NURS 1130 Final Exam Questions with
Complete Answers.
Critical Thinking - Answer the ability to think in a systematic and logical manner with
openness to question and reflect on the reasoning process
Reflective Journaling - Answer Define and express clinical experiences in your own words
Concept Mapping - Answer visual representation of patient problems and interventions that
shows their relationships to one another
Clinical Reasoning - Answer an interactive process of noticing, interpreting, and responding;
reasoning in transition with a fine attunement to the client and how the client responds to the
nurse’s action
Clinical Judgement - Answer an interpretation or conclusion about a client's needs, concerns,
or health problems, and/or the decision to take action (or not) use or modify standard
approaches, or improvise new ones as deemed appropriate by the client's response
Nursing process - Answer the framework nurses use to apply critical thinking in nursing
practice for making clinical decisions
A- Assessment
D- Diagnose
P-Planning
I-Implementation/Intervention
E-Evaluation
Basic Critical thinking - Answer answers to complex problems are perceived as either right or
wrong
a single solution usually resolves each problem
Complex clinical thinking - Answer makes clinical decisions more independently
creativity allows nurses to generate many ideas quickly, be able to change viewpoints, and
create original solutions to problems
thinking abilities and initiative to look beyond expert opinion begin to change
,Commitment critical thinking - Answer able to consider a wider array of clinical alternatives
for a patient's situation (make choices without an expert)
Documentation - Answer a key communication strategy that produces a written account of
pertinent data, clinical decisions and interventions, and patient responses in a health record
Electronic Health Record (EHR) - Answer an individual's lifetime computerized record
Electronic Medical Record (EMR) - Answer a patient's record within an integrated health care
information system for an individual visit to a health care provider's office or for an individual
admission to an acute care setting that allows for seamless documentation of the progression of
care
Incident or occurrence reports - Answer -any event that is not consistent with the routine,
expected care of a patient or the standard procedures in place on a health care unit
-complete whenever it occurs
-document objective description of what happened, what you observed and the follow-up
actions taken
-DO NOT include any reference to an __________ in the medical record (makes it easier for a
lawyer to argue that the reference makes the ___________ report part of the medical record
and therefore subject to attorney review)
Near Miss - Answer indicates incidents in which a patient is exposed to a hazardous situation
with the potential to cause harm but in which, for a variety of reasons, no harm did occur
Health disparities - Answer racial or ethnic differences in quality of health care that are not
due to access-related factors or clinical needs, preferences, or appropriateness of intervention
differences that occur by gender, race or ethnicity, education or income, disability, living in rural
localities, or sexual orientation
social determinants of health - Answer The conditions in which people are born, grow, live,
work, and age
Marginalized groups - Answer gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender; ethnic, racial, or certain
nationalities; people who are physically, emotionally, and/or mentally challenged; and certain
trades or professions
culture - Answer a pattern of shared attitudes, beliefs, self-definitions, norms, roles, and
values that can occur among those who speak a particular language or live in a defined
geographical location
, Spirituality - Answer a dynamic and intrinsic aspect of humanity through which people seek
ultimate meaning, purpose, and transcendence and experience relationship to self, family,
others, community, society, nature, and the significant or sacred
expressed through beliefs, values, traditions, and practices
cultural competence - Answer professional health care must be culturally sensitive, culturally
appropriate, and culturally competent to meet the multifaceted health care needs of each
person, family, and community
cultural respect - Answer Critical to reducing health disparities and improving access to high-
quality health care that is respectful and responsive to the needs of the diverse patient
racial identity - Answer one's self-identification with one or more social groups in which a
common heritage with a group is shared
Ethnic/culture identity - Answer common ancestry that leads to shared values and beliefs;
individuals identify consciously or unconsciously with those whom they feels a common bond
between of similar traditions, behaviors, values, and beliefs
Acculturation - Answer minor culture changes, but retains a few of the original characteristics
the process of acquiring new attitudes, roles, customs, or behaviors as a result of contact with
another culture
Assimilation - Answer minority culture fully absorbed into major culture
is a process by which a person gives up his or her original identity and develops a new cultural
identity by becoming absorbed into the more dominant cultural group
cultural awareness - Answer self-examination of one's biases towards other cultures and an
in-depth exploration of one's own cultural and professional background
cultural Knowledge - Answer is the process in which a health care professional seeks and
obtains a sound educational base about culturally diverse groups
Implicit Bias - Answer our understanding, actions, and decisions in an unconscious manner
that is affected by our attitudes or stereotypes
health - Answer a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being, not merely the
absence of disease or infirmity
Complete Answers.
