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Nursing Process Practice Questions Questions
Question 1 of 5
After assessing a patient, a nurse develops a standard formal nursing diagnosis. What is the rationale for the nurse’s actions?
Correct Answer: D
Rationale: The correct answer is D: To help nurses focus on the scope of medical practice. Developing a standard formal nursing diagnosis helps nurses to identify and focus on the patient's specific health issues within the nursing scope of practice. This enables nurses to provide targeted and effective care interventions. A: To form a language that can be encoded only by nurses - This choice is incorrect because the purpose of a nursing diagnosis is not exclusive to nurses and should be comprehensible to all healthcare professionals caring for the patient. B: To distinguish the nurse’s role from the physician’s role - While this distinction is important, the main purpose of developing a nursing diagnosis is to guide nursing interventions based on the patient's nursing care needs, rather than solely differentiating roles. C: To develop clinical judgment based on other’s intuition - This choice is incorrect as clinical judgment should be based on evidence-based practice and critical thinking, rather than solely relying on intuition or others' opinions.
Question 2 of 5
A nurse is providing nursing care to patients after completing a care plan from nursing diagnoses. In which step of the nursing process is the nurse?
Correct Answer: C
Rationale: The correct answer is C: Implementation. In this step of the nursing process, the nurse is carrying out the care plan based on the identified nursing diagnoses. The nurse is actively providing care and interventions to meet the patient's needs. Assessment (A) is the initial step where data is collected and analyzed. Planning (B) is where goals and interventions are determined based on assessment findings. Evaluation (D) is the final step where the nurse assesses the effectiveness of the care provided. In this scenario, the nurse has already completed the care plan and is now executing the plan by implementing the interventions, making choice C the correct answer.
Question 3 of 5
A nurse is providing nursing care to a group of patients. Which actions are direct care interventions? (Select all that apply.)
Correct Answer: A
Rationale: The correct answer is A: Ambulating a patient. Direct care interventions involve hands-on activities directly impacting patient outcomes. Ambulating a patient is a direct care intervention as it involves physically assisting the patient to move, promoting circulation, preventing complications, and improving overall well-being. Inserting a feeding tube (B) and performing resuscitation (C) are also direct care interventions as they involve immediate patient care actions. Documenting wound care (D) is not a direct care intervention as it involves recording information about a care activity rather than physically performing the care itself.
Question 4 of 5
Which finding will alert the nurse that the goal has been met?
Correct Answer: A
Rationale: The correct answer is A because it meets the goal of maintaining a heart rate of 78 beats/min. This specific date ensures the consistency of the heart rate within the desired range. Choices B, C, and D do not align with the goal as they either have a different heart rate or occur on a different date. Therefore, A is the only option that accurately reflects the goal being met on the specified date.
Question 5 of 5
A nurse who collected and organized data during a client history realizes that there is not enough information to plan interventions. Which of the following would be the best remedy to prevent this from happening in the future?
Correct Answer: A
Rationale: The correct answer is A: The nurse should practice interviewing strategies. This is the best remedy because improving the nurse's ability to gather comprehensive information during client history will ensure sufficient data for planning interventions. By practicing interviewing strategies, the nurse can learn to ask relevant questions, actively listen, and probe for additional details. Summary: B: Modifying the data collection tool may not address the issue of insufficient information if the problem lies with how the nurse conducts the interview. C: Determining the specific purpose of data collection is important but may not solve the immediate issue of lacking information for intervention planning. D: Updating the database is irrelevant to the problem of inadequate data collection during client history.