UNCG - NUR 210 - EXAM WITH
CORRECT ANSWERS
1. Critical thinking - ANSWER-reasoning about clinical issues such as
teamwork, collaboration, and streamlining workflow.
2. Independent thought - ANSWER-thinking on your own
3. Fair-mindedness - ANSWER-Treating every viewpoint in an unbiased,
unprejudiced way
4. Insight into egocentricity and sociocentricity - ANSWER-Thinking of the
greater good and not just thinking of yourself. Knowing when you are
thinking of yourself (egocentricity) and when you are thinking or acting
for the greater good (sociocentricity)
5. Intellectual humility - ANSWER-Recognizing your intellectual limitations
and abilities
6. Nonjudgmental - ANSWER-Using professional ethical standards and not
basing your judgments on your own personal or moral standards
7. Integrity - ANSWER-Being honest and demonstrating strong moral
principles
8. Perseverance - ANSWER-Persisting in doing something despite it being
difficult
,9. Confidence - ANSWER-Believing in yourself to complete a task or
activity
10. Interest in exploring thoughts and feelings - ANSWER-Wanting to
explore different ways of knowing
11. Curiosity - ANSWER-Asking "why" and wanting to know more
12. Clinical Reasoning - ANSWER-a complex cognitive process that
uses formal and informal thinking strategies to gather and analyze
patient information, evaluate the significant information, and weigh
alternative actions.
13. Inductive reasoning - ANSWER-bottom-up thinking, noticing cues,
making a generalization and create a hypothesis
14. Cues - ANSWER-data that fall outside of expected findings that
give the nurse a hint or indication of a patient's potential problem or
condition
15. Generalization - ANSWER-a judgment formed from a set of facts,
cues, and observations and is similar to gathering pieces of a jigsaw
puzzle into patterns until the whole picture becomes more clear.
16. Hypothesis - ANSWER-a proposed explanation for a situation. It
attempts to explain the "why" behind the problem that is occurring.
17. Deductive thinking - ANSWER-top-down thinking, use a rule to
create a strategy for action
,18. Clinical Judgement - ANSWER-the result of critical thinking and
clinical reasoning. The observed outcome of critical thinking and
decision-making. It uses nursing knowledge to observe and assess
presenting situations, identify a prioritized patient concern, and
generate the best possible evidence-based solutions in order to deliver
safe patient care.
19. NCSBN Clinical Judgments measurement model - ANSWER-
recognize cues, analyze cues, prioritize hypothesis, generate solutions,
take action, evaluate outcomes
20. Steps of the nursing process - ANSWER-assessment, analysis
(diagnosis), planning, implementation, evaluation
21. Why do we need a nursing process? - ANSWER-Promotes quality
care, decreases omissions and duplications, provides a guide, and
encourages collaborative management of a patient's health care
problems
22. What can a nursing process improve - ANSWER-improves patient
safety, and satisfaction
23. What does a nursing process identify - ANSWER-identifies a
patient's goals and strategies to attain them
24. What does the nursing process increase - ANSWER-increases the
likelihood of achieving positive patient outcomes
25. What does the nursing process save - ANSWER-saves time,
energy, and frustration by creating a care plan or path to follow
, 26. Assessment - ANSWER-the first step in the nursing procees. The
registered nurse collects pertinent data and information relative to the
healthcare consumer's health or the situation, recognizes cues
27. Subjective Data - ANSWER-information obtained from the patient
and/or family members and offers important cues from their
perspectives
28. What are the types of subjective data - ANSWER-primary data
and secondary data
29. Primary Data - ANSWER-information provided directly by the
patient
30. Secondary Data - ANSWER-information collected from a family
member, chart or other source
31. Objective Data - ANSWER-Data that the nurse can see, touch,
smell, or hear or is reproducible such as vital signs. Laboratory and
diagnostic results are also considered objective data
32. What are the Sources of Data - ANSWER-interviewing, physical
examination, reviewing lab and diagnostic test results
33. Interviewing - ANSWER-systemically collect patient health
information so patients can receive the care they need.
34. Physical Examination - ANSWER-a systematic data collection
method of the body that uses the techniques of inspection,
auscultation, palpation, and percussion.
