NURS 252 FINAL Exam Questions and
Already Passed Answers 2025-2026
Updated.
reasoned thinking, openness to alternatives, ability to reflect, a desire to seek the truth -
Answer critical thinking includes:
Critical thinking separates the
________ nurse from the ________nurse. - Answer technical, professional
nurses using critical thinking rely on Rely on __________ when deciding what a patient needs. -
Answer knowledge and expertise
Clinical judgements require the nurse to _____ on knowledge, experience and information from
the patient. - Answer reflect
•Diagnose & treat human responses to actual or potential problems - Answer purpose of the
nursing process
steps of teh nursing process - Answer assessment
diagnosis
planning
implementation
evaluation
observe
use correct techniques for collecting data
differentiate between relevant and irrelevant data
organize
categorize
validate data
interpret assessment data and draw conclusion - Answer critical thinking and assessment
identify cluster and cues,
detect inerences
recongnize an acutal or potential problem or risk
,avoid making judgements - Answer critical thinking and diagnosis/analysis
identify goals and outcomes for client care, set priorities, determine appropriate strategies &
interventions, take knowledge and apply it to more than one situation, create outcome criteria,
therorize, consider the consequences of implementation - Answer critical thinking & planning
use knowledge base
use appropriate skills and teaching strategies
test theories
delegate and supervise care
communicate appropriately in response to a situation - Answer critical thinking and
implementation
determine accuracy of theories
evaluate outcomes based on specific criteria
determine understanding of teaching - Answer critical thinking and evaluation
•A critical thinking process that professional nurses use to apply the best available evidence to
caregiving and promoting human functions and responses to health and illness." - Answer
nursing process
Describes a competent level of nursing care demonstrated through the nursing process:
assessment, diagnosis, outcome identification and planning, implementation, and evaluation. -
Answer standards of nursing practice
systemic gathering of information related to the physical, mental, spiritual, socioecomonic,
cultural, status of individual, group, or community. USED IN EVERY STEP OF NURSING PROCESS -
Answer assessment
•Collecting data: patterns emerge, start categorizing. Start record
•Using a systematic and ongoing process
•Categorizing data
•Recording data - Answer assessment phase
•Data are used to identify the client's actual or potential health problems and strengths.
•Planning outcomes and interventions
•Data help you formulate realistic goals and choose the interventions most likely to be
acceptable to and effective for the client. - Answer assessment with diagnosis
,•You gather data by observing the client's responses as you perform interventions. - Answer
assessment with implementation
•You assess client responses to interventions; client responses are data. - Answer assessment
with evaluation
focuses on disease and pathology - Answer medical assessments
focus on the clients responses to illness - Answer nursing assessmnet
what are the basic physcial assessment techniques - Answer inspection, palpation,
percussion, asuculatation
when to validate data - Answer subjective and objective data do not agree or make sense
clients statements differ in different times in the interview
data are far outside normal range
factors are present that interfere with accurate measurement
what is a nursing diagnosis - Answer a clinical judgment
what requires a nursing diagnosis? - Answer a client with a need
•Describes disease, illness or injury - Answer medical diagnosis
•Describes the human response to disease, illness &/or injury - Answer nursing diagnosis
cannot predict the nursing diagnosis from a medical diagnosis becaseu - Answer each
patient. client has a unique medical response
are there risk factors present that make it likely that a problem will develop if you do not
intervene? - Answer risk potential nursing diagnosis
no signs and sumptoms that indicate the possibliity of an acutal nrusing diagnosis, and institute
inteventions to promote health - Answer wellness diagnosis
•Analyze & interpret data
, •Draw conclusions
•Verify the problems with the client
•Prioritize the problems - Answer diagnostic reasoning
priority setting. - Answer physiological (ABCs), safety and security, love and belonging needs,
self esteem, self actualization
•Which statement is a priority nursing diagnosis?
•A. Impaired Verbal Communication related to Altered Central Nervous
•B. Fluid Volume Excess related to Compromised Regulatory Mechanism
•C. Impaired Physical Mobility related to Discomfort
•D. Activity Intolerance related to Generalized Weakness - Answer B
Nursing diagnosis universal language - Answer NANDA-I label
•The client has reddened skin and an open abrasion on the elbow from prolonged bedrest.
When examining the components of the nursing diagnosis Impaired Skin Integrity, what would
be the reddened skin and open abrasion?
