NURS 250 Final Review

A community health nurse is providing care to a group of Hispanic people living in an area that is predominantly populated by White people. What are the Hispanic people in this community an example of?

A marginalized identity group

Which nursing student would most likely be held liable for negligence?

A nursing student administers medication to a resident while working as an unlicensed assistive personnel (UAP) at a local nursing home.

A nurse is assigned the care of a client and the nurse does not understand the client's language. Which agency resource is best for the nurse to use in this case?

A professional interpreter.

The nurse is having an exceptionally busy shift on an obstetrical unit. Which task is the nurse justified in delegating to the unlicensed assistive personnel (UAP)?

emptying a client's Foley catheter bag and reporting the volume to the nurse

A nurse who obtains a license to practice nursing through self-misrepresentation is guilty of what tort?

fraud

When chronic illnesses and disabilities are present, individuals benefit most from activities that:

help them maintain independence.

Chronic illness may be characterized by periods of remission. Remission is best defined as:

the presence of a disease with the absence of symptoms.

Which of the four concepts common in all nursing theories is the most important to nursing?

person

Ordered: Cipro 0.5 g p.o.q12hAvailable: Cipro tablets labeled 250 mgHow many tablets are given at one dose?

2 tablets

1000ml of D5 in water infused over 12hours. Drip factor of 10gtt/ml. What'sthe infusion rate (gtt/min)?

14 gtt/min

The new nurse is evaluating the effectiveness of the assigned nurse mentor. Which characteristic should the new nurse recognize as being inappropriate for the nurse mentor to role model?

Advising the new nurse to consult the nurse mentor before making decisions regarding client care

Which word is best described as protection and support of another's rights?

Advocacy

Which action constitutes battery?

An older adult client refuses an intramuscular injection, but the nurse administers it.

An RN enters a client's room and observes the unlicensed assistive personnel (UAP) forcefully pushing a client down on the bed. The client starts crying and informs the UAP of the need to go to the bathroom. What action is the RN witnessing that should be immediately reported to the supervisor?

Battery

The nurse is caring for a 70-year-old client with a fractured wrist. Which is the best method to determine whether the client has retained the information taught?

Ask the client to recall after approximately 15 minutes.

A nurse threatens to restrain a verbally abusive client if the abuse continues. Which legal tort has the nurse committed?

Assault

A client is operated on for gallstones. On the postoperative night, the nurse finds that the client is not sleeping and is tossing and turning. When asked about analgesics, the client denies having pain. Which nursing action is most appropriate?

Assessing for nonverbal expressions of pain

The nurse has recently been promoted to nurse manager on an oncology unit and has decided to be the sole decision maker regarding issues that concern the unit. Which type of leadership style is the nurse embodying?

Autocratic

Which ethical principle is related to the idea of self-determination?

Autonomy

Which behavior by the nurse is stereotyping?

Avoiding older adult clients because their care is time consuming

the parents of an infant with apnea need to be educated on the use of an apnea monitor and cardiopulmonary resuscitation. What should the nurse assess first when working with the parents?

Baseline knowledge of these concepts

in general, how do most people view change?

By how they are affected personally

The nurse is caring for a client with a new diagnosis of osteoarthritis and degenerative joint disease. Which action should the nurse perform when addressing the client's cognitive learning needs?

Educate the client about the pathophysiology of the disease process

A nurse is caring for a client who is visually impaired. Which action is a recommended guideline for communication with this client?

Explain the reason for touching the client before doing so.

The nurse meets with the client to teach self-administration of low molecular weight heparin. During the initial part of the training the client shakes the head and asks the nurse to repeat the instructions. What action demonstrates that the nurse has assessed the client's communication abilities?

The nurse faces the client, speaks slowly and clearly, and demonstrates the procedure using a needle-less syringe.

On finding multiple bruises on a client's arms and back, the nurse suspects that the client is being abused by a daughter who lives with the client. When questioned, the client denies any abuse. Despite the client's denial, the nurse should report the suspected abuse on the basis of which rationale?

The nurse has a legal and ethical responsibility to report the suspected abuse.

While walking through a park, the nurse encounters a child with a swollen and reddened arm that hurts to move due to being struck with a baseball bat. The nurse splints the arm using two baseball bats. The child is transported to the hospital and later develops compartmental syndrome in the arm. Which statement regarding the nurse's liability in this case is accurate?

The nurse is protected by the Good Samaritan Act, which states that the nurse may give emergency care using good judgment.

