NURS 307 Exam 3 Review - Questions with Correct
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153 questions with answers
Topic: NURS 307 Exam 3 Review
1. Which critical-thinking skills helps the nurse see relationships among the data?
Answer: clustering related cues
2. Which is a barrier to incorporating EBP?
Answer: nurses' lack of research skills in evaluating the quality of research studies
3. Which statement best describes a proficient nurse?
Answer: understands a patient situation as a whole rather than a list of tasks and recognizes
the long-term goals for the patient
4. A patient is brought by ambulance to the ED with multiple injuries received in an
automobile accident. The patient is alert and cooperative, but their injuries are quite
severe. How would the nurse proceed with data collection?
Answer: simultaneously ask history questions while performing examination and initiating
lifesaving measures
5. What do the patient's record, laboratory studies, objective data, and subjective
data combine to form?
Answer: database
6. When listening to a patient's breath sounds, the nurse validate is unsure of a
sound that is heard. Which action would the nurse take next?
Answer: the data by asking another nurse to listen to the breath sounds
7. The clinic nurse is caring for a patient who has been coming to the clinic weekly
for blood pressure checks base since changing medications 2 months ago. Which is
the most appropriate action for the nurse to take?
Answer: collect a follow-up dataand then check the patient's BP
8. After completing an initial assessment of a patient, the nurse has charted that his
respirations are eupneic and his pulse is 58 bpm. What type of assessment data is
this?
Answer: objective
9. The nurse is reviewing data collecting after an assessment. Of the data listed
below, which would be considered related cues that would be clustered together
during data analysis?
Answer: rate of respirations 16 breaths per minute, nonproductive cough, inspiratory
wheezes noted in left lower lobes, patient reports dyspnea upon exertion
10. During a staff meeting, nurses discuss the problems with identifying
evidence-based practices to incorporate into their practice. Which suggestion by the
nurse manager would best help these problems?
Answer: ensure time for statt to review current literature
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, 11. When considering priority setting of problems, the nurse keeps in mind that
second-level priority problems include which of these aspects?
Answer: abnormal lab values
12. A visiting nurse is making an initial home visit for a patient who has several
chronic medical problems. Which type of database is most appropriate to collect in
this setting?
Answer: complete database
13. The nurse is conducting a class for new graduate nurses. While teaching the
class, what would the nurse keep in mind regarding what novice nurses, without a
background of skills and experience from which to draw upon, are more likely to
base their decisions on?
Answer: a set of rules
14. What should the nurse, who is caring for an American may Indian woman seeking
help to regulate her diabetes, anticipate or expect of the patient?
Answer: also be seeking the assistance of a shaman or medicine man
15. During a seminar on cultural aspects of nursing, the nurse recognizes that the
definition stating "the specific and distinct knowledge, beliefs, customs, and skills
acquired by members of a society" reflects which term?
Answer: culture
16. The nurse is conducting a heritage assessment. Which "How question is most
appropriate for this assessment?
Answer: many years have you live in the U.S.?"
17. The nurse is reviewing the characteristics of culture. Which statement is correct
regarding the development of one's culture?
Answer: learned through language acquisition and socialization
18. The nurse should recognize that categories such as ethnicity, gender, and
religion illustrate which concept?
Answer: subcultures
19. After a class on culture and ethnicity, the new graduate nurse reflects a correct
understanding of the concept of ethnicity with which statement?
Answer: "Ethnicity pertains to a social group that may possess shared traits such as religion
and language."
20. Many Asians believe in the yin/yang theory, which is rooted in the ancient
Chinese philosophy of Tao. Which statement most accurately reflects this
philosophy's view of "health"?
Answer: all aspects of the person are in perfect balance
21. When providing culturally competent care, nurses must incorporate cultural
assessments into their health assessments. Which statement is most appropriate to
use when initiating an assessment of cultural beliefs with an older American Indian
patient?
Answer: "What cultural or spiritual beliefs are important to you?"
