UNITEK MIDTERM QUESTIONS &
ANSWERS 100% CORRECT!!
What best defines the nursing process? - ANSWER1. Assessment - identify a client's
health care status
2. Diagnosis - actual or potential health problems
3. Outcomes identification
4. Planning - establish plans to meet the identified needs
5. Implementation - to deliver specific nursing interventions to address those needs
6. Evaluation - determine if goals were met
What is the most effective process to ensure that the care plan is meeting the needs
of the patient? - ANSWEREvaluation
How may a newly licensed LPN/LVN practice? - ANSWERUnder the supervision of a
physician or RN
What framework does the establishment of priorities of care during the planning
phase of the nursing process often use? - ANSWERMaslow's hierarchy of needs:
1. physiologic
2. safety and security
3. love and belongingness
4. esteem
5. self-actualization
What type of assessment is performed continuously throughout nurse-patient
contact? - ANSWERfocused assessment
What bacteria can lie dormant when conditions for growth are not favorable? -
ANSWERspores
Whose influence on nursing practice in the 19th century was related to improvement
of patient environment as a method of health promotion? - ANSWERFlorence
Nightingale
What document identifies the roles and responsibilities of the LPN/LVN? -
ANSWERThe Nurse Practice Act (NPA)
What does documentation of type of care, time of care, and signature of the person
prove? - ANSWERThat interventions were implemented to meet the patient's needs.
The nurse charts only additional treatments done, changes in patient condition, and
new concerns. What is this system of documentation? - ANSWERCharting by
exception
