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Nursing Foundations – Exam 2 – Chapter Objectives – Study Notes

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This document outlines the chapter objectives for Nursing Foundations Exam 2, focusing on evidence-based practice, nursing informatics, nutrition, wound care, pressure injury staging, and oxygenation. It includes PICOT development, levels of evidence, dietary guidelines, Braden Scale assessment, and pressure injury prevention strategies to guide structured exam preparation.

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Exam 2- Nursing foundations chapter objectives

- Enhances quality patient care
- Research affects everything that nurses do
Discuss the relationship between evidence-based practice
- Expectation of
and the improvement of the safety and quality of nursing
- American Nurses Association (ANA) standards
practice.
- Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN)
- Institute of Medicine (IOM)
- Select and define the problem.
- Search for information on the topic.
- Formulate a research question, hypothesis, or problem
statement.
Describe the steps of evidence-based practice.
- Select a research design: Qualitative or quantitative?
- Collect data.
- Analyze data.
- Report the research findings.
P: Patient/population
I: Intervention of interest
Develop a PICOT question. C: Comparison intervention
O: Outcome
T: Time
- Identify knowledge gaps
- Formulate relevant questions
- Conduct an efficient literature search
- Apply rules of evidence to determine the validity of stud-
Discuss ways to apply evidence in registered nursing
ies
practice.
- Apply the literature findings appropriately to the patient's
problem
- Appropriately involve the patient in the clinical deci-
sion-making

Discuss the levels of evidence available in the literature.



, Exam 2- Nursing foundations chapter objectives

- Select and define the problem.
- Search for information on the topic.
- Formulate a research question, hypothesis, or problem
statement.
- Select a research design: Qualitative or quantitative?
- Collect data.
- Analyze data.
- Report the research findings.
A method of drawing conclusions by going from the spe-
Inductive thinking cific to the general. It is also called inductive logic or
bottom-up reasoning.
A logical approach is where you progress from general
Deductive thinking ideas to specific conclusions. It is also called deductive
logic or top-down reasoning.
A longitudinal study over 50 years to identify healthcare
Framingham studies
norms.
Offers a meaningful philosophical foundation to nursing
science beyond conventional Western science. Acknowl-
Watson's Science of Human Caring edges a relational ontology versus a separatist ontology.
Embraces the whole person, the unity of mind, body, and
spirit as one in relation to the environment at all levels.
A nurse's progression throughout their time, nursing


Benner's Novice to Expert




- Informatics: Managing and processing information nec-
essary to make decisions


, Exam 2- Nursing foundations chapter objectives

- Nursing informatics: "Integrates nursing science with
information management and analytical sciences to iden-
Describe nursing informatics and its contributions to
tify, define, manage, and communicate data, information,
nursing.
knowledge, and wisdom in nursing practice" (American
Nurses Association [ANA], 2022).
- Facilitates evidence-based practice
- New model of decision-making
- Affords rapid access to the most current health informa-
tion
Discuss the relationship between informatics and the de- - Enables location of best evidence supporting nursing
livery of quality healthcare. practice
- Reduces barriers to evidence-based practice
- Facilitates a literature search
- Provides online sources for and of nursing research
- Provides literature databases
- Electronic mail, distribution lists, text messaging
- Communication applications (apps)
Describe how telehealth, telemedicine, and telecare are - Social networking
assisting individuals to achieve health goals. - Web conferencing
- Telehealth
- Blogs and wikis
- Nutrients: Building blocks for cells and tissues., supply
energ, help manufacture, maintain, and repair cells.
Recognize the role and significance of essential nutrients
- Found in foods
in human nutrition
- Changed and used in the body through metabolism:
anabolism and catabolism
Breakdown of larger molecules into smaller molecules
Catabolism
(where we get our energy)
Anabolism Form larger molecules from smaller
Identify risk factors that contribute to poor nutritional sta-
tus.

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