PHM 2500 Intro Nursing Practice Final 1050 Q&A Galen College

PHM 2500 Intro Nursing Practice Final 1050 Q&A Galen College Which nurse most likely kept records on sanitation techniques and the effects on health? a. Florence Nightingale b. Mary Nutting c. Clara Barton d. Lillian Wald 2. A nurse assesses a patient's fluid status and decides that the patient needs to drink more fluids. The nurse then encourages the patient to drink more fluids. Which concept is the nurse demonstrating? a. Licensure b. Autonomy c. Certification d. Accountability 3. A nurse attends a workshop on current nursing issues provided by the American Nurses Association. Which type of education did the nurse receive? a. Graduate education b. Inservice education c. Continuing education d. Registered nurse education 4. A patient is scheduled for surgery. When getting ready to obtain the informed consent, the patient tells the nurse, "I have no idea what is going to happen. I couldn't ask any questions." The nurse does not allow the patient to sign the permit and notifies the health care provider of the situation. Which role is the nurse displaying? a. Manager b. Patient educator c. Patient advocate d. Clinical nurse specialist 5. While providing care to a patient, the nurse is responsible, both professionally and legally. Which concept does this describe? a. Autonomy b. Accountability c. Patient advocacy d. Patient education 6. A nurse is preparing a teaching session about contemporary influences on nursing. Which examples should the nurse include? (Select all that apply.) a. Human rights b. Affordable Care Act c. Demographic changes d. Medically underserved e. Decreasing health care costs 7. The nursing instructor is teaching a class on nursing theory. One of the students asks, "Why do we need to know this stuff? It doesn't really affect patients." What is the instructor's best response? a. "You are correct, but we have to learn it anyway." b. "This keeps the focus of nursing narrow." c. "Theories help explain why nurses do what they do." d. "Exposure to theories will help you later in graduate school." 8. The nurse is caring for a patient who does not follow the prescribed regimen for diabetes management. As a prescriber to Orem's theory, the nurse interviews the patient to identify the cause of the patient's "noncompliance." What is the rationale for the nurse's behavior? a. Orem's theory is useful in designing interventions to promote self-care. b. Orem's theory focuses on cultural issues that may affect compliance. c. Orem's theory allows for reduction of anxiety with communication. d. Orem's theory helps nurses manipulate the patient's environment. 9. Upon assessment, the nurse notices that the patient's respirations have increased, and the tip of the nose and earlobes are becoming cyanotic. The nurse finds that the patient's pulse rate is over 100 beats per minute. According to Maslow's hierarchy of needs, which patient need should the nurse address first? a. Self-esteem b. Physiological c. Self-actualization d. Love and belonging 10. Which action indicates the nurse is using the nursing process in patient care? a. Generates nursing knowledge for use in nursing practice. b. Conceptualizes an aspect of nursing to predict nursing care. c. Develops nursing care as a specific, distinct phenomenon. d. Delivers nursing care using a systematic approach. 11. A nurse is using Maslow's hierarchy of needs to prioritize care. Place the levels in order of basic priority to highest priority that the nurse will follow. 1. Physiological 2. Self-esteem 3. Self-actualization 4. Safety and security 5. Love and belonging a. 4, 1, 2, 3, 5 b. 1, 4, 5, 3, 2 c. 4, 5, 3, 2, 1 d. 1, 4, 5, 2, 3 12. A nurse is using a nursing metaparadigm to define nursing. Which concepts will the nurse include? (Select all that apply.) a. Person b. Disease c. Health d. Nursing e. Environment 13. The scope of professional nursing practice is determined by the rules promulgated by which organization? a. American Nurses' Association (ANA) b. Institute of Medicine (IOM) c. State's Board of Nursing d. State's Nursing Association 14. Components of a professional identity in nursing include which of the following? (Select all that apply.) a. Accountability b. Advocacy c. Autonomy d. Competence e. Culture 15. Which action should the nurse take when using critical thinking to make clinical decisions? a. Make decisions based on intuition. b. Accept one established way to provide care. c. Consider what is important in a given situation. d. Read and follow the heath care provider's orders. 16. Which patient scenario of a surgical patient in pain is most indicative of critical thinking? a. Administering pain-relief medication according to what was given last shif b. Offering pain-relief medication based on the health care provider's orders c. Asking the patient what pain-relief methods, pharmacological and nonpharmacological, have worked in the past d. Explaining to the patient that self-reporting of severe pain is not consistent with the minor procedure that was performed 17. A charge nurse is supervising the care of a new nurse. Which action by a new nurse indicates the charge nurse needs to intervene? a. Making an ethical clinical decision b. Making an informed clinical decision c. Making a clinical decision in the patient's best interest d. Making a clinical decision based on previous shif assessments 18. A nursing instructor needs to evaluate students' abilities to synthesize data and identify relationships between nursing diagnoses. Which learning assignment is best suited for this instructor's needs? a. Concept mapping b. Reflective journaling c. Lecture and discussion d. Reading assignment with a written summary . . . . . .