GALEN PHARMACOLOGY NUR 210
EXAM 1 2024/2025
After completing an initial assessment of a patient, the nurse has charted
that his respirations are eupneic and his pulse is 58 beats per minute.
These types of data would be:
a.
Objective.
b.
Reflective.
c.
Subjective.
d.
Introspective. - Precise Answer ✔✔A
2. A patient tells the nurse that he is very nervous, is nauseated, and feels
hot. These types of data would be:
a.
Objective.
b.
Reflective.
c.
Subjective.
,d.
Introspective. - Precise Answer ✔✔C
3. The patients record, laboratory studies, objective data, and subjective
data combine to form the:
a.
Data base.
b.
Admitting data.
c.
Financial statement.
d.
Discharge summary. - Precise Answer ✔✔A
4. When listening to a patients breath sounds, the nurse is unsure of a
sound that is heard. The nurses next action should be to:
a.
Immediately notify the patients physician.
b.
Document the sound exactly as it was heard.
c.
Validate the data by asking a coworker to listen to the breath sounds.
d.
,Assess again in 20 minutes to note whether the sound is still present. -
Precise Answer ✔✔C
5. The nurse is conducting a class for new graduate nurses. During the
teaching session, the nurse should keep in mind that novice nurses,
without a background of skills and experience from which to draw, are
more likely to make their decisions using:
a.
Intuition.
b.
A set of rules.
c.
Articles in journals.
d.
Advice from supervisors. - Precise Answer ✔✔B
6. Expert nurses learn to attend to a pattern of assessment data and act
without consciously labeling it. These responses are referred to as:
a.
Intuition.
b.
The nursing process.
c.
Clinical knowledge.
d.
, Diagnostic reasoning. - Precise Answer ✔✔A
7. The nurse is reviewing information about evidence-based practice
(EBP). Which statement best reflects EBP?
a.
EBP relies on tradition for support of best practices.
b.
EBP is simply the use of best practice techniques for the treatment of
patients.
c.
EBP emphasizes the use of best evidence with the clinicians experience.
d.
The patients own preferences are not important with EBP. - Precise
Answer ✔✔C
8. The nurse is conducting a class on priority setting for a group of new
graduate nurses. Which is an example of a first-level priority problem?
a.
Patient with postoperative pain
b.
Newly diagnosed patient with diabetes who needs diabetic teaching
c.
Individual with a small laceration on the sole of the foot
d.
EXAM 1 2024/2025
After completing an initial assessment of a patient, the nurse has charted
that his respirations are eupneic and his pulse is 58 beats per minute.
These types of data would be:
a.
Objective.
b.
Reflective.
c.
Subjective.
d.
Introspective. - Precise Answer ✔✔A
2. A patient tells the nurse that he is very nervous, is nauseated, and feels
hot. These types of data would be:
a.
Objective.
b.
Reflective.
c.
Subjective.
,d.
Introspective. - Precise Answer ✔✔C
3. The patients record, laboratory studies, objective data, and subjective
data combine to form the:
a.
Data base.
b.
Admitting data.
c.
Financial statement.
d.
Discharge summary. - Precise Answer ✔✔A
4. When listening to a patients breath sounds, the nurse is unsure of a
sound that is heard. The nurses next action should be to:
a.
Immediately notify the patients physician.
b.
Document the sound exactly as it was heard.
c.
Validate the data by asking a coworker to listen to the breath sounds.
d.
,Assess again in 20 minutes to note whether the sound is still present. -
Precise Answer ✔✔C
5. The nurse is conducting a class for new graduate nurses. During the
teaching session, the nurse should keep in mind that novice nurses,
without a background of skills and experience from which to draw, are
more likely to make their decisions using:
a.
Intuition.
b.
A set of rules.
c.
Articles in journals.
d.
Advice from supervisors. - Precise Answer ✔✔B
6. Expert nurses learn to attend to a pattern of assessment data and act
without consciously labeling it. These responses are referred to as:
a.
Intuition.
b.
The nursing process.
c.
Clinical knowledge.
d.
, Diagnostic reasoning. - Precise Answer ✔✔A
7. The nurse is reviewing information about evidence-based practice
(EBP). Which statement best reflects EBP?
a.
EBP relies on tradition for support of best practices.
b.
EBP is simply the use of best practice techniques for the treatment of
patients.
c.
EBP emphasizes the use of best evidence with the clinicians experience.
d.
The patients own preferences are not important with EBP. - Precise
Answer ✔✔C
8. The nurse is conducting a class on priority setting for a group of new
graduate nurses. Which is an example of a first-level priority problem?
a.
Patient with postoperative pain
b.
Newly diagnosed patient with diabetes who needs diabetic teaching
c.
Individual with a small laceration on the sole of the foot
d.
