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NUR 201 ( LATEST 2024 / 2025 ) TEST 2 | QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS INCLUDED
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NUR 201 Test 21. Should an RN be responsible to monitor health status?
Answer
Yes, reassess the patient for changes in the status that might dictate a different intervention
."Alfaro's rule" Assess, reassess, revise, record.
2. What is another purpose of the diagnosing step in the nursing process?
Answer
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Formation of priority in patient problems.
Describe problems treated by nurses within their scope of practice.
Determine risk factors that must be managed . Identify resources, strengths, and areas for health
promotion.
3. What is the most reliable basis on which to choose a nursing diagnosis?
Answer
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Create a list of problems.
Naming actual & potential problems/ diagnosis, clarify what is causing or contributing to them.
Determine risk factors.
Identify resources, strengths, and areas for health promotion. Subjective and objective data.
4. What guideline is correct when creating a nursing diagnosis?
Answer
Problem-whats unhealthy
Etiology-factors maintaining the unhealthy state.
Defining characteristics -identifying subjective and objective data that signal existence of a
problem.
5. what is the main purpose of the planning step of the nursing process?
,Answer
Establish priorties
Identify & write expected outcomes
Select evidence- based nursing interventions Communicate the plan of care
6. what should the home health nurse acknowledge first when the client has return back home
after a fall?
Answer
The immediate environment safety.
7. What is it called when the nurse attributes knowledge and skills, attitudes, and behaviors to
provide optimal health?
Answer
Blended competencies- cognitive and interpersonal
8. Which action by the nurse best provides patient-centered care?
Answer
Always involving the patient in their care. Providing care that is respectful & responsive to
individual patient needs preferences and values.
Exactly the care patients want and need exactly how they want and need it. Creating a therapeutic
relationship with patients to receive high quality care.
· Dignity and Respect
· Information sharing
· Participation
· Collaboration
9. What action should nurses focus on to provide excellent care in their community?
Answer
Interventions to manage health problems, promote health, & facilitate self-care and must be
culturally competent & family centered.
Focus on Whole population within the community.
Centered on the health care needs of individuals and families.
, 10. What concept regarding the delivery of culturally competent nursing care should be noted?
Answer
based on shared characteristics of the people, the area, their social interactions and familial ,
culture or ethnic heritage & ties. Environment affects the ability to meet basic needs.
11. What examples/qualities should nurses deliver while working in a commu- nity-based
stetting?
Answer
· Ability to practice autonomously. -freedom
· Manage time independently
· Enjoy being in the patient's home.
· Find satisfaction in working with community agencies.
· Able to be creative.
Community-based nurses MUST be knowledgeable and be skilled in their practice. Be able to
use critical thinking and make decisions independently.
Hold themselves accountable for what they do.
12. When planning and implementing care with a client who has both visual and hearing
deficits, what should the nurse focus on?
Answer
· Reassessing the patient and reviewing the plan of care.
· Clarifying prerequisite nursing outcomes/situations.
· Promoting self-care
Answer
teaching, counseling, and advocacy.
· Assisting patients to meet outcomes.
Be sure that the nursing actions are safe for this particular patient and individualized to the
patient's preferences.
13. What documentation standards should the Nurse focus on ? Characteristics of effective
Documentation
Answer
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