NUFT 202 COMPREHENSIVE EXAM 2026 QUESTIONS AND
SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔NANDA-I terminology - ✔✔-diagnoses have a broad literature base, with many -
diagnoses being evidence based. Patient safety requires accurate documentation of
health problems
-classifications are the most comprehensive
- diagnoses are under continual refinement and development by professional nurses
✔✔Nursing Diagnoses: Application to Care Planning - ✔✔Diagnoses direct the planning
process and the selection of nursing interventions to achieve desired outcomes for
patients
-By making accurate these, your subsequent care plan communicates a patients health
care problems to other professionals and ensures that you select relevant and
appropriate nursing interventions
✔✔Third Step of the Nursing Process - ✔✔planning
✔✔Planning - ✔✔the nurse collaborates with a patient and family and the rest of the
health care team to determine the urgency of the identified problems and prioritize
patient needs
✔✔Plan of care - ✔✔Dynamic and changes as a patient's individualized needs change
✔✔Establishing Priorities - ✔✔Ordering of nursing diagnoses or patient problems uses
determinations of urgency and/or importance to establish a preferential order for nursing
actions. Helps nurses anticipate and sequence nursing interventions.
-Symptom pattern recognition
✔✔High (emergent) Priority - ✔✔nursing diagnoses that, if untreated, result in harm to a
patient or others
-ex. those related to airway status
-circulations
-safety and pain
✔✔Three levels of Priorities - ✔✔high
intermediate
low
✔✔Intermediate (non-life threatening) Priority - ✔✔involve non-emergent, nonlinear-
threatening needs of a patient
✔✔low priority - ✔✔not always directly related to a specific illness or prognosis but
affect a patient's future well-being.
-ex. patients long term health care needs
,✔✔Priorities in Practice - ✔✔Many factors within the healthcare environment affect your
ability to set priorities
-the same factors that influence your minute- by-minute ability to prioritize nursing
actions affect the ability to prioritize nursing diagnosis and plan care for groups of
patients
-When ethical issues make prioritizes less clear, it is important to have an open
discussion with the patient, family, and other health care providers
✔✔Steps in Plan of Care (POC)- Priorities - ✔✔Assess patient
identify problems
prioritize problems
identify desired outcomes
identify interventions for achieving outcomes
prioritize interventions
deliver patient care
evaluate interventions
✔✔Critical thinking is setting goals and expected outcomes - ✔✔the use of these in
patient care is designed to help focus the efforts of all health care team members to a
common purpose; helping a patient achieve or maintain a desired level of health
✔✔Goal - ✔✔a broad statement that describes a desired change in a patient's condition
or behavior
-think of this as an ultimate outcome and expected outcomes as the measurable
changes that must be achieved to reach a goal
✔✔expected outcome - ✔✔measurable change that must be achieved to reach a goal
-behavior
-physical state
-perception
✔✔role of the patient in goal/outcome setting - ✔✔Always partner with patients when
setting their individualized goals.
Mutual goal setting includes the patient and family (when appropriate) in prioritizing the
goals of care and developing a plan of action.
Act as a patient advocate.
✔✔Patient expectation for setting goals and outcomes - ✔✔alert
some degree of independence in completing ADLS, problem solving, and decision
making
understanding of priority problems
willingness/motivation to resolve those problems
, ✔✔Patient-centered goal - ✔✔reflects a patient's highest possible level of wellness and
independence in function; it is realistic and based on patient needs, abilities and
resources; outcomes reflect a patients specific behavior, not your own goals or
interventions
✔✔Nursing sensitive patient outcome - ✔✔A measurable patient, family, or community
state, behavior, or perception largely influenced by and sensitive to nursing
interventions
-ex. reduction in paint frequency
incidence of pressure ulcers
incidence of falls
✔✔correct goal statement - ✔✔patient will ambulate independently in 3 days
✔✔Correct Outcome Statement - ✔✔Subject + verb + condition + performance
criteria/qualifier + target time (Ex. "The patient will drink 1000 mI. in 24 hours.")
- patient ambulates in the hall 3 times a day by 4/22
✔✔Nursing Outcomes Classification (NOC) - ✔✔Links outcomes to NANDA-I nursing
diagnoses
use this resource to select goals and outcomes for your patients. Many health care
institutions use this as part of the infrastructure of their documentation system.
