NUR 302 MIDTERM QUINNIPIAC
UNIVERSITY QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
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2026/2027
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Term
What is the goal of nursing informatics?
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A method of purposeful inquiry that
helps you explore your thoughts and
opinions by asking: To improve the health of
populations, communities,
- Who families, and individuals by
- What optimizing information
- When management and
- Where communication
- Why
- What if
The central source of information One that is carried out in
needed to guide holistic, goal- collaboration with other health team
, oriented care and address each members (e.g. physical therapists,
client's unique needs dietitians, physicians)
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Definition
Describes the client's health status and progress toward goals at the
time of discharge
*Most institutions have special discharge forms for terminal evaluation
that also include instructions about medications, treatments, and
follow-up care
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What is a focused assessment? What is a terminal evaluation?
What is an initial assessment? What is intellectual humility?
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Term
What is the rationale for nursing being a profession?
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• Expanding body of knowledge
Influencing or controlling one or
• Autonomy of nursing increasing
more variables within a proposition to
• Higher levels of nursing
bring about a desired outcome
education
Intuition and experience direct you to Challenging actions, practices, and
suspect a diagnosis, but you don't policies that have little logical
have enough data to confirm it support
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Definition
A theory in picture form
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What is taxonomy? What is a profession?
, What is a model? What is a law?
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Term
What is deductive reasoning?
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Problem or response that is likely to
Ability to recognize social injustices
develop without nursing interventions
"Top down" reasoning; using a
An outcome that can be influenced
theory and applying it to a
by nursing interventions
situation
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Term
What are the "3 D's" of the implementation phase?
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UNIVERSITY QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
| STUDY GUIDE & PRACTICE TEST
2026/2027
1 of 169
Term
What is the goal of nursing informatics?
Give this one a go later!
A method of purposeful inquiry that
helps you explore your thoughts and
opinions by asking: To improve the health of
populations, communities,
- Who families, and individuals by
- What optimizing information
- When management and
- Where communication
- Why
- What if
The central source of information One that is carried out in
needed to guide holistic, goal- collaboration with other health team
, oriented care and address each members (e.g. physical therapists,
client's unique needs dietitians, physicians)
Don't know?
2 of 169
Definition
Describes the client's health status and progress toward goals at the
time of discharge
*Most institutions have special discharge forms for terminal evaluation
that also include instructions about medications, treatments, and
follow-up care
Give this one a go later!
What is a focused assessment? What is a terminal evaluation?
What is an initial assessment? What is intellectual humility?
Don't know?
, 3 of 169
Term
What is the rationale for nursing being a profession?
Give this one a go later!
• Expanding body of knowledge
Influencing or controlling one or
• Autonomy of nursing increasing
more variables within a proposition to
• Higher levels of nursing
bring about a desired outcome
education
Intuition and experience direct you to Challenging actions, practices, and
suspect a diagnosis, but you don't policies that have little logical
have enough data to confirm it support
Don't know?
4 of 169
Definition
A theory in picture form
Give this one a go later!
What is taxonomy? What is a profession?
, What is a model? What is a law?
Don't know?
5 of 169
Term
What is deductive reasoning?
Give this one a go later!
Problem or response that is likely to
Ability to recognize social injustices
develop without nursing interventions
"Top down" reasoning; using a
An outcome that can be influenced
theory and applying it to a
by nursing interventions
situation
Don't know?
6 of 169
Term
What are the "3 D's" of the implementation phase?
Give this one a go later!
