The graduate nurse is struggling with identifying cues from clustered data. What should the nurse use to recognize data patterns and cues?

Question

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.

Answer 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.