Fundamentals of Nursing - Exam 1 (VUSN) Study Guide with Complete Solutions
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Fundamentals Of Nursing
Fundamentals of Nursing - Exam 1 (VUSN)
Study Guide with Complete Solutions
Critical Thinking - Answer️️ -An active, organized, cognitive process
used to carefully examine one's thinking and the thinking of others. It is
committed to thinking clearly, precisely, and accurately and to act on...
Vanderbilt University School of Nursing
Fundamentals of Nursing - Exam 1 (VUSN)
Study Guide with Complete Solutions
Critical Thinking - Answer✔️✔️-An active, organized, cognitive process
used to carefully examine one's thinking and the thinking of others. It is
committed to thinking clearly, precisely, and accurately and to act on what
you know about a situation.
Critical Thinking in Nursing - Answer✔️✔️-Includes:
Problem solving
Decision making
Advocating
The Nursing Process - Answer✔️✔️-It is a decision making process to
organize and deliver client care, make critical judgments - prioritize care,
and promote individualization of client care.
The nursing process is pivotal to nursing for providing patient care that is
safe and accurate.
It is a series of actions marked by gradual changes that lead toward a
particular result - problem solving and that follows a sequence toward a
goal
Vanderbilt University School of Nursing
Transmission
Entry Portals
Host
Contact based transmission - Answer✔️✔️-MRSA, C. difficile, RSV,
Impetigo, Scabies, Lice
Droplet based transmission - Answer✔️✔️-Strep pharyngitis, pertussis,
rubella, bacterial meningitis
Airborne based transmission - Answer✔️✔️-Measles and TB
False low BP - Answer✔️✔️-Cuff too wide
Arm above heart level
False high BP - Answer✔️✔️-Cuff too narrow
Arm below heart level
Cuff/stethoscope placed over clothing
Cuff too loose
Repeated BP too soon
7 Dimensions of Pain - Answer✔️✔️-Location
Quality
Quantity
Timing/Onset
3
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