Medical-Surgical Nursing I: Final Exam Review Guide – Key Concepts, Practice Questions, and Study Tips (2025 Edition)

Medical-Surgical Nursing I: Final Exam Review Guide – Key Concepts, Practice Questions, and Study Tips (2025 Edition)Medical-Surgical Nursing I: Final Exam Review Guide – Key Concepts, Practice Questions, and Study Tips (2025 Edition) Medical-Surgical Nursing I: Final Exam Review Guide – Key Concepts, Practice Questions, and Study Tips (2025 Edition) 1. what is the difference between clinical judgement and critical thinking?: - Clinical Judgement can be defined as "the Observed outcome of critical thinking and decision making" Critical Thinking is the use of cognitive skills or strategies that increase the proba- bility of a desired outcome 2. what is intellectual integrity?: value of the truth and ability to speak up. Example: you hear someone talking about a patient during lunch and you know talk- ing about patients in the public space is wrong. you tell them "I am not comfortable talking about a patient." 3. what is the nursing process?: ADPIE Assessment Diagnosis Planning Implementation Evaluation 4. Why are a majority of new grads not ready to practice safely?: because they are unable to recognize a change in a patients condition or identify the urgency of a situation. *only 23% of new grads are ready to practice safely. 5. what is the proper way to ask a research question?: Step 1: ASK THE BURN- ING QUESTION *The EBP Process; pg. 11 ch. 2 6. What are the Steps of PICOT, the Evidence based practice question frame- work?: P: Population/Problem I: Intervention C: Comparison O: Outcome T: Time 7. What's the purpose of Hospital Acquired Conditions (HACs) and Present-On admission (POA) reporting important?: If at discharge, if certain conditions were not POA, then the hospital doesn't receive additional payment for those conditions, and the hospital must then absorb the cost of care for the HACs. 8. what's a tool you can use to document a pressure injury?: Braden Skin Scale 9. what is the nurse role in Human Trafficking?: identifying physical and psycho- logical symptoms. if human trafficking is suspected, discuss it with your clinical team. and once confir