NUR401 Exam Questions with Answers
subjective data - ✔✔collecting information through communication. what the patient tells you
objective data - ✔✔measurable data obtained through observations by seeing, hearing,
smelling and touching
health promotion - ✔✔health promotion is the process of enabling people to increase control
over and improve their health
health prevention - ✔✔wide range of activities known as interventions- aimed at reducing risks
or threats to health.
3 categories:
1) primary- to reduce injury
2) secondary- reduce impact of disease
3) tertiary- soften the impact of ongoing disease
I.S.B.A.R - ✔✔I- identification (of yourself)
S- situation ( name, dob, age, gender, why your phoning, admission)
B- background
A- assessment (vital signs, severity of condition)
r- recommendation ( action to take place)
5 guidelines of documentation - ✔✔fact, accuracy, completeness, currency, organisation
(F.A.C.C.O)
autonomy - ✔✔the right to self determine
, beneficence - ✔✔doing good
non maleficence - ✔✔to do no harm
fidelity - ✔✔the obligation to remain faithful to ones commitments to others
justice - ✔✔concept of fairness and treating people fairly
veracity - ✔✔the concepts of truthfulness
restraint - ✔✔the implementation of any forcible control by a service provide that:
-limits the actions of a consumer in circumstances which the consumer is at risk of injury/
injuring others or putting consumers at risk
- removes consumers right to freedom
delegation - ✔✔the transfer of responsibility for the performance of an activity from one
person to another with the former retaining accountability for the process and the outcome
accountability - ✔✔being answerable for your decisions and actions
direction - ✔✔the active process of directing, guiding, monitoring and influencing the outcome
of an individuals practice
direction and delegation principles - ✔✔the decision to delegate is a professional judgment
made by a RN and should take into account:
A) the health status of the consumer
B) the complexity of the delegated activity
C) the context of care
subjective data - ✔✔collecting information through communication. what the patient tells you
objective data - ✔✔measurable data obtained through observations by seeing, hearing,
smelling and touching
health promotion - ✔✔health promotion is the process of enabling people to increase control
over and improve their health
health prevention - ✔✔wide range of activities known as interventions- aimed at reducing risks
or threats to health.
3 categories:
1) primary- to reduce injury
2) secondary- reduce impact of disease
3) tertiary- soften the impact of ongoing disease
I.S.B.A.R - ✔✔I- identification (of yourself)
S- situation ( name, dob, age, gender, why your phoning, admission)
B- background
A- assessment (vital signs, severity of condition)
r- recommendation ( action to take place)
5 guidelines of documentation - ✔✔fact, accuracy, completeness, currency, organisation
(F.A.C.C.O)
autonomy - ✔✔the right to self determine
, beneficence - ✔✔doing good
non maleficence - ✔✔to do no harm
fidelity - ✔✔the obligation to remain faithful to ones commitments to others
justice - ✔✔concept of fairness and treating people fairly
veracity - ✔✔the concepts of truthfulness
restraint - ✔✔the implementation of any forcible control by a service provide that:
-limits the actions of a consumer in circumstances which the consumer is at risk of injury/
injuring others or putting consumers at risk
- removes consumers right to freedom
delegation - ✔✔the transfer of responsibility for the performance of an activity from one
person to another with the former retaining accountability for the process and the outcome
accountability - ✔✔being answerable for your decisions and actions
direction - ✔✔the active process of directing, guiding, monitoring and influencing the outcome
of an individuals practice
direction and delegation principles - ✔✔the decision to delegate is a professional judgment
made by a RN and should take into account:
A) the health status of the consumer
B) the complexity of the delegated activity
C) the context of care
