Unit 1: Critical Thinking and Evidence-Informed Assessment

Question 1

The concept of health has expanded in the past 40 years. Select the phrase that reflects the narrowest descriptions of health:
a) the absence of disease
b) incorporating sociological and environmental aspects of health
c) changing behaviours and lifestyle
d) preventions of disease

Question 2

What is a database?

Question 3

Nursing diagnoses, based on assessment of a number of factors, give nurses a common language with which to communicate nursing findings. What is the best description of a nursing diagnosis?

Question 4

An episodic database is described as..

Question 5

Individuals should be seen at regular intervals for health care. What is the ideal frequency for these visits?

Question 6

Reflexivity is the process of..

Question 7

Evidence-informed nursing practice can be described as:

Question 8

What can be determined when the nurse clusters data as part of the critical thinking process?