CONCEPTS OF NURSING 2025/2026 QUESTIONS WITH
ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔ANA Code of ethics - ✔✔right/wrong: in relation to nursing duties and obligations
protects human rights
framework for making ethical decisions
outlines nurse's responsibility to patient and profession
✔✔the nursing process - ✔✔problem-solving approach for organizing and delivering
nursing care
- purposeful
- systemic
- dynamic
- interactive
- flexible
- theoretically-based
- cyclical
- concurrent
✔✔steps of nursing process - ✔✔assessment
diagnosis
planning
implementation
evaluation
✔✔assessment - ✔✔systemic gathering of information to draw conclusions about the
patients health status
1. data collection
2. data analysis
✔✔data collection - ✔✔method
- interview
- observation
- physical examination
sources
- primary: subj or obj data from patient
- secondary: records, test results, family or support system, other caregivers
types
- subjective (covert)
- objective (overt)
✔✔data analysis - ✔✔compare data against standards
cluster data
identify gaps or inconsistencies
, ✔✔nursing diagnosis - ✔✔statement of pt problem
actual or potential
based on data
physical, psychological, socio-cultural, spiritual
health problem that nurses are licensed and capable of treating
two part statement
✔✔planning - ✔✔development of strategies to prevent, minimize, or correct problems
identified in nursing dx
- prioritize
- goals/expected outcomes
- nursing interventions
- communication and recording of plan of care
✔✔prioritize - ✔✔maslows hierarchy
collaborate with pt
consider effects of potential problems
✔✔goals/expected outcomes - ✔✔formulated to improve or maintain the pt heath status
designates an end result
guides type of interventions
provides criteria to evaluate success of interventions
pt-centered
alleviate or reduce problem
observable
measurable
time-limited
realistic
specific
short or long term
✔✔nursing intervention - ✔✔actions designated to assist pt to meet goal
- independent
- dependent
- interdependent
✔✔independent - ✔✔observe/monitor
action
health teaching
✔✔dependent - ✔✔physician-ordered: medications, treatment, diet, activity
✔✔interdependent - ✔✔collaboration with health team
✔✔implementation - ✔✔carry out interventions identified in plan
ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔ANA Code of ethics - ✔✔right/wrong: in relation to nursing duties and obligations
protects human rights
framework for making ethical decisions
outlines nurse's responsibility to patient and profession
✔✔the nursing process - ✔✔problem-solving approach for organizing and delivering
nursing care
- purposeful
- systemic
- dynamic
- interactive
- flexible
- theoretically-based
- cyclical
- concurrent
✔✔steps of nursing process - ✔✔assessment
diagnosis
planning
implementation
evaluation
✔✔assessment - ✔✔systemic gathering of information to draw conclusions about the
patients health status
1. data collection
2. data analysis
✔✔data collection - ✔✔method
- interview
- observation
- physical examination
sources
- primary: subj or obj data from patient
- secondary: records, test results, family or support system, other caregivers
types
- subjective (covert)
- objective (overt)
✔✔data analysis - ✔✔compare data against standards
cluster data
identify gaps or inconsistencies
, ✔✔nursing diagnosis - ✔✔statement of pt problem
actual or potential
based on data
physical, psychological, socio-cultural, spiritual
health problem that nurses are licensed and capable of treating
two part statement
✔✔planning - ✔✔development of strategies to prevent, minimize, or correct problems
identified in nursing dx
- prioritize
- goals/expected outcomes
- nursing interventions
- communication and recording of plan of care
✔✔prioritize - ✔✔maslows hierarchy
collaborate with pt
consider effects of potential problems
✔✔goals/expected outcomes - ✔✔formulated to improve or maintain the pt heath status
designates an end result
guides type of interventions
provides criteria to evaluate success of interventions
pt-centered
alleviate or reduce problem
observable
measurable
time-limited
realistic
specific
short or long term
✔✔nursing intervention - ✔✔actions designated to assist pt to meet goal
- independent
- dependent
- interdependent
✔✔independent - ✔✔observe/monitor
action
health teaching
✔✔dependent - ✔✔physician-ordered: medications, treatment, diet, activity
✔✔interdependent - ✔✔collaboration with health team
✔✔implementation - ✔✔carry out interventions identified in plan
