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You are preparing a presentation for your classmates regarding the clinical care coordination conference
for a patient with terminal cancer. As part of the preparation, you have your classmates read the
Nursing Code of Ethics for Professional Registered Nurses. Your instructor asks the class why this
document is important. Which statement best describes this code?
1. Improves self-health care
2. Protects the patient's confidentiality
3. Ensures identical care to all patients
4. Defines the principles of right and wrong to provide patient care - correct answers 4.
A nurse is caring for a patient with end-stage lung disease. The patient wants to go home on oxygen and
be comfortable. The family wants the patient to have a new surgical procedure. The nurse explains the
risk and benefits of the operation to the family and discusses the patient's wishes with them. The nurse
is acting as the patient's:
1. Educator
2. Advocate
3. Caregiver
4. Communicator - correct answers 2
The nurse spends time with a patient and family reviewing a dressing change procedure for the patient's
wound. The patient's spouse demonstrates how to change the dressing. The nurse is acting in which
professional role?
1. Educator
2. Advocate
3. Caregiver
4. Communicator - correct answers 1
The examination for RN licensure is the same in every state in the United States. This examination:
,1. Guarantees safe nursing care for all patients
2. Ensures standard nursing care for all patients
3. Provides the minimal standard of knowledge for an RN in practice
4. Guarantees standardized education across all prelicensure programs - correct answers
Contemporary nursing requires that the nurse have knowledge and skills for a variety of professional
roles and responsibilities. Which of the following are examples of these roles and responsibilities?
(Select all that apply.)
1. Caregiver
2. Autonomy
3. Patient advocate
4. Health promotion
5. Genetic counselor - correct answers 1, 2, 3, 4
Match the advanced practice nurse specialty with the statement about the role.
1. Provides independent care, including pregnancy and gynecological services
2. Expert clinician in a specialized area of practice such as adult diabetes care
3. Provides comprehensive care, usually in a primary care setting, directly managing the medical care of
patients who are healthy or have chronic conditions
4. Plans and delivers anesthesia and pain management to patients across the life span - correct answers
1. Nurse-midwife
2. Clinical Nurse Specialist
3. Nurse Practitioner
4. Nurse anesthetist
Health care reform will bring changes in the emphasis of care. Which of these models is expected from
health care reform?
1. Moving from an acute illness to a health promotion, illness prevention model
2. Moving from an illness prevention to a health promotion model
3. Moving from hospital-based to community-based care
,4. Moving from an acute illness to a disease management model - correct answers 1.
The nurse manager meets with the registered nursing staff about an increase in urinary tract infections
in patients with a Foley catheter. The staff work together to review the literature on catheter-associated
urinary tract infections (CAUTIs), identifies at-risk patients, and establishes new catheter care practices.
This is an example of which QSEN competency?
1. Patient-centered care
2. Safety
3. Teamwork and collaboration
4. Quality improvement - correct answers 4
A critical care nurse is using a new research-based intervention to correctly position patients who are on
ventilators to reduce pneumonia caused by accumulated respiratory secretions. This is an example of
which QSEN competency?
1. Patient-centered care
2. Evidence-based practice
3. Teamwork and collaboration
4. Quality improvement - correct answers 2
The nurses on an acute care medical floor notice an increase in pressure injury formation in their
patients. A nurse consultant decides to compare two types of treatment. The first is the procedure
currently used to assess for pressure injury risk. The second uses a new assessment instrument to
identify at-risk patients. Given this information, the nurse consultant exemplifies which career?
1. Clinical nurse specialist
2. Nurse administrator
3. Nurse educator
4. Nurse researcher - correct answers 4
The public health nurse is working with the local city/county health department during a pandemic that
has created a crisis within the community. What are responsibilities of the public health nurse during
the pandemic? (Select all that apply.)
1. Educate the public on disease prevention
, 2. Serve as liaison between patients and health care services and providers
3. Investigate cases as they arise
4. Monitor trends of the disease outbreak
5. Assist with testing for identification of the disease - correct answers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
A community health nurse is working in a clinic with a focus on asthma and allergies. What is the
primary focus of the community health nurse in this clinic setting? (Select all that apply.)
1. Decrease the incidence of asthma attacks in the community
2. Increase patients' ability to self-manage their asthma
3. Treat acute asthma in the hospital
4. Provide asthma education programs for the teachers in the local schools
5. Provide scheduled immunizations to people who come to the clinic - correct answers 1, 2, 4
The nurse caring for a refugee community identifies that the children are undervaccinated and the
community is unaware of resources. The nurse assesses the community and determines that there is a
health clinic within a 5-mile radius. The nurse meets with the community leaders and explains the need
for immunizations, the location of the clinic, and the process of accessing health care resources. Which
of the following practices is the nurse providing? (Select all that apply.)
1. Raising awareness about community resources for the children
2. Teaching the community about health promotion and illness prevention
3. Promoting autonomy in decision making about health practices
4. Improving the health care of the community's children
5. Participating in professional development activities to maintain nursing competency - correct answers
1, 2, 4,
What factor results in vulnerable populations being more likely to develop health problems?
1. The ability to use available resources to find housing
2. Adequate transportation to the grocery store and community clinics
3. Availability of others to help provide care
4. Limited access to health care services - correct answers 4