After completing an initial assessment of a patient, the nurse has charted that his respirations are eupneic and his pulse is 58 beats per minute. These
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Objective
A patient tells the nurse that he is very nervous, is nauseated, and feels hot. These types of data would be:
Subjective
The patients record, laboratory studies, objective data, and subjective data combine to form the:
Data Base
When listening to a patients breath sounds, the nurse is unsure of a sound that is heard. The nurses next action should be to:
Validate the data by asking a coworker to listen to the breath sounds
The nurse is conducting a class for new graduate nurses. During the teaching session, the nurse should keep in mind that novice nurses, without a background of skills and experience from which to draw, are more likely to make their decisions using:
A set of rules
Expert nurses learn to attend to a pattern of assessment data and act without consciously labeling it. These responses are referred to as:
Intuitition
The nurse is reviewing information about evidence-based practice (EBP). Which statement best reflects EBP?
EBP emphasizes the use of best evidence with the clinicians experience
The nurse is conducting a class on priority setting for a group of new graduate nurses. Which is an example of a first-level priority problem?
Individual with shortness of breath and respiratory distress
When considering priority setting of problems, the nurse keeps in mind that second-level priority problems include which of these aspects?
Abnormal laboratory values
Which critical thinking skill helps the nurse see relationships among the data?
Clustering related cues
The nurse knows that developing appropriate nursing interventions for a patient relies on the appropriateness of the __________ diagnosis.
Nursing
The nursing process is a sequential method of problem solving that nurses use and includes which steps?
Assessment, diagnosis, outcome identification, planning, implementation, and evaluation [Show Less]