SAUNDERS CLINICAL JUDGMENT AND
TEST TAKING STRATEGIES PRACTICE
SOLUTION STUDY SHEET QUESTIONS AND
DETAILED ANSWERS
●● Critical thinking skills
Answer: Refers to the cognitive processes used in complex thinking
operations such as problem solving and decision making.
●● Critical thinking attitudes
Answer: Are not the same as intellectual skills. They are more like
feelings and traits of mind. Your attitudes and character determine
whether you will use your thinking skills fairly and with an open mind.
●● Nursing process
Answer: The systematic gathering of information relating to the
spiritual, mental, physical, socioeconomic, and cultural status of an
individual, group or community
●● What are the 6 phases of the nursing process?
Answer: 1. Assessment
2. Diagnosis
3. Planning outcomes
,4. Planning interventions
5. Implementation
6. Evaluation
●● What are 5 aspects of critical thinking?
Answer: Clear
Logical
Objective
Unbiased
Dispassionate
●● Clinical reasonig
Answer: The ability to reason as a clinical situation changes, taking into
account the context and concerns of the patient and family
●● Clinical judgment
Answer: an interpretation or conclusion about a patient's needs,
concerns, or health problems, and/or the decision to take action (or not),
use or modify standard approaches, or improvise new ones as deemed
appropriate by the patient's response
●● As a nurse, you will focus on your clients _____ to illness?
Answer: Response
, Including their physical responses, their understanding of the illness and
how it affects their lives.
●● What is done during the assessment phase of the clinical process
with data? (4)
Answer: Collect
Validate
Organize
Record
●● What are 3 important actions during during the assessment phase?
Answer: Analyze the data
Prioritize problems
Determine problem urgency
●● What is a high priority problem during the assessment phase?
Answer: Life threatening
●● What is a medium priority problem during the assessment phase?
Answer: Not a direct threat to life, but may cause destructive physical or
emotional changes
TEST TAKING STRATEGIES PRACTICE
SOLUTION STUDY SHEET QUESTIONS AND
DETAILED ANSWERS
●● Critical thinking skills
Answer: Refers to the cognitive processes used in complex thinking
operations such as problem solving and decision making.
●● Critical thinking attitudes
Answer: Are not the same as intellectual skills. They are more like
feelings and traits of mind. Your attitudes and character determine
whether you will use your thinking skills fairly and with an open mind.
●● Nursing process
Answer: The systematic gathering of information relating to the
spiritual, mental, physical, socioeconomic, and cultural status of an
individual, group or community
●● What are the 6 phases of the nursing process?
Answer: 1. Assessment
2. Diagnosis
3. Planning outcomes
,4. Planning interventions
5. Implementation
6. Evaluation
●● What are 5 aspects of critical thinking?
Answer: Clear
Logical
Objective
Unbiased
Dispassionate
●● Clinical reasonig
Answer: The ability to reason as a clinical situation changes, taking into
account the context and concerns of the patient and family
●● Clinical judgment
Answer: an interpretation or conclusion about a patient's needs,
concerns, or health problems, and/or the decision to take action (or not),
use or modify standard approaches, or improvise new ones as deemed
appropriate by the patient's response
●● As a nurse, you will focus on your clients _____ to illness?
Answer: Response
, Including their physical responses, their understanding of the illness and
how it affects their lives.
●● What is done during the assessment phase of the clinical process
with data? (4)
Answer: Collect
Validate
Organize
Record
●● What are 3 important actions during during the assessment phase?
Answer: Analyze the data
Prioritize problems
Determine problem urgency
●● What is a high priority problem during the assessment phase?
Answer: Life threatening
●● What is a medium priority problem during the assessment phase?
Answer: Not a direct threat to life, but may cause destructive physical or
emotional changes
