NURS 246 Test 1 (Nursing Assessment) Practice Questions and Correct Answers
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NUR 246
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Critical thinking five-step process that professional nurses use to apply the best available evidence to caregiving and promoting human functions and responses to health and illness nursing process
A _______________________ care approach is holistic and essential when applying the nursing process ...
NURS 246 Test 1 (Nursing Assessment)
Practice Questions and Correct Answers
Critical thinking five-step process that professional nurses use to apply the best
available evidence to caregiving and promoting human functions and responses to
health and illness ✅nursing process
A _______________________ care approach is holistic and essential when applying
the nursing process ✅patient-centered
A nursing assessment must be what three things in order for the nurse to correctly
identify a person's desire to improve their health or identify any health problem? ✅1)
complete
2) relevant to a patient's condition
3) accurate
The nursing process is a form of ________________________ reasoning ✅scientific
Deliberate and systematic collection of information about a patient to determine the
patient's current and past health and functional status and their present and past coping
patterns ✅assessment
Two steps of nursing assessment ✅1) collection of information from a primary source
(a patient) and secondary sources (family, friends, health professionals, and the medical
record)
2) the interpretation and validation of data to ensure a complete database
Five sources of information in a nursing assessment ✅1) the patient through interview,
observations, and physical examination
2) family members or significant others' reports and response to interviews
3) other members of the health care team
4) medical record information (patient history, laboratory work, x-ray film results,
multidisciplinary consultations)
5) scientific and medical literature (evidence about disease conditions, assessment
techniques, and standards)
True or false: assessment is part of the working phase of a nurse-patient relationship
✅true
Three benefits from the relational process of assessment ✅1) mobilizes hope for a
patient and nurse
, 2) allows for an acceptable interpretation and understanding go a patient's illness, pain,
fear, and anxiety
3) helps a patient use support form health care providers
Visiting a hospitalized patient at set intervals ✅rounding
Benefits of rounding ✅1) allows the nurse to address essential care needs and patient
experiences
2) helps you organize your workload on your work unit
Three types of assessments used in nursing ✅1) patient-centered interview
2) physical examination
3) periodic assessments made during rounding
In most cases, a patient will reveal information that directs you to conduct a quick
_________________________ ✅screening
Two examples of quick screenings by nurses ✅1) ER nurse uses the ABC approach
when a patient has respiratory distress
2) med-surg nurse focuses on a patient's symptoms after returning from surgery
Information you obtain through use of the senses ✅cue
The nurse's judgement or interpretation of cues ✅inference
Describe Watson's nursing assessment model ✅1) it supports a comprehensive
assessment of caring needs and concerns from a patient's frame of reference
2) it uses caring theory as a guide for identifying caring needs and assessing the
meaning of both subjective and objective concerns
Describe Gordon's functional health patterns ✅offers a holistic framework for
assessment of any health problem
A comprehensive assessment moves from the (general/specific) to the
(general/specific) ✅general; specific
Assessment identifies what two things that help the nurse develop the nursing care
plan? ✅1) functional (patient strengths) patterns
2) dysfunctional (nursing diagnoses) patterns
Describe the problem-oriented assessment approach ✅1) you focus on a patient's
presenting situation and begin with problematic areas
2) ask the patient follow-up questions to clarify and expand your assessment so you can
understand the full nature of the problem
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