NURS 5000 EXAM 1 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Define Nursing - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅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? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Help public understand our value, and helps differentiate
activities of nursing from those of other help care professionals.
Define critical thinking. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅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. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Recognize gaps in own
knowledge.
Objectively gather information.
Separate relevant from irrelevant.
Give examples of critical thinking attitudes. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅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? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅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? - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅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. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅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. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅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. - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅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. -
CORRECT ANSWER✅✅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. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅nursing diagnosis
What are collaborative problems?
,How do nurses manage them? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅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". - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅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 - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅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. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Possible
What are the components of a NANDA-I nursing diagnosis? Describe each. (5) - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅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)
- CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Problem- r/t- etiology- AEB/AMB- signs/symptoms
AEB=
AMB=
R/t= - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅as evidence by
as manifested by
related to
True or false: discharge planning starts at the end of a hospital visit. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅False.
Discharge planning begins at admission and the initial assessment.
Goal of Nursing Care: secondary care example. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅health restoration
IOM Six quality and safety competencies for nurses. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅1. patient centered care
2. teamwork/collaboration
3. evidence-based practice
4. quality improvement
5. safety
6. informatics
Types of Knowing needed for nursing.
Define Nursing - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅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? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Help public understand our value, and helps differentiate
activities of nursing from those of other help care professionals.
Define critical thinking. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅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. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Recognize gaps in own
knowledge.
Objectively gather information.
Separate relevant from irrelevant.
Give examples of critical thinking attitudes. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅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? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅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? - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅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. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅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. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅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. - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅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. -
CORRECT ANSWER✅✅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. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅nursing diagnosis
What are collaborative problems?
,How do nurses manage them? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅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". - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅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 - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅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. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Possible
What are the components of a NANDA-I nursing diagnosis? Describe each. (5) - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅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)
- CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Problem- r/t- etiology- AEB/AMB- signs/symptoms
AEB=
AMB=
R/t= - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅as evidence by
as manifested by
related to
True or false: discharge planning starts at the end of a hospital visit. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅False.
Discharge planning begins at admission and the initial assessment.
Goal of Nursing Care: secondary care example. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅health restoration
IOM Six quality and safety competencies for nurses. - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅1. patient centered care
2. teamwork/collaboration
3. evidence-based practice
4. quality improvement
5. safety
6. informatics
Types of Knowing needed for nursing.
