EVIDENCE BASED PHYSICAL EXAMINATION
ACTUAL TEST PAPER FULL QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS
◉ First-level priority problems.
Answer: emergent, life threatening, and immediate, such as
establishing an airway or supporting breathing.
◉ Second-level priority problems.
Answer: those that are next in urgency—those requiring your
prompt intervention to forestall further deterioration (e.g., mental
status change, acute pain, acute urinary elimination problems,
untreated medical problems, abnormal laboratory values, risks of
infection, or risk to safety or security).
◉ Third-level priority problems.
Answer: those that are important to the patient's health but can be
addressed after more urgent health problems are addressed.
Interventions to treat these problems are more long term, and the
response to treatment is expected to take more time.
◉ Collaborative problems.
, Answer: those in which the approach to treatment involves multiple
disciplines. Collaborative problems are certain physiologic
conditions in which nurses have the primary responsibility to
diagnose the onset and monitor the changes in status.
For example, C.D.'s data regarding diabetes represent a collaborative
problem. With this problem the sudden imbalance of insulin and
blood sugar has profound implications on the central nervous and
gastrointestinal (GI) systems. Her care will be monitored by nurses,
doctors, dietitians, and case managers. Or another patient with an
alcohol-use disorder presents to the hospital for unrelated surgery
and experiences sudden alcohol withdrawal symptoms. This causes
rebound effects on the central nervous and cardiovascular systems
that must be managed by a team of clinicians.
◉ evidence-based practice.
Answer: systematic approach to practice using best evidence,
clinicians experience, and patient preferences and values to make
decisions about care and treatment
◉ Four databases.
Answer: complete
focused
follow up
emergency
ACTUAL TEST PAPER FULL QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS
◉ First-level priority problems.
Answer: emergent, life threatening, and immediate, such as
establishing an airway or supporting breathing.
◉ Second-level priority problems.
Answer: those that are next in urgency—those requiring your
prompt intervention to forestall further deterioration (e.g., mental
status change, acute pain, acute urinary elimination problems,
untreated medical problems, abnormal laboratory values, risks of
infection, or risk to safety or security).
◉ Third-level priority problems.
Answer: those that are important to the patient's health but can be
addressed after more urgent health problems are addressed.
Interventions to treat these problems are more long term, and the
response to treatment is expected to take more time.
◉ Collaborative problems.
, Answer: those in which the approach to treatment involves multiple
disciplines. Collaborative problems are certain physiologic
conditions in which nurses have the primary responsibility to
diagnose the onset and monitor the changes in status.
For example, C.D.'s data regarding diabetes represent a collaborative
problem. With this problem the sudden imbalance of insulin and
blood sugar has profound implications on the central nervous and
gastrointestinal (GI) systems. Her care will be monitored by nurses,
doctors, dietitians, and case managers. Or another patient with an
alcohol-use disorder presents to the hospital for unrelated surgery
and experiences sudden alcohol withdrawal symptoms. This causes
rebound effects on the central nervous and cardiovascular systems
that must be managed by a team of clinicians.
◉ evidence-based practice.
Answer: systematic approach to practice using best evidence,
clinicians experience, and patient preferences and values to make
decisions about care and treatment
◉ Four databases.
Answer: complete
focused
follow up
emergency
