NSG 3450 EXAM 1 questions and
reviewed verified correct answers
QSEN (quality and safety education for nurses) - answers✔✔1. Patient centered care
2. Teamwork and collaboration
3. Quality improvement
4. Evidenced based practice
5. Safety
6. Informatics
Transference - answers✔✔Refers to the unconscious feelings that the patent has toward the
healthcare worker that were originally felt in childhood for a significant other.
"You remind me of my sister"
Can be positive or negative
Coutertransference - answers✔✔Refers to unconscious feelings that the healthcare worker has
towards the patient.
If the pt reminds you of someone you do not like, you may unconsciously react as if the patient
were that person.
All or nothing thinking - answers✔✔Thinking in black and white, reducing complex outcomes
into absolutes
"Although Lindsey earned 2nd, she considered herself a loser"
, Overgeneralization - answers✔✔Using a bad outcome as evidence that nothing will ever go
right again
"Andrew had a minor accident and now says he shouldn't be allowed on the road"
Labeling - answers✔✔A form of generalization in which a characteristic or event becomes
definitive and results in an overly harsh label for self or others
"Because i failed the exam, i should just give up and find a different major"
Mental filter - answers✔✔Focusing on a negative detail or bad event and allowing it to taint
everything else
Jumping to conclusions - answers✔✔Making a negative interpretation despite the fact that
there is little to no supportive evidence
"My fiance did not call for 3 hours. He must not love me anymore"
Catastrophizing - answers✔✔Extreme form of magnification in which the very worst is assumed
to be a probable outcome
"If i don't make a good impression, my boss will fire me"
Emotional reasoning - answers✔✔Drawing a conclusion based on an emotional state
"I'm nervous about the exam. I must not be prepared if i were, I wouldn't be afraid.
Personalization - answers✔✔Assuming responsibility for an external event or situation that was
likely outside personal control
"Im sorry your party wasn't more fun. Its probably because i was there"
reviewed verified correct answers
QSEN (quality and safety education for nurses) - answers✔✔1. Patient centered care
2. Teamwork and collaboration
3. Quality improvement
4. Evidenced based practice
5. Safety
6. Informatics
Transference - answers✔✔Refers to the unconscious feelings that the patent has toward the
healthcare worker that were originally felt in childhood for a significant other.
"You remind me of my sister"
Can be positive or negative
Coutertransference - answers✔✔Refers to unconscious feelings that the healthcare worker has
towards the patient.
If the pt reminds you of someone you do not like, you may unconsciously react as if the patient
were that person.
All or nothing thinking - answers✔✔Thinking in black and white, reducing complex outcomes
into absolutes
"Although Lindsey earned 2nd, she considered herself a loser"
, Overgeneralization - answers✔✔Using a bad outcome as evidence that nothing will ever go
right again
"Andrew had a minor accident and now says he shouldn't be allowed on the road"
Labeling - answers✔✔A form of generalization in which a characteristic or event becomes
definitive and results in an overly harsh label for self or others
"Because i failed the exam, i should just give up and find a different major"
Mental filter - answers✔✔Focusing on a negative detail or bad event and allowing it to taint
everything else
Jumping to conclusions - answers✔✔Making a negative interpretation despite the fact that
there is little to no supportive evidence
"My fiance did not call for 3 hours. He must not love me anymore"
Catastrophizing - answers✔✔Extreme form of magnification in which the very worst is assumed
to be a probable outcome
"If i don't make a good impression, my boss will fire me"
Emotional reasoning - answers✔✔Drawing a conclusion based on an emotional state
"I'm nervous about the exam. I must not be prepared if i were, I wouldn't be afraid.
Personalization - answers✔✔Assuming responsibility for an external event or situation that was
likely outside personal control
"Im sorry your party wasn't more fun. Its probably because i was there"
