NSG 3180 week 1 - Questions and Answers | 2026
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When admitting a patient to the medical-surgical unit, the nurse asks the patient about
cultural issues. The nurse is demonstrating use of the concept of
environment.
The nurse performs a dressing change using sterile technique. This is an example of which
pattern of knowledge?
Empirical
The central constructs of person, environment, health, and nursing are found in all nursing
theories and models and are referred to as
nursing's metaparadigm.
When describing nursing to a group of nursing students, the nursing instructor lists all of
the following characteristics of nursing except
historically nursing is as old as mankind
When communicating with a patient's physician, the nurse suggests ordering a STAT chest
X-ray for a patient who is experiencing dyspnea. This is an example of which component of
the SBAR format for communicating with the patient's physician?
Recommendation
When educating staff about how to reduce errors and increase safety, the nurse manager
emphasizes the importance of communication that is (Select all that apply.)
, clear, timely, accurate, unambiguious
The nurse manager is educating the unit staff about ways to promote safer clinical practice.
The nurse manager emphasizes that this can be done through the incorporation of which of
the following? (Select all that apply.)
collaboration and cooperation
The nurse manager sets a goal to establish a new safety culture on a hospital unit. The
nurse manager recognizes that basic components in establishing a new safety culture
include
support of effective health care teamwork.
A nurse is required to provide all information specific to a prescribed treatment, and offer
the chance to ask questions or share concerns before requesting a signature on a consent
form to which client?
A physically disabled 30-year-old.
A 16-year-old trauma victim arrives in the emergency department with a life-threatening
condition and requires emergency surgery. The nurse knows that
surgery can be performed without consent
Under what circumstances would result in a nurse not securing a signed informed consent
from a client scheduled for a bilateral inguinal hernia repair?
The client has been diagnosed with early-onset dementia.
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When admitting a patient to the medical-surgical unit, the nurse asks the patient about
cultural issues. The nurse is demonstrating use of the concept of
environment.
The nurse performs a dressing change using sterile technique. This is an example of which
pattern of knowledge?
Empirical
The central constructs of person, environment, health, and nursing are found in all nursing
theories and models and are referred to as
nursing's metaparadigm.
When describing nursing to a group of nursing students, the nursing instructor lists all of
the following characteristics of nursing except
historically nursing is as old as mankind
When communicating with a patient's physician, the nurse suggests ordering a STAT chest
X-ray for a patient who is experiencing dyspnea. This is an example of which component of
the SBAR format for communicating with the patient's physician?
Recommendation
When educating staff about how to reduce errors and increase safety, the nurse manager
emphasizes the importance of communication that is (Select all that apply.)
, clear, timely, accurate, unambiguious
The nurse manager is educating the unit staff about ways to promote safer clinical practice.
The nurse manager emphasizes that this can be done through the incorporation of which of
the following? (Select all that apply.)
collaboration and cooperation
The nurse manager sets a goal to establish a new safety culture on a hospital unit. The
nurse manager recognizes that basic components in establishing a new safety culture
include
support of effective health care teamwork.
A nurse is required to provide all information specific to a prescribed treatment, and offer
the chance to ask questions or share concerns before requesting a signature on a consent
form to which client?
A physically disabled 30-year-old.
A 16-year-old trauma victim arrives in the emergency department with a life-threatening
condition and requires emergency surgery. The nurse knows that
surgery can be performed without consent
Under what circumstances would result in a nurse not securing a signed informed consent
from a client scheduled for a bilateral inguinal hernia repair?
The client has been diagnosed with early-onset dementia.
