NURS 175 Midterm Exam Practice Questions and Answers

NURS 175 Midterm Exam Practice Questions and Answers What is better for the Braden scale? A high score or a low score? - Correct Answer ️️ -Higher the better What are the 6 sections of the Braden scale? - Correct Answer ️️ -Sensory perception, Moisture, activity, mobility, nutrition, friction and shear What are the categories of Gordon's functional health pattern? (11) - Correct Answer ️️ -Health perception, nutrition/metabolic, elimination, activity/exercise, Sleep/Rest, self perception, role/responsibility, sexuality/reproductive, coping/stress tolerance, values/beliefs What are the 5 categories for maslows heirarchy of needs? - Correct Answer ️️ -1- physiological, 2-safety/security, 3- social needs, 4- esteem needs, 5- self actualization Example of physiological needs - Correct Answer ️️ -Breathing, food, water, sex, sleep, homeostasis, excretion safety and security needs - Correct Answer ️️ -Security of body, employment, resources, morality, the family, health, property. Ex; a child needs a blanket to feel safe before sleeping Social needs (love & belonging) - Correct Answer ️️ -Friendship, family, sexual intimacy Esteem Needs (Maslow) - Correct Answer ️️ -need for self-esteem, achievement, competence, and independence; need for recognition and respect from others Self-actualization (Maslow) - Correct Answer ️️ -morality, creativity, spontaneity, problem solving, lack of prejudice, acceptance of facts What are the 5 steps of the nursing process? - Correct Answer ️️ -assessment, nursing diagnosis, planning, implementation, evaluation What are the 4 types of assessment? - Correct Answer ️️ -initial comprehensive, ongoing/partial, focused/problem-oriented, emergency What is the definition of critical thinking? - Correct Answer ️️ -the art of analyzing and evaluating thinking with a view to improve it. Self-directed, self-disciplined, self- monitored and self-corrective thinking. What is the definition of clinical reasoning? - Correct Answer ️️ -The ability to integrate and apply different types of knowledge, weigh evidence critically and reflect upon the process used to arrive at a diagnoses What is the definition of clinical nurse judgement? - Correct Answer ️️ -The accumulation of knowledge and skills over time, which contributes to the nurses ability to Analyze and synthesize the patients presentation, objective and subjective data, and then provide evidence based nursing interventions to improve patient outcomes ; clinical decision making What are the 3 parts of a nursing diagnoses? - Correct Answer ️️ -1-NANDA LABEL- "Acute pain" (pain, acute) 2. Etiology- (likely cause); related to diagnoses of arthritis 3. Manifestations (signs and symptoms): as evidenced by patients verbalization of pain and observed difficulty with turning self in bed What is the definition of a nursing diagnosis? - Correct Answer ️️ -It describes the characteristics of the human response identified