The nurse enters a client's room after receiving a morning report. The nurse rapidly assesses the client's airway, breathing, and circulation and greets the client by saying "Good morning." The client makes no reciprocal response to the nurse. How should the nurse best respond to the client's silence?

The nurse should ask appropriate questions to understand the reasons for the client's silence.

A client is unhappy with the health care provided and informs the nurse that the client is leaving the facility. The client has not been discharged by the health care provider. The nurse finds that the client has dressed and is ready to go. What should the nurse's action be in this situation?

The nurse should call and inform the nursing supervisor of the situation.

A client gets out of bed following hip surgery, falls, and re-injures the hip. The nurse caring for the client knows that it is the nurse's duty to make sure an incident report is filed. Which statement accurately describes the correct procedure for filing an incident report?

The report should contain all the variables related to the incident.

A home health nurse is visiting a client who is 60 years of age. During the initial visit, the client's spouse answers all of the questions. What would the nurse assess based on this behavior?

The spouse is the dominant member of the family.

The nurse in a free clinic caring for clients uses the Health Belief Model, which is based on three components. What is the main focus for this model?

What people believe to be true about their health

A nurse researcher is planning to test the effect of a breathing exercise on older adults' stamina. What type of research study should the nurse conduct?

Quantitative

A nurse researcher must decide on the method for conducting the research. The researcher that plans to emphasize collection of numerical data and analysis would select which method of research?

Quantitative research

Which statement best conveys the relationship between race and ethnicity?

Race denotes physical characteristics, while ethnicity is rooted in a common heritage.

A White client has requested that they not receive any care from Black nurses. This client is demonstrating what practice?

Racism

One of the primary reasons for conducting nursing research is to:

generate knowledge to guide practice.

You are preparing to administer medication to someone who weighs 198 pounds, however, the medication is available as 1 tablet per 45 kg. How many tablets should you give?

2 tablets

A patient is ordered 225 mg of medication to infuse overone hour. The medication is available in 75 mg/mlconcentration. How many mL will you need to give for thecorrect dose?

3 mL

Ordered: Digoxin elixir 500 mcgx 1 dose ON HAND: Digoxin 0.125mg/ml.____________ml?____________tsp?

3.3 ml

The nurse is preparing to administer NSS 2000 ml IV over6 hours. The nurse should set the IV pump to deliver howmany ml per hour? Round to the nearest whole number.

333 mL/hr

Things that may vary or change in a research study are known as.

Variables

Which activity best helps the nurse apply theory to practice?

Which activity best helps the nurse apply theory to practice?

Where in a research journal article is the abstract located?

At the beginning

Which type of skills is not needed for nursing leadership?

Technical skills

Each facilitates a therapeutic nurse-client relationship except:

closed-ended questions.

The nurse is caring for a client who is postoperative 24 hours from an appendectomy. The client is hesitant to get out of bed. How should the nurse respond?

"Can you describe what you are feeling when you try to move?"

A client, who has just been diagnosed with a chronic condition, asks the nurse what a "chronic condition" means. What would be the nurse's best response?

"Chronic conditions usually come on slowly and may have periods of remission and exacerbation."

The nurse is performing an admission interview with a new client diagnosed with acute coronary syndrome. For the nurse to obtain information and allow the client free verbalization, which question would elicit the most information?

"Could you tell me more about how you are feeling right now?"

An informatics nurse specialist teaches a group of staff nurses how to document client care in the new electronic health record. To document assessment findings, the nurses are to select the correct information from a drop-down list. During the teaching session, one of the nurses asks, "Why do we have to use this list. Why can't we just type in what we want to say?" Which response by the informatics nurse specialist would reflect the most important reason for documenting in this way?

"Documenting this way allows nurses' actions to be measured."

An informatics nurse specialist is presenting an in-service program for a group of staff nurses on using the electronic health record. As part of the presentation, the nurse specialist is emphasizing the need for maintaining security and privacy of the record. During a break in the program, the nurse specialist overhears a conversation among several of the staff nurses. Which statement would the nurse specialist identify as a cause for concern?

"I always put a sticky note on the computer terminal with my password on it in case I forget it."

While a client admitted to the medical-surgical unit is in the radiology department, a visitor claiming to be the client's cousin arrives on the medical-surgical unit and asks the nurse to provide a brief outline of the client's illness. Which response by the nurse would be most appropriate, both legally and professionally?

