HONDROS NUR 155 CORE MAIN EXAMINATION
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Emergency! - ✔✔Emergencies cease to exist when you prepare for them!
✔✔SPICES: - ✔✔A tool that can be used to obtain information necessary to prevent
health alterations in older adult patients.
✔✔SPICES: S - ✔✔SLEEP Disorders
✔✔SPICES: P - ✔✔PROBLEMS with Eating or Feeding
✔✔SPICES: I - ✔✔Incontinence bowel and/or bladder
✔✔SPICES: C - ✔✔Confusion
✔✔SPICES: E - ✔✔EVIDENCE of Falls
✔✔SPICES: S(2) - ✔✔SKIN Breakdown
✔✔Epworth Sleepiness Scale - ✔✔Tool used to measure average daytime sleepiness.
determines if person is getting enough sleep.
, Scored 0-6:
healthy 7-8
borderline 9-10 seek medical attention! (Most nursing students)
✔✔Advanced Nursing Knowledge - ✔✔What type of "knowledge" uses 6 Questions that
Critical Thinkers use?
1. What are you on alert for with this patient?
2. What are important assessments to make?
*Focus
*Systemic
*Head-to-Toe
3. A. What complications may occur?
B. What could go wrong?
4. What interventions will prevent complications?
5. How will you prioritize implementation of nursing interventions? Explain why?
6. What actions will you take for each complication, should it occur?
✔✔Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs Theory - ✔✔Name the theory that has 5
1. Physiological
2. Safety
3. Belonging
4. Self-Esteem
5. Self-actualization
✔✔1. Physiological - ✔✔Breathing, sustenance, water, exertion, sex, sleep,
homeostasis.
✔✔2. Safety - ✔✔Body, home, employment, family, health, property.
✔✔3. Belonging - ✔✔a feeling of having friends, family, and sexual intimacy.
✔✔4. Self-esteem - ✔✔a feeling of self-esteem, confidence, achievement, respect.
✔✔5. Self-actualization - ✔✔Realization of one's full potential.
✔✔Reflection: IN action - ✔✔You are in the situation and you are thinking/processing
as you go. Present tense.
✔✔Reflection: ON action - ✔✔Looking back, Past tense, reflecting on the situation after
the fact. Debriefing on the situation.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Emergency! - ✔✔Emergencies cease to exist when you prepare for them!
✔✔SPICES: - ✔✔A tool that can be used to obtain information necessary to prevent
health alterations in older adult patients.
✔✔SPICES: S - ✔✔SLEEP Disorders
✔✔SPICES: P - ✔✔PROBLEMS with Eating or Feeding
✔✔SPICES: I - ✔✔Incontinence bowel and/or bladder
✔✔SPICES: C - ✔✔Confusion
✔✔SPICES: E - ✔✔EVIDENCE of Falls
✔✔SPICES: S(2) - ✔✔SKIN Breakdown
✔✔Epworth Sleepiness Scale - ✔✔Tool used to measure average daytime sleepiness.
determines if person is getting enough sleep.
, Scored 0-6:
healthy 7-8
borderline 9-10 seek medical attention! (Most nursing students)
✔✔Advanced Nursing Knowledge - ✔✔What type of "knowledge" uses 6 Questions that
Critical Thinkers use?
1. What are you on alert for with this patient?
2. What are important assessments to make?
*Focus
*Systemic
*Head-to-Toe
3. A. What complications may occur?
B. What could go wrong?
4. What interventions will prevent complications?
5. How will you prioritize implementation of nursing interventions? Explain why?
6. What actions will you take for each complication, should it occur?
✔✔Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs Theory - ✔✔Name the theory that has 5
1. Physiological
2. Safety
3. Belonging
4. Self-Esteem
5. Self-actualization
✔✔1. Physiological - ✔✔Breathing, sustenance, water, exertion, sex, sleep,
homeostasis.
✔✔2. Safety - ✔✔Body, home, employment, family, health, property.
✔✔3. Belonging - ✔✔a feeling of having friends, family, and sexual intimacy.
✔✔4. Self-esteem - ✔✔a feeling of self-esteem, confidence, achievement, respect.
✔✔5. Self-actualization - ✔✔Realization of one's full potential.
✔✔Reflection: IN action - ✔✔You are in the situation and you are thinking/processing
as you go. Present tense.
✔✔Reflection: ON action - ✔✔Looking back, Past tense, reflecting on the situation after
the fact. Debriefing on the situation.
