MN 566 Questions With Correct Answers (Putting Caring Into Practice: Caring for Self) 2023/2024

A new era of health care leads to: A. Greater opportunity for independent practice, yet increased legal risk in accountability for patients B. Lowered reimbursement for all health-care services and providers C. Decrease in status for health-care providers D. No ability to individualize care ANS: A PTS: 1 6. Compassion fatigue is another side effect of today’s health-care delivery system. This term means: A. The APRN feels sudden guilt and distress when he or she cannot rescue or save an individual, such as when bad health habits persist despite the best efforts of the APRN. B. This happens over time related to the need to see increasing numbers of patients in busy primary-care practices. C. This may persist over time, even when the APRN transfers to a new and different setting. D. Patients’ problems and circumstances can be so overwhelming that the APRN needs to set severe boundaries to maintain safe function. ANS: A PTS: 1 7. Another term used, burn out, is differentiated by: A. Numbness of feelings leading to substance abuse B. How novice APRNs feel at the end of the day in primary care C. Feelings of aloneness, desperation, and despair D. A gradual response to the inability to achieve one’s goals with patients in the work setting; it is characterized by frustration and diminishing morale ANS: D PTS: 1 8. The following statement is TRUE: A. APRNs are often sensitive to patients’ deficiencies but not their own. B. APRNs always respond appropriately to patients, families, and team members. C. APRNs are well-equipped from their APRN educational programs to care for self. D. Re-licensure in some states mandates continuing education units in self-care.