ATI LPN
Foundations and Adult Health Nursing Test Bank
Chapter 5 : Nursing Process and Critical Thinking Questions
Question 1 of 5
The document that outlines a plan for care interventions over a specified time frame is called a clinical pathway critical path action plan or caremap.
Correct Answer: multidisciplinary
Rationale: A clinical pathway is an organized multidisciplinary plan over a specified time frame, which outlines aspects of patient care. They are also called critical paths, action plans, and care maps.
Question 2 of 5
A systematic method by which nurses plan and provide care for patients is known as the nursing ____
Correct Answer: process
Rationale: The nursing process serves as the organizational framework for the practice of nursing. It is a systematic method by which nurses plan and provide care for patients.
Question 3 of 5
A systemic dynamic way to collect and analyze data about a patient that includes physiologic data as well as psychological sociocultural spiritual economic and lifestyle factors is known as ____
Correct Answer: assessment
Rationale: The American Nurses Association (AN
A) defines assessment as 'a systematic, dynamic way to collect and analyze data about a patient, the first step in delivering nursing care. Assessment includes not only physiologic data, but also psychological, sociocultural, spiritual, economic, and lifestyle factors as well.'
Question 4 of 5
Any health care condition that requires diagnostic therapeutic or educational actions is known as a ____
Correct Answer: Problem
Rationale: A problem is any health care condition that requires diagnostic, therapeutic, or educational actions.
Question 5 of 5
A clinical judgment concerning a human response to health conditions/life processes or a vulnerability for that response by an individual family group or community is known as a nursing ____
Correct Answer: diagnosis
Rationale: A patient problem is a clinical judgment concerning a human response to health conditions/life processes, or a vulnerability for that response, by an individual, family, group or community.