Answer
Has no experience with specific patient populations and uses rules to guide performance
12. Proficient nurse
Answer
Understands a patient situation as a whole rather than as a list of tasks, attends to an assessment
data pattern, and acts without consciously labeling it
, 13. Expert nurse
Answer
Has an intuitive grasp of a clinical situation and zeroes in on the accurate solution
14. Critical thinking
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The multidimensional thinking process needed for sound diagnostic reasoning and clinical
judgment
and immediate, such as establishing an airway or supporting breathing
16. Second-level priority problems
Answer
next in urgency; require prompt intervention to prevent deterioration, and may include a mental
status change or acute pain, or abnormal laboratory values
17. Third-level priority problems
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Important to the patient's health but can be addressed after more urgent health problems are
addressed
18. Collaborative problems
Answer
Certain physiologic complications in which the ap- proach to treatment involves multiple
disciplines.
19. Evidence-based practice
Answer
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