NSGA140 Exam 1 | Ivy Tech Community College | NSGA
140 | UPDATED Questions with 100% Verified Answers
Q1: Clinical Decision Making
A: Process nurses use in clinical setting to evaluate and select the best actions to meet
desired goals
Q2: Nurses must evaluate
A: Pt needs
Pt's preferences
Time constraints
Q3: Critical Thinking
A: Using logic and reasoning to identify strenghts and weaknesses of alternative healthcare
solutions, conclusions, or approaches to clinical/practice problems
Q4: Objective Data
A: Information that is detectable by an observer or can be measured or tested against an
accepted standard. Also called overt data or signs.
Q5: Subjective Data
A: Information that is apparent to only the patient affected and can be described or verified
by only that patient. Also called symptoms or covert data.
Q6: Salient Cues
A: The leading, most noticeable, or most important information about a patient's health
status
Q7: Be sure assessment data consist of ____ and not inferences.
A: Cues
Q8: Salient cues point to...
A: a change in pt's condition (pos/neg)
Q9: Clinical Judgement
A: Nurse's determination and provision of appropriate care to pt.
Q10: Evidence Based Practice
A: Integration of research into practice
, Q11: NLN
A: National League of Nursing
Q12: QSEN
A: Quality and Safety Education for Nurses
Q13: Inquiry
A: Form of research, search for knowledge or facts
Q14: Goals of Inquiry
A: Examine objective information
Gain clarification
Find solutions to problems
Q15: Deductive Reasoning
A: Nurse works from "top down", starting w/ general ideas, observations, or principles, and
analyzing them to develop specific predictions.
Q16: Qs for DEDUCTIVE Reasoning
A: 1. What is the GENERAL idea?
2. What CUES observed support it?
3. Do the significant cues make SENSE? Are they LOGICAL?
Q17: Inductive Reasoning
A: Nurse works from the "bottom up", observe behaviors or symptoms and develop a
general conclusion by putting significant, specific cues together.
Q18: Qs for INDUCTIVE Reasoning
A: 1. What are the SIGNIFICANT cues observed?
2. What is the CONCLUSION from the cues?
3. Does the conclusion make SENSE? Is it LOGICAL?
Q19: Types of Statements
A: Facts
Inferences
Judgement
Opinions
Q20: Facts
A: Verified through investigation
140 | UPDATED Questions with 100% Verified Answers
Q1: Clinical Decision Making
A: Process nurses use in clinical setting to evaluate and select the best actions to meet
desired goals
Q2: Nurses must evaluate
A: Pt needs
Pt's preferences
Time constraints
Q3: Critical Thinking
A: Using logic and reasoning to identify strenghts and weaknesses of alternative healthcare
solutions, conclusions, or approaches to clinical/practice problems
Q4: Objective Data
A: Information that is detectable by an observer or can be measured or tested against an
accepted standard. Also called overt data or signs.
Q5: Subjective Data
A: Information that is apparent to only the patient affected and can be described or verified
by only that patient. Also called symptoms or covert data.
Q6: Salient Cues
A: The leading, most noticeable, or most important information about a patient's health
status
Q7: Be sure assessment data consist of ____ and not inferences.
A: Cues
Q8: Salient cues point to...
A: a change in pt's condition (pos/neg)
Q9: Clinical Judgement
A: Nurse's determination and provision of appropriate care to pt.
Q10: Evidence Based Practice
A: Integration of research into practice
, Q11: NLN
A: National League of Nursing
Q12: QSEN
A: Quality and Safety Education for Nurses
Q13: Inquiry
A: Form of research, search for knowledge or facts
Q14: Goals of Inquiry
A: Examine objective information
Gain clarification
Find solutions to problems
Q15: Deductive Reasoning
A: Nurse works from "top down", starting w/ general ideas, observations, or principles, and
analyzing them to develop specific predictions.
Q16: Qs for DEDUCTIVE Reasoning
A: 1. What is the GENERAL idea?
2. What CUES observed support it?
3. Do the significant cues make SENSE? Are they LOGICAL?
Q17: Inductive Reasoning
A: Nurse works from the "bottom up", observe behaviors or symptoms and develop a
general conclusion by putting significant, specific cues together.
Q18: Qs for INDUCTIVE Reasoning
A: 1. What are the SIGNIFICANT cues observed?
2. What is the CONCLUSION from the cues?
3. Does the conclusion make SENSE? Is it LOGICAL?
Q19: Types of Statements
A: Facts
Inferences
Judgement
Opinions
Q20: Facts
A: Verified through investigation
