QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
What is an assessment? - CORRECT ANSWER The collection of dafa sbout an individuals
health state
Can either be subjective or objective data
What is an objective data assessment? - CORRECT ANSWER What the health care provider
observes during the assessment, what is measurable, seen, felt, or heard
Data of the sense, like what we are seeing, feeling, smelling, smelling
Ex it feels like an elephant is sitting on my chest
What is the database? - CORRECT ANSWER Together with the patients record, laboratory
studies, and other diagnostic tests, these elements together form the database
What is the purpose of assessment? - CORRECT ANSWER To make a judgments or diagnoses
on the basis of data
What is diagnostic reasoning? What are the components? - CORRECT ANSWER The process
of analyzing health data and drawing connections to identify diagnoses, it consists of four major
components
Attending to Initially available cues
Formulating diagnostic hypotheses
Gathering data relevant to tentative hypotheses
Evaluating each hypothesis with the new data collected, thus arriving to the final diagnosis
,What is the nursing process? - CORRECT ANSWER The nursing process is a systemic method
of planning and providing patient care organized around series of phrases that integrate evidence
informed practice and critical thinking
It typically has five phases
(1) assessment
(2) nursing diagnosis
(3) planning
(4) implementation
(5) evaluation
What is subject data assessment? - CORRECT ANSWER What the persons says about
themselves their feelings, sensations
Ex client is pale diaphoretic and grimacing paint
What are the four terminology to know learned this week? - CORRECT ANSWER Subjective
data, objective data, sign, and symptom
What is the nursing process? Explain that process. Is the processes straight and linear? - CORRECT
ANSWER The nursing process are a series of steps that the nurse uses to reach an evaluation
Beginning from assessment, then nursing diagnosis, planning, implementation, and evaluation
In the assessment part of the nursing process? - CORRECT ANSWER Collection of data,
organizing data, validate data, and document data
,Explain the nursing diagnosis? - CORRECT ANSWER Analyze data, identity health problems
risks and strengths, then formulate diagnostic statement
Explain the planning of the nursing process? - CORRECT ANSWER Prioritize problems snd
diagnoses, formulate goals and designed health outcomes, identify nursing interventions
what is the implementation phase of the nursing process - CORRECT ANSWER Reasses the
patient, determine the nurses need for assistance, implement nursing invertentions, supervise
delegated care, and document nursing activities
Explain the evaluation of the nursing process? - CORRECT ANSWER Collect data related to
health outcomes,
complete data with outcomes,
relate nursing actions to patient goals/outcomes,
draw conclusions about problem or status
Continue, modify, or end the patients care plan
What is cultural sensitivity? - CORRECT ANSWER The idea that people have culturally based
understandings, practices, and customs of those which health care providers should be aware of and
accommodating to
What is cultural competence? - CORRECT ANSWER Location of knowledge, skills, attitudes,
or personal attributes required by nurses to maximize respectful relationships with diverse populations
of clients and co workers
What is anterior, and posterior? - CORRECT ANSWER Anterior means towards the front
Posterior means towards the back
, What is inferior and superior? - CORRECT ANSWER Inferior means towards the feet or
below
Superior means towards the head or above
What is lateral and medial? - CORRECT ANSWER Medial means towards the mid line of the
body
Lateral means away from the midline of the body
What is plantar and palmar? - CORRECT ANSWER Plantar means sole (bottom) of the foot
Palmar means palm side of the hand
What is flexor and extensor? - CORRECT ANSWER Flexor is the movement that bends a joint
causing a decrease in the angle between two body part
Extensor is a movement that straightens a joint, increasing the angle between two body parts
What is the purpose health history? What does it provide? Is it s holistic description? What is health
history combine with ? - CORRECT ANSWER Purpose of a health history is to collected
subjective data
Provides a complete picture of clients part and current health
It is a holistic description of the client
Health history is combined with over objective data to form a client database
What are the components of a health history? - CORRECT ANSWER Biological data