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Nurs 175 Midterm Practice Exam – 180 Correctly
Answered Questions / Nurs 175 Midterm Practice
Questions with 100% Correct Answers
What is better for the Braden scale? A high score or a low
score? - ...ANSWER...✓✓ Higher the better
What are the 6 sections of the Braden scale? -
...ANSWER...✓✓ Sensory perception, Moisture, activity,
mobility, nutrition, friction and shear
What are the categories of Gordon's functional health
pattern? (11) - ...ANSWER...✓✓ Health perception,
nutrition/metabolic, elimination, activity/exercise,
Sleep/Rest, self perception, role/responsibility,
sexuality/reproductive, coping/stress tolerance,
values/beliefs
What are the 5 categories for maslows heirarchy of
needs? - ...ANSWER...✓✓ 1-physiological, 2-
safety/security, 3- social needs, 4- esteem needs, 5- self
actualization
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Example of physiological needs - ...ANSWER...✓✓
Breathing, food, water, sex, sleep, homeostasis, excretion
safety and security needs - ...ANSWER...✓✓ Security of
body, employment, resources, morality, the family, health,
property. Ex; a child needs a blanket to feel safe before
sleeping
Social needs (love & belonging) - ...ANSWER...✓✓
Friendship, family, sexual intimacy
Esteem Needs (Maslow) - ...ANSWER...✓✓ need for self-
esteem, achievement, competence, and independence;
need for recognition and respect from others
Self-actualization (Maslow) - ...ANSWER...✓✓ morality,
creativity, spontaneity, problem solving, lack of prejudice,
acceptance of facts
What are the 5 steps of the nursing process? -
...ANSWER...✓✓ assessment, nursing diagnosis, planning,
implementation, evaluation
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What are the 4 types of assessment? - ...ANSWER...✓✓
initial comprehensive, ongoing/partial, focused/problem-
oriented, emergency
What is the definition of critical thinking? -
...ANSWER...✓✓ the art of analyzing and evaluating
thinking with a view to improve it. Self-directed, self-
disciplined, self-monitored and self-corrective thinking.
What is the definition of clinical reasoning? -
...ANSWER...✓✓ The ability to integrate and apply
different types of knowledge, weigh evidence critically
and reflect upon the process used to arrive at a
diagnoses
What is the definition of clinical nurse judgement? -
...ANSWER...✓✓ The accumulation of knowledge and
skills over time, which contributes to the nurses ability to
Analyze and synthesize the patients presentation,
objective and subjective data, and then provide evidence
based nursing interventions to improve patient outcomes
; clinical decision making
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What are the 3 parts of a nursing diagnoses? -
...ANSWER...✓✓ 1-NANDA LABEL- "Acute pain" (pain,
acute)
2. Etiology- (likely cause); related to diagnoses of arthritis
3. Manifestations (signs and symptoms): as evidenced by
patients verbalization of pain and observed difficulty with
turning self in bed
What is the definition of a nursing diagnosis? -
...ANSWER...✓✓ It describes the characteristics of the
human response identified
The main focus is the human response to actual or
potential health problems or quality of life issues
* the authority to make definitive diagnoses falls within
the nursing domain
Medical diagnoses - ...ANSWER...✓✓ Diagnosed on the
illness itself, and the proper meds needed to the
procedure
Can you make up a nursing diagnoses? - ...ANSWER...✓✓
No, it has to be a NANDA diagnoses (Label, then nanda
label, then evidence)
Nurs 175 Midterm Practice Exam – 180 Correctly
Answered Questions / Nurs 175 Midterm Practice
Questions with 100% Correct Answers
What is better for the Braden scale? A high score or a low
score? - ...ANSWER...✓✓ Higher the better
What are the 6 sections of the Braden scale? -
...ANSWER...✓✓ Sensory perception, Moisture, activity,
mobility, nutrition, friction and shear
What are the categories of Gordon's functional health
pattern? (11) - ...ANSWER...✓✓ Health perception,
nutrition/metabolic, elimination, activity/exercise,
Sleep/Rest, self perception, role/responsibility,
sexuality/reproductive, coping/stress tolerance,
values/beliefs
What are the 5 categories for maslows heirarchy of
needs? - ...ANSWER...✓✓ 1-physiological, 2-
safety/security, 3- social needs, 4- esteem needs, 5- self
actualization
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Example of physiological needs - ...ANSWER...✓✓
Breathing, food, water, sex, sleep, homeostasis, excretion
safety and security needs - ...ANSWER...✓✓ Security of
body, employment, resources, morality, the family, health,
property. Ex; a child needs a blanket to feel safe before
sleeping
Social needs (love & belonging) - ...ANSWER...✓✓
Friendship, family, sexual intimacy
Esteem Needs (Maslow) - ...ANSWER...✓✓ need for self-
esteem, achievement, competence, and independence;
need for recognition and respect from others
Self-actualization (Maslow) - ...ANSWER...✓✓ morality,
creativity, spontaneity, problem solving, lack of prejudice,
acceptance of facts
What are the 5 steps of the nursing process? -
...ANSWER...✓✓ assessment, nursing diagnosis, planning,
implementation, evaluation
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What are the 4 types of assessment? - ...ANSWER...✓✓
initial comprehensive, ongoing/partial, focused/problem-
oriented, emergency
What is the definition of critical thinking? -
...ANSWER...✓✓ the art of analyzing and evaluating
thinking with a view to improve it. Self-directed, self-
disciplined, self-monitored and self-corrective thinking.
What is the definition of clinical reasoning? -
...ANSWER...✓✓ The ability to integrate and apply
different types of knowledge, weigh evidence critically
and reflect upon the process used to arrive at a
diagnoses
What is the definition of clinical nurse judgement? -
...ANSWER...✓✓ The accumulation of knowledge and
skills over time, which contributes to the nurses ability to
Analyze and synthesize the patients presentation,
objective and subjective data, and then provide evidence
based nursing interventions to improve patient outcomes
; clinical decision making
, 4|Page
What are the 3 parts of a nursing diagnoses? -
...ANSWER...✓✓ 1-NANDA LABEL- "Acute pain" (pain,
acute)
2. Etiology- (likely cause); related to diagnoses of arthritis
3. Manifestations (signs and symptoms): as evidenced by
patients verbalization of pain and observed difficulty with
turning self in bed
What is the definition of a nursing diagnosis? -
...ANSWER...✓✓ It describes the characteristics of the
human response identified
The main focus is the human response to actual or
potential health problems or quality of life issues
* the authority to make definitive diagnoses falls within
the nursing domain
Medical diagnoses - ...ANSWER...✓✓ Diagnosed on the
illness itself, and the proper meds needed to the
procedure
Can you make up a nursing diagnoses? - ...ANSWER...✓✓
No, it has to be a NANDA diagnoses (Label, then nanda
label, then evidence)