"I cannot give you that information due to client confidentiality."

A 48-year-old client was just diagnosed with type 2 diabetes mellitus. The client has a body mass index of 35 and leads a sedentary lifestyle. The nurse informs the client of risk factors for the diagnosis and the need to change diet and exercise behavior. Which client statement indicates a need for further teaching?

"There is nothing that can be done anyway; chronic diseases cannot be prevented."

What is the difference between negligence and malpractice? SATA

- Negligence is an unintentional mistake that could've been avoided - Malpractice is intentional with a breach of duty, care, causation and damages - Negligence and malpractice are both considered to be Torts

Ordered: Epogen 2400U sc daily ON HAND: Epogen 3000 U/ml_________________ml?

0.8 ml or cc

1. 8gtt= ___________________________________ml 2. 3 oz= _________________________________T 3. 15 ml= __________________________________ gtt 4. 20 ml= ___________________________________ tsp 5. 1550 g=__________________________________ kg 6. 15 mcg=__________________________________ mg 7. 165 lbs = kg

1. 0.53 ml 2. 6 T 3. 225 gtt 4. 4 tsp 5. 1.55 kg 6. 0.015 mg 7. 75 kg

1000 ml D5W to infuse in 8 hours. Drop factor is 20gtts/ml.How many gtts/min?

42 gtt/min

Ordered: Digoxin elixir 500 mcgx 1 doseON HAND: Digoxin 0.125mg/ml.____________ml?____________tsp?

4ml 0.8 tsp

A physician prescribes Epogen 250 units/kgsubcutaneously three times a day for a patient whoweights 150 lbs. The medication states that there is a3000 units/ml. How many mL should the nurseadminister? Round to the nearest tenth

5.7 mL

75 ml D5W to infuseover 30 minutes with adrip factor of 20 gtt/ml.___________gtt/min?

50 gtt/min

500 ml of antibiotics at30 gtt/min with a drip factor 20 gtt/ml. How long is the infusion time_________h and min?

5h and 33 min

A nurse is preparing to infuse 450 mL of medication over 2hours. The drop factor of the IV medication is 25gtt/mL.The nurse should have the flow rate delivering how manydrops per minute? Round to the nearest whole number.

94 gtt/min

Which phrase describes a value?

A belief about the worth of something to guide behavior

A rapid onset of symptoms that lasts a relatively short time indicates which condition?

An acute illness

Knowledge that comes from an expert and is accepted as truth based on a person's perceived expertise is known as..

Authoritative knowledge

Before developing a procedure, a nurse reviews all current research-based literature on insertion of a nasogastric tube. What type of nursing will be practiced based on this review?

Evidence-based practice

Which of these is not a factor in the Agent-Host-Environment Model of health and illness, as developed by Leavell and Clark (1965)?

Evil spirit

A nurse researcher is examining the cause-and-effect relationship between the consumption of tap water containing minimal amounts of bleach, and the incidence of cancer in rats. The research is taking place in a laboratory setting. What type of quantitative research is being used based upon this description?

Experimental research

An obstetrical nurse wishes to identify whether clients' perceptions of a high level of support from their partner is associated with a decreased length of the second stage of labor. Which type of quantitative research is most appropriate for this research question?

Correlational research

Which quality is essential to being a nurse leader?

Flexibility

Which is the most accurate definition of health?

Health is a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being.

Nurse researchers have predicted that a newly created mentorship program will result in decreased absenteeism, increased retention, and decreased attrition among a hospital's nursing staff. What does this predicted relationship represent?

Hypothesis

The statement, "More frequent handwashing will significantly lower the rate of infection in hospitalized clients," is an example of what research component?

Hypothesis

A nurse researcher is involved in an experimental research study. Which component would the nurse researcher manipulate?

Independent variable

When looking at a model for evidence based practice, whatis the final step of the process that incorporates theoutcomes into practice through education and integrationinto standard of practice

Integrate and maintain

What is the best explanation for the way evidence-based practice (EBP) has changed the way nursing care is delivered?

Nursing care now uses EBP as a means of ensuring quality care.

Which represents the basic framework of the research process?

Nursing process

A group of nurses is planning to investigate the effectiveness of turning immobilized stroke clients more frequently in order to prevent skin breakdown. The team has begun by formulating a PICO question. Which element will the "O" in the team's PICO question refer to?

Preventing skin breakdown

A nurse researcher is collecting nominal data. What type of research is being conducted.

