidemiological triad theory - external
examples. Stages: 1. agent can cause disease on a susceptible
Stage of Susceptibility; host when there is amenable
2. Pre-Pathogenic environment;
Phase; 3. Stage of Stage 3: decided the fate of the disease
Subclinical disease; 4. outcome as recover, disability, or death (as this
Stage of clinical point, the illness is not necessarily clinically
disease; 5. Stage of detectable);
recovery, disability Stage 4: characterized by the onset of
or death symptoms (some people may never progress to
clinically apparent symptoms, some result in
illness ranging from mild to fatal); Stage 5:
Impairment is deviation from normal function
but does not lead to disability
Primary (prevention of the emergence of risk
factors in population group, i.e. health
Define the 3 Levels of education or immunizations)
Prevention and give Secondary (Actions to halt the progression of
examples for each. disease at its earliest stage, i.e. screenings for
cancer)
Tertiary: (intervention in the late stage of pathogenesis,
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