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1. After completing an initial assessment of a patient, the nurse has charted that his respirations are eupneic andh
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is pulse is 58 beats per minute. These types of data would be:
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a. Objective.


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Objective data are what the health professional observes by inspecting, percussing, palpating, and auscultating dur
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ing the physical examination. Subjective data is what the person says about him or herself during history taking. T
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he terms reflective and introspective are not used to describe data.
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2. A patient tells the nurse that he is very nervous, is nausea.CteOdM
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Subjective data are what the person says about him or herself during history taking. Objective data are what theh
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ealth professional observes by inspecting, percussing, palpating, and auscultating during the physical examination
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3. The patients record, laboratory studies, objective data, and subjective data combine to form the:
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Together with the patients record and laboratory studies, the objective and subjective data form the data base.Th
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e other items are not part of the patients record, laboratory studies, or data.
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DIF: Cognitive Level: Remembering (Knowledge)
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4. When listening to a patients breath sounds, the nurse is unsure of a sound that is heard. The nurses nexta
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c. Validate the data by asking a coworker to listen to the breath sounds.
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d. Assess again in 20 minutes to note whether the sound is still present.
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When unsure of a sound heard while listening to a patients breath sounds, the nurse validates the data to ensureaccurac
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y. If the nurse has less experience in an area, then he or she asks an expert to listen.
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5. The nurse is conducting a class for new graduate nurses. During the teaching session, the nurse should keep in
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mind that novice nurses, without a background of skills and experience from which to draw, are more likelyto m
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Novice nurses operate from a set of defined, structured rules. The expert practitioner uses intuitive links.DIF:
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6. The nurse is reviewing information about evidence-
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based practice (EBP). Which statement best reflectsEBP?
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d. The patients own preferences are not important with EBP.
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EBP is a systematic approach to practice that emphasizes the use of best evidence in combination with the cli
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nicians experience, as well as patient preferences and values, when making decisions about care and treatme
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nt. EBP is more than simply using the best practice techniques to treat patients, and questioning tradition is i
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mportant when no compelling and supportive research evidence exists.
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7. Expert nurses learn to attend to a pattern of assessment data and act without consciously labeling it. Theser
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Intuition is characterized by pattern recognitionexpert nurses learn to attend to a pattern of assessment data andac
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t without consciously labeling it. The other options are not correct.
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8. The nurse is conducting a class on priority setting for a group of new graduate nurses. Which is an exampleo
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f a first-level priority problem?
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