Vanderbilt University School of Nursing
Fundamentals of Nursing - Exam 1 (VUSN)
Study Guide with Complete Solutions
Critical Thinking - Answer✔️✔️-An active, organized, cognitive process
used to carefully examine one's thinking and the thinking of others. It is
committed to thinking clearly, precisely, and accurately and to act on what
you know about a situation.
Critical Thinking in Nursing - Answer✔️✔️-Includes:
Problem solving
Decision making
Advocating
The Nursing Process - Answer✔️✔️-It is a decision making process to
organize and deliver client care, make critical judgments - prioritize care,
and promote individualization of client care.
The nursing process is pivotal to nursing for providing patient care that is
safe and accurate.
It is a series of actions marked by gradual changes that lead toward a
particular result - problem solving and that follows a sequence toward a
goal
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Contact Precautions - Answer✔️✔️-Gown and Gloves
Direct/Indirect Contact
Visitors wash hands
Airborne Precautions - Answer✔️✔️-N-95 respirator and Negative Pressure
room
Transportation: patient wears surgical mask
Visitors wear surgical mask
Droplet Precaution - Answer✔️✔️-Surgical Mask
Transportation: patient wears surgical mask
Signs of Infection - Answer✔️✔️-Erythema, Exudate, pain, tenderness,
changes in vital signs or system function
Chain of Infection - Answer✔️✔️-Infectious agent
Reservoir
Exit Portal
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Transmission
Entry Portals
Host
Contact based transmission - Answer✔️✔️-MRSA, C. difficile, RSV,
Impetigo, Scabies, Lice
Droplet based transmission - Answer✔️✔️-Strep pharyngitis, pertussis,
rubella, bacterial meningitis
Airborne based transmission - Answer✔️✔️-Measles and TB
False low BP - Answer✔️✔️-Cuff too wide
Arm above heart level
False high BP - Answer✔️✔️-Cuff too narrow
Arm below heart level
Cuff/stethoscope placed over clothing
Cuff too loose
Repeated BP too soon
7 Dimensions of Pain - Answer✔️✔️-Location
Quality
Quantity
Timing/Onset
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