NUR 155 Exam 1
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1. critical thinking: intentional higher level reasoning;
influenced by knowledge, experience, skills, attitudes, and interpersonal skills
2. independence: thinking for self
3. fair-mindedness: assess all viewpoints
4. insight to egocentricity: biases
5. intellectual humility: knowing limit of one's own knowledge
6. integrity: apply same standards of proof to their own knowledge and beliefs as they apply to the knowledge
and beliefs of others
7. perserverance: find effective solutions to the client and nursing problems
8. confidence: leads to trustworthy conclusions
9. curiosity: mind full of questions
10. diagnostic reasoning: making sense of collected data;
requires critical thinking;
requires creation of diagnostic (working) hypothesis
11. cues
diagnostic (working) hypothesis
data collection
evaluate hypothesis: 4 components of diagnostic reasoning
12. critical analysis: the application of a set of questions to a particular situation or idea to determine essential
information and ideas and discard unimportant information and ideas
13. socratic questioning: technique to look beneath the surface, recognize and examine assumptions, search
for inconsistencies, examine multiple POVs, and differentiate what one knows vs what one believes
14. inductive reasoning: generalizations formed from a set of facts/observations
15. deductive reasoning: reasoning from general premise to the specific conclusion
16. trial and error: least effective problem solving technique;
number of approaches are tried until a solution is found
17. intuition: problem-solving approach that relies on a nurse's inner sense (6th sense)
18. research process: formalized, logical, systematic approach to problem solving
19. nursing process: systematic, rational method of planning and providing individualized nursing care
identify health status and potential health care problems or needs and deliver intervention to meet needs
20. subjective data: symptoms patient says
(type of data?)
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21. objective data: signs nurse observes and measures
(type of data?)
22. primary source: information that comes from the patient
(what type of source?)
23. secondary source: information from the patient's family about the patient
(what type of source?)
24. nursing process- diagnosis: clinical judgement about actual or potential health problems;
describe human response to a problem that requires nursing intervention;
standardized statement about health of patient
25. actual diagnosis: patient problem that is present at the time of the nursing assessment
(what type of diagnosis?)
26. risk diagnosis: conditions that exist for problem to develop
(what type of diagnosis?)
27. health promotion diagnosis: relates to clients' preparedness to implement behaviors to improve their
health condition
(what type of diagnosis?)
28. syndrome diagnosis: clinical judgement to describe a cluster of nursing diagnoses with similar interven-
tions
(what type of diagnosis?)
29. medical diagnoses: clinical judgement by physician to identify specific disease, condition, or pathological
state
30. nursing diagnoses: clinical judgement identifying a client's response to a health state, problem, or
condition
31. nursing diagnosis: activity intolerance
(nursing or medical diagnosis?)
32. medical diagnosis: myocardial infarction
(nursing or medical diagnosis?)
33. actual: acute pain related to surgical incision as evidenced by pain rating 8/10 and pain behaviors (grimacing,
rubbing knee)
(what type of nursing diagnosis?)
34. risk: risk for fall related to diminished lower extremity strength
(what type of nursing diagnosis?)
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35. health promotion: readiness for enhanced nutrition related to blood sugar control, as evidenced by patient
asking questions about diet
(what type of nursing diagnosis?)
36. syndrome diagnosis: post trauma syndrome related to physical abuse, as evidenced by alienation, anger,
anxiety, and depression
(what type of nursing diagnosis?)
37. problem
etiology
signs/symptoms: formulating diagnostic statements (3 part statements)
38. unknown etiology: when cause is not known
39. complex factors: when too many etiologic factors exist
40. planning: phase of nursing process involving decision making and problem solving;
create plan of action to improve the client's health status and/or better cope with their illness
41. initial
ongoing
discharge: types of planning
42. initial planning: nurse performs admission assessment and develops initial comprehensive plan of care
(what type of planning?)
43. ongoing planning: determining whether the patient's health status has changed;
set priorities for the patient's care during the shift;
decide which problems to focus on during the shift;
coordinate nurse activities so that more than one problem can be addressed at each client contact
(what type of planning?)
44. discharge planning: process of anticipating and planning for needs after discharge
(what type of planning?)
45. specific/directly related to diagnosis
measurable
attainable
realistic/reasonable
timed: SMART goals
46. independent intervention: do not need a health care provider's order
(what type of intervention?)
