Ch. 1-7 nursing

The student nurse learns that illnesses are classified as either acute or chronic. Which are examples of chronic illness?

1. Diabetes Mellitus 2. Rheumatoid Arthritis 3. Cystic Fibrosis

A nurse assesses patients in a physician's office who are experiencing different levels of health and illness. Which statements best define the concepts of health and illness? Select all that apply.

1. Health and illness are individually defined by each person 2. Health is more than the absence of illness 3. Illness is the response of a person to a disease

A nurse is caring for an Appalachian client following her hysterectomy. Which of the following Appalachian values and beliefs should be considered when planning nursing care for this client? Select all that apply.

1. Isolation is considered as a way of life 2. They may be fatalistic about losses and deaths 3. Independence and self determination are valued

Which of the following statements accurately describe a characteristic of ethics? Select all that apply.

1. It is important to distinguish ethics from religion, law, custom, and institutional practices 2. Values are intimately related to, and direct, ethical conduct

Which of the following are ANA standards of clinical nursing practice? Select all that apply.

1. The nurse maintains patient confidentiality within legal and regulatory parameters 2. The nurse delivers care in a non judgmental manner that is sensitive to patient diversity

a nurse is using general systems theory to describe the role of nursing to provide health promotion and patient teaching. Which statement reflect key points of this theory? Select all that apply.

1. The whole system is always greater than its part. 2. Boundaries separate systems from each other and their environments. 3. To survive open systems maintain balance through feedback.

which nursing actions reflect the use of philosophy as a knowledge base when delivering evidence based care to patients? Select all that apply.

1.A nurse draws from personal experiences of being a patient to establish a therapeutic relationship with a patient. 2.A nurse uses spiritual training to draw strength when counseling a patient who is in hospice for an inoperable brain tumor.

What is a tort?

A cause of action in which one person asserts that a physical, emotional, or financial injury was a consequence of another person's actions.

Which of the following best defines value clarification?

A process by which people come to understand their own values and value systems.

Which of the following is an example of the sociocultural dimension influencing a person's health-illness status?

A single mother of two applies for food stamps in order to feed her family.

Which nursing diagnosis is the priority according to Maslow's hierarchy of basic needs?

Constipation related to decreased mobility

When conducting quantitative research, the researcher collects information to support a hypothesis. This information would be identified as:

Data

A nurse working on a critical care unit was informed by a client with multiple sclerosis that she did not wish to be resuscitated in the even of cardiac arrest. the client is no longer able to express her wishes, and the family has informed the physician that they want the client to be resuscitated. Aware of the client's wishes, the nurse is involved in a situation that may involve what?

Ethical distress Which occurs when the nurse knows the right things to do but either personal or institutional factors make it difficult to follow the correct course of action.

Which method of qualitative research was developed by the discipline of anthropology?

Ethnography

Using the nursing process to make ethical decisions involves following serval steps. Which step is the nurse implementing when he reflects on the decision making process and the role it will play in making future decisions?

Evaluating

When looking at a model for BP, what is the final step of the process?

Evaluating practice change

A nurse is formulating a clinical question in PICO format. What does the letter p represent?

Explicit descriptions of the population of interest

The nurse practitioner is discussing health promotion with a group of senior nursing students. What would be the best example of secondary health promotion?

Family counseling

Which if the following areas are typically included in a cultural assessment?

Food preferences

Define fidelity

Keeping one's promise and never abandoning a client entrusted to your care without first providing for the client's needs.

A parent of a high school student age 17 years is allowing the child to make the decision on the college he will attend. This is an example of which type of value transmission?

Laissez-faire This approach allows little or no guidance and can lead to confusion and conflict

A charge nurse meets with staff to outline a plan to provide transcultural nursing care for patients in their health care facility, Which theorist promoted this type of caring as the central theme of nursing care, knowledge, and practice?

Madeline Leininger

An Arab client has been admitted to the health care facility with varicose veins. What should the nurse avoid while conducting the interview of the client?

Maintaining eye contact

When delivering nursing care, which of the following theories assists nurses in prioritizing the care to be implemented?

Maslow's Theory

The nurse is giving a talk to a local community group on the harms of smoking. The nurse tells the group that a risk factor is something that increases a person's chances for illness or injury. What type of risk factor is smoking?

Modifiable

A family is a social group with members who share common values, interact over time, and...

Occupy specific positions

The nursing student is assessing a community in regard to safety and security. Which of the following would be inappropriate for the nursing student to include under this basic need category?

Parks and swimming pools

A student nurse interacting with patients on a cardiac unit recognizes the four concepts in nursing theory that determine nursing practice. Of the four which one is most important?

Person

A nurse manager schedules a clinic for the staff to address common nursing interventions used in the facility and to explore how they can be performed more efficiently and effectively. What is the term for this type of theory affecting change in clinical nursing practice?

Prescriptive theory

The physical function of a family include

Providing a safe, comfortable environment necessary for growth and development

The affective and coping function of a family involves

Providing emotional comfort to family members

The nurse researcher would like to gather data on the attitudes of young adults on spiritually and health care. What is the most effective form of research on this topic?

Qualitative research.

Which type of quantitative research is often conducted to examine the effects of nursing interventions on patients outcomes?

Quasi-experimental research

which of the following statements best conveys the relationship between race and ethnicity?

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

The reproductive function of a family is

Raising children

A woman over the age of 40 years has an annual mammogram. What level of prevention does this represent?

Secondary prevention

Following the identification of a researchable problem, what must the nurse do?

Select literature relevant to the problem.

The socialization function of a family includes

Teaching; transmitting beliefs, values, attitudes, and coping mechanisms; providing feedback; and guide problem solving

What is autonomy

The ability to make a choice free from external constraints.

Cultural imposition is defined as

The belief that everyone should conform to the majority belief system

What is accreditation?

The process by which an educational program is evaluated and recognized as having met certain standards.

Which of the following characteristic of the care based approach to bioethics?

The promotion of the dignity and respect of clients as people.

What is advocacy

The protection and support of other's rights.

Which best explains the importance of theoretic frameworks?

Theoretic frameworks advance nursing knowledge and practice.

when you ask an experienced nurse why it is necessary to change the patients bed every day, the nurse says, "I guess we have just always done it that way." This answer is an example of?

Traditional knowledge

when the nurse voices preference for the funding of services that assist many clients in his community over services that assist a small group in the community this is a:

Utilitarian Framework

A nurse has chosen to characterize a new initiative as "wellness promotion" rather than "health promotion." Which of the following statements best describes the difference between the concept of wellness and the concept of health?

Wellness is an active state, whereas health is a more passive state dependent on the absence of disease.

Fact witnesses placed under oath must...

base their testimony only on firsthand knowledge of the incident and not on assumptions.

What does duty refer to?

An obligation to use due care and is defined by the standard of care appropriate for the nurse-client relationship.