•A. Related factors
•B. Risk factors
•C. Defining characteristics
•D. Diagnostic label - Answer C
•The problem suggests the desired outcome _______
•The etiology suggests__________ - Answer goal, intervention
•Broad statement that describes resolution of the problem - Answer goal
goasl can be ____ or _____-- - Answer short or longterm
•Specific measurements that client displays that prove resolution of problem - Answer
outcome
outcome needs to be _______ - Answer specific, measureable, achievable, relevant, time
based
Already Passed Answers 2025-2026
Updated.
reasoned thinking, openness to alternatives, ability to reflect, a desire to seek the truth -
Answer critical thinking includes:
Critical thinking separates the
________ nurse from the ________nurse. - Answer technical, professional
nurses using critical thinking rely on Rely on __________ when deciding what a patient needs. -
Answer knowledge and expertise
Clinical judgements require the nurse to _____ on knowledge, experience and information from
the patient. - Answer reflect
•Diagnose & treat human responses to actual or potential problems - Answer purpose of the
nursing process
steps of teh nursing process - Answer assessment
diagnosis
planning
implementation
evaluation
observe
use correct techniques for collecting data
differentiate between relevant and irrelevant data
organize
categorize
validate data
interpret assessment data and draw conclusion - Answer critical thinking and assessment
identify cluster and cues,
detect inerences
recongnize an acutal or potential problem or risk
,avoid making judgements - Answer critical thinking and diagnosis/analysis
identify goals and outcomes for client care, set priorities, determine appropriate strategies &
interventions, take knowledge and apply it to more than one situation, create outcome criteria,
therorize, consider the consequences of implementation - Answer critical thinking & planning
use knowledge base
use appropriate skills and teaching strategies
test theories
delegate and supervise care
communicate appropriately in response to a situation - Answer critical thinking and
implementation
determine accuracy of theories
evaluate outcomes based on specific criteria
determine understanding of teaching - Answer critical thinking and evaluation
•A critical thinking process that professional nurses use to apply the best available evidence to
caregiving and promoting human functions and responses to health and illness." - Answer
nursing process
Describes a competent level of nursing care demonstrated through the nursing process:
assessment, diagnosis, outcome identification and planning, implementation, and evaluation. -
Answer standards of nursing practice
systemic gathering of information related to the physical, mental, spiritual, socioecomonic,
cultural, status of individual, group, or community. USED IN EVERY STEP OF NURSING PROCESS -
Answer assessment
•Collecting data: patterns emerge, start categorizing. Start record
•Using a systematic and ongoing process
•Categorizing data
•Recording data - Answer assessment phase
•Data are used to identify the client's actual or potential health problems and strengths.
•Planning outcomes and interventions
•Data help you formulate realistic goals and choose the interventions most likely to be
acceptable to and effective for the client. - Answer assessment with diagnosis
,•You gather data by observing the client's responses as you perform interventions. - Answer
assessment with implementation
•You assess client responses to interventions; client responses are data. - Answer assessment
with evaluation
focuses on disease and pathology - Answer medical assessments
focus on the clients responses to illness - Answer nursing assessmnet
what are the basic physcial assessment techniques - Answer inspection, palpation,
percussion, asuculatation
when to validate data - Answer subjective and objective data do not agree or make sense
clients statements differ in different times in the interview
data are far outside normal range
factors are present that interfere with accurate measurement
what is a nursing diagnosis - Answer a clinical judgment
what requires a nursing diagnosis? - Answer a client with a need
•Describes disease, illness or injury - Answer medical diagnosis
•Describes the human response to disease, illness &/or injury - Answer nursing diagnosis
cannot predict the nursing diagnosis from a medical diagnosis becaseu - Answer each
patient. client has a unique medical response
are there risk factors present that make it likely that a problem will develop if you do not
intervene? - Answer risk potential nursing diagnosis
no signs and sumptoms that indicate the possibliity of an acutal nrusing diagnosis, and institute
inteventions to promote health - Answer wellness diagnosis
•Analyze & interpret data
, •Draw conclusions
•Verify the problems with the client
•Prioritize the problems - Answer diagnostic reasoning
priority setting. - Answer physiological (ABCs), safety and security, love and belonging needs,
self esteem, self actualization
•Which statement is a priority nursing diagnosis?
•A. Impaired Verbal Communication related to Altered Central Nervous
•B. Fluid Volume Excess related to Compromised Regulatory Mechanism
•C. Impaired Physical Mobility related to Discomfort
•D. Activity Intolerance related to Generalized Weakness - Answer B
Nursing diagnosis universal language - Answer NANDA-I label
•The client has reddened skin and an open abrasion on the elbow from prolonged bedrest.
When examining the components of the nursing diagnosis Impaired Skin Integrity, what would
be the reddened skin and open abrasion?
•A. Related factors
•B. Risk factors
•C. Defining characteristics
•D. Diagnostic label - Answer C
•The problem suggests the desired outcome _______
•The etiology suggests__________ - Answer goal, intervention
•Broad statement that describes resolution of the problem - Answer goal
goasl can be ____ or _____-- - Answer short or longterm
•Specific measurements that client displays that prove resolution of problem - Answer
outcome
outcome needs to be _______ - Answer specific, measureable, achievable, relevant, time
based
