NURS 246: Test 1 (Nursing Assessment) Questions With Complete Solutions

critical thinking five-step process that professional nurses use to apply the best available evidence to caregiving and promoting human functions and responses to health and illness correct answer: nursing process a _______________________ care approach is holistic and essential when applying the nursing process correct answer: patient-centered a nursing assessment must be what three things in order for the nurse to correctly identify a person's desire to improve their health or identify any health problem? correct answer: 1) complete 2) relevant to a patient's condition 3) accurate the nursing process is a form of ________________________ reasoning correct answer: scientific deliberate and systematic collection of information about a patient to determine the patient's current and past health and functional status and their present and past coping patterns correct answer: assessment two steps of nursing assessment correct answer: 1) collection of information from a primary source (a patient) and secondary sources (family, friends, health professionals, and the medical record) 2) the interpretation and validation of data to ensure a complete database five sources of information in a nursing assessment correct answer: 1) the patient through interview, observations, and physical examination 2) family members or significant others' reports and response to interviews 3) other members of the health care team