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1. After completing an initial assessment of a patient, the nurse has charted that his respirations are eupneic and hi
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s pulse is 58 beats per minute. These types of data would be:
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a. Objective.


b. Reflective.


c. Subjective.


d. Introspective.


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Objective data are what the health professional observes by inspecting, percussing, palpating, and auscultating dur
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ing the physical examination. Subjective data is what the person says about him or herself during history taking.
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The terms reflective and introspective are not used to describe data.
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Subjective data are what the person says about him or herself during history taking. Objective data are what the healt
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h professional observes by inspecting, percussing, palpating, and auscultating during the physical examin
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ation. The terms reflective and introspective are not used to describe data.
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3. The patients record, laboratory studies, objective data, and subjective data combine to form the:
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Together with the patients record and laboratory studies, the objective and subjective data form the data base. Th
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e other items are not part of the patients record, laboratory studies, or data.
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DIF: Cognitive Level: Remembering (Knowledge)
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4. When listening to a patients breath sounds, the nurse is unsure of a sound that is heard. The nurses next ac
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tion should be to:
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c. Validate the data by asking a coworker to listen to the breath sounds.
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d. Assess again in 20 minutes to note whether the sound is still present.
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When unsure of a sound heard while listening to a patients breath sounds, the nurse validates the data to ensure accur
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acy. If the nurse has less experience in an area, then he or she asks an expert to listen.
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5. The nurse is conducting a class for new graduate nurses. During the teaching session, the nurse should kee
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p in mind that novice nurses, without a background of skills and experience from which to draw, are more like
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ly to make their decisions using:
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a. Intuition.


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Novice nurses operate from a set of defined, structured rules. The expert practitioner uses intuitive links. DIF:
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6. Expert nurses learn to attend to a pattern of assessment data and act without consciously labeling it. These re
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Intuition is characterized by pattern recognitionexpert nurses learn to attend to a pattern of assessment data and a
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ct without consciously labeling it. The other options are not correct.
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7. The nurse is reviewing information about evidence-
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c. EBP emphasizes the use of best evidence with the clinicians experience.
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d. The patients own preferences are not important with EBP.
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EBP is a systematic approach to practice that emphasizes the use of best evidence in combination with the cli
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nicians experience, as well as patient preferences and values, when making decisions about care and treatme
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nt. EBP is more than simply using the best practice techniques to treat patients, and questioning tradition is
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8. The nurse is conducting a class on priority setting for a group of new graduate nurses. Which is an example of
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a first-level priority problem?
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b. Newly diagnosed patient with diabetes who needs diabetic teaching
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