NU 305 Exam One questions with correct answers
What are the four broad goal of the American Nurses Association?
Correct Answer-1. Promote health
2. To prevent illness
3. To treat responses to health or illness
4. To ADVOCATE for individuals, families, communities, and
populations
What are some appropriate nursing interventions according to the ANA?
Correct Answer--implementing educational programs
-coordinating community resources
- patient/family teaching
What are four nursing care responsibilities according to the ANA?
Correct Answer--independent interventions
-patient teaching
-therapeutic communication
-physical procedures
What are a few things nurses must do to fulfill the role of being a
member of a profession? Correct Answer--stay up to date on scholarship
and research
-advocacy
-fulfill nursing values
,Give four examples of APRNs Correct Answer--Nurse practitioner
-Certified nurse midwife
-certified registered nurse anesthetist
-clinical nurse specialist
Define health assessment. Correct Answer-Gathering information about
the health status of the patient, analyzing and synthesizing those data,
making judgments about nursing interventions based on the findings and
evaluating patient care outcomes
What does a health assessment include? Correct Answer--health history
-physical assessment
-additional necessary factors you assessed
-psychological, sociocultural, spiritual, and economic lifestyle
What is the difference between wellness and health? Correct Answer--
Wellness: emotional, spiritual and physical
-Health: physical
Wellness is an example of a reason nurses would __________.
What are some ways you can facilitate wellness? Correct Answer--
collaborate
-health promotion and teaching
What are the four main goals of "Healthy People"
,What are their 10 areas of focus? Correct Answer--illness prevention,
planning, intervening, and evaluating
-physical activity
-obesity
-Tobacco use
-substance abuse
-responsible sexual behavior
-mental health
-injury and violence
-environmental quality
-immunization
access to health care
Explain the difference between primary, secondary and tertiary
prevention.
Where would the U.S. fall? Correct Answer--Primary: strategies aimed
at preventing the problem (EDUCATION)
-Secondary: early diagnosis and prompt treatment (SCREENINGS)
-Tertiary: preventing complications of existing disease and promoting
the highest health level possible (THERAPY AND LIFE STYLE
CHANGES)
What are the component to the nursing process?
What do they intel? Correct Answer--Assessing: complete accurate
health data compilation
, -Nursing Diagnosis:clustering data to determine pts condition and basis
for selection of nursing interventions to achieve outcomes for which you
are accountable
-Planning (care plan): formulation of measurable, realistic patient-
centered goals, determine resources, target nurse interventions
-Implementing:any treatment based upon clinical judgement and
knowledge that a nurse performs to enhance patient outcomes
-Evaluating: judgement of nursing care efficacy in meeting patient goals
and outcomes based on patient responses to nursing interventions
Regarding nursing what are six characteristics of critical thinking?
Correct Answer--purposeful, outcome-directed thinking
-thinking driven by patient, family, and community needs
-thinking based on the nursing process, evidence based thinking, and
scientific method
-thinking that requires specific knowledge, skills, and experience
-thinking guided by professional standards and code of ethics
-thinking continually reevaluating, self-correcting, and striving for
improvement
What is diagnostic reasoning?
What are the seven steps? Correct Answer--gathering and clustering data
to draw inferences and propose diagnoses
1. identify strengths and abnormal data
2. cluster data
3. draw inferences
What are the four broad goal of the American Nurses Association?
Correct Answer-1. Promote health
2. To prevent illness
3. To treat responses to health or illness
4. To ADVOCATE for individuals, families, communities, and
populations
What are some appropriate nursing interventions according to the ANA?
Correct Answer--implementing educational programs
-coordinating community resources
- patient/family teaching
What are four nursing care responsibilities according to the ANA?
Correct Answer--independent interventions
-patient teaching
-therapeutic communication
-physical procedures
What are a few things nurses must do to fulfill the role of being a
member of a profession? Correct Answer--stay up to date on scholarship
and research
-advocacy
-fulfill nursing values
,Give four examples of APRNs Correct Answer--Nurse practitioner
-Certified nurse midwife
-certified registered nurse anesthetist
-clinical nurse specialist
Define health assessment. Correct Answer-Gathering information about
the health status of the patient, analyzing and synthesizing those data,
making judgments about nursing interventions based on the findings and
evaluating patient care outcomes
What does a health assessment include? Correct Answer--health history
-physical assessment
-additional necessary factors you assessed
-psychological, sociocultural, spiritual, and economic lifestyle
What is the difference between wellness and health? Correct Answer--
Wellness: emotional, spiritual and physical
-Health: physical
Wellness is an example of a reason nurses would __________.
What are some ways you can facilitate wellness? Correct Answer--
collaborate
-health promotion and teaching
What are the four main goals of "Healthy People"
,What are their 10 areas of focus? Correct Answer--illness prevention,
planning, intervening, and evaluating
-physical activity
-obesity
-Tobacco use
-substance abuse
-responsible sexual behavior
-mental health
-injury and violence
-environmental quality
-immunization
access to health care
Explain the difference between primary, secondary and tertiary
prevention.
Where would the U.S. fall? Correct Answer--Primary: strategies aimed
at preventing the problem (EDUCATION)
-Secondary: early diagnosis and prompt treatment (SCREENINGS)
-Tertiary: preventing complications of existing disease and promoting
the highest health level possible (THERAPY AND LIFE STYLE
CHANGES)
What are the component to the nursing process?
What do they intel? Correct Answer--Assessing: complete accurate
health data compilation
, -Nursing Diagnosis:clustering data to determine pts condition and basis
for selection of nursing interventions to achieve outcomes for which you
are accountable
-Planning (care plan): formulation of measurable, realistic patient-
centered goals, determine resources, target nurse interventions
-Implementing:any treatment based upon clinical judgement and
knowledge that a nurse performs to enhance patient outcomes
-Evaluating: judgement of nursing care efficacy in meeting patient goals
and outcomes based on patient responses to nursing interventions
Regarding nursing what are six characteristics of critical thinking?
Correct Answer--purposeful, outcome-directed thinking
-thinking driven by patient, family, and community needs
-thinking based on the nursing process, evidence based thinking, and
scientific method
-thinking that requires specific knowledge, skills, and experience
-thinking guided by professional standards and code of ethics
-thinking continually reevaluating, self-correcting, and striving for
improvement
What is diagnostic reasoning?
What are the seven steps? Correct Answer--gathering and clustering data
to draw inferences and propose diagnoses
1. identify strengths and abnormal data
2. cluster data
3. draw inferences
