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Nursing 211 Questions and Answers Latest Update
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- NURS 211
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- University Of Arizona College Of Nursing
Nursing 211 Questions and Answers Latest Update
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Nursing 211 Questions and Answers Latest
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what are the 4 broad/main goals in nursing ANS✔✔ -promote health
-prevent illness
-treat human responses to health and illness
-advocate for individuals, families, and communities
what are the ethical principles that guide nursing practice ANS✔✔ -
autonomy
-beneficence
-fidelity
-justice
-non-maleficence
what are the core nursing values? what do they mean? think about an
example of each. ANS✔✔ -respect
-unity
-diversity
-integrity
-excellence
primary prevention ANS✔✔ •involves strategies aimed at preventing
problems. Immunizations, health teaching, safety precautions, and nutrition
counseling are examples.
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secondary prevention ANS✔✔ includes the early diagnosis of health
problems and prompts treatment to prevent complications. Vision
screening, Pap smears, BP screening, hearing testing, scoliosis screening,
and tuberculin skin testing are examples.
tertiary prevention ANS✔✔ •focuses on preventing complications of an
existing disease and promoting health to the highest level. Diet teaching for
patients with diabetes, inhaler teaching for patients with lung disease, and
exercise programs for those who have had myocardial infarction are
examples.
what is health assessment ANS✔✔ Health assessment is "gathering
information about the health status of the patient, analyzing and
synthesizing those data, making judgments about nursing interventions
based on the findings, and evaluating patient care outcomes"
what are the purposes for health assessment ANS✔✔ "An RN uses a
systematic, dynamic way to collect and analyze data about a client, the first
step in delivering nursing care.
what does a health assessment include ANS✔✔ Assessment includes not
only physiological data, but also psychological, sociocultural, spiritual,
economic, and life-style factors as well.
what is the nursing process ANS✔✔ The nursing process is a systematic
problem-solving approach to identifying and treating human responses to
actual or potential health difficulties
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what are the steps in the nursing process and what occurs in each step?
ANS✔✔ The parts of the nursing process include assessing the patient,
analyzing data and making nursing diagnoses, determining patient
outcomes or planning care, implementing, and then evaluating the patient's
status to determine whether interventions were effective
ADPIE
what is critical thinking ANS✔✔ Entails purposeful, outcome-directed
(results-oriented) thinking/Is driven by patient, family, and community
needs/Is based on the nursing process, evidence-based thinking, and the
scientific method/Requires specific knowledge, skills, and experience/Is
guided by professional standards and codes of ethics/Is constantly
reevaluating, self-correcting, and striving to improve
what is diagnostic reasoning ANS✔✔ includes gathering and clustering data
to draw inferences and propose diagnoses
what is the difference between critical thinking and diagnostic reasoning
ANS✔✔ Diagnostic reasoning includes gathering and clustering data to draw
inferences and propose diagnoses
* The process of diagnostic reasoning is based on critical thinking
when would you use diagnostic reasoning ANS✔✔ when making a nursing
diagnosis
what are the 3 common types of nursing assessments ANS✔✔ 1. emergency
assessment
2. comprehensive assessment
3. focused assessment
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emergency assessment ANS✔✔ involves a life-threatening or unstable
situation (Airway/Breathing/Circulation/Disability—level of consciousness,
pupils, movement/Exposure)
comprehensive assessment ANS✔✔ includes a complete health history and
physical assessment. It is done annually on an outpatient basis, following
admission to a hospital or long-term care facility, or every 8 hours for
patients in intensive care.
focused assessment ANS✔✔ is based on the patient's health issues. This
type of assessment can occur in all settings, including the clinic, hospital,
and home health setting. It usually involves one or two body systems and is
smaller in scope than the comprehensive assessment but more in depth on
the specific issue or issues
how do you prioritize in nursing ANS✔✔ ABCs; Maslow's; Patient concerns
what is subjunctive data ANS✔✔ are information from the client's point of
view ("symptoms"), including feelings, perceptions, and concerns obtained
through interviews.
what is objective data ANS✔✔ are observable and measurable data("signs")
obtained through observation, physical examination, and laboratory and
diagnostic testing. facts that are observable and measureable by the nurse
Physical assessment, observation, involve use of the senses of seeing,
hearing, smelling, and touching.
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