Chapter 01: Aspects of Medical-Surgical Nursing Linton: Medical-Surgical Nursing, 7th Edition

Chapter 01: Aspects of Medical-Surgical Nursing Linton: Medical-Surgical Nursing, 7th Edition MULTIPLE CHOICE 1. What provides direction for individualized care and assures the delivery of accurate, safe care through a definitive pathway that promotes the client’s and the support persons’ progress toward positive outcomes? 2. The nurse is performing behaviors and actions that assist clients and significant others in meeting their needs and the identified outcomes of the plan of care. What is the correct term for these nursing behaviors? 3. The nurse understands the importance of being answerable for all actions and the possibility of being called on to explain or justify them. What term best describes this concept? MULTIPLE RESPONSE 1. The nurse manager is providing an inservice about conflict resolution. What modes of conflict resolution should be addressed? (Select all that apply.) 2. What are the characteristics of an effective leader? (Select all that apply.) COMPLETION 1. is defined as the process by which information is exchanged between individuals verbally, nonverbally, and/or in writing or through information technology. 2. is the collection and processing of relevant data for the purpose of appraising the client’s health status. 3. is concerned with the ethical questions that arise in the context of health care. 4. Place the corresponding letter to each stage of conflict in the correct order. (Place the events in the appropriate sequence with capital letters. Do not separate answers with a space or punctuation. Example: ABCD.) 5. Place the corresponding letter to each key step in solving an ethical dilemma in the correct order. (Place the events in the appropriate sequence. Do not separate answers with a space or punctuation. Example: ABCD.) Chapter 02: Medical-Surgical Practice Settings Linton: Medical-Surgical Nursing, 7th Edition MULTIPLE CHOICE 1. While a home health nurse is making the entry to a service assessment on a homebound patient, the spouse of the patient asks whether Medicare will cover the patient’s ventilator therapy and insulin injections. What is the best response by the nurse? 2. The wife of a patient asks the nurse whether her husband would be considered for placement in a skilled nursing care facility when he is discharged from the general hospital. The patient is incontinent, has mild dementia but is able to ambulate with a walker, and must have help to eat and dress himself. What is the nurse’s most appropriate response? 3. A nurse has noted that a newly admitted resident to an extended care facility stays in her room, does not take active part in activities, and leaves the meal table after having eaten very little. The nurse should analyze this relocation response as 4. A nurse clarifies to a new patient in a rehabilitation center what rehabilitation means. What statement made by the patient indicates a correct understanding? 5. A nurse assesses a patient who needs to be reminded to take premeasured oral medications, wash, go to meals, and undress and come to bed at night, but coming and going as he pleases is considered safe for him. What facility placement would be most appropriate for this patient? 6. A nurse is making a list of the members of the rehabilitation team, so the different types of services available to patients may be taught to a group of families. Which lists should be used? 7. A nurse explains the level of disability to a patient who was injured in a construction accident that resulted in the loss of both his right arm and right leg. This loss has affected his quality of life and ability to return to previous employment. At what level should the client be classified as being disabled? 8. A nurse explains that in 1990, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) was passed. For which extended services for the disabled persons did this act provide?