NSG 100 EXAM 1 | NEWEST VERSION | UPDATED
ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED ANSWERS
• critical thinking -✓✓ANSWER: the deliberate nonlinear process of collecting,
interpreting, analyzing, drawing conclusions about, presenting and evaluating
information that is both factual and belief-based
• clinical decision making -✓✓ANSWER: a process NURSE uses to evaluate and
select the best actions to meet desired goals
• key components of critical thinking in nursing -✓✓ANSWER: clinical reasoning
and clinical judgement
• Critical thinking components -✓✓ANSWER: reasoning, intellect creativity,
inquiry, reflection, intuition
• intellect -✓✓ANSWER: -the ability to think, understand and reason
-assessment data
• creativity -✓✓ANSWER: -finding unique solutions to unique problems
-individualizing patient care
• inquiry -✓✓ANSWER: -form of research
-search for knowledge or facts
-can resolve problems, improve outomes
,• reflection -✓✓ANSWER: action of retrospectively making sense of occurrences,
experiences, situations or decisions and learning from them
• intuition -✓✓ANSWER: use of nursing knowledge and EXPERIENCE
• reasoning -✓✓ANSWER: 1.deductive (top down approach), 2. inductive
(bottom/up-behaviors then develop conclusions),
3.clinical
• clinical reasoning (diagnostic reasoning) -✓✓ANSWER: -thinking by which a
nurse reaches clinical judgement
-learned skill
-requires critical thinking
-ability to reflect on previous situations and decisions, evaluate their effectiveness
• clinical judgement -✓✓ANSWER: -the conclusion/nursing diagnosis
-the outcome of clinical reasoning or critical thinking
• Tanner's clinical Judgement model -✓✓ANSWER: 1. noticing
2. interpreting
3.responding
4.reflecting
, • noticing -✓✓ANSWER: -having a sense of what is happening in the patients
situation
-recognition or absence of expected significant clues from the pt's response
• interpreting -✓✓ANSWER: -using logical reasoning to gain understanding about
a situation and determine appropriate action
• responding -✓✓ANSWER: -analyzing a situation and choosing the best course of
action
• reflecting -✓✓ANSWER: -considering appropriateness of the assessment data
obtained in the situation (past data)
-learning from actions (done or not done)
-what worked, was done well, etc
• Nursing process -✓✓ANSWER: (steps are dynamic and interrelated)
ADPIE
Assessment
Diagnosis
Planning
Implementation
Evaluation
• Assessment -✓✓ANSWER: collecting,validating (verifying) and communicating
patient data
ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED ANSWERS
• critical thinking -✓✓ANSWER: the deliberate nonlinear process of collecting,
interpreting, analyzing, drawing conclusions about, presenting and evaluating
information that is both factual and belief-based
• clinical decision making -✓✓ANSWER: a process NURSE uses to evaluate and
select the best actions to meet desired goals
• key components of critical thinking in nursing -✓✓ANSWER: clinical reasoning
and clinical judgement
• Critical thinking components -✓✓ANSWER: reasoning, intellect creativity,
inquiry, reflection, intuition
• intellect -✓✓ANSWER: -the ability to think, understand and reason
-assessment data
• creativity -✓✓ANSWER: -finding unique solutions to unique problems
-individualizing patient care
• inquiry -✓✓ANSWER: -form of research
-search for knowledge or facts
-can resolve problems, improve outomes
,• reflection -✓✓ANSWER: action of retrospectively making sense of occurrences,
experiences, situations or decisions and learning from them
• intuition -✓✓ANSWER: use of nursing knowledge and EXPERIENCE
• reasoning -✓✓ANSWER: 1.deductive (top down approach), 2. inductive
(bottom/up-behaviors then develop conclusions),
3.clinical
• clinical reasoning (diagnostic reasoning) -✓✓ANSWER: -thinking by which a
nurse reaches clinical judgement
-learned skill
-requires critical thinking
-ability to reflect on previous situations and decisions, evaluate their effectiveness
• clinical judgement -✓✓ANSWER: -the conclusion/nursing diagnosis
-the outcome of clinical reasoning or critical thinking
• Tanner's clinical Judgement model -✓✓ANSWER: 1. noticing
2. interpreting
3.responding
4.reflecting
, • noticing -✓✓ANSWER: -having a sense of what is happening in the patients
situation
-recognition or absence of expected significant clues from the pt's response
• interpreting -✓✓ANSWER: -using logical reasoning to gain understanding about
a situation and determine appropriate action
• responding -✓✓ANSWER: -analyzing a situation and choosing the best course of
action
• reflecting -✓✓ANSWER: -considering appropriateness of the assessment data
obtained in the situation (past data)
-learning from actions (done or not done)
-what worked, was done well, etc
• Nursing process -✓✓ANSWER: (steps are dynamic and interrelated)
ADPIE
Assessment
Diagnosis
Planning
Implementation
Evaluation
• Assessment -✓✓ANSWER: collecting,validating (verifying) and communicating
patient data
