NURS 202 LATEST 2026 STUDY GUIDE QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔What 5 things does nursing implementation include? - ✔✔Direct care
Indirect care
Domains of nursing practice
Critical thinking
Clinical decision making
✔✔Treatments performed through interactions with patients
Examples:
-Medication administration
-Insertion of an intravenous (IV) infusion
-Counseling during a time of grief - ✔✔direct care
✔✔Treatments performed away from the patient but on behalf of the patient or group of
patients
Examples:
-Manage the environment (safety&infection control)
-Documentation
-Interdisciplinary collaboration - ✔✔indirect care
✔✔*The helping role
*Teaching-coaching function
*The diagnostic and patient-monitoring function
*Effective management of rapidly changing situations
*Administering and monitoring therapeutic regimens
*Organizational and work-related competencies - ✔✔domains of nursing practice
✔✔*Review the set of all possible nursing interventions.
*Review all possible consequences associated with each possible nursing action.
*Determine probability of all possible consequences.
*Make a judgment about the value of that consequence to the patient. - ✔✔Critical
Thinking in Implementation
✔✔*Reassessing the patient
*Reviewing and revising the existing nursing care plan
*Organizing resources and care delivery
*Anticipating and preventing complications - ✔✔The Implementation Process
✔✔*Identify risks to the patient.
*Adapt interventions to the situation.
*Evaluate the relative benefit of a treatment vs. the risk.
*Initiate risk prevention measures. - ✔✔Anticipate and Prevent Complications
, ✔✔*Nurses implement care to meet patient goals.
*At times, multiple interventions may be needed.
*Priorities help to anticipate&sequence interventions.
*Patient adherence means that patients and families invest time in carrying out required
treatments. - ✔✔Achieving Patient Goals
✔✔______skills
Application of critical thinking in the nursing process - ✔✔cognitive
✔✔________ skills
Developing a trusting relationship, expressing a level of caring, and communicating
clearly with a patient and his or her family - ✔✔Interpersonal
✔✔________ skills
Integration of cognitive and motor activities - ✔✔Psychomotor
✔✔is crucial to determine whether, after application of the nursing process, the patient's
condition or well-being improves. - ✔✔evaluation
✔✔________ is an ongoing process.
If outcomes are met, patient goals are met.
Positive evaluations occur when nurses meet desired outcomes.
Positive evaluations lead nurses to conclude that interventions were successful. -
✔✔evaluation
✔✔Competencies include:
*Being systematic
*Using criterion-based evaluation
*Collaborating
*Using ongoing assessment data to revise care plan
*Communicating results - ✔✔American nursing assosication (ANA)
✔✔What are the 3 Criterion-based standards? - ✔✔physiological
emotional
behavioral responses that are a patient's goals and expected outcomes.
✔✔Expected behavior or response that indicates resolution of a nursing diagnosis or
maintenance of a healthy state - ✔✔goal
✔✔End result that is measurable, desirable, and observable and translates into
observable patient behaviors - ✔✔expected outcomes
ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔What 5 things does nursing implementation include? - ✔✔Direct care
Indirect care
Domains of nursing practice
Critical thinking
Clinical decision making
✔✔Treatments performed through interactions with patients
Examples:
-Medication administration
-Insertion of an intravenous (IV) infusion
-Counseling during a time of grief - ✔✔direct care
✔✔Treatments performed away from the patient but on behalf of the patient or group of
patients
Examples:
-Manage the environment (safety&infection control)
-Documentation
-Interdisciplinary collaboration - ✔✔indirect care
✔✔*The helping role
*Teaching-coaching function
*The diagnostic and patient-monitoring function
*Effective management of rapidly changing situations
*Administering and monitoring therapeutic regimens
*Organizational and work-related competencies - ✔✔domains of nursing practice
✔✔*Review the set of all possible nursing interventions.
*Review all possible consequences associated with each possible nursing action.
*Determine probability of all possible consequences.
*Make a judgment about the value of that consequence to the patient. - ✔✔Critical
Thinking in Implementation
✔✔*Reassessing the patient
*Reviewing and revising the existing nursing care plan
*Organizing resources and care delivery
*Anticipating and preventing complications - ✔✔The Implementation Process
✔✔*Identify risks to the patient.
*Adapt interventions to the situation.
*Evaluate the relative benefit of a treatment vs. the risk.
*Initiate risk prevention measures. - ✔✔Anticipate and Prevent Complications
, ✔✔*Nurses implement care to meet patient goals.
*At times, multiple interventions may be needed.
*Priorities help to anticipate&sequence interventions.
*Patient adherence means that patients and families invest time in carrying out required
treatments. - ✔✔Achieving Patient Goals
✔✔______skills
Application of critical thinking in the nursing process - ✔✔cognitive
✔✔________ skills
Developing a trusting relationship, expressing a level of caring, and communicating
clearly with a patient and his or her family - ✔✔Interpersonal
✔✔________ skills
Integration of cognitive and motor activities - ✔✔Psychomotor
✔✔is crucial to determine whether, after application of the nursing process, the patient's
condition or well-being improves. - ✔✔evaluation
✔✔________ is an ongoing process.
If outcomes are met, patient goals are met.
Positive evaluations occur when nurses meet desired outcomes.
Positive evaluations lead nurses to conclude that interventions were successful. -
✔✔evaluation
✔✔Competencies include:
*Being systematic
*Using criterion-based evaluation
*Collaborating
*Using ongoing assessment data to revise care plan
*Communicating results - ✔✔American nursing assosication (ANA)
✔✔What are the 3 Criterion-based standards? - ✔✔physiological
emotional
behavioral responses that are a patient's goals and expected outcomes.
✔✔Expected behavior or response that indicates resolution of a nursing diagnosis or
maintenance of a healthy state - ✔✔goal
✔✔End result that is measurable, desirable, and observable and translates into
observable patient behaviors - ✔✔expected outcomes
