CRITICAL THINKING NUR 200 HONDROS REVIEW
EXAM UPDATED QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE
A+
✔✔objective data (noticing) - ✔✔information that is seen, heard, felt, or smelled by an
observer; signs
✔✔Analytic reasoning - ✔✔Situation is unfamiliar
✔✔subjective data (noticing) - ✔✔things a person tells you about that you cannot
observe through your senses; symptoms
✔✔Intuitive reasoning - ✔✔Able to recognize the situation immedialy. Pattern based
✔✔factors that influence "Noticing" - ✔✔-intrapersonal characteristics of the nurse
-theoretical and experiential knowledge of the nurse
-knowing the patient
-context or environment of care
✔✔Narrative reasoning - ✔✔Situation to patient experience with illness.
, ✔✔Interpreting (tanners) - ✔✔comparing and contrast data, clustering related
information, recognizing inconsistencies, checking accuracy, distinguishing relevant
from irrelevant, determine importance of info, judge how much ambiguity is acceptable
(ie b/p dt condition), determine legal ethical professional guidelines, (predicting and)
*managing potential complications
✔✔Noticing - ✔✔1. Identify signs and symptoms
2. Complete and accurate date
3. Assessing systemically and comprehensively
4. Predicting and managing patient complications
5. Identifying assumptions
✔✔analytic reasoning (interpreting) - ✔✔based on theoretical knowledge. nurse makes
a hypothesis or best guess about the pt care situation and then tests. typically students
and novice nurses
✔✔Interpreting - ✔✔Understanding of the situation
✔✔intuitive reasoning (interpreting) - ✔✔based on unstated but understood knowledge
about the pt, the care giving context, and their previous experiences. typically expert
nurse.
✔✔Responding - ✔✔Based on what you interpreted the nurse will determine
appropriate actions
✔✔narrative reasoning (interpreting) - ✔✔way of making sense of a situation through
telling and interpreting stories. nurse hears pt stories of past medical experiences, helps
nurse understand specific pt experiences, setting the stage for individualized care
✔✔Reflection in action - ✔✔Observing patient reaction to the action the nurse chose
and deciding if the situation was fixed
✔✔responding (tanners) - ✔✔taking action, ability to carry out nursing skills and
effective communication, delegating, setting priorities
✔✔Reflection on action - ✔✔Patient responses to the outcomes. Nursing refelection
after the situation was solved
✔✔reflecting (tanners) - ✔✔pt outcomes, evaluating data- complete actions then
reassessment data is collected again used to determine if interventions were effective
or any further actions needed, evaluating and correcting thinking.
✔✔Novice nurse - ✔✔Uses analytic reasoning. Uses textbook in a systemic analysis of
a situation
EXAM UPDATED QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE
A+
✔✔objective data (noticing) - ✔✔information that is seen, heard, felt, or smelled by an
observer; signs
✔✔Analytic reasoning - ✔✔Situation is unfamiliar
✔✔subjective data (noticing) - ✔✔things a person tells you about that you cannot
observe through your senses; symptoms
✔✔Intuitive reasoning - ✔✔Able to recognize the situation immedialy. Pattern based
✔✔factors that influence "Noticing" - ✔✔-intrapersonal characteristics of the nurse
-theoretical and experiential knowledge of the nurse
-knowing the patient
-context or environment of care
✔✔Narrative reasoning - ✔✔Situation to patient experience with illness.
, ✔✔Interpreting (tanners) - ✔✔comparing and contrast data, clustering related
information, recognizing inconsistencies, checking accuracy, distinguishing relevant
from irrelevant, determine importance of info, judge how much ambiguity is acceptable
(ie b/p dt condition), determine legal ethical professional guidelines, (predicting and)
*managing potential complications
✔✔Noticing - ✔✔1. Identify signs and symptoms
2. Complete and accurate date
3. Assessing systemically and comprehensively
4. Predicting and managing patient complications
5. Identifying assumptions
✔✔analytic reasoning (interpreting) - ✔✔based on theoretical knowledge. nurse makes
a hypothesis or best guess about the pt care situation and then tests. typically students
and novice nurses
✔✔Interpreting - ✔✔Understanding of the situation
✔✔intuitive reasoning (interpreting) - ✔✔based on unstated but understood knowledge
about the pt, the care giving context, and their previous experiences. typically expert
nurse.
✔✔Responding - ✔✔Based on what you interpreted the nurse will determine
appropriate actions
✔✔narrative reasoning (interpreting) - ✔✔way of making sense of a situation through
telling and interpreting stories. nurse hears pt stories of past medical experiences, helps
nurse understand specific pt experiences, setting the stage for individualized care
✔✔Reflection in action - ✔✔Observing patient reaction to the action the nurse chose
and deciding if the situation was fixed
✔✔responding (tanners) - ✔✔taking action, ability to carry out nursing skills and
effective communication, delegating, setting priorities
✔✔Reflection on action - ✔✔Patient responses to the outcomes. Nursing refelection
after the situation was solved
✔✔reflecting (tanners) - ✔✔pt outcomes, evaluating data- complete actions then
reassessment data is collected again used to determine if interventions were effective
or any further actions needed, evaluating and correcting thinking.
✔✔Novice nurse - ✔✔Uses analytic reasoning. Uses textbook in a systemic analysis of
a situation
