In the daily practice of nursing, nurses use critical thinking in:

Correct Answer: A

Rationale: Critical thinking in daily nursing practice is most evident when setting priorities, as it requires analyzing client needs, urgency, and resources to determine the order of care. This process involves evaluating multiple factors like a client's condition or time-sensitive tasks and making reasoned judgments, a hallmark of critical thinking. While it's used in every decision ideally, this isn't always practical or conscious for routine tasks like calling the pharmacy or checking supplies, which may rely more on habit or protocol. Prioritization, however, demands active synthesis of data, such as deciding to address a deteriorating patient before a stable one, ensuring efficient and safe care delivery. This application underscores its role in managing complex, dynamic workloads effectively.

Correct Answer: C

Rationale: EBP uses research (A), improves outcomes (B), requires thinking (D) 'relies only on tradition' (C) isn't true, evidence-driven, per standards. C's tradition contradicts EBP's basis, like Mr. Gary's care updates, making it untrue.

Correct Answer: A

Rationale: Working with a team for recovery is teamwork (A) collaboration, per definition. Resolution (B) disputes, promotion (C) well-being, coordination (D) organization not team-specific. A fits the nurse's joint effort for Mr. Gary, making it correct.

Correct Answer: B

Rationale: Using the thumb to palpate radial pulse is wrong e.g., its pulse interferes unlike fingers (index, middle) on wrist, palm down, assessing rate, rhythm, volume, symmetry. Nurses avoid this e.g., training for accurate measurement, per skills.

Correct Answer: A

Rationale: Choosing within a PPO is a preferred provider organization (A) flexible options, per definition. HMO (B) limits, policy (C) rules, education (D) teaching not choice-specific. A fits Mr. Gary's network freedom, making it correct.

Correct Answer: C

Rationale: Tertiary prevention optimizes chronic illness outcomes, vital in rural areas with care gaps. The COPD client in pulmonary rehab benefits most rehab post-diagnosis boosts lung capacity and endurance via tailored exercises, cutting exacerbations, a nursing-led strategy. The hypertensive client needs primary or secondary focus med adherence or screening not tertiary yet. The diabetic's foot checks are tertiary but self-managed, less intensive. The arthritis client's exercise class is tertiary too, but rehab's structured, multi-faceted approach (breathing techniques, education) outshines general exercise for impact studies show it slashes hospital stays. Nursing's role here maximizes function despite isolation, ensuring this client thrives, aligning with tertiary care's depth for complex chronicity.

Correct Answer: B

Rationale: Handwashing primarily prevents pathogen transmission, critical for infection control.

Correct Answer: D

Rationale: Side-lying position post-Billroth II (gastrectomy) prevents dumping syndrome by slowing gastric emptying and reduces aspiration risk from nasogastric drainage supine or Fowler's increases reflux, prone is impractical. Nurses use this positioning, monitoring for rapid pulse or nausea, ensuring comfort and stability after gastric surgery.

Correct Answer: B

Rationale: Stomach cells undergo constant mitosis to replace lining lost to digestion, unlike nerve cells (rarely divide), muscle (slow turnover), or renal cells (less frequent). This informs nursing care, like monitoring gastric healing in ulcers.