Clinical Decision Making UPDATED ACTUAL Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers
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Clinical Decision Making
Clinical Decision Making UPDATED
ACTUAL Exam Questions and CORRECT
Answers
Critical Thinking - CORRECT ANSWER- The Nurse's ability to:
-Make Meaningful Observations
- Solve Problems
- Decide on a course of action
What are the skills and abilities nurses need to develop critical thinking? ...
Clinical Decision Making UPDATED
ACTUAL Exam Questions and CORRECT
Answers
Critical Thinking - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- The Nurse's ability to:
-Make Meaningful Observations
- Solve Problems
- Decide on a course of action
What are the skills and abilities nurses need to develop critical thinking? - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔- Intellect, creativity, inquiry, reasoning, reflection, and intuition
What are the attitudes nurses need to support critical thinking? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-
Independence, fair-mindedness, aware of self-limits, integrity, perseverance, confidence
Intellect helps nurses do what three things? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- 1. Differentiate
facts from opinions
2. Approach Situation Objectively
3. Clarify Concepts
Nurses also use salient cues to ? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- help cluster or form patterns
needed when identifying nursing diagnoses to guide client care
A salient cue may: - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- - Indicate a negative or positive change in a
client's health status or pattern
- Vary from norms of the client population
- Indicate a developmental delay.
What is creativity? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Creativity may be described as the ability to
find a new solution to a problem that has failed to be addressed through traditional or
conventional approaches
,Creativity is used when nurses? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- individualize client care plans.
Nurses who are creative thinkers: - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- - Possess knowledge about
the problem
- Can assess the problem
- Use knowledge of underlying facts and principles that apply to the problem
- Take risks to come up with creative solutions
the nurse uses _________ or examines objective information in order to clarify and find
solutions to problems - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- inquiry
Inquiry is not simply asking a question or requesting information, but using __________ to
find alternative approaches or solutions. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- questions
What is the careful use of reasoning to improve client care in the clinical setting? -
CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- clinical reasoning
Clinical reasoning requires the nurse to be able to: - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- observe a
client's behavior, analyze the meaning, and determine an immediate course of action
When using clinical reasoning, the nurse learns to determine if information is: - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔- fact, inference, judgement, or opinion
What is something that can be verified?
e.g., oxygen level can be measured through pulse oximetry - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Fact
What is a conclusion based on fact?
e.g., the client whose oxygen level is below 92 is in respiratory distress. - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔- Inference
, What is a type of opinion based on an analysis of information?
e.g., it is harmful for a client to remain in respiratory distress. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-
Judgement
What are Beliefs formed over time that may or may not be based in fact?
e.g., nursing interventions to improve gas exchange in a client with respiratory distress
include placing the client in the Fowler or semi-Fowler position. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-
Opinion
What are four steps that nurses can take to improve clinical reasoning include? - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔- 1. Fine tune observation and assessment skills using all of the senses
2. Learn common cues to provide information quickly
3. Use reflective thinking to evaluate the outcome of actions
4. Build awareness of faulty reasoning.
Reflection is looking back at a situation to determine: - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- -What
worked
-What did not work
-What could have been done better.
a "gut reaction," is a form of ? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- intuition
The outcome of the clinical decision-making process is _________________ . This is when
the nurse provides the best appropriate care to a client - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- clinical
judgement
Clinical judgement is ____________ and brings all of the elements of critical thinking and
decision making together so that the nurse applies nursing knowledge, skills, and attitudes
toward the best possible outcomes for client. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- dynamic
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