Fundamental Concepts & Skills for Nursing
Practice I | 100% Correct Questions & Answers -
Galen
Question:
Which assessment question should the nurse use to clarify patient information that's has been
obtained
a. "What are the most important things you need to know about your diet"
b. "Am incorrect that you take two medications at home for your blood pressure?"
c. "Have we talked about all of the tissues that you have with wound care?"
d. "Can you talk about your discomfort?"
b. "Am incorrect that you take two medications at home for your blood pressure?"
Which essential critical thinking indicator is the nurse using when she tries out a new way to
apply a dressing?
a. Curiosity
b. Discipline
c. Creativity
d. Persistence
c. creativity
,The nurse on the surgical unit has a multiple patient assignment. On beginning the shift, the
nurse determines that the first patient to see in the morning is the individual who:
a. Has a blood pressure of 80/50 mm Hg
b. Requires instruction four wound care
c. Needs to be transferred from bed to chair
d. Received pain medication 5 minutes ago.
a. Has a blood pressure of 80/50 mm Hg
For the process of reflection, the nurse ask him-or herself which of the following?
a. "How I report the increase ball pressure reading?"
b. "Why is the patient having pain now?"
c. "Did the patient's respiratory status just change?"
d. "How should I have taught the patient patient to do self-injection more efficiently?"
d. "How should I have taught the patient patient to do self-injection more efficiently?"
The nurse is using the personal critical thinking indicator of honesty when he or she does, which
of the following?
a. Feel certain about being able to perform the skill.
b. Provides factual and true information to the patient.
c. Considers all of the information before moving forward with the plan of care.
d. Follows an orderly approach to completing the required interventions.
b. Provides factual and true information to the patient.
,The nurse keeps working with the patient to help him ambulate, motivating him to reach his goal
Of being independent. The nurse is demonstrating which critical thinking trait?
a. Confidence.
b. Humility.
c. Persistance
d. Fairness.
c. Fairness
On entering the room, the experience nurse has a sense that the patient's status has changed. The
nurse is using which attribute of clinical judgment?
a. Intuition
b. Validation
c. Inference
d. Inductive reasoning
a. Intuition
According to the NCSBN-CJMM, in order to form hypotheses, the nurse needs to
a. Analyze cues
b. Generating solutions
c. Taking action
d. Evaluating outcomes
b. Generating solutions
, The patient tells the nurse that she is not confident with self - injecting of insulin. The nurse
should use which of the following to validate this information from the patient?
a. Ask the family how the patient performed the self-injection
b. Confer with the other staff member to see how the technique was taught to then patient.
c. Determine what insulin was prescribed by the provider
d. Observe the patient giving the insulin injection
d. Observe the patient giving the insulin injection
For a patient who has chronic obstructive pulmonary disease with an excess of secretions in the
bronchioles, which nursing diagnosis is most appropriate?
a. Incomplete airway clearance
b. Ineffective respiratory pattern
c. Potential for asphyxia
d.Difficulty maintaining spontaneous ventilation
a. Incomplete airway clearance
Which of the following nursing interventions is most clearly stated, and will assist other staff
members to provide safe care?
a. Provide extra fluids
b. Increased ambulating in hallway
c. Reinforce use of incentive spirometer tid