FUNDS CHAPTER 17 ANALYSIS AND NURSING
DIAGNOSIS TEST QUESTIONS WITH
CORRECT ANSWERS
◉ What is Chapter 17 of Fundamentals of Nursing about? Answer:
Analysis and Nursing Diagnosis.
◉ What happens during the analysis phase of nursing care? Answer:
The nurse interprets assessment data, recognizes important cues,
groups related cues, identifies patterns, and makes clinical judgments
about patient problems.
◉ What is the basic analysis sequence? Answer: Collect data →
Recognize cues → Cluster cues → Identify patterns → Make clinical
judgments → Form nursing diagnoses.
◉ What is a nursing diagnosis? Answer: A clinical judgment about a
patient's response to an actual or potential health problem that can
guide nursing care.
◉ What is the main focus of a nursing diagnosis? Answer: The
patient's response to a health condition rather than the medical disease
itself.
, ◉ What is a medical diagnosis? Answer: A diagnosis that identifies a
disease or pathological condition.
◉ Give examples of medical diagnoses. Answer: Pneumonia, heart
failure, diabetes mellitus, stroke, and appendicitis.
◉ Give examples of nursing diagnoses. Answer: Acute Pain, Impaired
Physical Mobility, Risk for Falls, Anxiety, and Ineffective Airway
Clearance.
◉ What is the difference between a nursing diagnosis and a medical
diagnosis? Answer: A medical diagnosis identifies a disease, while a
nursing diagnosis identifies the patient's response to the disease or
health condition.
◉ A patient has pneumonia and difficulty clearing secretions. Which
is the medical diagnosis? Answer: Pneumonia.
◉ A patient has pneumonia and difficulty clearing secretions. Which
nursing diagnosis may be appropriate? Answer: Ineffective Airway
Clearance.
◉ What is a problem-focused or actual nursing diagnosis? Answer: A
diagnosis describing a patient problem that currently exists and is
supported by signs and symptoms.
DIAGNOSIS TEST QUESTIONS WITH
CORRECT ANSWERS
◉ What is Chapter 17 of Fundamentals of Nursing about? Answer:
Analysis and Nursing Diagnosis.
◉ What happens during the analysis phase of nursing care? Answer:
The nurse interprets assessment data, recognizes important cues,
groups related cues, identifies patterns, and makes clinical judgments
about patient problems.
◉ What is the basic analysis sequence? Answer: Collect data →
Recognize cues → Cluster cues → Identify patterns → Make clinical
judgments → Form nursing diagnoses.
◉ What is a nursing diagnosis? Answer: A clinical judgment about a
patient's response to an actual or potential health problem that can
guide nursing care.
◉ What is the main focus of a nursing diagnosis? Answer: The
patient's response to a health condition rather than the medical disease
itself.
, ◉ What is a medical diagnosis? Answer: A diagnosis that identifies a
disease or pathological condition.
◉ Give examples of medical diagnoses. Answer: Pneumonia, heart
failure, diabetes mellitus, stroke, and appendicitis.
◉ Give examples of nursing diagnoses. Answer: Acute Pain, Impaired
Physical Mobility, Risk for Falls, Anxiety, and Ineffective Airway
Clearance.
◉ What is the difference between a nursing diagnosis and a medical
diagnosis? Answer: A medical diagnosis identifies a disease, while a
nursing diagnosis identifies the patient's response to the disease or
health condition.
◉ A patient has pneumonia and difficulty clearing secretions. Which
is the medical diagnosis? Answer: Pneumonia.
◉ A patient has pneumonia and difficulty clearing secretions. Which
nursing diagnosis may be appropriate? Answer: Ineffective Airway
Clearance.
◉ What is a problem-focused or actual nursing diagnosis? Answer: A
diagnosis describing a patient problem that currently exists and is
supported by signs and symptoms.
