Exam 1 Additional Practice Questions
1. A nursing graduate is attending an agency orientation regarding the nursing model of
practice implemented in the health care facility. The nurse is told that the nursing model is a
team nursing approach. The nurse understands that planning care delivery will be based on
which characteristic of this type of nursing model of practice?
1. A task approach method is used to provide care to clients.
2. Managed care concepts and tools are used in providing client care.
3. A single registered nurse is responsible for providing care to a group of clients.
4. A registered nurse leads nursing personnel in providing care to a group of clients.
4. A registered nurse leads nursing personnel in providing care to a group of clients.
2. The registered nurse is planning the client assignments for the day. Which is the
most appropriate assignment for an unlicensed assistive personnel (UAP)?
1. A client requiring a colostomy irrigation
2. A client receiving continuous tube feedings
3. A client who requires urine specimen collections
4. A client with difficulty swallowing food and fluids
3. A client who requires urine specimen collections
3. A new unit nurse manager is holding her first staff meeting. The manager greets the staff and
comments that she has been employed to bring about quality improvement. The manager
provides a plan that she developed and a list of tasks and activities for which each staff member
must volunteer to perform. In addition, she instructs staff members to report any problems
directly to her. What type of leader and manager approach do the new manager's
characteristics suggest?
1. Autocratic
2. Situational
3. Democratic
4. Laissez-faire
1. Autocratic
4. The nurse employed in a long-term care facility is planning assignments for the clients on a
nursing unit. The nurse needs to assign four clients and has a licensed practical (vocational)
nurse and three unlicensed assistive personnel (UAP) on a nursing team. Which client would
the nurse most appropriately assign to the licensed practical (vocational) nurse?
1. A client who requires a bed bath
2. An older client requiring frequent ambulation
3. A client who requires hourly vital sign measurements
4. A client requiring abdominal wound irrigations and dressing changes every 3 hours
4. A client requiring abdominal wound irrigations and dressing changes every 3 hours
5. The nurse should use which guidelines to plan delegation and assignment-
making activities? Select all that apply.
1. Ensuring client safety
2. Requests from the staff
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3. The clustering of the rooms on the unit
4. The number of anticipated client discharges
5. Client needs and workers' needs and abilities
o 1. Ensuring client safety
o 5. Client needs and workers' needs and abilities
6. The nurse is giving a report to an unlicensed assistive personnel (UAP) who will be caring for
a client who has hand restraints (safety devices). The nurse instructs the UAP to check the
skin integrity of the restrained hands how frequently?
1. Every 2 hours
2. Every 3 hours
3. Every 4 hours
4. Every 30 minutes
4. Every 30 minutes
7. The nurse manager is planning the clinical assignments for the day. Which staff members can
be assigned to care for a client with herpes zoster? Select all that apply.
1. The nurse who never had roseola
2. The nurse who never had mumps
3. The nurse who never had chickenpox
4. The nurse who never had German measles
5. The nurse who never received the varicella-zoster vaccine
o 1. The nurse who never had roseola
o 2. The nurse who never had mumps
o 4. The nurse who never had German measles
8. When making assignments to a team consisting of a registered nurse (RN), one licensed
practical nurse (LPN), and two unlicensed assistive personnel (UAP), which is the best client for
the LPN?
1. A client requiring frequent temperature checks
2. A client requiring assistance with ambulation every 4 hours
3. A client on a mechanical ventilator requiring frequent assessment and suctioning
4. A client with a spinal cord injury requiring urinary catheterization every 6 hours as prescribed
4. A client with a spinal cord injury requiring urinary catheterization every 6 hours as prescribed
9. The registered nurse (RN) is planning assignments for the clients on a nursing unit. The RN
needs to assign four clients and has one RN, a licensed practical (vocational) nurse, and two
unlicensed assistive personnel (UAPs) on a nursing team. Which client would the nurse most
appropriately assign to the licensed practical (vocational) nurse?
