NURS 220 MIDTERM (LATEST UPDATE) REAL QUESTIONS
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GRADED A
Which critical thinking skill helps the nurse to see relationships among
the data?
A) Validation
B) Clustering related cues
C) Identifying gaps in data
D) Distinguishing relevant from irrelevant Ans✓✓✓B. Clustering
related cues
The nurse knows that developing appropriate nursing interventions for a
patient relies on the appropriateness of the _____ diagnosis.
A) nursing
B) medical
C) admission
D) collaborative Ans✓✓✓A. Nursing
The nursing process is a sequential method of problem solving that
nurses use, and includes which steps?
A) Assessment, treatment, planning, evaluation, discharge, follow-up
B) Admission, assessment, diagnosis, treatment, discharge planning
C) Admission, diagnosis, treatment, evaluation, discharge planning
D) Assessment, diagnosis, outcome identification, planning,
implementation,
,evaluation Ans✓✓✓D. Assessment, diagnosis, outcome identification,
planning, implementing, evaluation
A newly admitted patient is in acute pain, has not been sleeping well
lately, and is having difficulty breathing. How should the nurse prioritize
these problems?
A) Breathing, pain, sleep
B) Breathing, sleep, pain
C) Sleep, breathing, pain
D) Sleep, pain, breathing Ans✓✓✓A. Breathing, pain, sleep
Which of these would be formulated by a nurse using diagnostic
reasoning?
A) Nursing diagnosis
B) Medical diagnosis
C) Diagnostic hypothesis
D) Diagnostic assessment Ans✓✓✓C. Diagnostic hypothesis
Barriers to incorporating evidence-based practice (EBP) include:
A) nurses' lack of research skills in evaluating quality of research
studies.
B) lack of significant research studies.
C) insufficient clinical skills of nurses.
,D) inadequate physical assessment skills. Ans✓✓✓A. Nurses' lack of
research skills in evaluating quality of research studies
What is the step of the nursing process that includes data collection by
health history, physical examination, and interview?
A) Planning
B) Diagnosis
C) Evaluation
D) Assessment Ans✓✓✓D. Assessment
During a staff meeting, nurses discuss the problems with accessing
research studies in order to incorporate evidence-based clinical decision
making into their practice. Which suggestion by the nurse manager
would best help this problem?
A) Form a committee to conduct research studies.
B) Post published research studies on the unit's bulletin boards.
C) Encourage the nurses to visit the library to review studies.
D) Teach the nurses how to conduct electronic searches for research
studies. Ans✓✓✓D) Teach the nurses how to conduct electronic
searches for research studies.
When reviewing concepts of health, the nurse recalls that components of
holistic health include which of these?
A) Disease originates from the external environment.
B) The individual human is a closed system.
, C) Nurses are responsible for a patient's health state.
D) Holistic health views the mind, body, and spirit as interdependent.
Ans✓✓✓D) Holistic health views the mind, body, and spirit as
interdependent.
The nurse recognizes that the concept of prevention in describing health
is essential because:
A) disease can be prevented by treating the external environment.
B) the majority of deaths among Americans under age 65 years are not
preventable.
C) prevention places emphasis on the link between health and personal
behavior.
D) the means to prevention is through treatment provided by primary
health care practitioners. Ans✓✓✓C) prevention places emphasis on the
link between health and personal behavior.
The nurse is reviewing the components of the nursing process. Which
statement about nursing diagnoses is true?
A) They evaluate the etiology of disease.
B) They are a process based on the medical diagnosis.
C) They are clinical judgments about a person's response to an actual or
potential health state.
D) They focus on the function and malfunction of a specific organ
system in response to disease. Ans✓✓✓C) They are clinical judgments
about a person's response to an actual or potential health state.
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GRADED A
Which critical thinking skill helps the nurse to see relationships among
the data?
A) Validation
B) Clustering related cues
C) Identifying gaps in data
D) Distinguishing relevant from irrelevant Ans✓✓✓B. Clustering
related cues
The nurse knows that developing appropriate nursing interventions for a
patient relies on the appropriateness of the _____ diagnosis.
A) nursing
B) medical
C) admission
D) collaborative Ans✓✓✓A. Nursing
The nursing process is a sequential method of problem solving that
nurses use, and includes which steps?
A) Assessment, treatment, planning, evaluation, discharge, follow-up
B) Admission, assessment, diagnosis, treatment, discharge planning
C) Admission, diagnosis, treatment, evaluation, discharge planning
D) Assessment, diagnosis, outcome identification, planning,
implementation,
,evaluation Ans✓✓✓D. Assessment, diagnosis, outcome identification,
planning, implementing, evaluation
A newly admitted patient is in acute pain, has not been sleeping well
lately, and is having difficulty breathing. How should the nurse prioritize
these problems?
A) Breathing, pain, sleep
B) Breathing, sleep, pain
C) Sleep, breathing, pain
D) Sleep, pain, breathing Ans✓✓✓A. Breathing, pain, sleep
Which of these would be formulated by a nurse using diagnostic
reasoning?
A) Nursing diagnosis
B) Medical diagnosis
C) Diagnostic hypothesis
D) Diagnostic assessment Ans✓✓✓C. Diagnostic hypothesis
Barriers to incorporating evidence-based practice (EBP) include:
A) nurses' lack of research skills in evaluating quality of research
studies.
B) lack of significant research studies.
C) insufficient clinical skills of nurses.
,D) inadequate physical assessment skills. Ans✓✓✓A. Nurses' lack of
research skills in evaluating quality of research studies
What is the step of the nursing process that includes data collection by
health history, physical examination, and interview?
A) Planning
B) Diagnosis
C) Evaluation
D) Assessment Ans✓✓✓D. Assessment
During a staff meeting, nurses discuss the problems with accessing
research studies in order to incorporate evidence-based clinical decision
making into their practice. Which suggestion by the nurse manager
would best help this problem?
A) Form a committee to conduct research studies.
B) Post published research studies on the unit's bulletin boards.
C) Encourage the nurses to visit the library to review studies.
D) Teach the nurses how to conduct electronic searches for research
studies. Ans✓✓✓D) Teach the nurses how to conduct electronic
searches for research studies.
When reviewing concepts of health, the nurse recalls that components of
holistic health include which of these?
A) Disease originates from the external environment.
B) The individual human is a closed system.
, C) Nurses are responsible for a patient's health state.
D) Holistic health views the mind, body, and spirit as interdependent.
Ans✓✓✓D) Holistic health views the mind, body, and spirit as
interdependent.
The nurse recognizes that the concept of prevention in describing health
is essential because:
A) disease can be prevented by treating the external environment.
B) the majority of deaths among Americans under age 65 years are not
preventable.
C) prevention places emphasis on the link between health and personal
behavior.
D) the means to prevention is through treatment provided by primary
health care practitioners. Ans✓✓✓C) prevention places emphasis on the
link between health and personal behavior.
The nurse is reviewing the components of the nursing process. Which
statement about nursing diagnoses is true?
A) They evaluate the etiology of disease.
B) They are a process based on the medical diagnosis.
C) They are clinical judgments about a person's response to an actual or
potential health state.
D) They focus on the function and malfunction of a specific organ
system in response to disease. Ans✓✓✓C) They are clinical judgments
about a person's response to an actual or potential health state.
