Nursing 211 Exam 1 Questions And Answers
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Four main goals in nursing - answer✔promote health
prevent illness
treat human responses to health or illness
to advocate for indivuals, families, communities, and populations
ethical principles that guide nursing practice - answer✔advocacy
responsibility
accountability
confidentiallity
advocacy - answer✔support of clients' health, wellness, safety, personal rights, privacy
responsbility - answer✔willingness to respect obligations and follow through on promises
accountability - answer✔ability to answer for one's own actions
confidentiality - answer✔protection of privacy without diminishing access to high quality care
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integrity - answer✔being honest in nursing care; owning mistakes
excellence - answer✔striving for a high standard in patient care
difference between primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention - answer✔primary -
strategizing plans to prevent problems
secondary - early diagnosis of health problem
tertiary - prevents complications
primary prevention - answer✔strategizing plans to prevent problems
immunizations
health teaching
secondary prevention - answer✔early diagnosis of health problems
prompt treatment
vision screening
pap smears
tertiary prevention - answer✔prevents complications
dietary teaching for diabetes
health assessment - answer✔gathering information about the health status of a patient to
make judgements about nursing interventions
what does a health assessment include - answer✔both health history and physical assessment
what is the nursing process - answer✔ADPIE
assess
diagnosis
outcome / plan care
implement
evaluate
assessment - answer✔health assessment to promote health at the highest level
diagnosis - answer✔cluster of data to make judgement or statement about the patient's
condition
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plan care - answer✔formulate measureable, realisitc, patient centered goals' determining
resources, targeting nursing interventions, writing the plan of care
implement - answer✔any treatment, based upon clinical judgement and knowledge, that a
nurse performs to enhance patient outcomes
evaluate - answer✔the judgement of the effectiveness of nursing care in meeting the patient's
goals and outcomes based on the patient's responses to interventions
critical thinking - answer✔analysis, develping alternatives, and inplementing the best
interventions
diagnostic reasoning - answer✔gathering and clustering data to draw inferences and propose
diagnosis
reasoning is based on critical thinking skills
confirming the nursing diagnosis
difference between critical thinking and diagnositic reasoning - answer✔diagnosis reasoning is
based on critical thinking skills
three common types of nursing assessments - answer✔emergency
comprehensive
focused
emergency nursing assessment - answer✔ABCDE -
airway
breathing
circulation
disability
expsoure
comprehensive nursing assessment - answer✔complete health history and physical assessment
focused nursing assessment - answer✔involves one or two body systems and is smaller in scope
than the comprehensive assessment
how do you prioritize in nursing - answer✔whatever is most detrimental to patient's life
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