HESI A2 Critical Thinking Questions and Answers Already Passed
What are the 5 steps of the Nursing Process? ✔✔Assessment, Diagnosing/Analyzing data gained from assessing/Planning (including outcome identification), Implementing (according to priority), evaluating...did it work?
The nursing process is... ✔✔overlapping and dynamic
What does P-I-E stand for? ✔✔Problem, Implement, Evaluate
What is the acronym COVD used for? ✔✔Used during assessing?
Collecting Data Organizing Data Validating Documenting Data
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What are the sources of data that you retrieve during assessment? ✔✔patient, support peoples, client records
What type of client records could you get data from? ✔✔Other healthcare professionals, nursing and scientific literature
What are the two types of data you will take from the patient? ✔✔Subjective and Objective data
What is subjective data? ✔✔Data that only the subject or "patient" can feel and will tell you.Usually in a statement.
What is objective data? ✔✔What you observe and can measure
Besides measurable data for your objective data, what other objective data should you collect?✔✔What you see, hear, and smell.
What do you do with your data sometimes if it is off or you are to sure of it? ✔✔VALIDATE
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How do you record subjective data? ✔✔In clients, "own words."
What does the diagnoses do? ✔✔Describes the patients health problem in nursing terminology - NOT medical.
What are some qualifiers for diagnoses? ✔✔deficient, impaired, decreased, ineffective or compromised
What is etiology? ✔✔The "related to" part....it is NURSE FIXABLE?
What does the etiology or "related to" part do? ✔✔Directs the nursing intervention
What does the correctly stated nursing problem have....PES....? ✔✔Problem Statement (NANDA) only, Etiology "related to", and the supporting data (subj. obj assessment findings)
What is planning? ✔✔involved determining pt goals/outcomes
You cannot have an intervention.... ✔✔without a goal. 3 / 4
You cannot have a goal... ✔✔without an intervention
A goal is a direct result of an... ✔✔intervention
When planning what do you always want to do? ✔✔BE SPECIFIC...WHO, WHAT, WHEN,
HOW OFTEN, HOW MUCH
For every nursing diagnoses....the nurse... ✔✔must write atleast one desired outcome
The purpose of an intervention... ✔✔is a goal!
What is an evaluation mean? ✔✔A patient response to an intervention
Risk Factors ✔✔do not have defining characteristics....they are not specific
Between an intervention and a goal...there is... ✔✔TEACHING
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