NURS 305 Final Exam questions with correct answers
What is evidence based practice? Correct Answer-integration of research
evidence, clinical expertise, clinical knowledge, and patient values and
preferences
-clinical decision
What are the 5 steps of evidence based practice? Correct Answer-1. Ask
the Clinical questions
2. Collect the best evidence
3. Appraise & synthesize the evidence
4. Apply the relevant evidence
5. Evaluate the outcomes
What is included in the first level priority? Correct Answer-Airway
Breathing
Circulation
What is included in the second level priority? Correct Answer-Mental
status change
Acute pain
Infection risk
Abnormal values
Climate
,What is included in the third level priority? Correct Answer-Lack of
knowledge
Mobility problems
Family coping
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 Correct Answer-a. Objective
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 Correct Answer-c. Subjective
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 Correct Answer-a. Data base
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
Correct Answer-c. Validate the data by asking a coworker to listen to the
breath sounds
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 Correct Answer-b. A set of rules
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 Correct Answer-a. Intuition
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 Correct
Answer-c. EBP emphasizes the use of best evidence with the clinicians
experience
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
What is evidence based practice? Correct Answer-integration of research
evidence, clinical expertise, clinical knowledge, and patient values and
preferences
-clinical decision
What are the 5 steps of evidence based practice? Correct Answer-1. Ask
the Clinical questions
2. Collect the best evidence
3. Appraise & synthesize the evidence
4. Apply the relevant evidence
5. Evaluate the outcomes
What is included in the first level priority? Correct Answer-Airway
Breathing
Circulation
What is included in the second level priority? Correct Answer-Mental
status change
Acute pain
Infection risk
Abnormal values
Climate
,What is included in the third level priority? Correct Answer-Lack of
knowledge
Mobility problems
Family coping
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 Correct Answer-a. Objective
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 Correct Answer-c. Subjective
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 Correct Answer-a. Data base
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
Correct Answer-c. Validate the data by asking a coworker to listen to the
breath sounds
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 Correct Answer-b. A set of rules
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 Correct Answer-a. Intuition
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 Correct
Answer-c. EBP emphasizes the use of best evidence with the clinicians
experience
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