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Answers (Verified Update)
153 questions with answers
Topic: NURS 307 Exam 3 Review
1. Which critical-thinking skills helps the nurse see relationships among the data?
Answer: clustering related cues
2. Which is a barrier to incorporating EBP?
Answer: nurses' lack of research skills in evaluating the quality of research studies
3. Which statement best describes a proficient nurse?
Answer: understands a patient situation as a whole rather than a list of tasks and recognizes
the long-term goals for the patient
4. A patient is brought by ambulance to the ED with multiple injuries received in an
automobile accident. The patient is alert and cooperative, but their injuries are quite
severe. How would the nurse proceed with data collection?
Answer: simultaneously ask history questions while performing examination and initiating
lifesaving measures
5. What do the patient's record, laboratory studies, objective data, and subjective
data combine to form?
Answer: database
6. When listening to a patient's breath sounds, the nurse validate is unsure of a
sound that is heard. Which action would the nurse take next?
Answer: the data by asking another nurse to listen to the breath sounds
7. The clinic nurse is caring for a patient who has been coming to the clinic weekly
for blood pressure checks base since changing medications 2 months ago. Which is
the most appropriate action for the nurse to take?
Answer: collect a follow-up dataand then check the patient's BP
8. After completing an initial assessment of a patient, the nurse has charted that his
respirations are eupneic and his pulse is 58 bpm. What type of assessment data is
this?
Answer: objective
9. The nurse is reviewing data collecting after an assessment. Of the data listed
below, which would be considered related cues that would be clustered together
during data analysis?
Answer: rate of respirations 16 breaths per minute, nonproductive cough, inspiratory
wheezes noted in left lower lobes, patient reports dyspnea upon exertion
10. During a staff meeting, nurses discuss the problems with identifying
evidence-based practices to incorporate into their practice. Which suggestion by the
nurse manager would best help these problems?
Answer: ensure time for statt to review current literature
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, 11. When considering priority setting of problems, the nurse keeps in mind that
second-level priority problems include which of these aspects?
Answer: abnormal lab values
12. A visiting nurse is making an initial home visit for a patient who has several
chronic medical problems. Which type of database is most appropriate to collect in
this setting?
Answer: complete database
13. The nurse is conducting a class for new graduate nurses. While teaching the
class, what would the nurse keep in mind regarding what novice nurses, without a
background of skills and experience from which to draw upon, are more likely to
base their decisions on?
Answer: a set of rules
14. What should the nurse, who is caring for an American may Indian woman seeking
help to regulate her diabetes, anticipate or expect of the patient?
Answer: also be seeking the assistance of a shaman or medicine man
15. During a seminar on cultural aspects of nursing, the nurse recognizes that the
definition stating "the specific and distinct knowledge, beliefs, customs, and skills
acquired by members of a society" reflects which term?
Answer: culture
16. The nurse is conducting a heritage assessment. Which "How question is most
appropriate for this assessment?
Answer: many years have you live in the U.S.?"
17. The nurse is reviewing the characteristics of culture. Which statement is correct
regarding the development of one's culture?
Answer: learned through language acquisition and socialization
18. The nurse should recognize that categories such as ethnicity, gender, and
religion illustrate which concept?
Answer: subcultures
19. After a class on culture and ethnicity, the new graduate nurse reflects a correct
understanding of the concept of ethnicity with which statement?
Answer: "Ethnicity pertains to a social group that may possess shared traits such as religion
and language."
20. Many Asians believe in the yin/yang theory, which is rooted in the ancient
Chinese philosophy of Tao. Which statement most accurately reflects this
philosophy's view of "health"?
Answer: all aspects of the person are in perfect balance
21. When providing culturally competent care, nurses must incorporate cultural
assessments into their health assessments. Which statement is most appropriate to
use when initiating an assessment of cultural beliefs with an older American Indian
patient?
Answer: "What cultural or spiritual beliefs are important to you?"
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