Critical Thinking - Answer the ability to think in a systematic and logical manner with
openness to question and reflect on the reasoning process
Reflective Journaling - Answer Define and express clinical experiences in your own words
Concept Mapping - Answer visual representation of patient problems and interventions that
shows their relationships to one another
Clinical Reasoning - Answer an interactive process of noticing, interpreting, and responding;
reasoning in transition with a fine attunement to the client and how the client responds to the
nurse’s action
Clinical Judgement - Answer an interpretation or conclusion about a client's needs, concerns,
or health problems, and/or the decision to take action (or not) use or modify standard
approaches, or improvise new ones as deemed appropriate by the client's response
Nursing process - Answer the framework nurses use to apply critical thinking in nursing
practice for making clinical decisions
A- Assessment
D- Diagnose
P-Planning
I-Implementation/Intervention
E-Evaluation
Basic Critical thinking - Answer answers to complex problems are perceived as either right or
wrong
a single solution usually resolves each problem
Complex clinical thinking - Answer makes clinical decisions more independently
creativity allows nurses to generate many ideas quickly, be able to change viewpoints, and
create original solutions to problems
thinking abilities and initiative to look beyond expert opinion begin to change
,Commitment critical thinking - Answer able to consider a wider array of clinical alternatives
for a patient's situation (make choices without an expert)
Documentation - Answer a key communication strategy that produces a written account of
pertinent data, clinical decisions and interventions, and patient responses in a health record
Electronic Health Record (EHR) - Answer an individual's lifetime computerized record
Electronic Medical Record (EMR) - Answer a patient's record within an integrated health care
information system for an individual visit to a health care provider's office or for an individual
admission to an acute care setting that allows for seamless documentation of the progression of
care
Incident or occurrence reports - Answer -any event that is not consistent with the routine,
expected care of a patient or the standard procedures in place on a health care unit
-complete whenever it occurs
-document objective description of what happened, what you observed and the follow-up
actions taken
-DO NOT include any reference to an __________ in the medical record (makes it easier for a
lawyer to argue that the reference makes the ___________ report part of the medical record
and therefore subject to attorney review)
Near Miss - Answer indicates incidents in which a patient is exposed to a hazardous situation
with the potential to cause harm but in which, for a variety of reasons, no harm did occur
Health disparities - Answer racial or ethnic differences in quality of health care that are not
due to access-related factors or clinical needs, preferences, or appropriateness of intervention
differences that occur by gender, race or ethnicity, education or income, disability, living in rural
localities, or sexual orientation
social determinants of health - Answer The conditions in which people are born, grow, live,
work, and age
Marginalized groups - Answer gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender; ethnic, racial, or certain
nationalities; people who are physically, emotionally, and/or mentally challenged; and certain
trades or professions
culture - Answer a pattern of shared attitudes, beliefs, self-definitions, norms, roles, and
values that can occur among those who speak a particular language or live in a defined
geographical location
, Spirituality - Answer a dynamic and intrinsic aspect of humanity through which people seek
ultimate meaning, purpose, and transcendence and experience relationship to self, family,
others, community, society, nature, and the significant or sacred
expressed through beliefs, values, traditions, and practices
cultural competence - Answer professional health care must be culturally sensitive, culturally
appropriate, and culturally competent to meet the multifaceted health care needs of each
person, family, and community
cultural respect - Answer Critical to reducing health disparities and improving access to high-
quality health care that is respectful and responsive to the needs of the diverse patient
racial identity - Answer one's self-identification with one or more social groups in which a
common heritage with a group is shared
Ethnic/culture identity - Answer common ancestry that leads to shared values and beliefs;
individuals identify consciously or unconsciously with those whom they feels a common bond
between of similar traditions, behaviors, values, and beliefs
Acculturation - Answer minor culture changes, but retains a few of the original characteristics
the process of acquiring new attitudes, roles, customs, or behaviors as a result of contact with
another culture
Assimilation - Answer minority culture fully absorbed into major culture
is a process by which a person gives up his or her original identity and develops a new cultural
identity by becoming absorbed into the more dominant cultural group
cultural awareness - Answer self-examination of one's biases towards other cultures and an
in-depth exploration of one's own cultural and professional background
cultural Knowledge - Answer is the process in which a health care professional seeks and
obtains a sound educational base about culturally diverse groups
Implicit Bias - Answer our understanding, actions, and decisions in an unconscious manner
that is affected by our attitudes or stereotypes
health - Answer a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being, not merely the
absence of disease or infirmity
