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TEST BANK for Microbiology: An Evolving Science 5thEdition by Slonczewski & Foster
Which action should the nurse take when using critical thinking to make clinical
decisions?
a. Make decisions based on intuition.
b. Accept one established way to provide care.
c. Consider what is important in a given situation.
d. Read and follow the heath care provider's orders. - ANSWER: C
Which patient scenario of a surgical patient in pain is most indicative of critical
thinking?
a. Administering pain-relief medication according to what was given last shift
b. Offering pain-relief medication based on the health care provider's orders
c. Asking the patient what pain-relief methods, pharmacological and
nonpharmacological, have worked in the past - ANSWER: C
Which action indicates a registered nurse is being responsible for making clinical
decisions?
a. Applies clear textbook solutions to patients' problems
b. Takes immediate action when a patient's condition worsens
c. Uses only traditional methods of providing care to patients
d. Formulates standardized care plans solely for groups of patients - ANSWER: B
A charge nurse is supervising the care of a new nurse. Which action by a new nurse
indicates the charge nurse needs to intervene?
a. Making an ethical clinical decision
b. Making an informed clinical decision
c. Making a clinical decision in the patient's best interest
d. Making a clinical decision based on previous shift assessments - ANSWER: D
Which action demonstrates a nurse utilizing reflection to improve clinical decision
making?
a. Obtains data in an orderly fashion
b. Uses an objective approach in patient situations
c. Improves a plan of care while thinking back on interventions effectiveness
d. Provides evidence-based explanations and research for care of assigned patients -
ANSWER: C
A nursing instructor needs to evaluate students' abilities to synthesize data and
identify relationships between nursing diagnoses. Which learning assignment is best
suited for this instructor's needs?
, a. Concept mapping
b. Reflective journaling
c. Lecture and discussion
d. Reading assignment with a written summary - ANSWER: A
A nurse is using a critical thinking model to provide care. Which component is first
that helps a nurse make clinical decisions?
a. Attitude
b. Experience
c. Nursing process
d. Specific knowledge base - ANSWER: D
Which action by a nurse indicates application of the critical thinking model to make
the best clinical decisions?
a. Drawing on past clinical experiences to formulate standardized care plans
b. Relying on recall of information from past lectures and textbooks
c. Depending on the charge nurse to determine priorities of care
d. Using the nursing process - ANSWER: D
A nurse is using the critical thinking skill of evaluation. Which action will the nurse
take?
a. Examine the meaning of data.
b. Support findings and conclusions.
c. Review the effectiveness of nursing actions.
d. Search for links between the data and the nurse's assumptions. - ANSWER: C
The patient appears to be in no apparent distress, but vital signs taken by assistive
personnel reveal an extremely low pulse. The nurse then auscultates an apical pulse
and asks the patient whether there is any history of heart problems. The nurse is
utilizing which critical thinking skill?
a. Evaluation
b. Explanation
c. Interpretation
d. Self-regulation - ANSWER: C
A patient continues to report postsurgical incision pain at a level of 9 out of 10 after
pain medicine is given. The next dose of pain medicine is not due for another hour.
What should the critically thinking nurse do first?
a. Explore other options for pain relief.
b. Discuss the surgical procedure and reason for the pain.
c. Explain to the patient that nothing else has been ordered.
d. Offer to notify the health care provider after morning rounds are completed. -
ANSWER: A
Which action should the nurse take to best develop critical thinking skills?
a. Study 3 hours more each night.
b. Attend all inservice opportunities.
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