Exam 4: Nursing Process and Critical Thinking

An emergency room nurse will give first priority to the patient with the most critical need, which is the patient who:

Place the steps of the problem-solving approach in the appropriate order. (Separate letters with a comma and space as follows: A, B, C, D, E.)

The participants of the planning stage of the nursing process during which the health goals are defined include the:

Which of the following items could be the responsibility of the LPN/LVN for a patient's plan of care? (Select all that apply.)

Activities considered to be aspects of the implementation step of the nursing process are: (Select all that apply.)

Constant nursing assessments and evaluations of the patient will most likely result in:

The activity that is implementation in nursing care is:

The tasks of synthesizing data and linking nursing interventions with patient health problems are enhanced by the process of ________.

The order in which the nursing process is approached is:

The effect of using a scientific problem-solving approach in nursing care will cause decision making to be:

A nurse will arrive at a nursing diagnosis through the nursing process step of:

The nurse completing morning assessments on a patient who is sitting up in bed is told by the patient, "I'm having trouble breathing-I can't seem to get enough air." The best nursing response is to:

When a resident in the nursing home complains of constipation, the nurse performs a digital rectal examination and finds a hard fecal mass. This is an example of:

Descriptions of the activities involved in the nursing diagnosis step of the nursing process are: (Select all that apply.)

When the nurse checks to see whether a patient has had relief 45 minutes after administering pain medication, the nurse is performing a(n):

A student nurse can begin to develop critical thinking skills by means of:

When a patient states, "I can't walk very well," the first problem-solving step would be to:

When the nurse constructs a nursing approach after careful judgment and sound reasoning, the nurse has used a system of __________.

Once the nursing plan has been initiated, the nursing care plan will:

A nurse begins rounds on a medical-surgical nursing unit. Review the following patients on her assignment. Prioritize the order in which the patients should be assessed, based on their descriptions. (Separate letters with a comma and space as follows: A, B, C, D.)