Test Taking Strategies For Nursing Students

Test taking strategies for Nursing Students Caralee Bromme’, RN , MSN CCRN

Seminars Objectives
At the end of this session the student will
Define critical thinking and it’s application to the nursing process.
Understand Maslow’s hierarchy of needs in relationship to the nursing process.
Identify the components of a test question.
Be able to identify question and answer distracters and qualifiers.

Critical thinking
Critical thinking is the cornerstone of one's ability to function in today's society. According to Scriven & Paul (n.d.) ,
it...can be seen as having two components:
a set of skills to process and generate information and beliefs, and
the habit, based on intellectual commitment, of using those skills to guide behavior.
( Scriven & Paul, nd: http://www.criticalthinking.org/University/univclass/Defining.html )

Test Preparation… the most important step
Read the material prior to lecture
At the minimum, skim the chapter summaries, key word definitions and tables. Identify what the instructor’s going to talk about.
Take outline notes
Star concepts you don’t understand for further study. Use a spiral notebook one page for lecture. Then add info from the book on the opposite page *note all page numbers for open book tests.
Flag or Tab your notes and book for open book test with consistent system
Blue-tables, red-disease ( Mark disease name on tab), green- nursing care plan
“ Remember it’s all about understanding and application of the concept “

Test taking strategies
Outline your notes to each disease
With info from lecture and book
Pathophysiology of disease/ system
Signs and symptoms (including labs)
Highlight special S&S
such as RLQ pain for appy
Nursing Diagnosis
Goals
Specific Implementation plans
Patient teaching

Types of questions
Knowledge
Recall or remembered information
Comprehension questions
Need to understand the information
Application Questions
Show, solve, use or manipulate information
Analysis
Interpret data, recognize commonalties, differences, interrelationships among presented ideas

Now critical thinking and the nursing process..
Assessment
Collect data, communicate information about assessments
Analysis/ Nursing Diagnosis
Clustering and interpreting data, identifying and communicating nursing diagnosis
Planning
Identifying goals, projecting outcomes, setting priorities, identifying interventions
Implementation
Implementing nursing care
Evaluation
Identifying patient responses, comparing outcomes to goals, modifying plan of care.
“ This is process of how we think about patients”
Now let’s apply the same process to tests

Prioritization
Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
Biological
Safety
Belonging and love
Esteem needs
Self actualization

If you have to guess think physiological needs first…
Think..
Airway
Breathing
Circulation
Disability
Safety second
Communication
Also do not forget the nursing process

Questions are based on the nursing process…
The components include
The stem
Correct response
Distracters

The client has a red, raised skin rash. During the bath, the priority action of the nurse is to:
a. Assess for further inflammatory reactions
b. Discuss the body-image problems created by the presence of the rash
c. Wash the skin thoroughly with hot water and soap
d. Moisturize the skin to prevent drying.

A 61-year-old client recently had left-sided paralysis from a cerebrovascular accident (stroke). In planning care for this client, the nurse implements which one of the following as an appropriate intervention?
a. Encourage an even gait when walking in place.
b. Assess the extremities for unilateral swelling and muscle atrophy.
c. Encourage holding the breath frequently to hyperinflation his lungs.
d. Teach the use of a two-point crutch technique for ambulation .

A client has severe right-sided weakness and is unable to complete bathing and grooming independently. Based on this observation, the nurse identifies a nursing diagnosis of:
a. Powerlessness
b. Self-care deficit
c. Tissue integrity impairment
d. Knowledge deficit of hygiene practices

The client is receiving an epidural opioid infusion for pain relief. A priority nursing intervention when caring for this client is to:
a. Use aseptic technique
b. Label the port as an epidural catheter
c. Monitor vitals signs every 15 minutes
d. Avoid supplemental doses of sedatives

After administering an intramuscular injection, the nurse should massage the needle insertion site to:
Limit infection
Prevent bleeding
Reduce comfort
Promote absorption

To promote respiratory function in the immobilized client, the nurse should:
Change the client’s position q4-8
Encourage deep breathing and coughing every hour
Use oxygen and nebulizer treatments regularly
Suction the client every hour

The nurse is caring for a client with cirrhosis of the liver with ascites. When instructing nursing assistants in the care of the client, the nurse should emphasize that
The client should remain on bed rest in a semi-Fowler's position
The client should alternate ambulation with bed rest with legs elevated
The client may ambulate and sit in chair as tolerated
The client may ambulate as tolerated and remain in semi-Fowlers position in bed

A client has gastroesophageal reflux. Which recommendation made by the nurse would be most helpful to the client?
Avoid liquids unless a thickening agent is used
Sit upright for at least 1 hour after eating
Maintain a diet of soft foods and cooked vegetables
Avoid eating 2 hours before going to sleep
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A 43-year-old client is scheduled to have a gastrectomy. Which of the following is a major preoperative concern?
a. The client’s brother had a tonsillectomy at age 11 years
b. The client smokes a pack of cigarettes a day
c. The presence of an intravenous (IV) infusion
d. A history of employment as a computer programmer

The nurse is working in a postoperative care unit in an ambulatory surgery center. Of the following clients that have come to have surgery, the client at the greatest risk during surgery is a:
a. 78-year-old taking an analgesic agent
b. 43-year-old taking an antihypertensive agent
c. 27-year-old taking an anticoagulant agent
d. 10-year-old taking an antibiotic agent

To provide for the psychosocial needs of an immobilized client, an appropriate statement by the nurse is:
a. “The staff will limit your visitors so that you will not be bothered.”
b. “A roommate can be a real bother. You’d probably rather have a private room.”
c. “ Let’s discuss the routine to see if there are any changes we can make.”
d. “I think you should have your hair done and put on some make-up.”

Conclusion
Prepare and learn the concepts
Tab and out line your notes
Use the ABC’s and Maslow’s Hierarchy
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