NSG 241 Final Exam Questions with 100% Correct
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What are the roles and functions of a nurse?
Provides holistic care (physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, and social self)
Promotes healing
Prevents injury or illness
Is an advocate
Collaborates with all members of the health care team
what are the professional roles of nursing?
Clinical/direct care
Leadership and collaborative practice
Improving quality and developing practice
Developing self and others
Leader
Manager
Researcher
Collaborator
Delegator
Change agent
Care provider
Educator
Advocate
What is Maslow's hierarchy of needs?
Psychological and physiological factors that affect each person's Physical and Mental Health.
Lower-level needs (food, oxygen, water, elimination, temperature control, sex, movement, rest,
and comfort) must be met before higher levels (safety/security, love/belonging, self-esteem,
,and self-actualization) are addressed
Allows nurses to plan to care of patients by addressing their needs on the basis of priorities
SOAP notes stand for
S-subjective data
What the patient or others tell you?
O-objective data
What are the results of the physical examination, relevant vital signs, or other tests?
A- assessment
What is the patient's current status?
P-plan
What interventions are necessary?
I-actual interventions
What treatments did the nurse provide?
E-evaluations
What are the patient outcomes after each intervention?
R-revision
Does the plan stay the same? What changes are needed to the care plan?
What are hand off reports?
The real-time process of passing patient-specific information from one caregiver to another or
among interdisciplinary team members to ensure continuity of care and patient safety.
Can be oral, recorded, written, or printed from the EHR
Transitioning a pt from one type of care to another (acute care-long term, inpatient to
outpatient) involves risks due to a lack of uniformity in the hand off process and inadequate
training on how to communicate during the transfer
Accurate, timely, important information
What is SBAR?
, Used by the US Navy
S-situation: what is happening at the current time?
B-background: what are the circumstances leading up to this situation?
A-assessment: what does the nurse think the problem is?
R-recommendation: what should we do to correct the problem?
what are nursing diagnoses?
Nursing Diagnosis- is a judgment based on a comprehensive nursing assessment that identifies
a problem, potential problem or opportunity for improvement
What is the Problem-Focused (3 part diagnosis) PES?
Problem (diagnostic label), etiology (related/risk factors), Symptoms (Defining characteristics)
(PROBLEM) related to (ETIOLOGY) as evidenced by (SYMPTOMS)
What is the Risk for 2 part diagnosis?
Human responses to health conditions of life processes that MAY develop in a vulnerable
individual, family, or community
This is a POTENTIAL problem, therefore will not have symptoms
What is the Health Promotion 2 part diagnosis?
Clinical judgment of motivation, desire and readiness to increase well-being and actualize
human health potential
Focuses on being as healthy as possible
Should be positive (not negative-example preventing disease or problem)
what are short term goals?
SMART Goals that are achievable in less than a week
what are long term goals?
SMART Goals that take weeks to months to achieve
what are the different types of physical assessments?
Answers
What are the roles and functions of a nurse?
Provides holistic care (physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, and social self)
Promotes healing
Prevents injury or illness
Is an advocate
Collaborates with all members of the health care team
what are the professional roles of nursing?
Clinical/direct care
Leadership and collaborative practice
Improving quality and developing practice
Developing self and others
Leader
Manager
Researcher
Collaborator
Delegator
Change agent
Care provider
Educator
Advocate
What is Maslow's hierarchy of needs?
Psychological and physiological factors that affect each person's Physical and Mental Health.
Lower-level needs (food, oxygen, water, elimination, temperature control, sex, movement, rest,
and comfort) must be met before higher levels (safety/security, love/belonging, self-esteem,
,and self-actualization) are addressed
Allows nurses to plan to care of patients by addressing their needs on the basis of priorities
SOAP notes stand for
S-subjective data
What the patient or others tell you?
O-objective data
What are the results of the physical examination, relevant vital signs, or other tests?
A- assessment
What is the patient's current status?
P-plan
What interventions are necessary?
I-actual interventions
What treatments did the nurse provide?
E-evaluations
What are the patient outcomes after each intervention?
R-revision
Does the plan stay the same? What changes are needed to the care plan?
What are hand off reports?
The real-time process of passing patient-specific information from one caregiver to another or
among interdisciplinary team members to ensure continuity of care and patient safety.
Can be oral, recorded, written, or printed from the EHR
Transitioning a pt from one type of care to another (acute care-long term, inpatient to
outpatient) involves risks due to a lack of uniformity in the hand off process and inadequate
training on how to communicate during the transfer
Accurate, timely, important information
What is SBAR?
, Used by the US Navy
S-situation: what is happening at the current time?
B-background: what are the circumstances leading up to this situation?
A-assessment: what does the nurse think the problem is?
R-recommendation: what should we do to correct the problem?
what are nursing diagnoses?
Nursing Diagnosis- is a judgment based on a comprehensive nursing assessment that identifies
a problem, potential problem or opportunity for improvement
What is the Problem-Focused (3 part diagnosis) PES?
Problem (diagnostic label), etiology (related/risk factors), Symptoms (Defining characteristics)
(PROBLEM) related to (ETIOLOGY) as evidenced by (SYMPTOMS)
What is the Risk for 2 part diagnosis?
Human responses to health conditions of life processes that MAY develop in a vulnerable
individual, family, or community
This is a POTENTIAL problem, therefore will not have symptoms
What is the Health Promotion 2 part diagnosis?
Clinical judgment of motivation, desire and readiness to increase well-being and actualize
human health potential
Focuses on being as healthy as possible
Should be positive (not negative-example preventing disease or problem)
what are short term goals?
SMART Goals that are achievable in less than a week
what are long term goals?
SMART Goals that take weeks to months to achieve
what are the different types of physical assessments?
