NUR 130 CORE MAIN QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
SET A+
✔✔Theory vs practice - ✔✔The best theory is done by practice
✔✔Knowledge vs deep understanding - ✔✔When one can start taking ques and piecing
them together
✔✔Recognizing patterns - ✔✔Certain processes having close relation and being able to
put them together
✔✔Applying concepts to nursing practice - ✔✔Putting knowledge into the field
✔✔Skillful responding - ✔✔Respond to the task and taking action knowing the minimum
amount one needs to do to help the patient the fastest
✔✔Reflective practice - ✔✔Reflect on what one has done
✔✔Delegation - ✔✔-transferring responsibility to a person for a specific task
-Can be helpful to a nurse when prioritizing care
-Need to ensure delegation is appropriate
-Nurse is still responsible and accountable for ensuring the task is completed
-Clinical judgment cannot be delegated
✔✔Delegation rights - ✔✔-Right task
-Right circumstance
-Right person
-Right directions and communications
-Right supervision
✔✔Priority setting framework - ✔✔
, ✔✔Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs IMPORTANT - ✔✔1. Physiological needs- The most
basic human needs for air, water, food, housing, sleep and sexual activity
2. Safety needs- The need for a secure environment in which one can live, work play
3. Love needs- A need to give love and receive love
4. Esteem needs- A need to have a high self image
5. Self actualization- A need for achievement and mastery
✔✔ABCDE - ✔✔Airway
Breathing
Circulation
Disability (low blood sugar)
Exposure (being able to see bone)
✔✔Safety and Risk Reduction - ✔✔Places priority on the situation or factor that places
the client at the highest safety risk
✔✔Least restrictive/ least invasive - ✔✔Want to do the least restrictive to the most
restrictive
ex: ultrasound before CT scan due to radiation is more harmful
✔✔Survival potential - ✔✔-Doing the most good for the maximum number of clients
when health care resources are limited
-Used during mass causality incidents
✔✔Expectant death - ✔✔black
✔✔Non emergent - ✔✔green (ex: having a scrap and sore throat)
✔✔Delayed - ✔✔yellow ex: someone with a fracture who is stable all in all but still
needs help
✔✔Emergent - ✔✔Red ex: having an open fracture or an abdominal injury
✔✔Other forms of frameworks - ✔✔-Acute vs chronic
-Urgent vs nonurgent
-Unstable vs stable
✔✔ Clinical reasoning - ✔✔-Thinking process by which a nurse reaches a clinical
judgement and or decision
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✔✔Fine attunement - ✔✔How someone reacts and paying close attention
✔✔Critical thinking - ✔✔-Cognitive process used for the analysis of an issue or problem
SET A+
✔✔Theory vs practice - ✔✔The best theory is done by practice
✔✔Knowledge vs deep understanding - ✔✔When one can start taking ques and piecing
them together
✔✔Recognizing patterns - ✔✔Certain processes having close relation and being able to
put them together
✔✔Applying concepts to nursing practice - ✔✔Putting knowledge into the field
✔✔Skillful responding - ✔✔Respond to the task and taking action knowing the minimum
amount one needs to do to help the patient the fastest
✔✔Reflective practice - ✔✔Reflect on what one has done
✔✔Delegation - ✔✔-transferring responsibility to a person for a specific task
-Can be helpful to a nurse when prioritizing care
-Need to ensure delegation is appropriate
-Nurse is still responsible and accountable for ensuring the task is completed
-Clinical judgment cannot be delegated
✔✔Delegation rights - ✔✔-Right task
-Right circumstance
-Right person
-Right directions and communications
-Right supervision
✔✔Priority setting framework - ✔✔
, ✔✔Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs IMPORTANT - ✔✔1. Physiological needs- The most
basic human needs for air, water, food, housing, sleep and sexual activity
2. Safety needs- The need for a secure environment in which one can live, work play
3. Love needs- A need to give love and receive love
4. Esteem needs- A need to have a high self image
5. Self actualization- A need for achievement and mastery
✔✔ABCDE - ✔✔Airway
Breathing
Circulation
Disability (low blood sugar)
Exposure (being able to see bone)
✔✔Safety and Risk Reduction - ✔✔Places priority on the situation or factor that places
the client at the highest safety risk
✔✔Least restrictive/ least invasive - ✔✔Want to do the least restrictive to the most
restrictive
ex: ultrasound before CT scan due to radiation is more harmful
✔✔Survival potential - ✔✔-Doing the most good for the maximum number of clients
when health care resources are limited
-Used during mass causality incidents
✔✔Expectant death - ✔✔black
✔✔Non emergent - ✔✔green (ex: having a scrap and sore throat)
✔✔Delayed - ✔✔yellow ex: someone with a fracture who is stable all in all but still
needs help
✔✔Emergent - ✔✔Red ex: having an open fracture or an abdominal injury
✔✔Other forms of frameworks - ✔✔-Acute vs chronic
-Urgent vs nonurgent
-Unstable vs stable
✔✔ Clinical reasoning - ✔✔-Thinking process by which a nurse reaches a clinical
judgement and or decision
-
✔✔Fine attunement - ✔✔How someone reacts and paying close attention
✔✔Critical thinking - ✔✔-Cognitive process used for the analysis of an issue or problem
