Nurs 230 - exam 1 questions well
answered graded A+
The nursing process - definition - correct answer ✔✔- Systematic method that directs the nurse
and the patient
- patient centered
- outcome oriented
- shows what the patient should do to improve their health
The nursing process AND PIE - correct answer ✔✔Assessing - collecting patient data (objective
and subjective)
Nursing diagnosis - find out what are the patients current issues and then what are possible
issues we can have
(problem, etiology (related to...) define characteristics (as evidence by...)
Planning - develop an individualized plan of care that identifies what the goals are and
interventions we need to do
Implement - execute plan of care
Evaluate - need to make sure plan of care is working
Maslow's heirarchy - correct answer ✔✔physiologic, safety and security, love and belonging,
self - esteem, self- actualization
Top three things you need to deal with - correct answer ✔✔Airway
Breathing
Circulation
, Planning - correct answer ✔✔outcomes must be realistic, measurable and dated (time frame -
could be short or long term)
Medical asepsis - correct answer ✔✔- Clean technique
- The use of practices to reduce the number, growth and spread of micro - organisms
- hand hygiene, changing linens, clean floor, rooms, separate clean from dirty, linens - don't
place on floor or shake
5 moments of hand hygiene - correct answer ✔✔1. before touching a patient
2. before clean/ aseptic procedure
3. after body fluid exposure risk
4. after touching a patient
5. after touching patient surroundings
Hand hygiene - correct answer ✔✔Soap and water - when hands visibally soiled, atleast 15 sec
Alcohol based - 3 - 5 ml
Surgical asepsis - correct answer ✔✔- practice to eliminate all micro - organisms from an object
or area
- avoid coughing, sneezing, talking directly over, do not touch anything sterile without glove,
one inch around border considered non- sterile
Pathogens - correct answer ✔✔- micro - organisms or microbes that cause infections
- bacteria - gram (+/-), rods, spheres, aerobic or anaerobic - most common found infection
- viruses - antibiotics not effective; use of antiviral for treatment
- fungi - mold, yeast
- prions - protein particles
answered graded A+
The nursing process - definition - correct answer ✔✔- Systematic method that directs the nurse
and the patient
- patient centered
- outcome oriented
- shows what the patient should do to improve their health
The nursing process AND PIE - correct answer ✔✔Assessing - collecting patient data (objective
and subjective)
Nursing diagnosis - find out what are the patients current issues and then what are possible
issues we can have
(problem, etiology (related to...) define characteristics (as evidence by...)
Planning - develop an individualized plan of care that identifies what the goals are and
interventions we need to do
Implement - execute plan of care
Evaluate - need to make sure plan of care is working
Maslow's heirarchy - correct answer ✔✔physiologic, safety and security, love and belonging,
self - esteem, self- actualization
Top three things you need to deal with - correct answer ✔✔Airway
Breathing
Circulation
, Planning - correct answer ✔✔outcomes must be realistic, measurable and dated (time frame -
could be short or long term)
Medical asepsis - correct answer ✔✔- Clean technique
- The use of practices to reduce the number, growth and spread of micro - organisms
- hand hygiene, changing linens, clean floor, rooms, separate clean from dirty, linens - don't
place on floor or shake
5 moments of hand hygiene - correct answer ✔✔1. before touching a patient
2. before clean/ aseptic procedure
3. after body fluid exposure risk
4. after touching a patient
5. after touching patient surroundings
Hand hygiene - correct answer ✔✔Soap and water - when hands visibally soiled, atleast 15 sec
Alcohol based - 3 - 5 ml
Surgical asepsis - correct answer ✔✔- practice to eliminate all micro - organisms from an object
or area
- avoid coughing, sneezing, talking directly over, do not touch anything sterile without glove,
one inch around border considered non- sterile
Pathogens - correct answer ✔✔- micro - organisms or microbes that cause infections
- bacteria - gram (+/-), rods, spheres, aerobic or anaerobic - most common found infection
- viruses - antibiotics not effective; use of antiviral for treatment
- fungi - mold, yeast
- prions - protein particles