1. The client who requires a 24-hour urine collection
2. A client with an abdominal wound requiring frequent wound irrigations
3. An older client requiring assistance with a bed bath and frequent ambulation
4. A client on a mechanical ventilator requiring frequent assessment and suctioning
1. A nursing graduate is attending an agency orientation regarding the nursing model of
practice implemented in the health care facility. The nurse is told that the nursing model is a
team nursing approach. The nurse understands that planning care delivery will be based on
which characteristic of this type of nursing model of practice?
1. A task approach method is used to provide care to clients.
2. Managed care concepts and tools are used in providing client care.
3. A single registered nurse is responsible for providing care to a group of clients.
4. A registered nurse leads nursing personnel in providing care to a group of clients.
4. A registered nurse leads nursing personnel in providing care to a group of clients.
2. The registered nurse is planning the client assignments for the day. Which is the
most appropriate assignment for an unlicensed assistive personnel (UAP)?
1. A client requiring a colostomy irrigation
2. A client receiving continuous tube feedings
3. A client who requires urine specimen collections
4. A client with difficulty swallowing food and fluids
3. A client who requires urine specimen collections
3. A new unit nurse manager is holding her first staff meeting. The manager greets the staff and
comments that she has been employed to bring about quality improvement. The manager
provides a plan that she developed and a list of tasks and activities for which each staff member
must volunteer to perform. In addition, she instructs staff members to report any problems
directly to her. What type of leader and manager approach do the new manager's
characteristics suggest?
1. Autocratic
2. Situational
3. Democratic
4. Laissez-faire
1. Autocratic
4. The nurse employed in a long-term care facility is planning assignments for the clients on a
nursing unit. The nurse needs to assign four clients and has a licensed practical (vocational)
nurse and three unlicensed assistive personnel (UAP) on a nursing team. Which client would
the nurse most appropriately assign to the licensed practical (vocational) nurse?
1. A client who requires a bed bath
2. An older client requiring frequent ambulation
3. A client who requires hourly vital sign measurements
4. A client requiring abdominal wound irrigations and dressing changes every 3 hours
4. A client requiring abdominal wound irrigations and dressing changes every 3 hours
5. The nurse should use which guidelines to plan delegation and assignment-
making activities? Select all that apply.
1. Ensuring client safety
2. Requests from the staff
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3. The clustering of the rooms on the unit
4. The number of anticipated client discharges
5. Client needs and workers' needs and abilities
o 1. Ensuring client safety
o 5. Client needs and workers' needs and abilities
6. The nurse is giving a report to an unlicensed assistive personnel (UAP) who will be caring for
a client who has hand restraints (safety devices). The nurse instructs the UAP to check the
skin integrity of the restrained hands how frequently?
1. Every 2 hours
2. Every 3 hours
3. Every 4 hours
4. Every 30 minutes
4. Every 30 minutes
7. The nurse manager is planning the clinical assignments for the day. Which staff members can
be assigned to care for a client with herpes zoster? Select all that apply.
1. The nurse who never had roseola
2. The nurse who never had mumps
3. The nurse who never had chickenpox
4. The nurse who never had German measles
5. The nurse who never received the varicella-zoster vaccine
o 1. The nurse who never had roseola
o 2. The nurse who never had mumps
o 4. The nurse who never had German measles
8. When making assignments to a team consisting of a registered nurse (RN), one licensed
practical nurse (LPN), and two unlicensed assistive personnel (UAP), which is the best client for
the LPN?
1. A client requiring frequent temperature checks
2. A client requiring assistance with ambulation every 4 hours
3. A client on a mechanical ventilator requiring frequent assessment and suctioning
4. A client with a spinal cord injury requiring urinary catheterization every 6 hours as prescribed
4. A client with a spinal cord injury requiring urinary catheterization every 6 hours as prescribed
9. The registered nurse (RN) is planning assignments for the clients on a nursing unit. The RN
needs to assign four clients and has one RN, a licensed practical (vocational) nurse, and two
unlicensed assistive personnel (UAPs) on a nursing team. Which client would the nurse most
appropriately assign to the licensed practical (vocational) nurse?
1. The client who requires a 24-hour urine collection
2. A client with an abdominal wound requiring frequent wound irrigations
3. An older client requiring assistance with a bed bath and frequent ambulation
4. A client on a mechanical ventilator requiring frequent assessment and suctioning
