NSG 252 Exam 1 UPDATED ACTUAL
Questions and CORRECT Answers
A nurse is caring for a patient in the hospital. When should the nurse begin discharge planning?
a. When the patient is ready.
b. After an order is written/prescribed.
c. Upon admission to the hospital.
d. When the patient is ready. - CORRECT ANSWER - c
A nurse provides immunization to children and adults through the public health department. Which type
of health care is the nurse providing?
a. Preventative Care
b. Continuing Care
c. Restorative Care
d. Acute Care - CORRECT ANSWER - a
A nurse is working in a health care organization that has achieved Magnet status. Which components are
indicators of this status? (Select all that apply.)
a. Exemplary professional practice
b. Structural empowerment
c. Willingness to learn
d. Transformational leadership
e. Empirical quality results - CORRECT ANSWER - a, b, d, e
A nurse working in a community hospital's emergency department provides care to a patient having chest
pain. Which level of care is the nurse providing?
a. Tertiary Care
b. Preventative Care
c. Primary Care
d. Restorative Care - CORRECT ANSWER - a
,A nurse is providing home care to a home-bound patient treated with intravenous (IV) therapy and enteral
nutrition. What is the home health nurse's primary objective?
a. Counseling
b. Education
c. Screening
d. Dependence on the nurse - CORRECT ANSWER - b
A registered nurse (RN) is the group leader of licensed practical nurses (LPNs) and nursing assistive
personnel (NAP). Which nursing care model is being implemented?
a. Case Management
b. Total patient care
c. Primary Nursing
d. Team nursing - CORRECT ANSWER - d
A nurse is overseeing the care of patients diagnosed with either severe diabetes or with heart failure. The
purpose of this nursing model is to improve cost-effectiveness and quality of care. Which nursing care
delivery model is the nurse using?
a. Team Nursing
b. Case Management
c. Total patient care
d. Primary Nursing - CORRECT ANSWER - b
What does QSEN stand for?
a. Quantifiable Safety Education for New Nurses
b. Quality and Safety Education for Nursing
c. Quite Substantial Economics in Nursing
d. Quality and Security of Extraordinary Nurses - CORRECT ANSWER - b
What are the concepts of Patient and Family Centered-care? (mark all that apply)
a. Information sharing
,b. Customer satisfaction
c. Meeting nutritional needs
d. Dignity and respect
e. Collaboration
f. Participation - CORRECT ANSWER - a, d, e, f
How do nursing students develop their leadership skills? (Mark all that apply)
a. Practice performance improvement with each patient interaction
b. Ignore the healthcare interprofessional team
c. Introduce yourself and work closely with professional nurses
d. Learning from mistakes and seeking guidance
e. Focus on your grades only
f. Consult with nursing instructors and nursing staff for feedback on clinical decisions - CORRECT
ANSWER - a, c, d, f
Which action by a nurse indicates application of the critical thinking model to make the best clinical
decisions?
a. Depending on the charge nurse to determine priorities of care
b. Relying on recall of information from past lectures and textbooks
c. Drawing on past clinical experiences to formulate standardized care plans
d. Using the nursing process - CORRECT ANSWER - d
A nurse is using a critical thinking model to provide care. Which component is first element implemented
when helping a nurse make clinical decisions?
a. Specific knowledge base
b. Experience
c. Competence
d. Attitude - CORRECT ANSWER - c
A nurse is using the critical thinking skill of evaluation. Which action will the nurse take?
a. Support findings and conclusions
, b. Examine the meaning of data
c. Search for links between the data and the nurses assumptions
d. Review the effectiveness of nursing actions - CORRECT ANSWER - d
In which order will the nurse use the nursing process steps during the clinical decision-making process?
1. Evaluating goals
2. Assessing patient needs
3. Planning priorities of care
4. Determining nursing diagnoses
5. Implementing nursing interventions
a. 2, 3, 4, 5, 1
b. 4, 3, 2, 1, 5
c. 2, 4, 3, 5, 1
d. 1, 2, 4, 5, 3 - CORRECT ANSWER - c
Which action demonstrates a nurse utilizing reflection to improve clinical decision making?
a. Uses an objective approach in patient situations.
b. Provides evidence-based explanations and research for care of assigned patients.
c. Obtains data in an orderly fashion.
d. Improves a plan of care while thinking back on interventions effectiveness. - CORRECT
ANSWER - d
A nurse performs an assessment on a patient. Which assessment data will the nurse use as an etiology for
Acute pain?
a. Disruption of tissue integrity
b. Dull headache
c. Mild discomfort while changing positions
d. Reports pain as a 4 on a scale of 1 to 10 - CORRECT ANSWER - a
A nurse assesses that a patient has not voided in 6 hours. Which question should the nurse ask to assist in
establishing a nursing diagnosis of Urinary retention?
