NUR 3026 EXAM 1 2026/2027 | NURSING STUDY GUIDE, PRACTICE
QUESTIONS, ANSWERS & EXAM REVIEW
Patient-Centered Care - ANS ✔✔providing care that is respectful of, and responsive to individual
patient \ preferences, needs, and values, and to ensure that all patient values guide all clinical
decisions (IOM, 2015).
Nurse: Caregiver - ANS ✔✔Caring: knowledge and awareness of need, intention to act, actions based on
knowledge, results
in positive change
Nurse: Advocate - ANS ✔✔-Advocates for Patient's Rights: autonomy, free choice, right to make
informed decisions,
change agent within the health care system
-Supports Excellence of Care: patient/family/community education, communication within
health care team, participation in health policy formulation
Nurse: Educator - ANS ✔✔-Educate patients, families, communities
-Emphasize health promotion and maintenance
-Teaching, modeling lifestyles that promote wellness, sharing consequences of disease/ways to
decrease risks
Nurse: Researcher - ANS ✔✔-Research issues related to nursing and health care in general
-Collaborative and interdisciplinary research:
-Fosters communication and respect
-Enhances collaborate practice
-Allows more comprehensive approve to health care and wellness research
Nurse: Researcher of Nursing Theory - ANS ✔✔Theories: set of related ideas that describe relationships
in a nursing phenomena
Theories: identify standards of practice, develop models for delivery care, serve as a guideline
for nursing practice and research
Use a PICO Question to direct critical analysis of the literature (Research Evidence Based Practice - ANS
✔✔-P=Patient
-I=Intervention
-C=Comparison
-O=Outcome
-T=Time (optional)
Critical Thinking - ANS ✔✔-Reasoned thinking needed for the nursing process
-Solving Problems: trial and error
-A desire to seek the truth
-Ability to reflect
, *Critical thinking is linked to evidence-based practice
Cognitive - ANS ✔✔identify the purpose or goal of thinking
-Identify self-limitations and resources for learning
-Determine if the knowledge is accurate, complete, or relevant
Technical - ANS ✔✔mastery of the manual skills essential to the nursing process, learning new
equipment, procedures/policies
Interpersonal - ANS ✔✔utilizing effective communication techniques and interactions to establish
-Promoting dignity and the respect of the patient
-Enjoy the rewards of the beneficial, caring interactions with patients and staff
Ethical/Legal - ANS ✔✔holding yourself accountable for the care that you provide and delegate
-Report incompetent, unethical, and/or illegal practice
-Voicing your concerns over the unmet needs of your patients
Nursing Process - ANS ✔✔-Systematic problem-solving process that guides all nursing actions
-To help nurse provide goal-direct, client-centered care
The Nursing Process (ADPIE) - ANS ✔✔-Assessment, Diagnosis, planning, Intervention, Evaluation
Assessment - ANS ✔✔foundational first phase which includes a holistic nursing assessment of the
client/patient, patient is an active
-Primary: client/patient
-Secondary: family/significant other, health history/record, professional literature
-Strives to accurately conclude the health status of the client/patient
-Subjective/Objective Data
Diagnosing: - ANS ✔✔using critical thinking skills to identify patterns in teh data and draw conclusions
about the client's health status
-Statement of a health problem that the nurse identifies, prevents, or treats independently
-Written in terms of human response
-'A clinical judgement about individuals, family, or community experiences/responses to actual
or potential health problems/life processes'
Types: actual, potential, possible, wellness
Three-Part Statement - ANS ✔✔diagnosis, related to, evidenced by
-Problem, Etiology, Defining
-After reaching a conclusion
-Involve patient and/or family
-Classify Data: no nursing response indicated, reinforce good habits and patterns, initiatie
health promotion activities, collect more data, begin planning/implementing ad
evaluating care to reduce, prevent, or resolve problem
Planning - ANS ✔✔-Outcomes: decide what goals wanted to achieve
-Identify long term (greater than one week) or short term
-Interventions: chose interventions to help client achieve goals
QUESTIONS, ANSWERS & EXAM REVIEW
Patient-Centered Care - ANS ✔✔providing care that is respectful of, and responsive to individual
patient \ preferences, needs, and values, and to ensure that all patient values guide all clinical
decisions (IOM, 2015).