Qualitative research

The ability of a research tool to consistently yield the same results over repeated testing periods is known as...

Reliability

As part of a class assignment, a beginning professional nursing student is to prepare a research paper. Which action would be most appropriate to take when identify a problem area?

Review scientific literature to develop a research idea

After reviewing several research articles, the clinical nurse specialist on a medical surgical unit rewrites the procedure on assessing placement of a nasogastric tube. What source of nursing knowledge did the nurse use in this situation?

Scientific knowledge

A nurse researcher is beginning a study into a new modality for providing discharge teaching. When moving through the various stages of research, the nurse's action will resemble which of the following?

The nursing process

A nurse working in a long-established hospital learned a specific approach to administering intravenous injections from the previous generation of nurses at the hospital. This is an example of which type of knowledge?

Traditional knowledge

An individuals use of a computer system, performing aspecific task and attempting to reach a determined endresult is known as

Usability

A nurse uses the process of quantitative research to study the incidence and causes of hospital-acquired pneumonia in the nurse's hospital. The statement of what the researcher expects to find in these studies is called the:

hypothesis.

A nurse is developing a foreground question for nursing research using the PICO model. Which component would be represented by the statement, "a 45-year-old male with coronary heart disease and atrial fibrillation"?

p

Which type of quantitative research will examine cause-and-effect relationships between selected variables?

quasi- experimental

A hospital is switching to computerized charting. The nurse recognizes that one advantage to an electronic client chart is:

retrieval of information is more efficient.

Which term is most closely associated with quantitative research?

variable

Which nurse leader most clearly exemplifies transformational leadership?

A leader who is dynamic and inspiring and promotes change by the power of the leader's convictions

Which scenario is an example of certification?

A nurse who demonstrates advanced expertise in a content area of nursing through special testing

The registered nurse on a busy telemetry floor is delegating tasks to an unlicensed assistive person (UAP). Which task is appropriate for the UAP to complete?

Bathing a combative client

The client is an 18-month-old in the pediatric intensive care unit. The client is scheduled to have a subgaleal shunt placed tomorrow, and the client's mother is quite nervous about the procedure. The nurse tells the client's mother, "The surgeon has done this a million times. Your son will be fine." This is an example of what type of non-therapeutic communication?

False reassurance

Having recently completed a specialty nursing program in neonatal care, a nurse is now preparing to leave the medical unit and begin providing care in the hospital's neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). The nurse has completed which process of credentialing?

Certification

A client reads the nutritional chart and follows it accurately. The nurse also notes that the client understands the need for a balanced diet and its relationship with a quick recovery. In which domain is the client demonstrating successful learning?

Cognitive

A client states, "I understand when the nurse explains the possible complications of my illness. I am appreciative of what insulin does to my body, and I can now give myself insulin." Which domains of learning does the nurse identify for this client as having been successfully addressed by education?

Cognitive, affective, and psychomotor

A nurse manager is trying to resolve a conflict between the day and night shifts. The nurse manager wants to convince the involved persons to set aside their differences, determine a priority common goal having to do with improved client care, and accept mutual responsibility for achieving this goal. The nurse manager is using which type of conflict resolution?

Collaborating

A client who has suffered a cerebrovascular accident is unable to swallow and refuses the insertion of a feeding tube. In order to promote the client's autonomy, the nurse should perform which action?

Communicate the client's wish to the family and health care team

A nurse is sitting with friends in a coffee shop while working on a plan of care for a client. The client's name is written at the top of the plan. Which ethical responsibility is the nurse violating?

Confidentiality

A nurse assesses a client with psychotic symptoms and determines that the client needs vest restraints. However, the client asks the nurse not to put on vest restraints. What would be the best nursing action?

Contact the health care provider and obtain necessary orders.

A family has recently immigrated. All members are quickly learning the language and the children are all in public school. Both parents are working and adapting to the new culture. What is this family demonstrating?

Cultural assimilation

A family recently immigrated to a new country. The parent reports that the adolescent is showing signs of fear, has vague reports of stomach pain, and feels humiliated by peers because of their culture. What is the priority assessment for the nurse?

Culture shock

A nurse is documenting a client's vital signs, height, and weight in the electronic health record. Applying the framework for informatics practice, the nurse would identify these values as which component of the framework?

Data

The nurse has recently been promoted to nurse manager on a pediatric unit and has decided to accept input from staff regarding changes they would like to see on the unit. Which type of leadership style is the nurse embodying?

