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38 Multiple choice questions
Term 1 of 38
Motivational interviewing has been described as a patient-centered and collaborative method of
changing behavior. A feature of motivational interviewing involves individuals who:
Learn by observing others
Change behavior in response to reinforcements; increasing rewards for healthy behaviors
and decreasing rewards for unhealthy ones.
Take health related action if they perceive susceptibility to and severity of an illness can be
reduced by taking the action.
Have self-eficacy and can be guided to evaluate their own behavior and generate their own
behavior and generate their own solutions to change.
Term 2 of 38
An ambulatory nurse should teach adults the importance of routine screening for which of the
following?
Lung cancer
Ovarian cancer
Colorectal cancer
bladder cancer
, Term 3 of 38
The goal of performance improvement is to:
Identify root causes of problems and errors.
Validate existing knowledge and to generate new knowledge.
Measure and report the health status of patients.
Improve the delivery of care.
Term 4 of 38
The ambulatory infusion center has collected data about environmental contamination with
chemotherapeutic agents to evaluate their preventive practices and spill management. The
findings indicate detectable levels of the agents on the floor in the area of the IV pole near
infusion chair#1, but no measurable chemotherapeutic agents elsewhere in the infusion suite. This
degree of variation in the data may be called:
Common-cause variation
Internal benchmarking
Special-cause variation
Prospective data
Term 5 of 38
For patients with chronic pain, educational interventions should include:
Masking nonverbal indications of pain to reduce the anxiety of their family and other
caregivers.
Learning to tolerate mild to moderate pain without interventions to avoid addiction to pain
medications.
Recognizing distraction and relaxation techniques are rarely helpful in reducing pain
significantly.
Understanding the length of action of various medications and which can be taken together
or alternately.
38 Multiple choice questions
Term 1 of 38
Motivational interviewing has been described as a patient-centered and collaborative method of
changing behavior. A feature of motivational interviewing involves individuals who:
Learn by observing others
Change behavior in response to reinforcements; increasing rewards for healthy behaviors
and decreasing rewards for unhealthy ones.
Take health related action if they perceive susceptibility to and severity of an illness can be
reduced by taking the action.
Have self-eficacy and can be guided to evaluate their own behavior and generate their own
behavior and generate their own solutions to change.
Term 2 of 38
An ambulatory nurse should teach adults the importance of routine screening for which of the
following?
Lung cancer
Ovarian cancer
Colorectal cancer
bladder cancer
, Term 3 of 38
The goal of performance improvement is to:
Identify root causes of problems and errors.
Validate existing knowledge and to generate new knowledge.
Measure and report the health status of patients.
Improve the delivery of care.
Term 4 of 38
The ambulatory infusion center has collected data about environmental contamination with
chemotherapeutic agents to evaluate their preventive practices and spill management. The
findings indicate detectable levels of the agents on the floor in the area of the IV pole near
infusion chair#1, but no measurable chemotherapeutic agents elsewhere in the infusion suite. This
degree of variation in the data may be called:
Common-cause variation
Internal benchmarking
Special-cause variation
Prospective data
Term 5 of 38
For patients with chronic pain, educational interventions should include:
Masking nonverbal indications of pain to reduce the anxiety of their family and other
caregivers.
Learning to tolerate mild to moderate pain without interventions to avoid addiction to pain
medications.
Recognizing distraction and relaxation techniques are rarely helpful in reducing pain
significantly.
Understanding the length of action of various medications and which can be taken together
or alternately.
