The student nurse understands that clustering data comes with experien

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.

ANSWER

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.