Democratic

What type of leader shares decisions and activities with group participants?

Democratic

When providing care to a client, the nurse integrates knowledge that a client's beliefs and actions are related and influenced by the client's personal expectations in relation to health and illness. The nurse is demonstrating an understanding of which health model?

Health belief model

A nurse caring for client who is unconscious knows that communication is important even if the client does not respond. Which nonverbal action by the nurse would communicate caring?

Holding the client's hand while talking

What is the ultimate goal of expanding nursing knowledge through nursing research?

Learn improved ways to promote and maintain health

A nurse has a duty of non-maleficence. Which action would be considered a contradiction to that duty?

Refusing to administer pain medication as prescribed

Which strategy should the nurse use when providing education to the older adult client?

Remain calm and conduct the teaching session in a quiet environment.

Which of these statements regarding a nurse manager role is accurate?

To effectively manage the nursing unit, the nurse manager should also be a leader.

Several nurses are discussing their impressions of the newly implemented electronic health record with an informatics nurse specialist. They say, "There is so much information on one screen, it hard to tell what we should do first. It's not really clear." The informatics nurse specialist interprets the comments as reflecting an issue with which area?

Usability

When caring for a client, the nurse observes that the client enjoys reading books and magazines. In which learning domain does the client's learning style fall?

cognitive

Despite the presence of a large number of older adult residents from Asian cultures, a long-term care facility has not integrated the medical concept of hot and cold into meal planning. The nurses at the facility should recognize this as an example of:

cultural blindness.

A nurse is providing care for a client who recently immigrated from another country. The nurse says, "You have to get up and walk whether you want to or not." This statement is an example of:

cultural imposition.

The nurse is providing education for a client who will be providing self-care at home. The client states, "I just do not think I can do all of this. It is too much to learn." What is the best response by the nurse?

"I understand that you feel overwhelmed with all of the information. Tell me what I can do to help."

A nurse has developed strong rapport with the spouse of a client who has been receiving rehabilitation following a debilitating stroke. The spouse has just been informed that the client is unlikely to return home and requires care that can only be provided in a facility with constant nursing care. The client's spouse tells the nurse, "I can't believe it's come to this." How should the nurse best respond?

"This must be very difficult for you to hear. How do you feel right now?"

A 70-year-old client had a cholecystectomy 4 days ago. The client's daughter tells the nurse, "My mother seems confused today." Which question would be best for the nurse to ask to assess the client's orientation?

"What is your name?"

The client is being discharged, and the nurse observes the client crying. What is the nurse's most appropriate response?

"Would you like to talk about anything before you go home?"

The nurse is completing an admission assessment with a client. The client looked down and became tearful when asked about feeling safe at home. How would the nurse respond to the nonverbal communication displayed by the client?

"You seem upset. You are safe here and can talk to me confidentially."

The nurse is collecting health data and avoids using closed-ended questions. Which are examples of closed-ended questions? Select all that apply.

- "Are you ready to get out of bed?" - "Do you smoke cigarettes?" - "Is there any chance you might be pregnant?" - "Does it hurt when I touch you here?"

A registered nurse is delegating activities to unlicensed assistive personnel (UAP) on a hospital unit. Which activity(ies) could this nurse normally delegate? Select all that apply.

- giving a bed bath to a client - taking routine vital signs - transferring a client to another floor

A nurse is assessing a client and determines that the client belongs to a minority group. Based on the nurse's understanding about marginalized identity groups, the nurse would anticipate that the client would likely experience which effects? Select all that apply.

- less power - health disparities

A client rings the call bell to request pain medication. On performing the pain assessment, the nurse informs the client that the nurse will return with the pain medication. After a few moments, the nurse returns with the pain medication. The nurse's returning with the pain medication is an example of which principle of bioethics?

Fidelity

A nurse talks with family members about an AIDS client from the clinic where the nurse works. Which tort has the nurse committed?

Invasion of privacy

Which is true of the Occupational Safety and Health Act?

It helps to reduce workforce injuries and illness in the workplace.

A nurse using the principle-based approach to client care seeks to avoid causing harm to clients in all situations. What is this principle known as?

Nonmaleficence

In which way can nurses develop cultural self-awareness?

Objectively examine one's own beliefs, values, and practices.

