NSG 321 Practice Exam Questions and Correct Answers
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NSG 321
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NSG 321
1. A nurse cares for patients. Which areas does caring influence? (Select all that apply.) The way in which patients feel, c. The way in which patients think, e. The way in which patients behave
Which action indicates a nurse is using caring touch with a patient? Rubs a patient's back
A nurse is ...
NSG 321 Practice Exam Questions and
Correct Answers
1. A nurse cares for patients. Which areas does caring influence? (Select all that apply.)
✅The way in which patients feel,
c. The way in which patients think, e. The way in which patients behave
Which action indicates a nurse is using caring touch with a patient? ✅Rubs a patient's
back
A nurse is providing pain medication to patients after surgery. Which component is key
for the nurse's personal philosophy of nursing? ✅Caring
1. A nurse is caring for a patient in pain. Which nursing approach is priority?
✅Relationship-centered
1. Which action should the nurse take when using critical thinking to make clinical
decisions? ✅Consider what is important in a given situation.
Which action indicates a registered nurse is being responsible for making clinical
decisions? ✅. Takes immediate action when a patient's condition worsens
2. Which patient scenario of a surgical patient in pain is most indicative of critical
thinking? ✅. Asking the patient what pain-relief methods, pharmacological and
nonpharmacological, have worked in t
A charge nurse is supervising the care of a new nurse. Which action by a new nurse
indicates the charge nurse needs to intervene? ✅Making a clinical decision based on
previous shift assessments
. Which action demonstrates a nurse utilizing reflection to improve clinical decision
making? ✅Improves a plan of care while thinking back on interventions effectiveness
. Which action demonstrates a nurse utilizing reflection to improve clinical decision
making? ✅Improves a plan of care while thinking back on interventions effectiveness
A nurse is using the critical thinking skill of evaluation. Which action will the nurse take?
✅Review the effectiveness of nursing actions.
. 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? ✅Interpretation
. Which action should the nurse take to best develop critical thinking skills? ✅Actively
participate in clinical experiences.
A nurse is using professional standards to influence clinical decisions. What is the
rationale for the nurse's actions? ✅Uses critical thinking for the highest level of quality
nursing care
A nurse is gathering information about a patient's habits and lifestyle patterns. Which
method of data collection will the nurse use that will best obtain this information?
✅Perform a thorough nursing health history.
Which statement by a nurse indicates a good understanding about the differences
between data validation and data interpretation? ✅c. "Validation involves comparing
data with other sources for accuracy."
Which scenario best illustrates the nurse using data validation when making a nursing
clinical decision for a patient? ✅The nurse determines to remove a wound dressing
when the patient reveals the time of the last dressing c
a. and notices old and new drainage.
After assessing a patient, a nurse develops a standard formal nursing diagnosis. What
is the rationale for the nurse's actions? ✅To distinguish the nurse's role from the
physician's role
A nurse develops a nursing diagnostic statement for a patient with a medical diagnosis
of pneumonia with chest x-ray results of lower lobe infiltrates. Which nursing diagnosis
did the nurse write? ✅Impaired gas exchange related to alveolar-capillary membrane
changes
. The nurse is reviewing a patient's plan of care, which includes the nursing diagnostic
statement, Impaired physical mobility related to tibial fracture as evidenced by patient's
inability to ambulate. Which part of the diagnostic statement does the nurse need to
revise? ✅Etiology
A nurse is using assessment data gathered about a patient and combining critical
thinking to develop a nursing diagnosis. What is the nurse doing? ✅Diagnostic
reasoning
The nurse is reviewing a patient's database for significant changes and discovers that
the patient has not voided in over 8 hours. The patient's kidney function lab results are
abnormal, and the
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