NSG 100 EXAM 1 | NEWEST UPDATED ACTUAL | VERIFIED
ANSWERS AND COMPLETE EXAM PREP
• What is clinical judgement? -✓✓ANSWER: It is an interpretation or conclusion
about a patient's needs, concerns, or health problems. It is the decision to take
action or not, use or modify standard approaches, or improvise new ones deemed
as appropriate by the patient's response.
• What is standard based approach? -✓✓ANSWER: Clear cute guidance and
standardized approaches to patient care (not individualized)
• What is Evidence based practice and clinical judgement? -✓✓ANSWER:
Combines best available scientific evidence with best available patient and
practitioner experiential evidence - interested in optimal outcomes
• What is critical thinking? -✓✓ANSWER: The non linear process of collecting,
interpreting, analyzing, drawing conclusions about, presenting, and evaluating
information that is both factual and belief based.
Acquired through experience, commitment, and active curiosity
• What are methods of improving critical thinking skills? -✓✓ANSWER: - reflective
thinking
- discussion with colleagues
- emotional intelligence
- audible verbalization of thoughts
- literature review
,- intentional application of knowledge
- concept maps
- simulation
- role playing
- written work
• What is clinical reasoning? -✓✓ANSWER: The cognitive process that nurses use
to understand the significance of pt data, to identify and diagnose actual or
potential pt problems,
Thinking process by which a nurse reaches a clinical judgement
• What is the Interpretivist Perspective? -✓✓ANSWER: Understands nursing care
is not linear -considers multiple complex variables for clinical reasoning.
• What are the steps of tanner's clinical judgement process? -✓✓ANSWER:
Noticing
Interpreting
Responding
Reflecting
• What is noticing? -✓✓ANSWER: - part of tanners clinical judgement model
- having a sense what's happening in the pits situation, recognition of or absence
of expected significance clues from pts response, influences of a nurses own
health beliefs
, • What is interpreting? -✓✓ANSWER: -part of the clinical judgement model
- using logical reasoning to gain understanding about a situation and determine
appropriate action
• What is responding? -✓✓ANSWER: - part of tanners clinical judgement model
- analyzing a situation and choosing the best course of action
• What is reflecting? -✓✓ANSWER: It is considering the appropriateness of the
assessment data obtained in the situation, actions taken, and positive and
negative outcomes for the patient
Examples:
- what worked / didn't work?
- what could've been done differently?
- what was done well?
- what necessary resources were available?
• What is the purpose of the nursing process ADPIE -✓✓ANSWER: To diagnose or
treat human responses to actual or potential health problems
It is the foundation of professional nursing practice and requires critical thinking
• What does ADPIE stand for in the nursing process? -✓✓ANSWER: A -
Assessment
D - Diagnosis
P - Planning
ANSWERS AND COMPLETE EXAM PREP
• What is clinical judgement? -✓✓ANSWER: It is an interpretation or conclusion
about a patient's needs, concerns, or health problems. It is the decision to take
action or not, use or modify standard approaches, or improvise new ones deemed
as appropriate by the patient's response.
• What is standard based approach? -✓✓ANSWER: Clear cute guidance and
standardized approaches to patient care (not individualized)
• What is Evidence based practice and clinical judgement? -✓✓ANSWER:
Combines best available scientific evidence with best available patient and
practitioner experiential evidence - interested in optimal outcomes
• What is critical thinking? -✓✓ANSWER: The non linear process of collecting,
interpreting, analyzing, drawing conclusions about, presenting, and evaluating
information that is both factual and belief based.
Acquired through experience, commitment, and active curiosity
• What are methods of improving critical thinking skills? -✓✓ANSWER: - reflective
thinking
- discussion with colleagues
- emotional intelligence
- audible verbalization of thoughts
- literature review
,- intentional application of knowledge
- concept maps
- simulation
- role playing
- written work
• What is clinical reasoning? -✓✓ANSWER: The cognitive process that nurses use
to understand the significance of pt data, to identify and diagnose actual or
potential pt problems,
Thinking process by which a nurse reaches a clinical judgement
• What is the Interpretivist Perspective? -✓✓ANSWER: Understands nursing care
is not linear -considers multiple complex variables for clinical reasoning.
• What are the steps of tanner's clinical judgement process? -✓✓ANSWER:
Noticing
Interpreting
Responding
Reflecting
• What is noticing? -✓✓ANSWER: - part of tanners clinical judgement model
- having a sense what's happening in the pits situation, recognition of or absence
of expected significance clues from pts response, influences of a nurses own
health beliefs
, • What is interpreting? -✓✓ANSWER: -part of the clinical judgement model
- using logical reasoning to gain understanding about a situation and determine
appropriate action
• What is responding? -✓✓ANSWER: - part of tanners clinical judgement model
- analyzing a situation and choosing the best course of action
• What is reflecting? -✓✓ANSWER: It is considering the appropriateness of the
assessment data obtained in the situation, actions taken, and positive and
negative outcomes for the patient
Examples:
- what worked / didn't work?
- what could've been done differently?
- what was done well?
- what necessary resources were available?
• What is the purpose of the nursing process ADPIE -✓✓ANSWER: To diagnose or
treat human responses to actual or potential health problems
It is the foundation of professional nursing practice and requires critical thinking
• What does ADPIE stand for in the nursing process? -✓✓ANSWER: A -
Assessment
D - Diagnosis
P - Planning
