NUR 216 Exam 1 Modules 1, 2, 3
Questions And Answers
Nursing Process - ANS ADPIE
Assessment
Diagnosis
Planning
Implementation
Evaluation
Assessment - ANS First step of nursing process, involves critical thinking skills, data
collection (subjective and objective)
Diagnosis - ANS Identification of an injury or disease
Planning - ANS where goals and outcomes are formulated that directly impact patient
care
Implementation - ANS action or doing the actual carrying out of nursing interventions
outlines in plane of care
Evaluation - ANS Final step, reassess to ensure the desired outcome has been met
Clinical Judgment - ANS Recognizing cues, analyzing cues, prioritizing hypothesis,
general solutions, take action, evaluate outcomes
SMART goals - ANS Specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, time-bound
Health History - ANS a collection of subjective information that provides information about
the patient's health status
Functional assessment - ANS activities of daily living, memory and cognition,
psychosocial and behavioral issues, functional health (e.g., vision, hearing, communication),
and health status
General survey - ANS vital signs, pain, inclusive approaches to health assessment
, Anthropometric measurements - ANS height, weight, head circumference, body mass
index (BMI), body circumferences to assess for adiposity (waist, hip, and limbs), and skinfold
thickness
Physical assessment techniques - ANS
prioritization - ANS ABCs, Maslow's hierarchy of needs, urgent/non-urgent, actue/chronic
undernutrition - ANS nsufficient intake of energy and nutrients to meet an individual's
needs to maintain good health
therapeutic communication - ANS open ended questions, empathy, eye contact, active
listening, clarification
nutritional assessment - ANS Evaluation of a patient's nutritional status
Definition of health - ANS a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and
not merely the absence of disease or infirmity
Levels of health prevention - ANS primary: intervene before health effects occur
secondary: screenings to identify disease or illness
tertiary: managing disease
Critical thinking - ANS solving problems of patients and decision-making process with
creativity to enhance the effect
clinical judgment - ANS refers to the result (outcome) of critical thinking or clinical
reasoning; the conclusion, decision, or opinion a nurse makes
intuitive thinking - ANS going with one's first instinct and reaching decisions quickly based
on automatic cognitive processes
Definition of pain - ANS an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with
actual or potential tissue damage, or described in terms of such damage
Physiology of pain - ANS activity in sympathetic nerves, peripheral branching of primary
afferent nociceptors, convergence projection, and convergence facilitation
types of pain - ANS acute (sudden onset, less than 3 months) and chronic (ongoing, more
than 3 months)
pain assessment - ANS An evaluation of the factors that alleviate or exacerbate patient's
pain
