Week 3 Strategies For Sucess

Question 1

What is the nursing process ?

Answer 1

•Method for problem solving, decision making in nursing practice, represents discipline-specific version of critical thinking
•Assessment
•Diagnosis
•Planning
•Implementation
•Evaluation

Question 2

What do nurses use critical thinking for ?

Answer 2

•Collect, validate, organize data
•Formulate nursing diagnosis, set goals
•Determine priorities, implement appropriate interventions
•Evaluate effectiveness of care, revise as needed

Question 3

What is assessment during nursing process ?

Answer 3

•Nurses collect subjective, objective data about client’s health status
•Subjective data: information that client or significant other shares with nurse
•Objective data: information that can be directly measured or observed
•Nurses continuously collect data, analyze it to make nursing decisions

Question 4

What is diagnosis during nursing process ?

Answer 4

•Nursing diagnoses represent professional nurse’s judgment about human responses within contextual situation that may either threaten or strengthen health, well-being
•Types of diagnoses
•Actual
•Wellness
•Risk
•Syndrome
•Possible

Question 5

What is planning during nursing process ?

Answer 5

•Professional nurses develop plan of care to communicate specific client care needs to nursing personnel so desired outcomes are attained
•When planning client care, nurses establish set of nursing diagnoses in priority order, designate desired nursing goals and client outcomes, prescribe specific nursing interventions

Question 6

What is implantation during nursing process ?

Answer 6

•Nurses execute proposed nursing care plans
•Teaching clients, significant others
•Managing others, facilitating group process, resolving conflicts, communicating effectively
•Performing technical skills
•Documenting results of nursing interventions, revisions made in interventions as needed

Question 7

What is evaluation during nursing process ?

Answer 7

•Collaborative process to determine progress made toward attaining health-related goals
•Reassessment, review, reordering care priorities
•Establishing new goals, revising care plan

Question 8

What is case scenario

Answer 8

•Gives you the clinical information
•Describes a clinical/ patient situation
•Gives you the facts (information you need to consider)

Question 9

What is stem ?

Answer 9

•Portion of the question that asks the nurse to solve a specific question
•Usually comes directly after the “case scenario”
•Contains the details needed to answer the question correctly

Question 10

Examples of stem

Answer 10

•Which nursing intervention is most appropriate when feeding Mrs. Jones?
•Which of the following measures should be implemented first?
•Which of the following best characterizes the signs and symptoms seen with hypotension?
•Which of the following interventions would be appropriate? (select all that apply)
•Place the following interventions into the priority order in which they should be done

Question 11

Example of case scenario

Answer 11

•The patient is an 88 year old admitted to your unit status post a fall at home…
•The nurse obtained the following health assessment data during exam…
•The patient is a 55 year old male with newly diagnosed Diabetes Mellitus…
•During assessment the healthcare provider observes