HONDROS NURSING 185 EXAM 2 2025
UPDATED FULLY SOLVED FINAL PAPER
2026 FULL ANSWERS GRADED A+
⩥ Nursing Process. Answer: Uses the Scientific Method to complete a
Step by step approach to PROVIDE PATIENT centered care: ADPIE
Assessment
Diagnosis -RN only
Planning/Outcomes
Implementation
Evaluation
⩥ Why study Critical Thinking?. Answer: Thinking with a purpose,
know why you do what you do.
Discipline specific reasoning process that ensures a nurse is generating,
implementing, and evaluation approaches.
⩥ Benner's Theory of Stages of Clinical Competence. Answer: 5 Stages
of developing nursing clinical competence:
Stage 1: Novice
Stage 2: Advanced Beginner
Stage 3: Competent
Stage 4: Proficient
,Stage 5: Expert
Credit to nursing-theory.org
⩥ Stage 1: Novice. Answer: Nursing Student in first year of clinical
education; limited and inflexible, rule based, limited ability to predict
what might happen in a particular situation.
Credit to nursing-theory.org
⩥ Stage 2: Advanced Beginner. Answer: New grads in their first jobs,
nurses have more experience and are able to recognize recurrent,
meaningful components of a situation. They have the knowledge and the
knowhow but not the in-depth experience.
Credit to nursing-theory.org
⩥ Stage 5: Expert. Answer: Nurses that are able to recognize demands
and resources in situations and attain their goals. No longer do they rely
solely on rules to guide actions under certain situations. They area able
to intuitively grasp the situation based on their deep knowledge and
experience.
Credit to nursing-theory.org
⩥ Noticing. Answer: First step of Tanner's model of clinical judgement.
1. Identifying signs and symptoms
2. Gathering complete and accurate data
, 3. Assessing systematically and comprehensively
4. Predicting and managing potential complications
5. Identifying assumptions
⩥ Noticing-1. Identifying signs and symptoms. Answer: The ability to
recognize that a situation is different, changed, and not of a normal state.
Indcates that something is different than expected.
⩥ Noticing-2. Gathering complete and accurate data. Answer: Collecting
pertinent data from various sources. This data is used as the basis for
identifying issues/concerns, solving problems, and making decisions.
Must verify that data is complete and accurate.
⩥ Noticing-3. Assessing systematically and comprehensively. Answer:
An organized manner to collect data to make sure nothing is omitted or
forgotten. Examining the whole, piece-by-piece in a thorough manner.
⩥ Noticing-4.Predicting and managing potential complications. Answer:
Looking at the big picture to consider possible complications for an
individual patient. Must know common complications and consider
individual differences. In Noticing, you are predicting complications,
which means you are identifying possible problems.
UPDATED FULLY SOLVED FINAL PAPER
2026 FULL ANSWERS GRADED A+
⩥ Nursing Process. Answer: Uses the Scientific Method to complete a
Step by step approach to PROVIDE PATIENT centered care: ADPIE
Assessment
Diagnosis -RN only
Planning/Outcomes
Implementation
Evaluation
⩥ Why study Critical Thinking?. Answer: Thinking with a purpose,
know why you do what you do.
Discipline specific reasoning process that ensures a nurse is generating,
implementing, and evaluation approaches.
⩥ Benner's Theory of Stages of Clinical Competence. Answer: 5 Stages
of developing nursing clinical competence:
Stage 1: Novice
Stage 2: Advanced Beginner
Stage 3: Competent
Stage 4: Proficient
,Stage 5: Expert
Credit to nursing-theory.org
⩥ Stage 1: Novice. Answer: Nursing Student in first year of clinical
education; limited and inflexible, rule based, limited ability to predict
what might happen in a particular situation.
Credit to nursing-theory.org
⩥ Stage 2: Advanced Beginner. Answer: New grads in their first jobs,
nurses have more experience and are able to recognize recurrent,
meaningful components of a situation. They have the knowledge and the
knowhow but not the in-depth experience.
Credit to nursing-theory.org
⩥ Stage 5: Expert. Answer: Nurses that are able to recognize demands
and resources in situations and attain their goals. No longer do they rely
solely on rules to guide actions under certain situations. They area able
to intuitively grasp the situation based on their deep knowledge and
experience.
Credit to nursing-theory.org
⩥ Noticing. Answer: First step of Tanner's model of clinical judgement.
1. Identifying signs and symptoms
2. Gathering complete and accurate data
, 3. Assessing systematically and comprehensively
4. Predicting and managing potential complications
5. Identifying assumptions
⩥ Noticing-1. Identifying signs and symptoms. Answer: The ability to
recognize that a situation is different, changed, and not of a normal state.
Indcates that something is different than expected.
⩥ Noticing-2. Gathering complete and accurate data. Answer: Collecting
pertinent data from various sources. This data is used as the basis for
identifying issues/concerns, solving problems, and making decisions.
Must verify that data is complete and accurate.
⩥ Noticing-3. Assessing systematically and comprehensively. Answer:
An organized manner to collect data to make sure nothing is omitted or
forgotten. Examining the whole, piece-by-piece in a thorough manner.
⩥ Noticing-4.Predicting and managing potential complications. Answer:
Looking at the big picture to consider possible complications for an
individual patient. Must know common complications and consider
individual differences. In Noticing, you are predicting complications,
which means you are identifying possible problems.