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1. critical thinking: intentional higher level reasoning;
influenced by knowledge, experience, skills, attitudes, and interpersonal skills
2. independence: thinking for self
3. fair-mindedness: assess all viewpoints
4. insight to egocentricity: biases
5. intellectual humility: knowing limit of one's own knowledge
6. integrity: apply same standards of proof to their own knowledge and beliefs as they apply to the knowledge
and beliefs of others
7. perserverance: find effective solutions to the client and nursing problems
8. confidence: leads to trustworthy conclusions
9. curiosity: mind full of questions
10. diagnostic reasoning: making sense of collected data;
requires critical thinking;
requires creation of diagnostic (working) hypothesis
11. cues
diagnostic (working) hypothesis
data collection
evaluate hypothesis: 4 components of diagnostic reasoning
12. critical analysis: the application of a set of questions to a particular situation or idea to determine essential
information and ideas and discard unimportant information and ideas
13. socratic questioning: technique to look beneath the surface, recognize and examine assumptions, search
for inconsistencies, examine multiple POVs, and differentiate what one knows vs what one believes
14. inductive reasoning: generalizations formed from a set of facts/observations
15. deductive reasoning: reasoning from general premise to the specific conclusion
16. trial and error: least effective problem solving technique;
number of approaches are tried until a solution is found
17. intuition: problem-solving approach that relies on a nurse's inner sense (6th sense)
18. research process: formalized, logical, systematic approach to problem solving
19. nursing process: systematic, rational method of planning and providing individualized nursing care
identify health status and potential health care problems or needs and deliver intervention to meet needs
20. subjective data: symptoms patient says
(type of data?)
, NUR 155 Exam 1
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21. objective data: signs nurse observes and measures
(type of data?)
22. primary source: information that comes from the patient
(what type of source?)
23. secondary source: information from the patient's family about the patient
(what type of source?)
24. nursing process- diagnosis: clinical judgement about actual or potential health problems;
describe human response to a problem that requires nursing intervention;
standardized statement about health of patient
25. actual diagnosis: patient problem that is present at the time of the nursing assessment
(what type of diagnosis?)
26. risk diagnosis: conditions that exist for problem to develop
(what type of diagnosis?)
27. health promotion diagnosis: relates to clients' preparedness to implement behaviors to improve their
health condition
(what type of diagnosis?)
28. syndrome diagnosis: clinical judgement to describe a cluster of nursing diagnoses with similar interven-
tions
(what type of diagnosis?)
29. medical diagnoses: clinical judgement by physician to identify specific disease, condition, or pathological
state
30. nursing diagnoses: clinical judgement identifying a client's response to a health state, problem, or
condition
31. nursing diagnosis: activity intolerance
(nursing or medical diagnosis?)
32. medical diagnosis: myocardial infarction
(nursing or medical diagnosis?)
33. actual: acute pain related to surgical incision as evidenced by pain rating 8/10 and pain behaviors (grimacing,
rubbing knee)
(what type of nursing diagnosis?)
34. risk: risk for fall related to diminished lower extremity strength
(what type of nursing diagnosis?)
, NUR 155 Exam 1
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35. health promotion: readiness for enhanced nutrition related to blood sugar control, as evidenced by patient
asking questions about diet
(what type of nursing diagnosis?)
36. syndrome diagnosis: post trauma syndrome related to physical abuse, as evidenced by alienation, anger,
anxiety, and depression
(what type of nursing diagnosis?)
37. problem
etiology
signs/symptoms: formulating diagnostic statements (3 part statements)
38. unknown etiology: when cause is not known
39. complex factors: when too many etiologic factors exist
40. planning: phase of nursing process involving decision making and problem solving;
create plan of action to improve the client's health status and/or better cope with their illness
41. initial
ongoing
discharge: types of planning
42. initial planning: nurse performs admission assessment and develops initial comprehensive plan of care
(what type of planning?)
43. ongoing planning: determining whether the patient's health status has changed;
set priorities for the patient's care during the shift;
decide which problems to focus on during the shift;
coordinate nurse activities so that more than one problem can be addressed at each client contact
(what type of planning?)
44. discharge planning: process of anticipating and planning for needs after discharge
(what type of planning?)
45. specific/directly related to diagnosis
measurable
attainable
realistic/reasonable
timed: SMART goals
46. independent intervention: do not need a health care provider's order
(what type of intervention?)
