WCU NSG 212 Exam Questions And
Answers 2025 Update.
What is the nursing process? - Answer✔A systematic problem-solving process that guides all
nursing actions
What is the purpose of the nursing process? - Answer✔To help the nurse provide goal-directed,
client-centered care
What are the two types of goals used in nursing? - Answer✔Short-term and long-term
What are the steps of the nursing process? - Answer✔Assess, diagnose, plan, implement,
evaluation (ADPIE)
Assessment - Answer✔Gather data
Diagnosis - Answer✔Identify client's health needs
Planning Outcomes - Answer✔Decide goals you want to achieve with your nursing activities
Planning Interventions - Answer✔choose interventions to help client achieve stated goals
Implementation - Answer✔action phase when you carry out or delegate actions you previously
planned
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Evaluation - Answer✔Judge whether your actions have successfully treated or prevented the
client's health problems
Assessment definition - Answer✔The systematic gathering of information related to the
physical, mental, spiritual, socioeconomic, and cultural status of an individual, group, or
community
What is the difference between a medical diagnosis and a nursing diagnosis? -
Answer✔Medical- focus on disease and pathology
Nursing- focus on the client's response to illness
A professional nurse must perform what portion of the nursing process? - Answer✔Assessment
While nurse aides, LPNs, and other personnel can collect information such as vital signs, pain
reports, and finger-stick glucose levels, It is the responsibility of the professional nurse to... -
Answer✔Assign those tasks, validate the data collected, conduct the interview, and complete
the physical assessment
Assessment involves collecting information from... - Answer✔-the patient
-secondary sources
-interpreting information
-validating the information
Types of data - Answer✔-subjective: what the patient says
-objective: what can be observed or measured
-primary: obtained directly from the patient
-secondary: obtained through the medical record or another person
Types of assessment - Answer✔-initial
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