Nursing 108 midterm Exam Questions
With Correct Answers
what are the 2 types of community health nurses - CORRECT
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ANSWER✔✔-1) public health nurse | | |
2) home health nurse/clinic nurse
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what do public health nurses do? - CORRECT
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ANSWER✔✔-promote/protect the health of a specific population or the | | | | | | | |
community as a whole
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what do home health/clinic nurses do? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-focus
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on prevention, health restoration, health maintenance and palliative
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care
what kind of patients did community health nurses first begin to work
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with? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔--TB patients in 1905
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-later began to work with children to promote hygiene and nutrition
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what is the British North American Act? (1867) - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-
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stated that the federal gov't funds quarantine and marine hospitals but
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,the provinces are in charge of everything else. Organized health care
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was provided at the local level through public welfare and charities.
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what is the Medical Care Insurance Act? (1968) - CORRECT
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ANSWER✔✔-universal insurance for hospital and medical services | | | | | |
what is critical thinking? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-ability to focus
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purposeful thinking to get required results in specific situations.
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why is critical thinking important to nursing? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-it
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produces a positive patient/family outcome, helps with patient safety
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and patient/family satisfaction
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name some things that foster critical thinking - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-
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empathy, courage, humility, curiosity etc.
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what are the 7 critical thinking skills? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-1) use of
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precise language |
2) perceiving; recognizing differences
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3) believing and knowing; don't jump to conclusions
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4) clarifying; ask questions
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5) comparing; notice similarities and differences
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6) judging and evaluating; providing evidence
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,7) reasoning; distinguish b/w relevant vs irrelevant info
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what are the 5 ways of acquiring nursing knowledge? - CORRECT
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ANSWER✔✔-tradition, authority, trial and error, personal experience, | | | | | | |
and role modelling
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what is the nursing problem solving process? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-a
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systemic, problem solving approach to identify, prevent and treat actual
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or potential health problems and promote wellness. It's a 'thinking and
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doing' approach= a way of organizing your thoughts, then creating an
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action for it. | |
what are some benefits of the nursing problem solving process? -
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CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-promotes collaboration, is efficient, increases
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client participation, promotes individualized care, promotes continuing
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care and increases job satisfaction
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what are the 5 steps of the nursing problem solving process cycle? -
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CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-1) assessment | |
2) nursing diagnosis
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3) planning of care
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4) implementation of care
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5) evaluation
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, what is nursing assessment? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔--the first phase of
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the cycle, it's the process of collecting data where the focus is on the
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client, family or community health status.
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-can be subjective or objective data, primary or secondary sources,
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comprehensive vs focus assessment | | |
what is subjective data? provide an example. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-
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what the PATIENT/family tells you; including their thought, beliefs,
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feelings and perceptions of health
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ex:patient states they are in pain | | | | |
what is objective data? provide an example. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-
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what YOU observe or the information gathered based on your
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assessment.
ex: you find the BP to be 120/80
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what is primary source? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-information by the
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patient, can be subjective or objective...can be their BP you read or
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them telling you they hurt
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what is secondary source? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-all other sources of
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information...can include other doctors, reading charts etc. | | | | | |
With Correct Answers
what are the 2 types of community health nurses - CORRECT
| | | | | | | | | | |
ANSWER✔✔-1) public health nurse | | |
2) home health nurse/clinic nurse
| | | |
what do public health nurses do? - CORRECT
| | | | | | | |
ANSWER✔✔-promote/protect the health of a specific population or the | | | | | | | |
community as a whole
| | | |
what do home health/clinic nurses do? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-focus
| | | | | | | | |
on prevention, health restoration, health maintenance and palliative
| | | | | | | |
care
what kind of patients did community health nurses first begin to work
| | | | | | | | | | | |
with? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔--TB patients in 1905
| | | | | |
-later began to work with children to promote hygiene and nutrition
| | | | | | | | | |
what is the British North American Act? (1867) - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-
| | | | | | | | | |
stated that the federal gov't funds quarantine and marine hospitals but
| | | | | | | | | | |
,the provinces are in charge of everything else. Organized health care
| | | | | | | | | | |
was provided at the local level through public welfare and charities.
| | | | | | | | | |
what is the Medical Care Insurance Act? (1968) - CORRECT
| | | | | | | | | |
ANSWER✔✔-universal insurance for hospital and medical services | | | | | |
what is critical thinking? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-ability to focus
| | | | | | | | |
purposeful thinking to get required results in specific situations.
| | | | | | | |
why is critical thinking important to nursing? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-it
| | | | | | | | | |
produces a positive patient/family outcome, helps with patient safety
| | | | | | | | |
and patient/family satisfaction
| |
name some things that foster critical thinking - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-
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empathy, courage, humility, curiosity etc.
| | | |
what are the 7 critical thinking skills? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-1) use of
| | | | | | | | | | | |
precise language |
2) perceiving; recognizing differences
| | |
3) believing and knowing; don't jump to conclusions
| | | | | | |
4) clarifying; ask questions
| | |
5) comparing; notice similarities and differences
| | | | |
6) judging and evaluating; providing evidence
| | | | |
,7) reasoning; distinguish b/w relevant vs irrelevant info
| | | | | | |
what are the 5 ways of acquiring nursing knowledge? - CORRECT
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ANSWER✔✔-tradition, authority, trial and error, personal experience, | | | | | | |
and role modelling
| |
what is the nursing problem solving process? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-a
| | | | | | | | | |
systemic, problem solving approach to identify, prevent and treat actual
| | | | | | | | | |
or potential health problems and promote wellness. It's a 'thinking and
| | | | | | | | | | |
doing' approach= a way of organizing your thoughts, then creating an
| | | | | | | | | | |
action for it. | |
what are some benefits of the nursing problem solving process? -
| | | | | | | | | | |
CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-promotes collaboration, is efficient, increases
| | | | | |
client participation, promotes individualized care, promotes continuing
| | | | | | |
care and increases job satisfaction
| | | |
what are the 5 steps of the nursing problem solving process cycle? -
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-1) assessment | |
2) nursing diagnosis
| |
3) planning of care
| | |
4) implementation of care
| | |
5) evaluation
|
, what is nursing assessment? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔--the first phase of
| | | | | | | | | |
the cycle, it's the process of collecting data where the focus is on the
| | | | | | | | | | | | | |
client, family or community health status.
| | | | |
-can be subjective or objective data, primary or secondary sources,
| | | | | | | | | |
comprehensive vs focus assessment | | |
what is subjective data? provide an example. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-
| | | | | | | | |
what the PATIENT/family tells you; including their thought, beliefs,
| | | | | | | | |
feelings and perceptions of health
| | | |
ex:patient states they are in pain | | | | |
what is objective data? provide an example. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-
| | | | | | | | |
what YOU observe or the information gathered based on your
| | | | | | | | | |
assessment.
ex: you find the BP to be 120/80
| | | | | | |
what is primary source? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-information by the
| | | | | | | | |
patient, can be subjective or objective...can be their BP you read or
| | | | | | | | | | | |
them telling you they hurt
| | | |
what is secondary source? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-all other sources of
| | | | | | | | | |
information...can include other doctors, reading charts etc. | | | | | |
