PN Fundamental comprehensive

PN Fundamental comp 2020 Fundamentals of Nursing Quiz 1 1. A nurse fails to irrigate a feeding tube as ordered, resulting in harm to the patient. This nurse could be found guilty of: 2. What role is the nurse who diligently works for the protection of patients’ interests playing? 3. Which of the following could cause a nurse to be cited for malpractice? 4. How can the medical record be used in litigation? (Select all that apply.) 5. A nurse is considering purchasing malpractice insurance. What should the nurse be aware of regarding malpractice insurance provided by the hospital? 6. While performing an assessment on a patient, the nurse records a pulse deficit. Which statement best describes a pulse deficit? 7. While doing an assessment on a patient, the nurse must assess blood flow to the foot and uses which pulse point to complete this assessment? 8. Which blood pressure readings would be considered hypertension? 9. What is a set of learned values, beliefs, customs, and practices taught, shared by a group, and passed from one generation to another? 10. When assessing a patient from a different culture, what is the most important area to consider? 11. The nurse is doing discharge teaching with an African American patient regarding nutrition intake. What food customs should the nurse consider when developing this educational plan? 12. What are common characteristics seen among different cultures? (Select all that apply.) 13. A Hispanic American child is brought to the clinic by her mother to be examined by the nurse health care provider. Which nursing intervention is most important when gathering data about the child? 14. Older adults (65 and older) have an increased intestinal motility which can lead to gastrointestinal complications such as diarrhea. 15. Dementia is defined as acute, temporary with a physiologic source like infection, sleep deprivation, pain or change in surrounding whereas delirium is chronic progressive and possibly with an unknown cause. 16. Which of these 4-year-old should the LPN report to the provider or RN for further evaluation?