Subjective or Objective
Blood pressure is measured as 138/88 mm Hg. This is what type of assessment data is this?
What is objective data?
Teaching handwashing before illness occurs is this level of prevention.
What is primary prevention?
A patient with MRSA requires this category of transmission-based precautions.
What are contact precautions?
Using silence to allow a patient time to think is classified this way.
What is therapeutic communication?
Explaining what diabetes is addresses this learning domain.
What is the cognitive domain?
The patient states, ‘I feel anxious.’ This is what type of assessment data?
What is subjective data?
A blood pressure screening is this level of prevention.
What is secondary prevention?
A patient with influenza requires this category of transmission-based precautions.
What are droplet precautions?
Telling a worried patient, ‘Everything will be fine,’ is this nontherapeutic technique.
What is giving false reassurance?
Practicing how to use a glucometer addresses this learning domain.
What is the psychomotor domain?
The nurse records a temperature of 38.2°C. This is what type of assessment data?
What is objective data?
Cardiac rehabilitation after a heart attack is this level of prevention.
What is tertiary prevention?
A patient with tuberculosis requires this category of transmission-based precautions.
What are airborne precautions?
Active listening and sharing empathy are classified this way.
What are therapeutic communication techniques?
Accepting the need to change one’s diet addresses this learning domain.
What is the affective domain?
The patient reports nausea and sharp pain. Both findings are classified as this type of data.
What is subjective data?
An immunization clinic is designed around this level of prevention.
What is primary prevention?
A patient with C. difficile requires this category of transmission-based precautions.
What are contact precautions?
Giving personal advice and changing the subject are classified this way.
What are nontherapeutic communication techniques?
Listing the signs of low blood sugar addresses this learning domain.
What is the cognitive domain?
The wound is red and draining, while the patient reports sharp pain. Classify the wound finding and the pain report.
What are objective data for the wound and subjective data for the pain?
Classify both: mammogram screening and a stroke support group.
What are secondary prevention for the mammogram and tertiary prevention for the stroke support group?
Name the precaution categories for measles and pertussis, in that order.
What are airborne precautions for measles and droplet precautions for pertussis?
The patient says, ‘I am scared about surgery.’ The nurse replies, ‘You should not worry; my surgery went well.’ Identify the nontherapeutic technique.
What is giving personal advice or shifting the focus to the nurse’s experience?
Classify both: discussing feelings about a diagnosis and demonstrating an insulin injection.
What are affective learning for discussing feelings and psychomotor learning for demonstrating the injection?