"Nurses advancing our profession to improve health for all" is the mission statement of the:
correct answers American Nurses Association (ANA)
To enter the nursing profession, an individual must successfully complete: correct answers
Licensure examination
What group is primarily protected under the laws that regulate the nursing practice? correct
answers The public
The goal of the professional nurse in the team leader role is: correct answers Positive outcomes
and patient satisfaction.
Professionalism exemplars related to leadership include: correct answers Influential
Inspired
Proficient
The Nursing Process correct answers an organizing framework for professional nursing practice,
promotes critical thinking process for the nurses to utilize to give the best care possible to the
client.
Continuous and cyclical
Nursing process parts: correct answers Assessment
Nursing Diagnosis
Planning
Implementing
Evaluation
,Assessment correct answers Establishes a data base about the client
Observation , interview (medical history) and physical exam.
Collecting, organizing, validate and record data.
Subjective and objective data.
Recognize trends/patterns in the data and compare to standards.
Subjective data correct answers "symptoms"
What the patient tells you.
(obtained verbally from client)
Objective data correct answers Information obtained by performing physical assessment, vital
signs, lab results.
Measurable data
"signs"
Nursing Diagnosis correct answers Nurse begins clustering info within the client story and
formulates an evaluative judgment about client's health status. (using clinical reasoning)
Formulating a nursing diagnosis: correct answers A working diagnosis may have 2 or 3 parts.
The 2 part system consists of nursing diagnosis and the "related to" (r/t) statement.
"related factors are factors that appear to show some type of patterned relationship with the
nursing diagnosis.
One-part system (nursing diagnosis) correct answers Wellness- begins with "readiness for
enhanced ____"
"Readiness for enhanced nutrition" is an example of which type of nursing diagnosis? correct
answers One-part; wellness
, Two-Part Diagnosis: correct answers Often used when the defining characteristics (signs and
symptoms) are obvious to those caring for the patient.
"Risk for falls related to (R/t) side effects of antihypertensive medication" is an example of
which type of nursing diagnosis? correct answers Two-part; Risk
Three-part system (PES system) correct answers Consists of the nursing diagnosis, the r/t
statement, and the defining characteristics which are observable cues/inferences that cluster as
manifestations of an actual or wellness nursing diagnosis.
Problem (P) correct answers The nursing diagnosis label: a concise term or phrase that represents
a pattern of related cues. Taken from the NANDA-I label list.
Etiology (E) correct answers "related to" (r/t) phrase, the cause or contributor to the problem.
often complementary to medical diagnosis, but the nursing diagnosis is ideally something that
can be treated independently by a nurse.
Symptoms (S) correct answers Defining characteristics phrase: things the nurse identified in the
assessment.
Nursing diagnosis label: correct answers 4 different kinds of labels:
-Actual
-Health promotion
-Risk
-Syndrome
Actual Nursing Diagnosis correct answers Describes human responses to health conditions/ life
processes that exist in an individual family, group or community