NUR 100 Final Exam Study
1. the scientific reason for selecting a specific nursing action is called a: Rationale
2. "practice with feedback and positive reinforcement leads to improved performance"-
what is this an example of?: Teaching-learning priciple
3. what is wrong with this nursing order: 10/31/12 ecourage ambulation ad lib, it is:: not
specific enough
4. The nurse has just been assigned to the clinical care of a newly admitted patient.
Which step of the nursing process will the nurse probably do first in determining the
patient's plan of care?: Assessment
5. The nurse changes a wound dressing every 8 hours. This is an example of which
aspect of patient care?: Nursing intervention
6. Which statement about the nursing process is correct?: -It was developed from the
ANA Standards of Care.
-It is a problem-solving method to guide nursing activities.
-It is a linear process with separate, distinct steps.
-It involves care that only the nurse will give: It is a problem-solving method to guide
nursing activities
7. A nurse uses a sensitive, creative, and empathetic approach to adapt care to meet
each patients unique needs. This best describes:
-Nursing theory
-Nursing art
-Nursing process
-Nursing definition: Nursing art
8. Which of the following represent human responses? Choose all the correct answers. -
Pain
-Bleeding
-Diabetes
-Fever: Pain, Bleeding, Fever
9. What is the most important reason for using the nursing process? It can:
-Help ensure quality care of clients
-Assure that clients problems are solved
-Provide a permanent record of care given to a client
, NUR 100 Final Exam Study
-Create opportunities for professional growth: Help ensure quality of care for clients
10. Arrange the steps of the nursing process in the order in which they typically occur:
-Assessment
-Planning outcomes
-Planning interventions
-Implementation
-Diagnoses
-Evaluation: Assessment, Diagnosis, Planning outcome, Planning interventions,
Implementation, Evaluation
11. What is the most important reason for using the nursing process? It can:
-Help ensure quality care for clients
-Assure that clients problems are solved
-Provide a permanent record of care given to a client
-create opportunities for professional growth: Help ensure quality care for clients
12. After giving a bath demonstration to a new mother, the nurse asks the mother to
bathe the infant while she observes. Which principle of teaching-learning
is the nurse observing?: an active learner learns and retains more than a passive learner
13. "Learner will explain why it is important to take all of his medication."What kind
of learning objective does this illustrate? One in the domain of:: Cognitive
14. For a high risk nursing diagnosis, the nursing interventions will be concerned
mainly with:: Preventing and observing for symptoms
15. For a possible nursing diagnosis, what is the main focus of the nursing
interventions?: Collection of additional data
16. Independent nursing orders state the specific activities needed to:: Help the client
achieve goals
17. What is an interdependent (collaborative) nursing intervention?: One devised in
collaboration with other team members
18. Which of the following is an example of an activity that occurs in the
implementation stage of the nursing process?
A. assisting a patient to the bathroom
B. Reading lab results from patients chart
1. the scientific reason for selecting a specific nursing action is called a: Rationale
2. "practice with feedback and positive reinforcement leads to improved performance"-
what is this an example of?: Teaching-learning priciple
3. what is wrong with this nursing order: 10/31/12 ecourage ambulation ad lib, it is:: not
specific enough
4. The nurse has just been assigned to the clinical care of a newly admitted patient.
Which step of the nursing process will the nurse probably do first in determining the
patient's plan of care?: Assessment
5. The nurse changes a wound dressing every 8 hours. This is an example of which
aspect of patient care?: Nursing intervention
6. Which statement about the nursing process is correct?: -It was developed from the
ANA Standards of Care.
-It is a problem-solving method to guide nursing activities.
-It is a linear process with separate, distinct steps.
-It involves care that only the nurse will give: It is a problem-solving method to guide
nursing activities
7. A nurse uses a sensitive, creative, and empathetic approach to adapt care to meet
each patients unique needs. This best describes:
-Nursing theory
-Nursing art
-Nursing process
-Nursing definition: Nursing art
8. Which of the following represent human responses? Choose all the correct answers. -
Pain
-Bleeding
-Diabetes
-Fever: Pain, Bleeding, Fever
9. What is the most important reason for using the nursing process? It can:
-Help ensure quality care of clients
-Assure that clients problems are solved
-Provide a permanent record of care given to a client
, NUR 100 Final Exam Study
-Create opportunities for professional growth: Help ensure quality of care for clients
10. Arrange the steps of the nursing process in the order in which they typically occur:
-Assessment
-Planning outcomes
-Planning interventions
-Implementation
-Diagnoses
-Evaluation: Assessment, Diagnosis, Planning outcome, Planning interventions,
Implementation, Evaluation
11. What is the most important reason for using the nursing process? It can:
-Help ensure quality care for clients
-Assure that clients problems are solved
-Provide a permanent record of care given to a client
-create opportunities for professional growth: Help ensure quality care for clients
12. After giving a bath demonstration to a new mother, the nurse asks the mother to
bathe the infant while she observes. Which principle of teaching-learning
is the nurse observing?: an active learner learns and retains more than a passive learner
13. "Learner will explain why it is important to take all of his medication."What kind
of learning objective does this illustrate? One in the domain of:: Cognitive
14. For a high risk nursing diagnosis, the nursing interventions will be concerned
mainly with:: Preventing and observing for symptoms
15. For a possible nursing diagnosis, what is the main focus of the nursing
interventions?: Collection of additional data
16. Independent nursing orders state the specific activities needed to:: Help the client
achieve goals
17. What is an interdependent (collaborative) nursing intervention?: One devised in
collaboration with other team members
18. Which of the following is an example of an activity that occurs in the
implementation stage of the nursing process?
A. assisting a patient to the bathroom
B. Reading lab results from patients chart
