ASPECTS OF MEDICAL-SURGICAL NURSING LINTON: MEDICAL-
SURGICAL NURSING, 7TH EDITION Q & A
Test Bank for
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?
a. Physician’s orders
b. Progress notes
c. Nursing care plan
d. Client health history
ANS: C
The nursing care plan 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:
DIF: Cognitive Level: Comprehension REF: p: 2 OBJ: 1
TOP:Nursing Care Plan KEY: Nursing Process Step:
Planning MSC: NCLEX: Physiological Integrity: Reduction of Risk
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?
a. Assessments
b. Interventions
c. Planning
d. Evaluation
ANS: B
,ASPECTS OF MEDICAL-SURGICAL NURSING LINTON: MEDICAL-
SURGICAL NURSING, 7TH EDITION Q & A
Caring interventions are those nursing behaviors and actions that assist clients and
significant others in meeting their needs and the identified outcomes of the plan of care:
DIF: Cognitive Level: Comprehension REF: p: 3 OBJ: 1
TOP: Interventions KEY: Nursing Process Step:
Planning MSC: NCLEX: Physiological Integrity: Reduction of Risk
, ASPECTS OF MEDICAL-SURGICAL NURSING LINTON: MEDICAL-
SURGICAL NURSING, 7TH EDITION Q & A
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?
a. Reliability
b. Maturity
c. Accountability
d. Liability
ANS: C
Accountability means that a person is answerable for his or her actions and may be called
on to explain or justify them:
DIF: Cognitive Level: Comprehension REF: pp: 6-7 OBJ: 3 | 5 | 7
TOP: Accountability KEY: Nursing Process Step:
N/A MSC: NCLEX: Physiological Integrity: Reduction of Risk
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:)
a. Suppression
b. Accommodation
c. Compromise
d. Avoidance
e. Collaboration
f. Competition
ANS: B, C, D, E, F
The modes of conflict resolution include accommodation, collaboration, compromise,
avoidance, and competition:
DIF: Cognitive Level: Knowledge REF: p: 7|p: 8|Table 1:1
OBJ: 7 TOP: Conflict Resolution KEY: Nursing Process
Step: N/A
MSC: NCLEX: N/A
SURGICAL NURSING, 7TH EDITION Q & A
Test Bank for
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?
a. Physician’s orders
b. Progress notes
c. Nursing care plan
d. Client health history
ANS: C
The nursing care plan 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:
DIF: Cognitive Level: Comprehension REF: p: 2 OBJ: 1
TOP:Nursing Care Plan KEY: Nursing Process Step:
Planning MSC: NCLEX: Physiological Integrity: Reduction of Risk
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?
a. Assessments
b. Interventions
c. Planning
d. Evaluation
ANS: B
,ASPECTS OF MEDICAL-SURGICAL NURSING LINTON: MEDICAL-
SURGICAL NURSING, 7TH EDITION Q & A
Caring interventions are those nursing behaviors and actions that assist clients and
significant others in meeting their needs and the identified outcomes of the plan of care:
DIF: Cognitive Level: Comprehension REF: p: 3 OBJ: 1
TOP: Interventions KEY: Nursing Process Step:
Planning MSC: NCLEX: Physiological Integrity: Reduction of Risk
, ASPECTS OF MEDICAL-SURGICAL NURSING LINTON: MEDICAL-
SURGICAL NURSING, 7TH EDITION Q & A
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?
a. Reliability
b. Maturity
c. Accountability
d. Liability
ANS: C
Accountability means that a person is answerable for his or her actions and may be called
on to explain or justify them:
DIF: Cognitive Level: Comprehension REF: pp: 6-7 OBJ: 3 | 5 | 7
TOP: Accountability KEY: Nursing Process Step:
N/A MSC: NCLEX: Physiological Integrity: Reduction of Risk
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:)
a. Suppression
b. Accommodation
c. Compromise
d. Avoidance
e. Collaboration
f. Competition
ANS: B, C, D, E, F
The modes of conflict resolution include accommodation, collaboration, compromise,
avoidance, and competition:
DIF: Cognitive Level: Knowledge REF: p: 7|p: 8|Table 1:1
OBJ: 7 TOP: Conflict Resolution KEY: Nursing Process
Step: N/A
MSC: NCLEX: N/A
