200 Exam 1 Questions and 100%
Correct Answers
A review and physical examination of all body systems, for stable patients only - correct answer
✔✔Complete assessment
"Thinking Like A Nurse". integral to the Safety of pt. Interpretation or conclusion about a
patient's needs, concerns, or health problems, and/or the decision to take action (or not), use
or modify standard approaches, or improvise new ones as deemed appropriate by the patient's
response. - correct answer ✔✔clinical judgment
Completed health history and physical examination, large store or bank of info - correct answer
✔✔Database
is the thinking process by which a nurse reaches a clinical judgement. an iterative process of
noticing, interpreting, and responding- reasoning in transition with a fine attunement to the
patient and how the patient responds to the nurses action - correct answer ✔✔clinical
reasoning
Psychological and social factors - correct answer ✔✔Psychosocial history
clinical decision making that integrates the best available research with clinical expertise and
patient characteristics and preferences - correct answer ✔✔evidence-based practice
Interiew patient, health history. Patient is your primary source - correct answer ✔✔1st method
of data collection
,Noticing
Interpreting
Responding
Reflecting - correct answer ✔✔Tanner's Model
Physical examination ( guided by subjective and objective) - correct answer ✔✔2nd method of
data collection
identify s/s, gather complete and accurate data, assessing systematically and comprehensively,
*predicting (and managing) potential complications, identifying assumptions - correct answer
✔✔noticing (tanners model)
1. Safety
2. Healthcare quality
3. Leadership
4. Patient education
5. Evidence
6. Professionalism
7. Care coordination - correct answer ✔✔Concepts of clinical judgment
information that is seen, heard, felt, or smelled by an observer; signs - correct answer
✔✔objective data (noticing)
Situation is unfamiliar - correct answer ✔✔Analytic reasoning
things a person tells you about that you cannot observe through your senses; symptoms -
correct answer ✔✔subjective data (noticing)
, Able to recognize the situation immedialy. Pattern based - correct answer ✔✔Intuitive
reasoning
-intrapersonal characteristics of the nurse
-theoretical and experiential knowledge of the nurse
-knowing the patient
-context or environment of care - correct answer ✔✔factors that influence "Noticing"
Situation to patient experience with illness. - correct answer ✔✔Narrative reasoning
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 - correct answer
✔✔Interpreting (tanners)
1. Identify signs and symptoms
2. Complete and accurate date
3. Assessing systemically and comprehensively
4. Predicting and managing patient complications
5. Identifying assumptions - correct answer ✔✔Noticing
based on theoretical knowledge. nurse makes a hypothesis or best guess about the pt care
situation and then tests. typically students and novice nurses - correct answer ✔✔analytic
reasoning (interpreting)
Understanding of the situation - correct answer ✔✔Interpreting