Helps standardize nursing care on the national and international level to accurately
measure nursing interventions
✔✔writing goals and expected outcomes - ✔✔must be patient-centered
SMART acronym (specific, measurable, attainable, realistic, timed)
✔✔S- Specific or singular goal or outcome - ✔✔The goal and outcome must be singular
addressing only one behavior, perception, or physiological response
Be specific as specificity allows you to decide if there is a need to modify the plan of
care
✔✔M-Measurable - ✔✔You should be able to measure or observe if chang takes place
in a patients status. Changes occur in physiological findings and in patients knowledge,
perception, and behavior
-terms describing quality, quantity, frequency, length, or weight allow you to evaluate
outcomes precisely
✔✔A-Attainable - ✔✔for a patient's health to improve he or she must be able to attain
the outcomes of care that are set; mutually set attainable goals and outcomes increase
a patents motivation and cooperation
SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔NANDA-I terminology - ✔✔-diagnoses have a broad literature base, with many -
diagnoses being evidence based. Patient safety requires accurate documentation of
health problems
-classifications are the most comprehensive
- diagnoses are under continual refinement and development by professional nurses
✔✔Nursing Diagnoses: Application to Care Planning - ✔✔Diagnoses direct the planning
process and the selection of nursing interventions to achieve desired outcomes for
patients
-By making accurate these, your subsequent care plan communicates a patients health
care problems to other professionals and ensures that you select relevant and
appropriate nursing interventions
✔✔Third Step of the Nursing Process - ✔✔planning
✔✔Planning - ✔✔the nurse collaborates with a patient and family and the rest of the
health care team to determine the urgency of the identified problems and prioritize
patient needs
✔✔Plan of care - ✔✔Dynamic and changes as a patient's individualized needs change
✔✔Establishing Priorities - ✔✔Ordering of nursing diagnoses or patient problems uses
determinations of urgency and/or importance to establish a preferential order for nursing
actions. Helps nurses anticipate and sequence nursing interventions.
-Symptom pattern recognition
✔✔High (emergent) Priority - ✔✔nursing diagnoses that, if untreated, result in harm to a
patient or others
-ex. those related to airway status
-circulations
-safety and pain
✔✔Three levels of Priorities - ✔✔high
intermediate
low
✔✔Intermediate (non-life threatening) Priority - ✔✔involve non-emergent, nonlinear-
threatening needs of a patient
✔✔low priority - ✔✔not always directly related to a specific illness or prognosis but
affect a patient's future well-being.
-ex. patients long term health care needs
,✔✔Priorities in Practice - ✔✔Many factors within the healthcare environment affect your
ability to set priorities
-the same factors that influence your minute- by-minute ability to prioritize nursing
actions affect the ability to prioritize nursing diagnosis and plan care for groups of
patients
-When ethical issues make prioritizes less clear, it is important to have an open
discussion with the patient, family, and other health care providers
✔✔Steps in Plan of Care (POC)- Priorities - ✔✔Assess patient
identify problems
prioritize problems
identify desired outcomes
identify interventions for achieving outcomes
prioritize interventions
deliver patient care
evaluate interventions
✔✔Critical thinking is setting goals and expected outcomes - ✔✔the use of these in
patient care is designed to help focus the efforts of all health care team members to a
common purpose; helping a patient achieve or maintain a desired level of health
✔✔Goal - ✔✔a broad statement that describes a desired change in a patient's condition
or behavior
-think of this as an ultimate outcome and expected outcomes as the measurable
changes that must be achieved to reach a goal
✔✔expected outcome - ✔✔measurable change that must be achieved to reach a goal
-behavior
-physical state
-perception
✔✔role of the patient in goal/outcome setting - ✔✔Always partner with patients when
setting their individualized goals.
Mutual goal setting includes the patient and family (when appropriate) in prioritizing the
goals of care and developing a plan of action.
Act as a patient advocate.
✔✔Patient expectation for setting goals and outcomes - ✔✔alert
some degree of independence in completing ADLS, problem solving, and decision
making
understanding of priority problems
willingness/motivation to resolve those problems
, ✔✔Patient-centered goal - ✔✔reflects a patient's highest possible level of wellness and
independence in function; it is realistic and based on patient needs, abilities and
resources; outcomes reflect a patients specific behavior, not your own goals or
interventions
✔✔Nursing sensitive patient outcome - ✔✔A measurable patient, family, or community
state, behavior, or perception largely influenced by and sensitive to nursing
interventions
-ex. reduction in paint frequency
incidence of pressure ulcers
incidence of falls
✔✔correct goal statement - ✔✔patient will ambulate independently in 3 days
✔✔Correct Outcome Statement - ✔✔Subject + verb + condition + performance
criteria/qualifier + target time (Ex. "The patient will drink 1000 mI. in 24 hours.")
- patient ambulates in the hall 3 times a day by 4/22
✔✔Nursing Outcomes Classification (NOC) - ✔✔Links outcomes to NANDA-I nursing
diagnoses
use this resource to select goals and outcomes for your patients. Many health care
institutions use this as part of the infrastructure of their documentation system.
Helps standardize nursing care on the national and international level to accurately
measure nursing interventions
✔✔writing goals and expected outcomes - ✔✔must be patient-centered
SMART acronym (specific, measurable, attainable, realistic, timed)
✔✔S- Specific or singular goal or outcome - ✔✔The goal and outcome must be singular
addressing only one behavior, perception, or physiological response
Be specific as specificity allows you to decide if there is a need to modify the plan of
care
✔✔M-Measurable - ✔✔You should be able to measure or observe if chang takes place
in a patients status. Changes occur in physiological findings and in patients knowledge,
perception, and behavior
-terms describing quality, quantity, frequency, length, or weight allow you to evaluate
outcomes precisely
✔✔A-Attainable - ✔✔for a patient's health to improve he or she must be able to attain
the outcomes of care that are set; mutually set attainable goals and outcomes increase
a patents motivation and cooperation
