STUDY GUIDE - Fundamentals Test 1

1. Define critical thinking and aspects of it-reflection, intuition, knowledge, etc.

2. Assessment - Client Interview
3. Admission History
4. Data – Clustering, validating, inferences (define)
5. Gordon’s Functional Health Patterns
6. Define objective/subjective data – be able to recognize
7. Sources of health data?
8. Definition and purpose of Nursing Diagnosis
9. Recognize correctly written diagnosis – actual, risk, wellness
10. Etiologies of ND
11. Errors in diagnosing
12. Defining characteristics of nursing diagnosis – definition
13. NANDA?
14. Priorities in implementation of care – discuss
15. Goals – list and define characteristics
16. Nursing interventions – types and define, direct & indirect
17. Types of nursing skills – cognitive, psychomotor, etc
18. Documentation of care – identify various methods
19. Concept maps
20. Outcomes – define
21. Evaluation – define, timing of it
22. Goal /Outcome measurement
23. Evaluation criteria
24. Interventions for life style stressors
25. Nursing interventions for stress related crisis
26. Identify and discuss Ego-defense Mechanisms
27. Physiological mechanisms of stress and coping
28. Identify the 3 stage reaction of general adaptation theory
29. Identify health promotion techniques
30. Explain crisis intervention
31. Priority setting in crisis intervention
32. Stress throughout the life-span
33. Therapeutic communication in dealing with stress.
34. Identify physiological changes due to stress
35. Define stress

Approximately: 21 questions on Stress and Coping, Chapter 30.

59 questions on Nursing Process and Critical Thinking,

Chapters 14, 15,16,17,18, & 19