PHARMACOLOGY FOR NURSING CARE 11 2026
ASSESSMENT SCRIPT DETAILED RESPONSES
COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW
◉ What is evidence-based practice in nursing?
Answer: Using findings from scientific research to drive practice
changes and improve patient outcomes.
◉ What is Maslow's hierarchy of needs?
Answer: A framework used to prioritize patient needs in clinical
practice.
◉ What are the four types of nursing diagnoses?
Answer: Actual, Risk/High-Risk, Health Promotion, and Syndrome.
◉ What defines an actual nursing diagnosis?
Answer: It is based on human responses currently occurring and
supported by defining characteristics observed during assessment.
◉ What is a risk/high-risk nursing diagnosis?
, Answer: It indicates that a patient is more susceptible to a particular
problem than others in the same situation, without needing defining
characteristics.
◉ What is a collaborative problem in nursing?
Answer: A complication that requires both nursing and medical
management.
◉ What is the role of focused assessment in nursing?
Answer: To collect additional, targeted data specific to a patient or
family to validate a suggested problem or nursing diagnosis.
◉ What is the significance of Gordon's Functional Health Patterns
model?
Answer: It organizes patient data into 11 functional health patterns
to help identify actual and potential problems systematically.
◉ What does the planning step of the nursing process involve?
Answer: Goal setting and prioritization of patient care.
◉ What is the implementation step in the nursing process?
Answer: Carrying out the care plan.
ASSESSMENT SCRIPT DETAILED RESPONSES
COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW
◉ What is evidence-based practice in nursing?
Answer: Using findings from scientific research to drive practice
changes and improve patient outcomes.
◉ What is Maslow's hierarchy of needs?
Answer: A framework used to prioritize patient needs in clinical
practice.
◉ What are the four types of nursing diagnoses?
Answer: Actual, Risk/High-Risk, Health Promotion, and Syndrome.
◉ What defines an actual nursing diagnosis?
Answer: It is based on human responses currently occurring and
supported by defining characteristics observed during assessment.
◉ What is a risk/high-risk nursing diagnosis?
, Answer: It indicates that a patient is more susceptible to a particular
problem than others in the same situation, without needing defining
characteristics.
◉ What is a collaborative problem in nursing?
Answer: A complication that requires both nursing and medical
management.
◉ What is the role of focused assessment in nursing?
Answer: To collect additional, targeted data specific to a patient or
family to validate a suggested problem or nursing diagnosis.
◉ What is the significance of Gordon's Functional Health Patterns
model?
Answer: It organizes patient data into 11 functional health patterns
to help identify actual and potential problems systematically.
◉ What does the planning step of the nursing process involve?
Answer: Goal setting and prioritization of patient care.
◉ What is the implementation step in the nursing process?
Answer: Carrying out the care plan.
