NURS 251 LECTURE TEST 1 2026/2027 | NURS 251 LECTURE TEST 1
QUESTIONS, STUDY GUIDE & REVIEW
What is the nursing process defined by the American Nurses Association? - Correct answer ✔✔
A critical thinking process that professional nurses use to apply the best available evidence to
caregiving and promoting human functions and responses to health and illness
Critical thinking includes - Correct answer ✔✔ -reasoned thinking
-openness to alternatives
-ability to reflect
-a desire to see truth
Critical thinking skills include: - Correct answer ✔✔ Gathering information
Analyze
Find solutions to the problem
Reflect
Critical thinking, separates the _____ nurse from the ______ nurse - Correct answer ✔✔
Technical; professional
Relying on _____ & ______ when deciding what a patient needs - Correct answer ✔✔
Knowledge; Experience
Critical thinking nurses: ASK - Correct answer ✔✔ Why?
What is missing?
What do I know about my patient?
What are my options?
,Critical thinking nurses: before you can critically think you must attend knowledge - Correct
answer ✔✔ Evidence based knowledge
Clinical reasoning - Correct answer ✔✔ Analyze data
Clinical decision
Clinical judgment
Analyze data - Correct answer ✔✔ Nurses must assess and compile data, identify relevance
Clinical decision - Correct answer ✔✔ Choose the best action to take
Clinical judgment - Correct answer ✔✔ The observed outcome of critical thinking and decision
making that considers, nursing knowledge, client situation, prioritizing, and evidence based
practice
The nursing process is the ______ of practice for the registered nurse to deliver holistic, patient
focused care - Correct answer ✔✔ Standard
The nursing process is _______ to how nurses practice - Correct answer ✔✔ Fundamental
Standards of nursing practice - Correct answer ✔✔ Describes a competent level of nursing care,
demonstrated through the nursing process: assessment, diagnosis, outcome, identification, and
planning, implementation, and evaluation
Five. Step problem-solving/clinical decision-making approach. - Correct answer ✔✔ AD PIE
AD PIE (Nursing Process) - Correct answer ✔✔ Assessment
, Diagnosis
Planning
Implementation
Evaluation
Purpose of the nursing process - Correct answer ✔✔ Treat human responses to actual or
potential problems
New and improved Nursing Process - Correct answer ✔✔ Recognize cues
Analyze cues
Prioritize hypothesis
Generate Solutions
Take action
Evaluate all comes
Critical thinking: Assessment - Correct answer ✔✔ - Observe
- Use correct techniques for collecting data
- Differentiate between relevant and irrelevant data
- Organize
- Categorize
QUESTIONS, STUDY GUIDE & REVIEW
What is the nursing process defined by the American Nurses Association? - Correct answer ✔✔
A critical thinking process that professional nurses use to apply the best available evidence to
caregiving and promoting human functions and responses to health and illness
Critical thinking includes - Correct answer ✔✔ -reasoned thinking
-openness to alternatives
-ability to reflect
-a desire to see truth
Critical thinking skills include: - Correct answer ✔✔ Gathering information
Analyze
Find solutions to the problem
Reflect
Critical thinking, separates the _____ nurse from the ______ nurse - Correct answer ✔✔
Technical; professional
Relying on _____ & ______ when deciding what a patient needs - Correct answer ✔✔
Knowledge; Experience
Critical thinking nurses: ASK - Correct answer ✔✔ Why?
What is missing?
What do I know about my patient?
What are my options?
,Critical thinking nurses: before you can critically think you must attend knowledge - Correct
answer ✔✔ Evidence based knowledge
Clinical reasoning - Correct answer ✔✔ Analyze data
Clinical decision
Clinical judgment
Analyze data - Correct answer ✔✔ Nurses must assess and compile data, identify relevance
Clinical decision - Correct answer ✔✔ Choose the best action to take
Clinical judgment - Correct answer ✔✔ The observed outcome of critical thinking and decision
making that considers, nursing knowledge, client situation, prioritizing, and evidence based
practice
The nursing process is the ______ of practice for the registered nurse to deliver holistic, patient
focused care - Correct answer ✔✔ Standard
The nursing process is _______ to how nurses practice - Correct answer ✔✔ Fundamental
Standards of nursing practice - Correct answer ✔✔ Describes a competent level of nursing care,
demonstrated through the nursing process: assessment, diagnosis, outcome, identification, and
planning, implementation, and evaluation
Five. Step problem-solving/clinical decision-making approach. - Correct answer ✔✔ AD PIE
AD PIE (Nursing Process) - Correct answer ✔✔ Assessment
, Diagnosis
Planning
Implementation
Evaluation
Purpose of the nursing process - Correct answer ✔✔ Treat human responses to actual or
potential problems
New and improved Nursing Process - Correct answer ✔✔ Recognize cues
Analyze cues
Prioritize hypothesis
Generate Solutions
Take action
Evaluate all comes
Critical thinking: Assessment - Correct answer ✔✔ - Observe
- Use correct techniques for collecting data
- Differentiate between relevant and irrelevant data
- Organize
- Categorize
