Essentials of Nursing Practice Exam 1
questions and answers 2024\2025 A+
Grade
Critical Thinking
- correct answer Specific Knowledge + Expertise and Experience
What is the purpose of the nursing process?
- correct answer Purpose is to diagnose and treat human responses to actual or potential health
problems
Discuss critical thinking skills used in nursing practice.
- correct answer Connect knowledge and theory with day to day practice and reflect on and analyze
thoughts, action and knowledge
What are the steps of the nursing process?
- correct answer Assessment, Diagnose, Plan, Implement, Evaluate
Assessment
- correct answer Organized and ongoing appraisal of a patient's well-being. Comprehensive assessment
leads to accurate nursing diagnosis
Diagnosis
- correct answer Identifies the actual problem. Differentiates into 2 part and 3 part system.
Planning
- correct answer the nurse prioritizes a patient's various nursing diagnoses, establishes short- and long-
term goals, chooses outcome indicators, and identifies interventions to address patient goals.
,Implementation
- correct answer focuses on initiation of appropriate interventions designed to meet the unique needs of
each patient
Evaluate
- correct answer focuses on the patient and the patient's response to nursing interventions and goal or
outcome attainment.
Difference between nursing diagnosis and medical diagnosis
- correct answer Medical Diagnosis: Identify and label medical illnesses. Can be Physical or Psychological.
Nursing Diagnosis: Broader in focus-Consider patient's response to medical diagnoses to life situations-
Make clinical judgments based on medical diagnoses and conditions.
Infection
- correct answer the invasion of a susceptible host by pathogens or microorganisms; results in disease.
Colonization
- correct answer presence and growth of microorganisms within a host without tissue invasion or
damage.
Health Care Associated Infections
- correct answer Patients at greater risk for health care- associated infections (HAIs)
Multiple illnesses
•Older adults
•Poorly nourished
•Compromised immune system
Iatrogenic (HAIs)
- correct answer Infection stems from a procedure
Exogenous (HAIs)
- correct answer from microorganisms outside the individual
, Endogenous (HAIs)
- correct answer when the patient's flora becomes altered and overgrowth occurs
Contact (mode of transmission)
- correct answer junction of body surfaces with other bodies or objects
Direct: Contact with infected person
Indirect: Contact with contaminated object
Airborne (mode of transmission)
- correct answer microorganisms dispersed by air, then inhaled or deposited. Examples of illnesses
transmitted through the air include tuberculosis, measles, and chickenpox
Droplet (mode of transmission)
- correct answer mucous membranes of resp tract are exposed to secretions of infected person.
Droplets cannot remain suspended in the air for long periods and seldom travel more than 3 feet from
the source.
Examples of illnesses transmitted by droplets are influenza and respiratory syncytial virus infection
Vector borne
- correct answer carry the pathogens from one host to another. Vectors often are invertebrate animals
such as ticks, but they can also be vertebrate animals such as raccoons, which can transmit rabies by
biting.
A microorganism is considered resistant if replication cannot be stopped by _______ ____ ______
antibiotics sequentially or simultaneously.
- correct answer two or more
Hand Hygiene
- correct answer Hands visibly soiled--- soap and water
Rub vigoursly with soap for at least 15-30 seconds
Hands not visibly soiled --- alcohol based rub
Rub until alcohol is dry
questions and answers 2024\2025 A+
Grade
Critical Thinking
- correct answer Specific Knowledge + Expertise and Experience
What is the purpose of the nursing process?
- correct answer Purpose is to diagnose and treat human responses to actual or potential health
problems
Discuss critical thinking skills used in nursing practice.
- correct answer Connect knowledge and theory with day to day practice and reflect on and analyze
thoughts, action and knowledge
What are the steps of the nursing process?
- correct answer Assessment, Diagnose, Plan, Implement, Evaluate
Assessment
- correct answer Organized and ongoing appraisal of a patient's well-being. Comprehensive assessment
leads to accurate nursing diagnosis
Diagnosis
- correct answer Identifies the actual problem. Differentiates into 2 part and 3 part system.
Planning
- correct answer the nurse prioritizes a patient's various nursing diagnoses, establishes short- and long-
term goals, chooses outcome indicators, and identifies interventions to address patient goals.
,Implementation
- correct answer focuses on initiation of appropriate interventions designed to meet the unique needs of
each patient
Evaluate
- correct answer focuses on the patient and the patient's response to nursing interventions and goal or
outcome attainment.
Difference between nursing diagnosis and medical diagnosis
- correct answer Medical Diagnosis: Identify and label medical illnesses. Can be Physical or Psychological.
Nursing Diagnosis: Broader in focus-Consider patient's response to medical diagnoses to life situations-
Make clinical judgments based on medical diagnoses and conditions.
Infection
- correct answer the invasion of a susceptible host by pathogens or microorganisms; results in disease.
Colonization
- correct answer presence and growth of microorganisms within a host without tissue invasion or
damage.
Health Care Associated Infections
- correct answer Patients at greater risk for health care- associated infections (HAIs)
Multiple illnesses
•Older adults
•Poorly nourished
•Compromised immune system
Iatrogenic (HAIs)
- correct answer Infection stems from a procedure
Exogenous (HAIs)
- correct answer from microorganisms outside the individual
, Endogenous (HAIs)
- correct answer when the patient's flora becomes altered and overgrowth occurs
Contact (mode of transmission)
- correct answer junction of body surfaces with other bodies or objects
Direct: Contact with infected person
Indirect: Contact with contaminated object
Airborne (mode of transmission)
- correct answer microorganisms dispersed by air, then inhaled or deposited. Examples of illnesses
transmitted through the air include tuberculosis, measles, and chickenpox
Droplet (mode of transmission)
- correct answer mucous membranes of resp tract are exposed to secretions of infected person.
Droplets cannot remain suspended in the air for long periods and seldom travel more than 3 feet from
the source.
Examples of illnesses transmitted by droplets are influenza and respiratory syncytial virus infection
Vector borne
- correct answer carry the pathogens from one host to another. Vectors often are invertebrate animals
such as ticks, but they can also be vertebrate animals such as raccoons, which can transmit rabies by
biting.
A microorganism is considered resistant if replication cannot be stopped by _______ ____ ______
antibiotics sequentially or simultaneously.
- correct answer two or more
Hand Hygiene
- correct answer Hands visibly soiled--- soap and water
Rub vigoursly with soap for at least 15-30 seconds
Hands not visibly soiled --- alcohol based rub
Rub until alcohol is dry
