Multiple Choice Questions: Summary: Test Taking Strategies

Trini Tran
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Chapter 5 Summary: Test Taking Strategies When taking tests, try not to read deeper into the question by asking, "what if?" Instead, focus on the information given and decide what the question is asking. Strategic words make a difference when trying to understand what the question is asking. Look for words such as immediate, initial, first, priority, side effect, or toxic effect. When dealing with multiple choice questions, always use the process of elimination. Whyen options have been eliminated, reread the question to make sure the chosen answer makes sense. To answer the question, use all nursing knowledge, clinical experiences, and test taking strategies. Multiple choice questions will require the arrangement

The steps of the nursing process include assessment, analysis, planning, implementation, and evaluation. Assessment questions focus on combining subjective and objective data, confirming, and communicating and documenting them. Pay attention to the strategic words in the problem that reflect assessment. If there is an answer choice that includes the concept of assessment or the collection of client data, that would be the best answer choice. An exception to the nursing process is if there is an emergency scenario, there may be an intervention to the priority. Analysis questions are considered to be difficult because they require the understanding of principles of physiological responses and the interpretation of the data. These types of questions require critical thinking and the rationale for therapeutic interventions. They may address the formulation of a nursing diagnosis and the documentation of the analysis results. Planning questions are for the clients as they prioritize their problems, figure out the goals of care, and then document them. Implementation questions focus on the process of organizing care. These are based on nursing actions rather than medical actions. Evaluation questions compare the outcomes of care with the expected. These questions determine the client 's response to care and other factors that interfere with reaching the expected