NURS 5000 Exam 1 Questions and Answers Graded A+
Define Nursing - Answers the protection, promotion, and optimization of health and abilities,
prevention of illness and injury, alleviation of suffering through the diagnosis and treatment of
human response, and advocacy in the care of individuals, families, communities, and
populations
Why define Nursing? - Answers Help public understand our value, and helps differentiate
activities of nursing from those of other help care professionals.
Define critical thinking. - Answers Combination of reasoned thinking, openness to altering,
ability to reflect, desire to fin the truth.
(Likely to have more than 1 answer)
What are some skills you must have to critically think. - Answers Recognize gaps in own
knowledge.
Objectively gather information.
Separate relevant from irrelevant.
Give examples of critical thinking attitudes. - Answers intellectual autonomy, curiosity, humility,
courage, fair-mindedness, integrity, confidence in reasoning.
Define the Nursing Process.
- What are characteristics of it?
- What are the 6 phases? - Answers Systematic, problem-solving that guides nursing practice.
- goal directed, client centered, think and do, cyclical process.
1. assessment
2. analysis/diagnosis
3. planning interventions
4. planning outcomes
5. implementation
6. evaluation
What are the 3 main difference between medical diagnoses and nursing diagnoses? - Answers 1.
Cant predict a nursing diagnosis. Patients with the same medical diagnosis may have a
,different nursing diagnosis.
2. Medical diagnoses can have many nursing diagnosis within them.
3. Medical diagnosis stays the same as long as the pathology remains. Nursing assessments
are ever changing as patients response to health changes.
Define Nursing Diagnosis. - Answers A statement of health status that a nurse can identify,
prevent or treat INDEPENDENTLY.
(A clinical judgement about experiences to actual or potential health problems.)
True or False: If you can prevent the complication with independent nursing intervention alone,
its not a collaborative problem. - Answers true
State whether the following represents a nursing diagnosis, medical diagnosis or collaborative
problem.
- After giving birth, all women are at risk for developing postpartum hemorrhage. - Answers
collaborative problem
State whether the following represents a nursing diagnosis, medical diagnosis or collaborative
problem.
- A patient has signs and symptoms of appendicitis which must be treated with surgery and
antibiotics. - Answers medical diagnosis
State whether the following represents a nursing diagnosis, medical diagnosis or collaborative
problem.
- A client is at risk for constipation because he postpones defecation and also does not
consume enough dietary fiber and fluids. The problem can be prevented by patient teaching
which the nurse is licensed to do. - Answers nursing diagnosis
What are collaborative problems?
How do nurses manage them? - Answers Certain physiologic complications that nurses monitor
to detect onset or change in status. A collaborative problem is always a potential problem.
Using physician prescribed and nurse prescribed interventions to minimize the complications of
the events.
Give a rationale for why "Collaborative problems are determined by the medical diagnosis or
pathology". - Answers All patients who have a certain disease or medical treatment are at risk
,for developing the same complications.
Nursing Diagnosis Types. Define each.
Actual
Potential (risk)
Possible
Wellness - Answers Actual: signs/symptoms and cues currently present.
Potential: have all the information, but hasn't happened yet.
Possible: think it might be going on.
Wellness: transition to a greater level of wellness.
Which Nursing Diagnosis Type: Actual, Potential (risk), Possible, Wellness
- Alicia seems anxious but you are not sure whether she actually is. You would need to have
more data in order to diagnose or rule out a diagnosis of Anxiety. - Answers Possible
What are the components of a NANDA-I nursing diagnosis? Describe each. (5) - Answers
Diagnostic Label: title or name
Definition explains the meaning of label
Defining Characteristics: signs/symptoms
Related factors: cues, conditions, or circumstances that cause, influence or contribute or in
some way show a patterned relationship with the problem.
Risk factors: increase the vulnerability to a health problem.
What is the order of the parts when writing a nursing diagnoses. (How do you write a nursing
diagnosis) - Answers Problem- r/t- etiology- AEB/AMB- signs/symptoms
AEB=
AMB=
, R/t= - Answers as evidence by
as manifested by
related to
True or false: discharge planning starts at the end of a hospital visit. - Answers False. Discharge
planning begins at admission and the initial assessment.
Goal of Nursing Care: secondary care example. - Answers health restoration
IOM Six quality and safety competencies for nurses. - Answers 1. patient centered care
2. teamwork/collaboration
3. evidence-based practice
4. quality improvement
5. safety
6. informatics
Types of Knowing needed for nursing.
Knowing Why, information, facts, principles, evidence based theories in nursing and related
disciplines. Use to choose interventions, predict responses to interventions. - Answers
Theoretical Knowledge
Theoretical: "Knowing why", Information, facts, principles, evidence-based theories in nursing
and related disciplines. Includes research findings and rationally constructed explanations of
phenomena. You will use it to describe your patients, understand their health status, explain
your reasoning for choosing interventions, and predict patient responses to interventions and
treatments.
Types of Knowing needed for nursing.
"Knowledge of obligation, right and wrong, information about moral principles" - Answers Ethical
Knowledge
Types of Knowing needed for nursing.
