NUR 352 Exam 1 – Nursing Study Guide (Foundations Review and Exam Preparation Material)
What is the nursing process? - correct answer ✔✔A critical thinking process that professional
nurses use to apply the best available evidence to caregiving and to promoting human functions
and responses to health and illness
What are the five parts of the nursing process? - correct answer ✔✔Assessment
Diagnosis
Planning
Implementation
Evaluation
What is part of Assessment? - correct answer ✔✔gathering and analysis of information about
patient's health status
What are types of assessment? - correct answer ✔✔Any time you are asking information about
the patients/vital signs/etc.
Subjective data - correct answer ✔✔What the patient says. Their verbal description
Objective data - correct answer ✔✔Observations or measurements of a patient's health status
What is your best source of data? - correct answer ✔✔THE PATIENT
What are the sources of data? - correct answer ✔✔Patient, Family/sig other, health care team,
medical records, other records, nurse experience
, What are the components of the nursing health history - correct answer ✔✔biographical
information, reason for seeking health care, health history, psychosocial history, patient
expectations, present illness or concerns, family history, spiritual health, review of systems
What do you have to do anytime you do something with a patient? - correct answer
✔✔Document it or you didn't do it
What is a nursing diagnosis? - correct answer ✔✔clinical judgment vulnerability for that
response by an individual, family, or community that a nurse is licensed and competent to treat.
patients are actively involved
What is a collaborative problem? - correct answer ✔✔an actual or potential physiological
complication that nurses monitor to detect the onset of changes in a patient's health status
When was NANDA founded? - correct answer ✔✔1982
What develops and adds new diagnostic labels? - correct answer ✔✔NANDA-1
What are the different types of nursing diagnoses (3)? - correct answer ✔✔problem-focused
risk
health promotion
Problem focused nursing diagnosis - correct answer ✔✔describes a clinical judgment
concerning an undesirable human response to a health condition/life process that exists in an
individ/fam/comm
related factor - correct answer ✔✔etiological or causative factor for the diagnosis, and allows
you to individualize a problem-focused nursing diagnosis for a specific patient need
What is the nursing process? - correct answer ✔✔A critical thinking process that professional
nurses use to apply the best available evidence to caregiving and to promoting human functions
and responses to health and illness
What are the five parts of the nursing process? - correct answer ✔✔Assessment
Diagnosis
Planning
Implementation
Evaluation
What is part of Assessment? - correct answer ✔✔gathering and analysis of information about
patient's health status
What are types of assessment? - correct answer ✔✔Any time you are asking information about
the patients/vital signs/etc.
Subjective data - correct answer ✔✔What the patient says. Their verbal description
Objective data - correct answer ✔✔Observations or measurements of a patient's health status
What is your best source of data? - correct answer ✔✔THE PATIENT
What are the sources of data? - correct answer ✔✔Patient, Family/sig other, health care team,
medical records, other records, nurse experience
, What are the components of the nursing health history - correct answer ✔✔biographical
information, reason for seeking health care, health history, psychosocial history, patient
expectations, present illness or concerns, family history, spiritual health, review of systems
What do you have to do anytime you do something with a patient? - correct answer
✔✔Document it or you didn't do it
What is a nursing diagnosis? - correct answer ✔✔clinical judgment vulnerability for that
response by an individual, family, or community that a nurse is licensed and competent to treat.
patients are actively involved
What is a collaborative problem? - correct answer ✔✔an actual or potential physiological
complication that nurses monitor to detect the onset of changes in a patient's health status
When was NANDA founded? - correct answer ✔✔1982
What develops and adds new diagnostic labels? - correct answer ✔✔NANDA-1
What are the different types of nursing diagnoses (3)? - correct answer ✔✔problem-focused
risk
health promotion
Problem focused nursing diagnosis - correct answer ✔✔describes a clinical judgment
concerning an undesirable human response to a health condition/life process that exists in an
individ/fam/comm
related factor - correct answer ✔✔etiological or causative factor for the diagnosis, and allows
you to individualize a problem-focused nursing diagnosis for a specific patient need
