NSG 252 Exam 1 Study Questions and Correct Answers
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NUR 252
Institution
NUR 252
A nurse is caring for a patient in the hospital. When should the nurse begin discharge planning? a. When the patient is ready. b. After an order is written/prescribed. c. Upon admission to the hospital. d. When the patient is ready. c
A nurse provides immunization to children and adults through th...
NSG 252 Exam 1 Study Questions and
Correct Answers
A nurse is caring for a patient in the hospital. When should the nurse begin discharge
planning?
a. When the patient is ready.
b. After an order is written/prescribed.
c. Upon admission to the hospital.
d. When the patient is ready. ✅c
A nurse provides immunization to children and adults through the public health
department. Which type of health care is the nurse providing?
a. Preventative Care
b. Continuing Care
c. Restorative Care
d. Acute Care ✅a
A nurse is working in a health care organization that has achieved Magnet status.
Which components are indicators of this status? (Select all that apply.)
a. Exemplary professional practice
b. Structural empowerment
c. Willingness to learn
d. Transformational leadership
e. Empirical quality results ✅a, b, d, e
A nurse working in a community hospital's emergency department provides care to a
patient having chest pain. Which level of care is the nurse providing?
a. Tertiary Care
b. Preventative Care
c. Primary Care
d. Restorative Care ✅a
A nurse is providing home care to a home-bound patient treated with intravenous (IV)
therapy and enteral nutrition. What is the home health nurse's primary objective?
a. Counseling
b. Education
c. Screening
d. Dependence on the nurse ✅b
A registered nurse (RN) is the group leader of licensed practical nurses (LPNs) and
nursing assistive personnel (NAP). Which nursing care model is being implemented?
a. Case Management
b. Total patient care
,c. Primary Nursing
d. Team nursing ✅d
A nurse is overseeing the care of patients diagnosed with either severe diabetes or with
heart failure. The purpose of this nursing model is to improve cost-effectiveness and
quality of care. Which nursing care delivery model is the nurse using?
a. Team Nursing
b. Case Management
c. Total patient care
d. Primary Nursing ✅b
What does QSEN stand for?
a. Quantifiable Safety Education for New Nurses
b. Quality and Safety Education for Nursing
c. Quite Substantial Economics in Nursing
d. Quality and Security of Extraordinary Nurses ✅b
What are the concepts of Patient and Family Centered-care? (mark all that apply)
a. Information sharing
b. Customer satisfaction
c. Meeting nutritional needs
d. Dignity and respect
e. Collaboration
f. Participation ✅a, d, e, f
How do nursing students develop their leadership skills? (Mark all that apply)
a. Practice performance improvement with each patient interaction
b. Ignore the healthcare interprofessional team
c. Introduce yourself and work closely with professional nurses
d. Learning from mistakes and seeking guidance
e. Focus on your grades only
f. Consult with nursing instructors and nursing staff for feedback on clinical decisions
✅a, c, d, f
Which action by a nurse indicates application of the critical thinking model to make the
best clinical decisions?
a. Depending on the charge nurse to determine priorities of care
b. Relying on recall of information from past lectures and textbooks
c. Drawing on past clinical experiences to formulate standardized care plans
d. Using the nursing process ✅d
A nurse is using a critical thinking model to provide care. Which component is first
element implemented when helping a nurse make clinical decisions?
a. Specific knowledge base
b. Experience
c. Competence
, d. Attitude ✅c
A nurse is using the critical thinking skill of evaluation. Which action will the nurse take?
a. Support findings and conclusions
b. Examine the meaning of data
c. Search for links between the data and the nurses assumptions
d. Review the effectiveness of nursing actions ✅d
In which order will the nurse use the nursing process steps during the clinical decision-
making process?
1. Evaluating goals
2. Assessing patient needs
3. Planning priorities of care
4. Determining nursing diagnoses
5. Implementing nursing interventions
a. 2, 3, 4, 5, 1
b. 4, 3, 2, 1, 5
c. 2, 4, 3, 5, 1
d. 1, 2, 4, 5, 3 ✅c
Which action demonstrates a nurse utilizing reflection to improve clinical decision
making?
a. Uses an objective approach in patient situations.
b. Provides evidence-based explanations and research for care of assigned patients.
c. Obtains data in an orderly fashion.
d. Improves a plan of care while thinking back on interventions effectiveness. ✅d
A nurse performs an assessment on a patient. Which assessment data will the nurse
use as an etiology for Acute pain?
a. Disruption of tissue integrity
b. Dull headache
c. Mild discomfort while changing positions
d. Reports pain as a 4 on a scale of 1 to 10 ✅a
A nurse assesses that a patient has not voided in 6 hours. Which question should the
nurse ask to assist in establishing a nursing diagnosis of Urinary retention?
a. "Are you able to walk to the bathroom by yourself?"
b. "When was the last time you took your medicine?"
c. "Do you have a safety rail in your bathroom at home?"
d. "Do you feel like you need to go to the bathroom?" ✅d
After assessing a patient, a nurse develops a standard formal nursing diagnosis. What
is the rationale for the nurse's actions?
a. To develop clinical judgment based on other's intuition
b. To distinguish the nurse's role from the physician's role
c. To help nurses focus on the scope of medical practice
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