NURS 201 Exam 1 Questions
with Correct Answers 2024/2025
1. Critical thinking - ANS ✔essential component of professional
accountability and quality nursing care
2. An RN reviews manual of how to give a specific injection. What
kind of critical thinking is nurse using? - ANS ✔Basic critical
thinking
3. Nursing Progress - ANS ✔Assess -> Diagnose -> Plan -> Implement -
> Evaluate
ADPIE
4. Nursing process stays the same, but the ____________ varies - ANS
✔application
5. NP step 1: Assessment involves - ANS ✔Observation & collection of
information
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, Data Collection
Primary data-
secondary data-
subjective data-
6. objective data- - ANS ✔primary- what patient tells you
secondary- other people tell you
subjective- symptoms, can’t see but they can feel
objective- signs, those you can see
7. Data Clustering is - ANS ✔A set of SIGNS OR SYMPTOMS gathered
during assessment
8. Clinical Criterion - ANS ✔an objective or subjective sign, symptom,
or risk factor that, when analysed with other criteria, leads to a
diagnostic conclusion
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, Unstable patient
9. Stable patient - ANS ✔unstable- initial patient assessment CANNOT
be delegated to LPN or LVN
stable- routine assessment of vital signs of a patient in stable condition and
may be delegated to LVN or LPN
NP Step 2: Diagnosis
10. (Problem identification) - ANS ✔NANDA diagnosis- specific
detailed diagnosis
Clinical judgement about individual, family, or community responses to
actual or potential problems
11. Nursing Diagnosis - ANS ✔Provides a precise statement of
the client’s problem that gives RNs a common language and
understanding of the client's needs
12. Actual diagnosis - ANS ✔Describe response to a current need,
problem, or life process
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, Problem focused diagnosis
13. Risk diagnosis - ANS ✔Identify specific potential problems of
individuals vulnerable to developing complications
risk for
14. Health promotion - ANS ✔Judgement based on expression of
desire to change
readiness for
READINESS TO INCREASE WELL BEING
15. Medical Diagnosis vs. Nursing Problem ID - ANS ✔Medical-
-Focuses on illness, injury, or disease processes
-remains constant until a cure is affected
Nursing-
-Focuses on the client’s responses to actual or potential health/life
problems
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