Nursing fundamentals: the nursing process
(ati) Exam 2025 Questions and Answers
what is the nursing process? - --Answer --a cyclical, critical thinking process.
it is dynamic, continuous, client-centered, problem-solving, and decision making
framework that is foundational to the nursing practice.
five steps of the nursing process - --Answer --1. assessment/data collection
2. analysis
3. planning
4. implementation
5. evaluation
methods of data collection - --Answer --1. observation
2. interviews
3. medical history
4. comprehensive or focused physical exam
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,5. diagnostic and laboratory reports
6. collaboration
what is involved in collecting data effectively? - --Answer --1. ask
appropriate questions
2. listen carefully to responses
3. develop good head to toe assessment skills
4. employ critical thinking and clinical judgment
5. recognize the need to collect data prior to interventions
when do you collect subjective data (symptoms)? - --Answer --during the
nursing history
what does subjective data include? - --Answer --1. symptoms
2. patients feelings
3. patients perceptions
4. description of health status
when is objective data (signs) obtained? - --Answer --during the physical
assessment
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, how do nurses obtain objective data? - --Answer --"nurses feel, see, hear,
and smell objective data through observation or physical assessment of the client"
primary sources of data - --Answer --this is what the patients tells the nurse
(subjective) or what the nurse observes.
secondary sources of data - --Answer --what others tell the nurse based on
what the client has told them (subjective; "she told me that her shoulder is sore
every morning") and the objective data is obtained from another source such as,
family, friends, health care professional, or records.
what three things does the nurse do during assessment? - --Answer --1.
validate
2. interpret
3. cluster data
analysis - --Answer --use of critical thinking to identify health status or
problems, interpret, or monitor the collected data base, reach an appropriate
nursing judgment about health status and coping mechanisms, and provide
direction for nursing care.
what does analysis requires the nurse to do ..? - --Answer --1. recognize
patterns or trends
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(ati) Exam 2025 Questions and Answers
what is the nursing process? - --Answer --a cyclical, critical thinking process.
it is dynamic, continuous, client-centered, problem-solving, and decision making
framework that is foundational to the nursing practice.
five steps of the nursing process - --Answer --1. assessment/data collection
2. analysis
3. planning
4. implementation
5. evaluation
methods of data collection - --Answer --1. observation
2. interviews
3. medical history
4. comprehensive or focused physical exam
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,5. diagnostic and laboratory reports
6. collaboration
what is involved in collecting data effectively? - --Answer --1. ask
appropriate questions
2. listen carefully to responses
3. develop good head to toe assessment skills
4. employ critical thinking and clinical judgment
5. recognize the need to collect data prior to interventions
when do you collect subjective data (symptoms)? - --Answer --during the
nursing history
what does subjective data include? - --Answer --1. symptoms
2. patients feelings
3. patients perceptions
4. description of health status
when is objective data (signs) obtained? - --Answer --during the physical
assessment
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, how do nurses obtain objective data? - --Answer --"nurses feel, see, hear,
and smell objective data through observation or physical assessment of the client"
primary sources of data - --Answer --this is what the patients tells the nurse
(subjective) or what the nurse observes.
secondary sources of data - --Answer --what others tell the nurse based on
what the client has told them (subjective; "she told me that her shoulder is sore
every morning") and the objective data is obtained from another source such as,
family, friends, health care professional, or records.
what three things does the nurse do during assessment? - --Answer --1.
validate
2. interpret
3. cluster data
analysis - --Answer --use of critical thinking to identify health status or
problems, interpret, or monitor the collected data base, reach an appropriate
nursing judgment about health status and coping mechanisms, and provide
direction for nursing care.
what does analysis requires the nurse to do ..? - --Answer --1. recognize
patterns or trends
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