Questions and CORRECT Answers
A nurse is caring for a patient in the hospital. When should the nurse begin discharge planning?
a. When the patient is ready.
b. After an order is written/prescribed.
c. Upon admission to the hospital.
d. When the patient is ready. - CORRECT ANSWER - c
A nurse provides immunization to children and adults through the public health department. Which type
of health care is the nurse providing?
a. Preventative Care
b. Continuing Care
c. Restorative Care
d. Acute Care - CORRECT ANSWER - a
A nurse is working in a health care organization that has achieved Magnet status. Which components are
indicators of this status? (Select all that apply.)
a. Exemplary professional practice
b. Structural empowerment
c. Willingness to learn
d. Transformational leadership
e. Empirical quality results - CORRECT ANSWER - a, b, d, e
A nurse working in a community hospital's emergency department provides care to a patient having chest
pain. Which level of care is the nurse providing?
a. Tertiary Care
b. Preventative Care
c. Primary Care
d. Restorative Care - CORRECT ANSWER - a
,A nurse is providing home care to a home-bound patient treated with intravenous (IV) therapy and enteral
nutrition. What is the home health nurse's primary objective?
a. Counseling
b. Education
c. Screening
d. Dependence on the nurse - CORRECT ANSWER - b
A registered nurse (RN) is the group leader of licensed practical nurses (LPNs) and nursing assistive
personnel (NAP). Which nursing care model is being implemented?
a. Case Management
b. Total patient care
c. Primary Nursing
d. Team nursing - CORRECT ANSWER - d
A nurse is overseeing the care of patients diagnosed with either severe diabetes or with heart failure. The
purpose of this nursing model is to improve cost-effectiveness and quality of care. Which nursing care
delivery model is the nurse using?
a. Team Nursing
b. Case Management
c. Total patient care
d. Primary Nursing - CORRECT ANSWER - b
What does QSEN stand for?
a. Quantifiable Safety Education for New Nurses
b. Quality and Safety Education for Nursing
c. Quite Substantial Economics in Nursing
d. Quality and Security of Extraordinary Nurses - CORRECT ANSWER - b
What are the concepts of Patient and Family Centered-care? (mark all that apply)
a. Information sharing
,b. Customer satisfaction
c. Meeting nutritional needs
d. Dignity and respect
e. Collaboration
f. Participation - CORRECT ANSWER - a, d, e, f
How do nursing students develop their leadership skills? (Mark all that apply)
a. Practice performance improvement with each patient interaction
b. Ignore the healthcare interprofessional team
c. Introduce yourself and work closely with professional nurses
d. Learning from mistakes and seeking guidance
e. Focus on your grades only
f. Consult with nursing instructors and nursing staff for feedback on clinical decisions - CORRECT
ANSWER - a, c, d, f
Which action by a nurse indicates application of the critical thinking model to make the best clinical
decisions?
a. Depending on the charge nurse to determine priorities of care
b. Relying on recall of information from past lectures and textbooks
c. Drawing on past clinical experiences to formulate standardized care plans
d. Using the nursing process - CORRECT ANSWER - d
A nurse is using a critical thinking model to provide care. Which component is first element implemented
when helping a nurse make clinical decisions?
a. Specific knowledge base
b. Experience
c. Competence
d. Attitude - CORRECT ANSWER - c
A nurse is using the critical thinking skill of evaluation. Which action will the nurse take?
a. Support findings and conclusions
, b. Examine the meaning of data
c. Search for links between the data and the nurses assumptions
d. Review the effectiveness of nursing actions - CORRECT ANSWER - d
In which order will the nurse use the nursing process steps during the clinical decision-making process?
1. Evaluating goals
2. Assessing patient needs
3. Planning priorities of care
4. Determining nursing diagnoses
5. Implementing nursing interventions
a. 2, 3, 4, 5, 1
b. 4, 3, 2, 1, 5
c. 2, 4, 3, 5, 1
d. 1, 2, 4, 5, 3 - CORRECT ANSWER - c
Which action demonstrates a nurse utilizing reflection to improve clinical decision making?
a. Uses an objective approach in patient situations.
b. Provides evidence-based explanations and research for care of assigned patients.
c. Obtains data in an orderly fashion.
d. Improves a plan of care while thinking back on interventions effectiveness. - CORRECT
ANSWER - d
A nurse performs an assessment on a patient. Which assessment data will the nurse use as an etiology for
Acute pain?
a. Disruption of tissue integrity
b. Dull headache
c. Mild discomfort while changing positions
d. Reports pain as a 4 on a scale of 1 to 10 - CORRECT ANSWER - a
A nurse assesses that a patient has not voided in 6 hours. Which question should the nurse ask to assist in
establishing a nursing diagnosis of Urinary retention?
