Chapter 8, 13, 14, 15 questions

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What is the most beneficial use of the nursing process in addressing the needs of the client?

Provides a universally applicable framework for nursing activities

When performing an assessment, the nurse should focus most on the developmental stage for which client?

Toddler

The nurse is caring for a 14-year-old client who has just delivered a baby. The client reports living with an aunt and having no other family around. The delivery was uncomplicated and the newborn is healthy. Which would be the primary nursing diagnosis for this client?

Risk for Impaired Parenting

A nurse has been working on a telemetry unit for 6 months. The nurse arrives at work in the morning and overhears a night shift nurse talking about the new nurse. The night shift nurse is heard saying, "That new nurse is only here to meet a doctor and get married." The best response by the new nurse would be to:

ask to speak to the night shift nurse in private and explain how the comment made the new nurse feel.

Which term refers to a purposeful activity that leads to action, improvement of practice, and better client outcomes?

reflection

The nurse is aware that nursing diagnoses are:

within the nursing scope of practice to develop and client-focused.

Paramedics arrive in the emergency department with a client who was in a motor vehicle collision. The paramedic reports that the driver was restrained, the car was traveling about 30 miles per hour (48 km/hr), and the air bags were not deployed. The paramedic continues to report that the car was struck from behind and that all individuals in the car were able to self-extricate. Which statement made by the nurse is verifying the report from the paramedic?

"All of the people got themselves out of the car?"

A nurse is reading a journal article about providing individualized care. Which aspect would the nurse most likely read about as the almost universally accepted method for providing nursing care?

Nursing process

In which situation would the SBAR technique of communication be most appropriate?

A nurse is calling a physician to report a client's new onset of chest pain

Nurses use social media to share ideas, develop professional connections, access educational offerings and forums, receive support, and investigate evidence-based practices. Which is an example of the proper use of social media by a nurse?

A nurse uses a disclaimer to verify that any views the nurse expresses on Facebook are the nurse's alone and not the employer's.

The nurse is developing a plan of care for a client with a fractured femur who is in traction and will be restricted to bed for some time. Which domain should the nurse consider when developing a nursing diagnosis based on this client's musculoskeletal health problems?

Activity and Rest

"Acute Pain related to instillation of peritoneal dialysate as evidenced by client wincing and grimacing during procedure, client description of experience as 'stabbing'" is an example of which type of nursing diagnosis?

Actual nursing diagnosis

While working as part of an interdisciplinary group developing a client's plan of care, a nurse asks the question, "Can you give me an example?" The nurse is demonstrating which standard for judging thinking?

Clarity

How should a nurse best document the assessment findings that have caused the nurse to suspect that a client is depressed following a below-the-knee amputation?

Client states, " I don't see the point in trying anymore" subjective data should be recorded using the client's own words

A nurse is asking questions about a client's sexual history. It is important for the nurse to:

Collect data in a quiet, private environment Pulling the curtains in a semi-private room would not provide the level of privacy that should be given this client

Which example of client care is not the responsibility of the nurse?

Confirming a medical diagnosis

Which piece of client information is subjective?

Generalized myalgia or muscle pain

A nurse documents the following nursing diagnosis on a client's plan of care: "Readiness for Enhanced Breast-Feeding." The nurse has identified which type of nursing diagnosis?

Health promotion

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 needleless syringe.

When the preoperative client tells the nurse that the client cannot sleep because the client keeps thinking about the surgery, an appropriate reflection of the statement by the nurse is:

The thought of having surgery is keeping you awake.


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