Define Nursing - Answers the protection, promotion, and optimization of health and abilities,
prevention of illness and injury, alleviation of suffering through the diagnosis and treatment of
human response, and advocacy in the care of individuals, families, communities, and
populations
Why define Nursing? - Answers Help public understand our value, and helps differentiate
activities of nursing from those of other help care professionals.
Define critical thinking. - Answers Combination of reasoned thinking, openness to altering,
ability to reflect, desire to fin the truth.
(Likely to have more than 1 answer)
What are some skills you must have to critically think. - Answers Recognize gaps in own
knowledge.
Objectively gather information.
Separate relevant from irrelevant.
Give examples of critical thinking attitudes. - Answers intellectual autonomy, curiosity, humility,
courage, fair-mindedness, integrity, confidence in reasoning.
Define the Nursing Process.
- What are characteristics of it?
- What are the 6 phases? - Answers Systematic, problem-solving that guides nursing practice.
- goal directed, client centered, think and do, cyclical process.
1. assessment
2. analysis/diagnosis
3. planning interventions
4. planning outcomes
5. implementation
6. evaluation
What are the 3 main difference between medical diagnoses and nursing diagnoses? - Answers 1.
Cant predict a nursing diagnosis. Patients with the same medical diagnosis may have a
,different nursing diagnosis.
2. Medical diagnoses can have many nursing diagnosis within them.
3. Medical diagnosis stays the same as long as the pathology remains. Nursing assessments
are ever changing as patients response to health changes.
Define Nursing Diagnosis. - Answers A statement of health status that a nurse can identify,
prevent or treat INDEPENDENTLY.
(A clinical judgement about experiences to actual or potential health problems.)
True or False: If you can prevent the complication with independent nursing intervention alone,
its not a collaborative problem. - Answers true
State whether the following represents a nursing diagnosis, medical diagnosis or collaborative
problem.
- After giving birth, all women are at risk for developing postpartum hemorrhage. - Answers
collaborative problem
State whether the following represents a nursing diagnosis, medical diagnosis or collaborative
problem.
- A patient has signs and symptoms of appendicitis which must be treated with surgery and
antibiotics. - Answers medical diagnosis
State whether the following represents a nursing diagnosis, medical diagnosis or collaborative
problem.
- A client is at risk for constipation because he postpones defecation and also does not
consume enough dietary fiber and fluids. The problem can be prevented by patient teaching
which the nurse is licensed to do. - Answers nursing diagnosis
What are collaborative problems?
How do nurses manage them? - Answers Certain physiologic complications that nurses monitor
to detect onset or change in status. A collaborative problem is always a potential problem.
Using physician prescribed and nurse prescribed interventions to minimize the complications of
the events.
Give a rationale for why "Collaborative problems are determined by the medical diagnosis or
pathology". - Answers All patients who have a certain disease or medical treatment are at risk
,for developing the same complications.
Nursing Diagnosis Types. Define each.
Actual
Potential (risk)
Possible
Wellness - Answers Actual: signs/symptoms and cues currently present.
Potential: have all the information, but hasn't happened yet.
Possible: think it might be going on.
Wellness: transition to a greater level of wellness.
Which Nursing Diagnosis Type: Actual, Potential (risk), Possible, Wellness
- Alicia seems anxious but you are not sure whether she actually is. You would need to have
more data in order to diagnose or rule out a diagnosis of Anxiety. - Answers Possible
What are the components of a NANDA-I nursing diagnosis? Describe each. (5) - Answers
Diagnostic Label: title or name
Definition explains the meaning of label
Defining Characteristics: signs/symptoms
Related factors: cues, conditions, or circumstances that cause, influence or contribute or in
some way show a patterned relationship with the problem.
Risk factors: increase the vulnerability to a health problem.
What is the order of the parts when writing a nursing diagnoses. (How do you write a nursing
diagnosis) - Answers Problem- r/t- etiology- AEB/AMB- signs/symptoms
AEB=
AMB=
, R/t= - Answers as evidence by
as manifested by
related to
True or false: discharge planning starts at the end of a hospital visit. - Answers False. Discharge
planning begins at admission and the initial assessment.
Goal of Nursing Care: secondary care example. - Answers health restoration
IOM Six quality and safety competencies for nurses. - Answers 1. patient centered care
2. teamwork/collaboration
3. evidence-based practice
4. quality improvement
5. safety
6. informatics
Types of Knowing needed for nursing.
Knowing Why, information, facts, principles, evidence based theories in nursing and related
disciplines. Use to choose interventions, predict responses to interventions. - Answers
Theoretical Knowledge
Theoretical: "Knowing why", Information, facts, principles, evidence-based theories in nursing
and related disciplines. Includes research findings and rationally constructed explanations of
phenomena. You will use it to describe your patients, understand their health status, explain
your reasoning for choosing interventions, and predict patient responses to interventions and
treatments.
Types of Knowing needed for nursing.
"Knowledge of obligation, right and wrong, information about moral principles" - Answers Ethical
Knowledge
Types of Knowing needed for nursing.
