Chap 13+14+15+16+17+18 ECPI Nur 166
UPDATED ACTUAL Questions and
CORRECT Answers
ANA definition of nursing - CORRECT ANSWER - the protection, promotion, and
optimization of health and abilities, prevention of illness and injury, alleviation of suffering
through the diagnosis and treatment of human response, and advocacy in the care of individuals,
families, communities, and populations
Provision of a caring relationship, attention to range of human experiences, Integration of
assessment data with knowledge, Application of scientific knowledge
Thoughtful Person-Centered Practice - CORRECT ANSWER - considerate, compassionate,
keeps person at center of caregiving
-The person
-The professional nurse
-Reflective practice leading to personal learning
-Clinical reasoning, judgment, and decision making
-The nurse's action in response to individual clinical need
-Person-centered nursing process
blended competencies - CORRECT ANSWER - the set of intellectual, interpersonal,
technical, and ethical/legal capacities needed to practice professional nursing
critical thinking - CORRECT ANSWER - a systematic way to form and shape one's thinking"
Personal Critical Thinking Indicators - CORRECT ANSWER - self-aware, genuine, self-
disciplined, healthy, careful and prudent, confident and resilient, honest and upright, curious and
inquisitive, alert to context, analytical and insightful, logical and intuitive, open and fair-minded,
sensitive to diversity, creative, realistic and practical, reflective and self-corrective, proactive,
courageous, patient and persistent, flexible, empathetic, improvement-oriented
, clinical reasoning - CORRECT ANSWER - a specific term usually referring to ways of
thinking about patient care issues (determining, preventing, and managing patient problems); for
reasoning about other clinical issues (e.g., teamwork, collaboration, and streamlining work flow);
nurses usually use critical thinking
clinical judgement - CORRECT ANSWER - refers to the result (outcome) of critical thinking
or clinical reasoning; the conclusion, decision, or opinion a nurse makes
decison making - CORRECT ANSWER - purposeful, goal-directed effort applied in a
systematic way to make a choice among alternatives
Five steps of the nursing process - CORRECT ANSWER - 1) Assessment/data collection
2) Diagnosis - Analysis/data collection
3) Outcome - planning
4) Implementation - intervention
5) Evaluation
Nursing Process - CORRECT ANSWER - Systematic: part of an ordered sequence
Dynamic: great interaction and overlapping among the five steps
•Interpersonal: human being is always at the heart of nursing
•Outcome oriented: nurses and patients work together to identify outcomes
•Universally applicable: a framework for all nursing activities
Steps in Concept Mapping - CORRECT ANSWER - 1. Collect patient problems and concerns
UPDATED ACTUAL Questions and
CORRECT Answers
ANA definition of nursing - CORRECT ANSWER - the protection, promotion, and
optimization of health and abilities, prevention of illness and injury, alleviation of suffering
through the diagnosis and treatment of human response, and advocacy in the care of individuals,
families, communities, and populations
Provision of a caring relationship, attention to range of human experiences, Integration of
assessment data with knowledge, Application of scientific knowledge
Thoughtful Person-Centered Practice - CORRECT ANSWER - considerate, compassionate,
keeps person at center of caregiving
-The person
-The professional nurse
-Reflective practice leading to personal learning
-Clinical reasoning, judgment, and decision making
-The nurse's action in response to individual clinical need
-Person-centered nursing process
blended competencies - CORRECT ANSWER - the set of intellectual, interpersonal,
technical, and ethical/legal capacities needed to practice professional nursing
critical thinking - CORRECT ANSWER - a systematic way to form and shape one's thinking"
Personal Critical Thinking Indicators - CORRECT ANSWER - self-aware, genuine, self-
disciplined, healthy, careful and prudent, confident and resilient, honest and upright, curious and
inquisitive, alert to context, analytical and insightful, logical and intuitive, open and fair-minded,
sensitive to diversity, creative, realistic and practical, reflective and self-corrective, proactive,
courageous, patient and persistent, flexible, empathetic, improvement-oriented
, clinical reasoning - CORRECT ANSWER - a specific term usually referring to ways of
thinking about patient care issues (determining, preventing, and managing patient problems); for
reasoning about other clinical issues (e.g., teamwork, collaboration, and streamlining work flow);
nurses usually use critical thinking
clinical judgement - CORRECT ANSWER - refers to the result (outcome) of critical thinking
or clinical reasoning; the conclusion, decision, or opinion a nurse makes
decison making - CORRECT ANSWER - purposeful, goal-directed effort applied in a
systematic way to make a choice among alternatives
Five steps of the nursing process - CORRECT ANSWER - 1) Assessment/data collection
2) Diagnosis - Analysis/data collection
3) Outcome - planning
4) Implementation - intervention
5) Evaluation
Nursing Process - CORRECT ANSWER - Systematic: part of an ordered sequence
Dynamic: great interaction and overlapping among the five steps
•Interpersonal: human being is always at the heart of nursing
•Outcome oriented: nurses and patients work together to identify outcomes
•Universally applicable: a framework for all nursing activities
Steps in Concept Mapping - CORRECT ANSWER - 1. Collect patient problems and concerns
