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NUR 443 EXAM #1 Q&ANursing is defined as a profession because nurses:
a. Perform specific skills
b. Practice autonomy
c. Utilize knowledge from the medical discipline
d. Charge a fee for services rendered - Answer-b. Practice autonomy
. Professional nursing specialty organizations seek to:
A. improve standards of practice.
B. expand nursing roles.
C. improve the welfare of nurses in specialty areas.
D. all of the above. - Answer-D. all of the above.
The use of diagnostic reasoning involves a rigorous approach to clinical practice and
demonstrates that critical thinking cannot be done:
A. logically.
B. haphazardly.
C. independently.
D. systematically. - Answer-B. haphazardly.
The nursing process organizes your approach while delivering nursing care. To provide
the best professional care to patients, nurses need to incorporate nursing process and:
A. decision making.
B. problem solving.
C. intellectual standards.
D. critical thinking skills. - Answer-D. critical thinking skills.
A patient is admitted to the hospital with shortness of breath. As the nurse assesses this
patient, the nurse is using the process of:
A. evaluation.
B. data collection.
C. problem identification.
D. testing a hypothesis. - Answer-B. data collection.
The nursing process organizes your approach to delivering nursing care. To provide
care to your patients, you will need to incorporate nursing process and:
A. decision making.
B. problem solving.
C. interview process.
D. intellectual standards. - Answer-C. interview process.
Concept mapping is one way to:
A. connect concepts to a central subject.
B. relate ideas to patient health problems.
, C. challenge a nurse's thinking about patient needs and problems.
D. graphically display ideas by organizing data.
E. all of the above. - Answer-E. all of the above.
For a student to avoid a data collection error, the student should:
A. assess the patient and, if unsure of the finding, ask a faculty member to assess the
patient.
B. review his or her own comfort level and competency with assessment skills.
C. ask another student to perform the assessment.
D. consider whether the diagnosis should be actual, potential, or risk. - Answer-A.
assess the patient and, if unsure of the finding, ask a faculty member to assess the
patient.
A patient is suffering from shortness of breath. The correct goal statement would be
written as:
A. the patient will be comfortable by the morning.
B. the patient will breath unlabored at 14 to 18 breaths per minute by the end of the
shift.
C. the patient will not complain of breathing problems within the next 8 hours.
D. the patient will have a respiratory rate of 14 to 18 breaths per minute. - Answer-B. the
patient will breath unlabored at 14 to 18 breaths per minute by the end of the shift.
When caring for a patient who has multiple health problems and related medical
diagnoses, nurses can best perform nursing diagnoses and nursing interventions by
developing a:
A. critical pathway.
B. nursing care plan.
C. concept map.
D. diagnostic label. - Answer-C. concept map.
Consultation occurs most often during which phase of the nursing process?
A. Assessment
B. Diagnosis
C. Planning
D. Evaluation - Answer-C. Planning
Nurse-initiated interventions are
A. determined by state Nurse Practice Acts.
B. supervised by the entire health care team.
C. made in concert with the plan of care initiated by the physician.
D. developed after interventions for the recent medical diagnoses are evaluated. -
Answer-A. determined by state Nurse Practice Acts.
You are writing a care plan for a newly admitted patient. Which one of these outcome
statements is written correctly?
A. The patient will eat 80% of all meals.
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