NURS 175 midterm review questions with
correct answers
Nursing process - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-1. Assessment
2. Diagnosis
3. Planning
4. Implementation
5. Evaluation
Gordon's Functional Health Patterns - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Health perception-health
management pattern
Nutritional-metabolic pattern
Elimination pattern
Activity-exercise pattern
Sleep-rest pattern
Cognitive-perceptual pattern
Self-perception-self-concept pattern
Roles-relationships pattern
Sexuality-reproductive pattern
Coping-stress tolerance pattern
Values-beliefs pattern
Assessment - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔--Collect data
-Organize data
,-Validate data
-Document data
Nursing diagnosis - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔--Analyze data
-Identify health problems, risks, and strengths
-Formulate diagnostic statements
Planning - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔--Prioritize problems and diagnoses
-Formulate goals and designed health outcomes
-Identify nursing interventions
Implementation - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔--Reassess the patient
-Determine the nurse's need for assistance
-Implement nursing interventions
-Supervise delegated care
-Document nursing activities
Evaluation - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔--Collect data related to outcomes
-Complete data with outcomes
-Relate nursing actions to patient goals/outcomes
-Draw conclusions about problem status
-Continue, modify, or end the patient's care plan
Focused assessment - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔--Gathers specific details about the presenting
concern to either confirm or rule out abnormalities
, Time-lapsed assessment - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔--To reevaluate the patient's status and
identify whether the condition has improved, worsened, or stayed the same
Emergency assessment - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔--To ensure the patient has a patent airway, is
breathing, and has adequate circulation
-To identify the primary cause of the problem
Types of data - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔--Subjective-What the patient says (sometimes patient's
family)
-Objective-What the nurse collects or observes (physical assessment, medical records, patient
sometimes)
Health interview - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-A health *interview* is a structured interaction
between you and the patient. The *rules* governing this interaction should be *clearly outlined
and agreed on* by you and the patient at the start of the interview. Your mutual *goal* is the
*patient's optimal health*.
-Provides opportunity for communication, gathering information, and form a therapeutic
relationship with the patient
Assessment tools - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔--Stethoscope
-Blood pressure cuff
-Thermometer
-Etc
-4 of 5 senses
Four senses to use - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Sight- Colour of patient's skin, presence of
abnormal movement, patient's level of consciousness, patient's response to touch
Smell-Unique smells
Touch-Changes in skin temperature or fluid volume
correct answers
Nursing process - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-1. Assessment
2. Diagnosis
3. Planning
4. Implementation
5. Evaluation
Gordon's Functional Health Patterns - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Health perception-health
management pattern
Nutritional-metabolic pattern
Elimination pattern
Activity-exercise pattern
Sleep-rest pattern
Cognitive-perceptual pattern
Self-perception-self-concept pattern
Roles-relationships pattern
Sexuality-reproductive pattern
Coping-stress tolerance pattern
Values-beliefs pattern
Assessment - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔--Collect data
-Organize data
,-Validate data
-Document data
Nursing diagnosis - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔--Analyze data
-Identify health problems, risks, and strengths
-Formulate diagnostic statements
Planning - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔--Prioritize problems and diagnoses
-Formulate goals and designed health outcomes
-Identify nursing interventions
Implementation - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔--Reassess the patient
-Determine the nurse's need for assistance
-Implement nursing interventions
-Supervise delegated care
-Document nursing activities
Evaluation - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔--Collect data related to outcomes
-Complete data with outcomes
-Relate nursing actions to patient goals/outcomes
-Draw conclusions about problem status
-Continue, modify, or end the patient's care plan
Focused assessment - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔--Gathers specific details about the presenting
concern to either confirm or rule out abnormalities
, Time-lapsed assessment - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔--To reevaluate the patient's status and
identify whether the condition has improved, worsened, or stayed the same
Emergency assessment - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔--To ensure the patient has a patent airway, is
breathing, and has adequate circulation
-To identify the primary cause of the problem
Types of data - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔--Subjective-What the patient says (sometimes patient's
family)
-Objective-What the nurse collects or observes (physical assessment, medical records, patient
sometimes)
Health interview - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-A health *interview* is a structured interaction
between you and the patient. The *rules* governing this interaction should be *clearly outlined
and agreed on* by you and the patient at the start of the interview. Your mutual *goal* is the
*patient's optimal health*.
-Provides opportunity for communication, gathering information, and form a therapeutic
relationship with the patient
Assessment tools - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔--Stethoscope
-Blood pressure cuff
-Thermometer
-Etc
-4 of 5 senses
Four senses to use - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Sight- Colour of patient's skin, presence of
abnormal movement, patient's level of consciousness, patient's response to touch
Smell-Unique smells
Touch-Changes in skin temperature or fluid volume