HESI A2 CRITICAL THINKING EXAM QUESTIONS & ANSWERS WITH RATIONALES LATEST UPATED

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What are the 5 steps of the Nursing Process? Correct Answer: Assessment, Diagnosi
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ng/Analyzing data gained from assessing/Planning (including outcome identification
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), Implementing (according to priority), evaluating...did it work?
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The nursing process is... Correct Answer: overlapping and dynamic
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What does P-I-E stand for? Correct Answer: Problem, Implement, Evaluate
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What is the acronym COVD used for? Correct Answer: Used during assessing?
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Collecting Data k


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Validating
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What are the sources of data that you retrieve during assessment? Correct Answer: p
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atient, support peoples, client records
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What type of client records could you get data from? Correct Answer: Other healthca
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re professionals, nursing and scientific literature
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What are the two types of data you will take from the patient? Correct Answer: Subje
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ctive and Objective data
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What is subjective data? Correct Answer: Data that only the subject or "patient" can f
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eel and will tell you. Usually in a statement.
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What is objective data? Correct Answer: What you observe and can measure
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Besides measurable data for your objective data, what other objective data should yo
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u collect? Correct Answer: What you see, hear, and smell.
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What do you do with your data sometimes if it is off or you are to sure of it? Correct A
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,How do you record subjective data? Correct Answer: In clients, "own words."
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What does the diagnoses do? Correct Answer: Describes the patients health problem
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in nursing terminology - NOT medical.
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What are some qualifiers for diagnoses? Correct Answer: deficient, impaired, decrea
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sed, ineffective or compromised
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What is etiology? Correct Answer: The "related to" part....it is NURSE FIXABLE?
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What does the etiology or "related to" part do? Correct Answer: Directs the nursing i
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ntervention

What does the correctly stated nursing problem have....PES....? Correct Answer: Pro
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blem Statement (NANDA) only, Etiology "related to", and the supporting data (subj.
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obj assessment findings)
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What is planning? Correct Answer: involved determining pt goals/outcomes
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You cannot have an intervention.... Correct Answer: without a goal.
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You cannot have a goal... Correct Answer: without an intervention
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A goal is a direct result of an... Correct Answer: intervention
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When planning what do you always want to do? Correct Answer: BE SPECIFIC...W
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HO, WHAT, WHEN, HOW OFTEN, HOW MUCH
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For every nursing diagnoses....the nurse... Correct Answer: must write atleast one de
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The purpose of an intervention... Correct Answer: is a goal!
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What is an evaluation mean? Correct Answer: A patient response to an intervention
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Risk Factors Correct Answer: do not have defining characteristics....they are not spe
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cific

Between an intervention and a goal...there is... Correct Answer: TEACHING
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,In a care plan... Correct Answer: there is always a reference in APA format
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Actual nursing diagnoses Correct Answer: a client problem present at time of assess
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Risk nursing diagnoses Correct Answer: clinical judgement that problem doesn't exi
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st, but presence of risk factors indicates problem may develop
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Wellness Correct Answer: readiness for enhancement
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The etiology is always... Correct Answer: nurse fixable
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Standing Orders Correct Answer: written documentation authorizing nurse to carry
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out specific actions under ceratin circumstance
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standardized care plan Correct Answer: formal plan that specifies nursing care for a
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group of clients with common needs
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Individual care plans Correct Answer: tailored to meet unique needs of pt
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What are the five components of the goal? Correct Answer: Subject, Verb, Criteria,
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The client, will ambulate, fifty feet in the hall, one time with assistance, by 4pm.
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What can you do by for your goals! Correct Answer: BMAT...behavior, measure, co
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ndition, time k




About Rationales Correct Answer: By each nursing intervention...put page number o
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f rationale...
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When evaluating, what do you think about? Correct Answer: What it effective, ineff
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ective, were goals met, not met, partially met?
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Critical Thinking Correct Answer: Is an active, organized, cognitive process used to
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examine one's thinking and the thinking of others.
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Evidenced-
based knowledge Correct Answer: Based on research or clinical expertise
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, Identify the concepts and behaviors of a critical thinker.
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Truth seeking: Correct Answer: Seek the true meaning of a situation
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Identify the concepts and behaviors of a critical thinker.
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Open-
mindedness: Correct Answer: Be tolerant of different views and own prejudices
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Identify the concepts and behaviors of a critical thinker.
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Analyticity: Correct Answer: Anticipate possible results or consequences
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Identify the concepts and behaviors of a critical thinker.
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Systematicity: Correct Answer: Be organized k k kk k




Identify the concepts and behaviors of a critical thinker.
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Self-confidence: Correct Answer: Trust in your own reasoning processes
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Identify the concepts and behaviors of a critical thinker.
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Inquisitiveness: Correct Answer: Be eager to acquire new knowledge and value lear
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ning

Identify the concepts and behaviors of a critical thinker.
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Maturity: Correct Answer: Reflect upon your own judgments
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Name Three levels of critical thinking. Correct Answer: Basic, Complex, Commitm
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Describe the Basic Level of Critical Thinking. Correct Answer: Trust that experts ha
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ve the right answers for every problem; thinking is concrete and based on a set of rule
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s or principles
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Describe the Complex Level of Critical Thinking. Correct Answer: Begin to separat
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e themselves from authorities, analyze and examine choices more independently.
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Describe the Commitment Level of Critical Thinking. Correct Answer: Anticipate th
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e need to make choices without assistance from others, accountability
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Scientific method Correct Answer: Systematic, ordered approach to gathering data a
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nd problem solving
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