, Essentials of Nursing Practice Exam 1 Questions & Answers
1.
, Essentials of Nursing Practice Exam 1 Questions & Answers
2. Critical Thinking Specific Knowledge + Expertise and Experience
3. What is the pur- Purpose is to diagnose and treat human responses to actual or potential health
pose of the nurs- problems
ing process?
4. Discuss critical Connect knowledge and theory with day to day practice and reflect on and analyze
thinking skills thoughts, action and knowledge
used in nursing
practice.
5. What are the Assessment, Diagnose, Plan, Implement, Evaluate
steps of the nurs-
ing process?
6. Assessment Organized and ongoing appraisal of a patient's well-being. Comprehensive as-
sessment leads to accurate nursing diagnosis
7. Diagnosis Identifies the actual problem. Ditterentiates into 2 part and 3 part system.
8. Planning the nurse prioritizes a patient's various nursing diagnoses, establishes short-
and long-term goals, chooses outcome indicators, and identifies interventions to
address patient goals.
9. Implementation focuses on initiation of appropriate interventions designed to meet the unique
needs of each patient
10. Evaluate focuses on the patient and the patient's response to nursing interventions and
goal or outcome attainment.
11. Difference be- Medical Diagnosis: Identify and label medical illnesses. Can be Physical or Psy-
tween nursing chological.
diagnosis and
Nursing Diagnosis: Broader in focus-Consider patient's response to medical di-