CORRECT ANSWERS
1. Critical thinking - ANSWER-reasoning about clinical issues such as
teamwork, collaboration, and streamlining workflow.
2. Independent thought - ANSWER-thinking on your own
3. Fair-mindedness - ANSWER-Treating every viewpoint in an unbiased,
unprejudiced way
4. Insight into egocentricity and sociocentricity - ANSWER-Thinking of the
greater good and not just thinking of yourself. Knowing when you are
thinking of yourself (egocentricity) and when you are thinking or acting
for the greater good (sociocentricity)
5. Intellectual humility - ANSWER-Recognizing your intellectual limitations
and abilities
6. Nonjudgmental - ANSWER-Using professional ethical standards and not
basing your judgments on your own personal or moral standards
7. Integrity - ANSWER-Being honest and demonstrating strong moral
principles
8. Perseverance - ANSWER-Persisting in doing something despite it being
difficult
,9. Confidence - ANSWER-Believing in yourself to complete a task or
activity
10. Interest in exploring thoughts and feelings - ANSWER-Wanting to
explore different ways of knowing
11. Curiosity - ANSWER-Asking "why" and wanting to know more
12. Clinical Reasoning - ANSWER-a complex cognitive process that
uses formal and informal thinking strategies to gather and analyze
patient information, evaluate the significant information, and weigh
alternative actions.
13. Inductive reasoning - ANSWER-bottom-up thinking, noticing cues,
making a generalization and create a hypothesis
14. Cues - ANSWER-data that fall outside of expected findings that
give the nurse a hint or indication of a patient's potential problem or
condition
15. Generalization - ANSWER-a judgment formed from a set of facts,
cues, and observations and is similar to gathering pieces of a jigsaw
puzzle into patterns until the whole picture becomes more clear.
16. Hypothesis - ANSWER-a proposed explanation for a situation. It
attempts to explain the "why" behind the problem that is occurring.
17. Deductive thinking - ANSWER-top-down thinking, use a rule to
create a strategy for action
,18. Clinical Judgement - ANSWER-the result of critical thinking and
clinical reasoning. The observed outcome of critical thinking and
decision-making. It uses nursing knowledge to observe and assess
presenting situations, identify a prioritized patient concern, and
generate the best possible evidence-based solutions in order to deliver
safe patient care.
19. NCSBN Clinical Judgments measurement model - ANSWER-
recognize cues, analyze cues, prioritize hypothesis, generate solutions,
take action, evaluate outcomes
20. Steps of the nursing process - ANSWER-assessment, analysis
(diagnosis), planning, implementation, evaluation
21. Why do we need a nursing process? - ANSWER-Promotes quality
care, decreases omissions and duplications, provides a guide, and
encourages collaborative management of a patient's health care
problems
22. What can a nursing process improve - ANSWER-improves patient
safety, and satisfaction
23. What does a nursing process identify - ANSWER-identifies a
patient's goals and strategies to attain them
24. What does the nursing process increase - ANSWER-increases the
likelihood of achieving positive patient outcomes
25. What does the nursing process save - ANSWER-saves time,
energy, and frustration by creating a care plan or path to follow
, 26. Assessment - ANSWER-the first step in the nursing procees. The
registered nurse collects pertinent data and information relative to the
healthcare consumer's health or the situation, recognizes cues
27. Subjective Data - ANSWER-information obtained from the patient
and/or family members and offers important cues from their
perspectives
28. What are the types of subjective data - ANSWER-primary data
and secondary data
29. Primary Data - ANSWER-information provided directly by the
patient
30. Secondary Data - ANSWER-information collected from a family
member, chart or other source
31. Objective Data - ANSWER-Data that the nurse can see, touch,
smell, or hear or is reproducible such as vital signs. Laboratory and
diagnostic results are also considered objective data
32. What are the Sources of Data - ANSWER-interviewing, physical
examination, reviewing lab and diagnostic test results
33. Interviewing - ANSWER-systemically collect patient health
information so patients can receive the care they need.
34. Physical Examination - ANSWER-a systematic data collection
method of the body that uses the techniques of inspection,
auscultation, palpation, and percussion.
