Clinical Judgment
What is the first step in Tanner's Clinical Judgment Model?
What is Noticing?
What does ADPIE stand for?
What is Assessment, Diagnosis, Planning, Implementation, Evaluation?
A patient states, "I feel dizzy." What type of data is this?
What is Subjective Data?
True or False: If it wasn't documented, it wasn't done.
What is True?
Which ethical principle means respecting a patient's right to make their own decisions?
What is Autonomy?
A nurse identifies shortness of breath and an oxygen saturation of 88%. These findings are known as what?
What are clinical cues?
Which step of ADPIE involves collecting patient data?
What is Assessment?
What assessment technique uses touch to evaluate structures?
What is Palpation?
Which documentation format stands for Subjective, Objective, Assessment, Plan?
What is SOAP?
Which ethical principle means "do no harm"?
What is Nonmaleficence?
Which activity is most likely to strengthen clinical judgment skills?
What is completing case studies and reflecting on decisions?
A nurse reassesses pain after administering medication. Which ADPIE step is being performed?
What is Evaluation?
Which ESI level has the highest priority?
What is ESI Level 1?
Give one abbreviation from the "Do Not Use" list.
What is U, IU, QD, QOD, or MS?
A nurse threatens to apply restraints to a patient. Which intentional tort has occurred?
What is Assault?
Name the four steps of Tanner's Clinical Judgment Model.
What are Noticing, Interpreting, Responding, and Reflecting?
Which characteristic of the nursing process allows it to change as the patient's condition changes?
What is Dynamic?
For abdominal assessment, which technique is performed after inspection?
What is Auscultation?
What does HIPAA primarily protect?
What is patient health information and privacy?
What document defines nursing scope of practice and licensure requirements?
What is the Nurse Practice Act?
This NGN sequence helps nurses think through patient problems.
What is Notice → Analyze → Prioritize → Plan → Act → Evaluate?
During the planning phase, nurses perform four major tasks.
What are prioritizing diagnoses, establishing goals, identifying outcomes, selecting interventions, or developing a plan of care?
Which assessment activities cannot be delegated and must be performed by the RN?
What are initial assessments, assessments of unstable patients, and interpretation of assessment findings?
In SBAR communication, which section includes what the nurse believes is happening with the patient?
What is Assessment?
Which ethical principle involves telling the truth to patients?
What is Veracity?