NURS1004 EXAM STUDY GUIDE
Why is clinical reasoning important and list the 5 rights. - Answer Clinical reasoning is
central to clinical practice defined by effective use of the clinical reasoning cycle.
1. Ability to collect the right cues
2. Take right actions
3. For the right patient,
4. At the right time
5. For the right reason
List the 3 fundamentals of care. - Answer Physical, psychosocial and relational
List the stages of the clinical reasoning cycle. - Answer What is going on here?, What
does this mean?, What could/can be done?, What should be done?, What is done?, So
what?
List the main elements of a nursing care plan. - Answer Problem (current/potential),
Goals (short/long term/patient centered), Intervention, Rationale, Evaluation
What are the purpose of interventions in nursing practice? - Answer To monitor health
status, reduce risks, facilitate independence, resolve, prevent or manage a health
problem as well as promote wellbeing.
List Florence Nightingales key tenets with relation to contemporary nursing practice. -
Answer Respect for humanity, healing environment (pleasant surrounding), sanitation
(infection-control), hygiene, statistics (evidence-based practise), diplomacy and reform.
What are the key processes of the person-centred practice framework? - Answer
Working with the person's beliefs and values, engaging authentically, shared decision
making, being sympathetically present and working holistically.
Who are the NMBA and what is their purpose? - Answer The Nursing Midwifery Board of
Australia is responsible for regulating the practice of nursing in Australia to protect the
public through standards, codes and guidelines to establish professional requirements
of safe practice.
What is AHPRA and what is their role? - Answer The Australian Health Practitioner
Regulation Agency's primary role is to protect the public by ensuring Australia's
registered health practitioners are suitably trained, qualified and safe for practice.
Who wrote the standards for practice and what is their purpose? - Answer The NMBA
wrote the standards for practice to ensure that registered nurses practise is
person-centred and evidence-based.
Why is clinical reasoning important and list the 5 rights. - Answer Clinical reasoning is
central to clinical practice defined by effective use of the clinical reasoning cycle.
1. Ability to collect the right cues
2. Take right actions
3. For the right patient,
4. At the right time
5. For the right reason
List the 3 fundamentals of care. - Answer Physical, psychosocial and relational
List the stages of the clinical reasoning cycle. - Answer What is going on here?, What
does this mean?, What could/can be done?, What should be done?, What is done?, So
what?
List the main elements of a nursing care plan. - Answer Problem (current/potential),
Goals (short/long term/patient centered), Intervention, Rationale, Evaluation
What are the purpose of interventions in nursing practice? - Answer To monitor health
status, reduce risks, facilitate independence, resolve, prevent or manage a health
problem as well as promote wellbeing.
List Florence Nightingales key tenets with relation to contemporary nursing practice. -
Answer Respect for humanity, healing environment (pleasant surrounding), sanitation
(infection-control), hygiene, statistics (evidence-based practise), diplomacy and reform.
What are the key processes of the person-centred practice framework? - Answer
Working with the person's beliefs and values, engaging authentically, shared decision
making, being sympathetically present and working holistically.
Who are the NMBA and what is their purpose? - Answer The Nursing Midwifery Board of
Australia is responsible for regulating the practice of nursing in Australia to protect the
public through standards, codes and guidelines to establish professional requirements
of safe practice.
What is AHPRA and what is their role? - Answer The Australian Health Practitioner
Regulation Agency's primary role is to protect the public by ensuring Australia's
registered health practitioners are suitably trained, qualified and safe for practice.
Who wrote the standards for practice and what is their purpose? - Answer The NMBA
wrote the standards for practice to ensure that registered nurses practise is
person-centred and evidence-based.
