The student nurse understands that clustering data comes with ...

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The student nurse understands that clustering data comes with experience and recognizing cues. The best way for this student to recognize patterns or cues in the data is to:
 
  1. Depend on knowledge gained from peers' experiences.
  2. Work with seasoned and experienced nurses and learn from them.
  3. Take assessment notes and utilize information from textbooks for comparison.
  4. Know that this will take time, and experience is the best teacher.

Question 2

A nursing diagnosis of Enhanced readiness for spiritual well-being has been formulated for a particular family. Which of the following data clusters would support this diagnosis?
 
  1. The family visits different congregations, the parents have been reflecting on their own spiritual upbringings, and the children are questioning rituals of their friends and friends' families.
  2. The children attend Sunday school classes, one parent always attends services with the children, and the parents attempt interaction with congregational activities.
  3. The grandparents go to weekly services and have formal interaction with clergy.
  4. The children have attended private, religious school, and the parents are involved in the school's activities.

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Answer to Question 1

Correct Answer: 3
Rationale 1: Learning from peers is helpful, but does not take the place of didactic information.
Rationale 2: Learning from seasoned nurses is helpful, but does not take the place of didactic information.
Rationale 3: The novice nurse must take careful assessment notes, search data for abnormal cues, and use textbook resources for comparing the client's cues with the defining characteristics and etiologic factors of the accepted nursing diagnoses.
Rationale 4: Experience teaches much information, but it never takes the place of concrete, scientific theory.

Answer to Question 2

Correct Answer: 1
Rationale: A wellness diagnosis describes human responses to levels of wellness in an individual family or community that has a readiness for enhancement or improvement. The data cluster that describes the questioning, searching, and reflecting would support an attitude of readiness.