Critical Thinking
A nurse is using assessment data gathered about a patient and combining critical thinking to develop a nursing diagnosis.
What is the nurse doing?
What is diagnostic reasoning
A nurse is providing nursing care to patients after completing a care plan from nursing diagnoses.
Using the 5 step nursing process model, in which step of the nursing process is the nurse?
What is the implementation phase
A nurse is sitting at the patient’s bedside taking a nursing history at a distance of 4 feet. Which zone of personal space is the nurse using?
What is the Personal or Casual zone
The nurse performs an intervention for a collaborative problem diagnosis.
Which type of intervention does the nurse engage in?
If a child weighs 10.88 kg how many pounds who he weigh? Round to the whole number.
What is 24 pounds
While completing an admission database, the nurse is interviewing a patient who states “I am allergic to latex.”
Which action will the nurse take first?
What is inquire about the reaction response
A charge nurse is reviewing outcome statements using the SMART approach.
What does SMART stand for?
What are specific, measurable, attainable or achievable, relevant and timely
The nurse asks a patient where the pain is, and the patient responds by pointing to the area of pain.
Which form of communication did the patient use?
What is nonverbal communication
This type of nursing diagnosis does not have an As evidence By (AEB).
What is a "risk" diagnosis
A half teaspoon equals this many milliliters
What is 2.5 mL
Asking the patient what pain-relief methods, pharmacological and nonpharmacological, have worked in the past and considering all three responses indicates that the nurse is using what type of thinking?
What is critical thinking
A patient’s plan of care includes the goal of increasing mobility this shift. As the patient is ambulating to the bathroom at the beginning of the shift, the patient suffers a fall.
Which initial action will the nurse take next to revise the plan of care?
What is assess the patient
A patient just received a diagnosis of cancer. The nurse responds to the patient by saying, "This must be hard news to hear.”
This statement by the nurse is an example of which therapeutic technique?
What is empathy
Nursing diagnoses can be prioritized based on 2 common methods. The first is by using Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, the second is what?
What is Gordon's functional needs
Order: Tylenol gr V
What is the conversion in mg?
What is 300mg
This technique commonly used by nursing instructors in the clinical setting involves evaluating students’ abilities to synthesize data and identify relationships between nursing diagnoses, visually, in care planning.
What is concept mapping
The nurse completes a thorough assessment of a patient and analyzes the data and identifies a nursing diagnoses.
Which step will the nurse take next in the nursing process?
What is the planning step
A patient was admitted 2 days ago with pneumonia and a history of angina. The patient is now having chest pain with a pulse rate of 108. Which piece of data will the nurse use for “B” when using SBAR?
What is the "History of Angina"
Readiness for enhanced urinary elimination is what type of nursing diagnosis?
What is a health promotion nursing diagnosis
BID means twice a day. According to our math book, a scheduled medication identified as BID would be what time? (use military time)
What is 0800 and 2000
The best way to develop critical thinking in nursing school involves this learning activity regulated by state boards of nursing?
What is clinical
A nurse administers an antihypertensive medication to a patient at the scheduled time of 0900.
The nursing assistive personnel (NAP) then reports to the nurse that the patient’s blood pressure was low when it was taken at 0830.
The NAP states that was busy and had not had a chance to tell the nurse yet.
The patient begins to complain of feeling dizzy and light-headed.
The blood pressure is rechecked and it has dropped even lower.
In which phase of the nursing process did the nurse first make an error?
What is the assessment phase
A nurse is presenting information about flu immunizations to the older adults in the community.
Which type of communication is the nurse displaying?
What is public communication
A patient exhibits the following symptoms: tachycardia, increased thirst, headache, decreased urine output, and increased body temperature.
The nurse analyzes the data.
Which nursing diagnosis will the nurse assign to the patient?
What is deficient fluid volume
If you had a bottle containing 16 ounces, how many milliliters would you have?
What is 500 mL