The child of a client who just died in a hospice unit arrives and asks, "May I please stay and sit at the bedside? I really wanted to be here so my dad would not die alone." Which statement made by the nurse best demonstrates the use of empathy?

"I will close the door so you can spend some quiet time at the bedside."

A nurse is assessing a client's nutritional intake prior to admission the client has lost 10 lb (4.5 kg) over the last 2 months. Which example best represents therapeutic communication technique?

"Tell me about the type of foods you like to eat."

A nurse visits a female victim of sexual assault. During the visit the client expresses that she is unable to cope with the trauma. Even though the assault occurred quite some time ago, she feels as if it just happened yesterday. What is the most appropriate response by the nurse?

"Tell me more about the aspects that make you feel as if it happened yesterday."

A client is questioning the need for surgery. The client asks the nurse, "What should I do?" Which answer by the nurse is based on advocacy?

"Tell me why you do not want the surgery."

A 56-year-old client meets with the nurse for education about a recently diagnosed atrial fibrillation. The client verbalizes concerns about being away from work too long and doubts about the necessity of having blood tests every week, as the client has no symptoms. Which is the best motivational statement by the nurse for this client?

"The medicine and blood work can help prevent blood clots, which can lead to strokes. What do you know about warfarin therapy?"

A nurse is working with an older adult client, educating the client on how to ambulate with the aid of a walker. The nurse notes that the client appears to lack the motivation to learn how to use the device. The client states, "I'm just too old to learn." What would be most appropriate for the nurse to do to motivate this client?

Describe how the walker can improve the client's quality of life.

A nurse is providing care to two clients who are sharing the same room. The nurse is preparing to give one of the clients a complete bed bath. Which action by the nurse would suggest liability related to invasion of the client's privacy?

Keeping the curtain between the two clients in the room open

Personal space and distance is a cultural perspective that can impact nurse-client interactions. What is the best way for the nurse to interact physically with a client who has a different cultural perspective on space and distance?

Know the client's cultural personal space preferences.

While caring for an infant, the nurse hears another child screaming in the next room and rushes there, forgetting to put the side rails up on the infant's crib. The nurse returns to the room to find that the infant has fallen out of the crib and sustained a head injury. Based on the nurse's action, which tort is the nurse liable for?

Malpractice

A client who is scheduled for hernioplasty needs clarification regarding the procedure. The nurse calls the health care provider at the client's insistence. The health care provider, who is in a bad mood, is overheard telling the client that the nurse does not know anything. Which legal tort has the health care provider committed?

Slander

Nurses must maintain the privacy of clients. Which example is a breach in privacy and would pose an ethical problem?

Taking a picture of a client with the nurse's cell phone

A client is reluctant to learn to do finger sticks for home international normalized ratio (INR) monitoring. What is the best statement by the nurse?

Tell me what you know about these tests.

Which model is most useful in examining the cause of disease in an individual, based upon external factors?

The Agent-Host-Environment Model

A nurse witnesses a traffic accident and dresses the open wounds sustained by a child. Later, in the hospital, the child develops complications from an infection in the wound. The family holds the nurse responsible for the complications and attempts to file a lawsuit. Which statement is true regarding how the Good Samaritan law applies to this case?

The Good Samaritan law will provide legal immunity to the nurse.

Which organization has established safety standards about the use of electrical equipment, isolation techniques, and toxic chemicals?

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)

The nurse is advising a client about health problems related to being overweight. The client acknowledges the need to lose weight. The nurse provides education on how to count calories in food and the importance of daily exercise. The client states an intention to begin counting calories with the next meal. The client also states an intention to begin an exercise program with friends. Which statement associated with this scenario illustrates Lewin's stage of unfreezing?

The client acknowledges the need to lose weight.

An individual reporting to be a close friend of a hospitalized client has phoned and requested an update on the client's status and prognosis. By providing this information, the nurse may be committing the tort of:

invasion of privacy.

A parent always thanks clerks at the grocery store. The parent's child, age 6 years, echoes the thank you. The child is demonstrating what mode of value transmission?

modeling

A nurse does not assist with ambulation of a postoperative client on the first day after surgery. The client falls and fractures a hip. What charge might be brought against the nurse?

negligence

During an annual performance review with an employee, the nurse manager does not maintain eye contact and seems concerned about the time and the next appointment. What type of communication is the manager exhibiting?

nonverbal

A nurse overhears another nurse make a statement that indicates racism. The nurse makes this determination based on which characteristic indicative of social value?

skin color