NURS 202 EXAMINATION SET UPDATED QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Critical Thinking in Implementation - ✔✔Review the set of all possible nursing
interventions.
Review all possible consequences associated with each possible nursing action.
Determine the probability of all possible consequences.
Make a judgment about the value of that consequence to the patient.
✔✔The Implementation Process - ✔✔Reassessing the patient
Reviewing and revising the existing nursing care plan
Organizing resources and care delivery
Anticipating and preventing complications
✔✔Implementation Skills - ✔✔Cognitive Skills-Application of critical thinking in the
nursing process
Interpersonal Skills-Developing a trusting relationship, expressing a level of caring, and
communicating clearly with a patient and his or her family
Psychomotor skills-Integration of cognitive and motor activities
✔✔Evaluation - ✔✔Evaluation is an ongoing process.
Positive evaluations lead nurses to conclude that interventions were successful.
✔✔Standards for evaluation - ✔✔Resolve actual health problems
Prevent potential problems
Maintain a healthy state
✔✔Interpreting and summarizing findings - ✔✔1. Examine the outcome criteria.
2. Evaluate the patient's actual response.
3. Compare the established outcome criteria with the actual response.
4. Judge the degree of agreement between the outcome criteria and the response.
5. If no or only partial agreement, what are the barriers?
✔✔Statutory Law - ✔✔Created by elected legislators (Congress, state legislatures)
Can be either criminal or civil
Example: Nurse Practice Acts (NPA), Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor
Act (EMTALA)
, ✔✔Nursing Practice Act - ✔✔describes and defines the legal boundaries of nursing
practice in each state
✔✔Regulatory Law / Administrative Law - ✔✔defines your duty to report incompetent or
unethical nursing conduct to the Board of Nursing
✔✔Common Law - ✔✔results from judicial decisions concerning individual cases. Most
of these revolve around negligence and malpractice
Examples: "Informed consent," "abortion rights," client's right to refuse treatment
✔✔Negligence - ✔✔is a deviation from the accepted standard of care which places a
person at risk.
✔✔Malpractice - ✔✔is professional negligence when the conduct fails to meet the legal
standard of care and someone is damaged as a result
✔✔Proof of Negligence - ✔✔FOUR elements that must be met to prove a nurse guilty of
malpractice
Duty (relationship)- nurses responsibility to provide care in an acceptable manner
Breach of Duty- failed to provide care in acceptable manner
Injury (damages)-nurses act caused harm
Proximate cause-reasonable cause and effect can be shown between the omission or
commission and the harm
✔✔American with disabilities act (ADA) - ✔✔is a very broad civil rights statute. It
protects the rights of disabled people. Included in this statute are people who have HIV
and AIDS.
✔✔Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act(EMTALA) - ✔✔is also known
as the "patient dumping act." Hospitals are mandated to treat and stabilize patients
before transferring or discharging them.
✔✔Uniform Anatomical Gift Act - ✔✔states that an individual who is at least 18 years
old has the right to make an organ donation. Donors need to make their wishes known
in writing. Many states allow adults to sign the back of their driver's license indicating
their intent for organ donation
✔✔The Patient Self-Determination Act of 1991 (PSDA) - ✔✔requires health care
institutions to provide written information to patients concerning their rights under state
law to make decisions, including the right to refuse treatment, and to formulate advance
directives.
ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Critical Thinking in Implementation - ✔✔Review the set of all possible nursing
interventions.
Review all possible consequences associated with each possible nursing action.
Determine the probability of all possible consequences.
Make a judgment about the value of that consequence to the patient.
✔✔The Implementation Process - ✔✔Reassessing the patient
Reviewing and revising the existing nursing care plan
Organizing resources and care delivery
Anticipating and preventing complications
✔✔Implementation Skills - ✔✔Cognitive Skills-Application of critical thinking in the
nursing process
Interpersonal Skills-Developing a trusting relationship, expressing a level of caring, and
communicating clearly with a patient and his or her family
Psychomotor skills-Integration of cognitive and motor activities
✔✔Evaluation - ✔✔Evaluation is an ongoing process.
Positive evaluations lead nurses to conclude that interventions were successful.
✔✔Standards for evaluation - ✔✔Resolve actual health problems
Prevent potential problems
Maintain a healthy state
✔✔Interpreting and summarizing findings - ✔✔1. Examine the outcome criteria.
2. Evaluate the patient's actual response.
3. Compare the established outcome criteria with the actual response.
4. Judge the degree of agreement between the outcome criteria and the response.
5. If no or only partial agreement, what are the barriers?
✔✔Statutory Law - ✔✔Created by elected legislators (Congress, state legislatures)
Can be either criminal or civil
Example: Nurse Practice Acts (NPA), Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor
Act (EMTALA)
, ✔✔Nursing Practice Act - ✔✔describes and defines the legal boundaries of nursing
practice in each state
✔✔Regulatory Law / Administrative Law - ✔✔defines your duty to report incompetent or
unethical nursing conduct to the Board of Nursing
✔✔Common Law - ✔✔results from judicial decisions concerning individual cases. Most
of these revolve around negligence and malpractice
Examples: "Informed consent," "abortion rights," client's right to refuse treatment
✔✔Negligence - ✔✔is a deviation from the accepted standard of care which places a
person at risk.
✔✔Malpractice - ✔✔is professional negligence when the conduct fails to meet the legal
standard of care and someone is damaged as a result
✔✔Proof of Negligence - ✔✔FOUR elements that must be met to prove a nurse guilty of
malpractice
Duty (relationship)- nurses responsibility to provide care in an acceptable manner
Breach of Duty- failed to provide care in acceptable manner
Injury (damages)-nurses act caused harm
Proximate cause-reasonable cause and effect can be shown between the omission or
commission and the harm
✔✔American with disabilities act (ADA) - ✔✔is a very broad civil rights statute. It
protects the rights of disabled people. Included in this statute are people who have HIV
and AIDS.
✔✔Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act(EMTALA) - ✔✔is also known
as the "patient dumping act." Hospitals are mandated to treat and stabilize patients
before transferring or discharging them.
✔✔Uniform Anatomical Gift Act - ✔✔states that an individual who is at least 18 years
old has the right to make an organ donation. Donors need to make their wishes known
in writing. Many states allow adults to sign the back of their driver's license indicating
their intent for organ donation
✔✔The Patient Self-Determination Act of 1991 (PSDA) - ✔✔requires health care
institutions to provide written information to patients concerning their rights under state
law to make decisions, including the right to refuse treatment, and to formulate advance
directives.
