NUR 380 FUNDAMENTALS EXAMINATION QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED ANSWERS GRADED A+
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NUR 380 FUNDAMENTALS EXAMINATION QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED ANSWERS GRADED A+
What does the assessment phase of the nursing process include? - Answer-Nursing health history
Physical assessment
Reviewing client records
Reviewing literature
Talking to people in the client's support system
Organiz...
NUR 380 FUNDAMENTALS
EXAMINATION QUESTIONS WITH
VERIFIED ANSWERS GRADED A+
What does the assessment phase of the nursing process include? - Answer-Nursing
health history
Physical assessment
Reviewing client records
Reviewing literature
Talking to people in the client's support system
Organizing, validating and documenting data
Are the client's vital signs subjective or objective data? - Answer-Objective data, signs,
which can be measured or tested.
What is subjective data in an assessment? - Answer-Symptoms that the client feels or
experiences.
What is the difference between primary and secondary data? - Answer-Primary comes
from the client. Secondary comes from family, lab values, other professionals, etc.
What are the four types of nursing assessments? - Answer-Problem-focused
Emergency
Time-lapsed
Initial
Which type of assessment is the most important? - Answer-The one that is most
appropriate for the situation is most important. If a patient comes into the emergency
department bleeding profusely, then an emergency assessment is most important at
that time.
Once the baseline data has been collected, is the assessment phase complete? -
Answer-No, assessment will continue to monitor for changes.
What is the "chief complaint"? - Answer-The chief complaint is the main reason the
client is coming for care. History of Present Illness
The client says, "I feel sick." Is this enough information for the History of Present
Illness? What other questions would you ask? - Answer-No, this not enough. The nurse
will need to ask, "when did you start getting sick? What kind of symptoms have you
had? Did is start quickly or gradually?" etc.
, When collecting data for the client's history, what type of information is the nurse
collecting? - Answer-Past illnesses
Immunizations
Allergies
Accidents and Injuries
Hospitalizations
Medications
What are the components of a Nursing Health History? - Answer-Biographic data
Chief Complaint
Past History
Family History of Illness
Lifestyle
Social data
Psychological data
Patterns of healthcare
How does a nurse collect data? - Answer-Observing by listening, seeing, smelling,
touching
Interviewing
Examining
Which question is an example of an open ended question?
Tell me about any heart conditions you may have?
Do you have any heart conditions? - Answer-Open ended questions allow for the client
to share more information and can not be answered with a "yes" or "no." "Tell me
about..." is an open ended question.
What are the stages of an interview? - Answer-The opening: sets tone, establishes
rapport
The body: the nurse askes the client questions to elicit the information
The closing: finishing the interview.
What is the nurse analyzing in the second phase of the nursing process? - Answer-Is
the information complete? What are the problems? What are the risks? What are the
strengths?
Previously developed nursing diagnoses, now call "Client problems."
In the planning phase of the nursing process, what happens? - Answer-
Goals/Outcomes are established
Problems prioritized
Developing nursing care plan with evidence based interventions.
The nurse monitors the patient's vital signs every 4 hours. What phase of the nursing
process is this? - Answer-Implementing: actually doing the care and documenting it.
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