ACTUAL Questions and CORRECT
Answers
· Nursing diagnosis - CORRECT ANSWER - clinical judgment about individual, family,
or community responses to actual or potential health problems. Directs interventions
· Diagnostic reasoning - CORRECT ANSWER - Method by which nurses utilize critical
thinking, i.e., gathering and clustering assessment information, making hypotheses to arrive at
diagnoses.See case study
· Nursing process - CORRECT ANSWER - include six phases: assessment, diagnosis,
outcome identification, planning, implementation, and evaluation. This process allows
practitioners to move back and forth while caring for the needs of complex patients
· components of evidence based practice - CORRECT ANSWER - Patient preference and
values, clinical expertise, health assessment, research, p 5-6
Culturally sensitive - CORRECT ANSWER - implies that's caregivers posses some basic
knowledge of and constructive attitudes toward the diverse cultural populations found in the
setting in which they are practicing
o cultural care - CORRECT ANSWER - the provision of health care across cultural
boundaries and considers the context both in which the patient lives and the situations in which
the patient's health problems arise
o heritage - CORRECT ANSWER - heritage- ethnicity, culture, religion specific to a
special group
, o heritage consistency - CORRECT ANSWER - degree to which a person's lifestyle
reflects his or her traditional heritage in the areas of spirituality, health practices, relationships,
etc
o heritage assessment - CORRECT ANSWER - list of background questions. Based on
these questions the care can determine the likeliness to use health practices relevant to their
traditional heritage is high p.23-24
o assimilation - CORRECT ANSWER - unidirectional and one-dimensional means of
acculturation, proceeding in a linear fashion from unacculturated to acculturation
Facilitation - CORRECT ANSWER - increases discussion. "Tell me more."
Active listening Silent attentiveness - CORRECT ANSWER - Powerful use
Reflection /Restatement - CORRECT ANSWER - - Echoes their words- mirror their
discussion
Empathy - CORRECT ANSWER - Recognize feelings and validate by putting into words.
Clarification - CORRECT ANSWER - "Tell me what you mean."
Confrontation - CORRECT ANSWER - Use sparingly, tactfully
ADL includes - CORRECT ANSWER - Eating
Hygiene
Toileting
Ambulation