155 Exam 4 Practice Test
Topics:
Culture and Ethical-Being a Culturally Competent Nurse
Pain Management
Medication Administration
Death and Dying
Single Answer Choice
Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
1. The nurse understands the unique ability of the patient to understand and integrate
health-related knowledge is known by which term?
a. Health literacy
b. Formal patient education
c. Informal patient education
d. Primary education
2. The nurse is implementing a patient teaching plan regarding diabetes mellitus. One of
the short-term goals of the plan is that the patient will be able to verbalize three symptoms of
hypoglycemia. The nurse recognizes that this is what type of teaching?
a. Psychomotor teaching
b. Cognitive teaching
c. Affective teaching
d. VARK teaching
, 3. The nurse is working with a diabetic patient and is attempting to teach psychomotor
skills. This is occurring when the nurse has the patient complete what action?
a. Verbally describe his feelings about diabetes--Affective
b. Answer three of five true-or-false questions about diabetes—Cog.
c. Identify three positive lifestyle changes to manage blood sugar--Affective
d. Draw up and self-inject insulin correctly-psycho.
4. The nurse identifies which patient would most likely need to have adjustments made to
the education plan for discharge because of role function?
a. A 67-year-old married female who lives with her retired husband.
b. A 32-year-old single mother of a toddler following hysterectomy.
c. A 13-year-old who lives at home with his parents after appendectomy.
d. A 50-year-old married mother with two children in college and teenager at home.
5. A nurse has been told he has many obvious stereotypes about a specific cultural
group. What action by the nurse is best?
a. Ask to not care for members of this cultural group.
b. Ask to take care of as many members of this group as possible.
c. Begin to educate himself on aspects of this cultural group.
d. Vow to not allow his stereotypes to show when providing care.
6. A nurse is caring for a homeless patient and tells the manager, “I will make sure he
doesn’t steal food from our nourishment center.” What action by the manager is best?
a. Tell the nurse she is right to monitor the patient’s activity.
b. Inform the nurse that not all homeless people will steal.
c. Educate the nurse that hunger might make the patient steal.
d. Remind the nurse to initiate a social work consultation.
, 7. A new graduate nurse tells the manager that she does not believe she needs more in-
service training on culturally congruent care because she already recognizes that there are significant
differences among cultures to consider when providing care. What response by the manager is best?
a. “You have done a great job becoming culturally competent.”
b. “Providing culturally congruent care takes ongoing work and effort.”
c. “That is a great start but be sure to sign up for the in-service.”
d. “Cultural sensitivity and cultural competence are not the same.”
8. A nurse is working with a patient who has limited English proficiency. What action
by the nurse is best?
a. Use a professional interpreter.
b. Ask family members to translate.
c. Use drawings and pictures.
d. Speak in simple sentences.
9. The nurse is working with a patient from an unfamiliar culture. After assessing the
patient and the patient’s cultural beliefs related to health care, what action by the nurse is best?
a. Create a nursing plan of care for this specific patient.
b. Compare the cultural beliefs with his/her own.
c. Use a standard plan of care for consistency.
d. Have an interpreter validate the information.
Topics:
Culture and Ethical-Being a Culturally Competent Nurse
Pain Management
Medication Administration
Death and Dying
Single Answer Choice
Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
1. The nurse understands the unique ability of the patient to understand and integrate
health-related knowledge is known by which term?
a. Health literacy
b. Formal patient education
c. Informal patient education
d. Primary education
2. The nurse is implementing a patient teaching plan regarding diabetes mellitus. One of
the short-term goals of the plan is that the patient will be able to verbalize three symptoms of
hypoglycemia. The nurse recognizes that this is what type of teaching?
a. Psychomotor teaching
b. Cognitive teaching
c. Affective teaching
d. VARK teaching
, 3. The nurse is working with a diabetic patient and is attempting to teach psychomotor
skills. This is occurring when the nurse has the patient complete what action?
a. Verbally describe his feelings about diabetes--Affective
b. Answer three of five true-or-false questions about diabetes—Cog.
c. Identify three positive lifestyle changes to manage blood sugar--Affective
d. Draw up and self-inject insulin correctly-psycho.
4. The nurse identifies which patient would most likely need to have adjustments made to
the education plan for discharge because of role function?
a. A 67-year-old married female who lives with her retired husband.
b. A 32-year-old single mother of a toddler following hysterectomy.
c. A 13-year-old who lives at home with his parents after appendectomy.
d. A 50-year-old married mother with two children in college and teenager at home.
5. A nurse has been told he has many obvious stereotypes about a specific cultural
group. What action by the nurse is best?
a. Ask to not care for members of this cultural group.
b. Ask to take care of as many members of this group as possible.
c. Begin to educate himself on aspects of this cultural group.
d. Vow to not allow his stereotypes to show when providing care.
6. A nurse is caring for a homeless patient and tells the manager, “I will make sure he
doesn’t steal food from our nourishment center.” What action by the manager is best?
a. Tell the nurse she is right to monitor the patient’s activity.
b. Inform the nurse that not all homeless people will steal.
c. Educate the nurse that hunger might make the patient steal.
d. Remind the nurse to initiate a social work consultation.
, 7. A new graduate nurse tells the manager that she does not believe she needs more in-
service training on culturally congruent care because she already recognizes that there are significant
differences among cultures to consider when providing care. What response by the manager is best?
a. “You have done a great job becoming culturally competent.”
b. “Providing culturally congruent care takes ongoing work and effort.”
c. “That is a great start but be sure to sign up for the in-service.”
d. “Cultural sensitivity and cultural competence are not the same.”
8. A nurse is working with a patient who has limited English proficiency. What action
by the nurse is best?
a. Use a professional interpreter.
b. Ask family members to translate.
c. Use drawings and pictures.
d. Speak in simple sentences.
9. The nurse is working with a patient from an unfamiliar culture. After assessing the
patient and the patient’s cultural beliefs related to health care, what action by the nurse is best?
a. Create a nursing plan of care for this specific patient.
b. Compare the cultural beliefs with his/her own.
c. Use a standard plan of care for consistency.
d. Have an interpreter validate the information.
