Exam 1 Review

What study strategies can you utilize for this Exam?

• Class notes

• Friends’ class notes

• Friends/Study buddy

• Free online textbooks

• NCLEX Test prep books

• Online Practice Questions

• Galen Library

• Read

• Watch videos

• Create summaries

• Do practice questions

• Create compare-and-contrast charts

• Create concept maps

• Make my own flashcards

• Form/participate in study group

• Teach-backs with friends

• Write down real-life examples of the concepts

• Join online forums to ask questions

• Create vocabulary lists

• Add additional strategies that work for you...

Answer explanation

• Class notes

• Friends’ class notes

• Friends/Study buddy

• Free online textbooks

• NCLEX Test prep books

• Online Practice Questions

• Galen Library

• Read

• Watch videos

• Create summaries

• Do practice questions

• Create compare-and-contrast charts

• Create concept maps

• Make my own flashcards

• Form/participate in study group

• Teach-backs with friends

• Write down real-life examples of the concepts

• Join online forums to ask questions

• Create vocabulary lists

• Add additional strategies that work for you...

The nursing process organizes your approach while delivering nursing care. In order to provide the best professional care to your patients, you will need to incorporate nursing process and:

• decision making.

• problem solving.

• intellectual standards.

• critical thinking skills.

Answer explanation

Nurses use decision making and problem solving on a daily basis. However, critical thinking skills involve a process and set of skills. Critical thinking includes identification, analysis, evaluation, and drawing conclusions to a problem.

What cognitive level is it to recall, repeat, and memorize? (Knecht p. 72)

What cognitive level is it to Prioritize and/or Organize? (Knecht p. 72)

What cognitive level is it to perform what was learned? (Knecht p. 72)

What Cognitive level is it to Recall and grasp the meaning? (Knecht p. 72)

What cognitive level is it to summarize in your own words? (Knecht p. 72)

What are some interference factors to critical thinking? (Knecht p. 70)

A student nurse recalls that sleeping medications are administered at 2100. When the student is questioned about why sleeping medications are given now, the student states, "I memorized that sleeping pills are given at 2100. I have no idea why. "The student is using what cognitive level?

• Analysis

• Knowledge

• Application

• Comprehension

Answer explanation

Analysis means to be able to break down complex information into its basic parts and relate those parts to the whole picture. Knowledge refers to the ability to recall and repeat information one has memorized. Application means being able to use learned material in new situations. Comprehension refers to the ability to very basically understand information, recall it, and identify examples of that information.

 

Nurse-initiated interventions are:

• determined by state nursing practice acts.

• supervised by the entire health care team.

• made in concert with the plan of care initiated by the physician or health care provider.

• developed after evaluating the interventions for the recent medical diagnoses.

Answer explanation

Collaborative interventions require the combined knowledge, skills, and expertise of multiple health care professionals.

Interventions initiated by the physician or health care provider are based on the physician's or health care provider's response to treat or manage a medical diagnosis. Nursing interventions are planned after assessment and selection of appropriate nursing diagnosis.