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NSG 100 FINAL EXAM QUESTIONS WITH LATEST
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Define clinical decision making
Ans: A process nurses use to evaluate and select the best actions to meet
desired goals
What is the deliberate nonlinear process of collecting, interpreting, analyzing,
drawing conclusions about, presenting, and evaluating information that is both
factual and belief-based?
Ans: Critical Thinking
What are the six components within critical thinking?
Ans: Creativity, Intellect, Inquiry, Intuition, Reflection, Reasoning
What is the difference b/w deductive and inductive reasoning?
Ans: Deductive: Top Down, starts with general ideas
Inductive: Bottom Up, starts with specific ideas
What is clinical reasoning?
Ans: the thinking process by which a nurse reaches a clinical judgement
What is a clinical judgement about a person or family situation or response to a
health concern or life process?
Ans: Nursing Diagnosis
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In which step of Tanner's clinical judgment model does one use logical reasoning
to gain understanding about a situation and determine the appropriate action?
Ans: Interpreting
What is the deliberate and systematic collection of data about a client's health
status to identify concerns and needs that can be managed by nursing care?
Ans: Assessment
What kind of assessment may be performed on an initial assessment to gather
information about a specific problem?
Ans: Focused assessment
In data collection, PCPs and medical records are considered what kind of source?
Ans: Secondary source
What are the steps in analyzing assessment data?
Ans: 1. Comparing data to identify significant cues
2. Clustering cues to identify a hypothesis
3. Identifying gaps or inconsistencies
What is the purpose of assessment?
Ans: To establish a database about the patient's perceived needs,health
problems, and responses to these problems.
A client's health history is considered subjective or objective data?
Ans: Subjective
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What is a set of signs or symptoms gathered during assessment that you group
together in a logical way and contain defining characteristics that are observable
and verifiable?
Ans: Data cluster
What do you do if two nursing diagnoses are found?
Ans: Reevaluate and prioritize
The related to (r/t) factor is also considered the
Ans: The condition or etiological factor
"Impaired physical mobility related to prescribed movement restrictions" exhibits
what kind of etiology?
Ans: Treatment
"Acute pain related to uterine contractions" exhibits what kind of etiology?
Ans: Pathophysiological
What are the four types of nursing diagnoses?
Ans: Actual: Has defining characteristics
Risk: Human responses to life processes that may develop
Health promotion: Desire to enhance wellbeing
Syndrome: Specific cluster that occur together
What is the difference between a goal and an expected outcome?
© 2025/ 2026 | ® All rights reserved
NSG 100 FINAL EXAM QUESTIONS WITH LATEST
ACCURATE SOLUTIONS/GRADE A+ ASSURED
Questions and Correct Answers/ Latest Update /
Already Graded
Define clinical decision making
Ans: A process nurses use to evaluate and select the best actions to meet
desired goals
What is the deliberate nonlinear process of collecting, interpreting, analyzing,
drawing conclusions about, presenting, and evaluating information that is both
factual and belief-based?
Ans: Critical Thinking
What are the six components within critical thinking?
Ans: Creativity, Intellect, Inquiry, Intuition, Reflection, Reasoning
What is the difference b/w deductive and inductive reasoning?
Ans: Deductive: Top Down, starts with general ideas
Inductive: Bottom Up, starts with specific ideas
What is clinical reasoning?
Ans: the thinking process by which a nurse reaches a clinical judgement
What is a clinical judgement about a person or family situation or response to a
health concern or life process?
Ans: Nursing Diagnosis
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In which step of Tanner's clinical judgment model does one use logical reasoning
to gain understanding about a situation and determine the appropriate action?
Ans: Interpreting
What is the deliberate and systematic collection of data about a client's health
status to identify concerns and needs that can be managed by nursing care?
Ans: Assessment
What kind of assessment may be performed on an initial assessment to gather
information about a specific problem?
Ans: Focused assessment
In data collection, PCPs and medical records are considered what kind of source?
Ans: Secondary source
What are the steps in analyzing assessment data?
Ans: 1. Comparing data to identify significant cues
2. Clustering cues to identify a hypothesis
3. Identifying gaps or inconsistencies
What is the purpose of assessment?
Ans: To establish a database about the patient's perceived needs,health
problems, and responses to these problems.
A client's health history is considered subjective or objective data?
Ans: Subjective
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What is a set of signs or symptoms gathered during assessment that you group
together in a logical way and contain defining characteristics that are observable
and verifiable?
Ans: Data cluster
What do you do if two nursing diagnoses are found?
Ans: Reevaluate and prioritize
The related to (r/t) factor is also considered the
Ans: The condition or etiological factor
"Impaired physical mobility related to prescribed movement restrictions" exhibits
what kind of etiology?
Ans: Treatment
"Acute pain related to uterine contractions" exhibits what kind of etiology?
Ans: Pathophysiological
What are the four types of nursing diagnoses?
Ans: Actual: Has defining characteristics
Risk: Human responses to life processes that may develop
Health promotion: Desire to enhance wellbeing
Syndrome: Specific cluster that occur together
What is the difference between a goal and an expected outcome?
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