Nurse: Caregiver - ANS ✔✔Caring: knowledge and awareness of need, intention to act, actions based on
knowledge, results
in positive change
Nurse: Advocate - ANS ✔✔-Advocates for Patient's Rights: autonomy, free choice, right to make
informed decisions,
change agent within the health care system
-Supports Excellence of Care: patient/family/community education, communication within
health care team, participation in health policy formulation
Nurse: Educator - ANS ✔✔-Educate patients, families, communities
-Emphasize health promotion and maintenance
-Teaching, modeling lifestyles that promote wellness, sharing consequences of disease/ways to
decrease risks
Nurse: Researcher - ANS ✔✔-Research issues related to nursing and health care in general
-Collaborative and interdisciplinary research:
-Fosters communication and respect
-Enhances collaborate practice
-Allows more comprehensive approve to health care and wellness research
Nurse: Researcher of Nursing Theory - ANS ✔✔Theories: set of related ideas that describe relationships
in a nursing phenomena
Theories: identify standards of practice, develop models for delivery care, serve as a guideline
for nursing practice and research
Use a PICO Question to direct critical analysis of the literature (Research Evidence Based Practice - ANS
✔✔-P=Patient
-I=Intervention
-C=Comparison
-O=Outcome
-T=Time (optional)
Critical Thinking - ANS ✔✔-Reasoned thinking needed for the nursing process
-Solving Problems: trial and error
-A desire to seek the truth
-Ability to reflect
, *Critical thinking is linked to evidence-based practice
Cognitive - ANS ✔✔identify the purpose or goal of thinking
-Identify self-limitations and resources for learning
-Determine if the knowledge is accurate, complete, or relevant
Technical - ANS ✔✔mastery of the manual skills essential to the nursing process, learning new
equipment, procedures/policies
Interpersonal - ANS ✔✔utilizing effective communication techniques and interactions to establish
-Promoting dignity and the respect of the patient
-Enjoy the rewards of the beneficial, caring interactions with patients and staff
Ethical/Legal - ANS ✔✔holding yourself accountable for the care that you provide and delegate
-Report incompetent, unethical, and/or illegal practice
-Voicing your concerns over the unmet needs of your patients
Nursing Process - ANS ✔✔-Systematic problem-solving process that guides all nursing actions
-To help nurse provide goal-direct, client-centered care
The Nursing Process (ADPIE) - ANS ✔✔-Assessment, Diagnosis, planning, Intervention, Evaluation
Assessment - ANS ✔✔foundational first phase which includes a holistic nursing assessment of the
client/patient, patient is an active
-Primary: client/patient
-Secondary: family/significant other, health history/record, professional literature
-Strives to accurately conclude the health status of the client/patient
-Subjective/Objective Data
Diagnosing: - ANS ✔✔using critical thinking skills to identify patterns in teh data and draw conclusions
about the client's health status
-Statement of a health problem that the nurse identifies, prevents, or treats independently
-Written in terms of human response
-'A clinical judgement about individuals, family, or community experiences/responses to actual
or potential health problems/life processes'
Types: actual, potential, possible, wellness
Three-Part Statement - ANS ✔✔diagnosis, related to, evidenced by
-Problem, Etiology, Defining
-After reaching a conclusion
-Involve patient and/or family
-Classify Data: no nursing response indicated, reinforce good habits and patterns, initiatie
health promotion activities, collect more data, begin planning/implementing ad
evaluating care to reduce, prevent, or resolve problem
Planning - ANS ✔✔-Outcomes: decide what goals wanted to achieve
-Identify long term (greater than one week) or short term
-Interventions: chose interventions to help client achieve goals
