Foundations Chapter 4 Questions
and Verified Answers
Nurses in a long-term care facility use Maslow's hierarchy of basic human needs to plan care for
their patients. What is the expected outcome when using this hierarchy?
a. Accurate nursing diagnoses
b. Clear priorities of care
c. Concerns communicated concisely
d. Integration of science into nursing care
b. Clear priorities of care
A nurse is prioritizing nursing care for patients on a medical-surgical unit. Which nursing
interventions address patients' physiologic needs? Select all that apply.
a. preventing falls during admission
b. administering oxygen to a patient with shortness of breath
c. providing a magazine for a patient without visitors
d. assisting a patient who had a stroke eat their dinner
e. facilitating a visit from the patient's significant other
f. referring a patient to a cancer support group
b. administering oxygen to a patient with shortness of breath
d. assisting a patient who had a stroke eat their dinner
A nurse provides care for postoperative patients using meticulous hand hygiene and aseptic
technique. Which of Maslow's basic human needs is the nurse addressing?
Safety and security
A nurse caring for patients in a long term care facility develops strategies to help patients
achieve Maslow's highest level of needs: self-actualization. Which concepts will the nurse
incorporate when planning care?
1. No matter the patient's age, the self-actualization process continues throughout life.
2. A person achieves self-actualization by focusing on problems outside the self.
3. Self-actualization needs may be met by creatively solving problems.
A nurse in a family-centered health clinic is assessing a new family composed of two parents
and three preschool children. Which value does the nurse include in a family-centered approach
, to health care?
A. Each person in the family will be evaluated and treated independently of the others.
B. Time will be saved as there is only one clinic to contact for health problems.
C. All members of the family can be part of health-related decisions.
D. Interdependence of family members affects them in illness and health.
D. Interdependence of family members affects them in illness and health.
A nurse assesses a family consisting of a single parent, a grandparent, and two children. What
interview questions will the nurse direct toward the mother to best determine the family's
affective and coping functions?
1. Who is the person you depend on for emotional support?
2. Who keeps your family together in times of stress?
A nurse caring for families in a free health care clinic assesses for psychosocial risk factors for
altered family health. Which example best describes on of these risk factors?
Both parents work and leave a 12 yo child to care for his younger brother.
A nurse working in an "Aging in Place" facility interviews a married couple in their late 70s.
Based on Duvall's Developmental Tasks of Families, what developmental task is most
appropriate for the nurse to assess?
Adjustment to retirement years
A nurse working in a new community performs an assessment to determine the health of the
community. What finding indicates a healthy community?
offers access to health care services
A nurse is practicing community-based nursing in a mobile health clinic. Which example best
demonstrates community-based nursing?
Caring for a mother and her child who have diabetes.
After receiving a change-of-shift report, the nurse on a medical-surgical unit sets the initial
priorities for care. According to Maslow's hierarchy of needs, which patient requires immediate
assessment?
Patient who calls for assistance because they are breathing fast and feel faint.
Basic Human Needs Model
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
and Verified Answers
Nurses in a long-term care facility use Maslow's hierarchy of basic human needs to plan care for
their patients. What is the expected outcome when using this hierarchy?
a. Accurate nursing diagnoses
b. Clear priorities of care
c. Concerns communicated concisely
d. Integration of science into nursing care
b. Clear priorities of care
A nurse is prioritizing nursing care for patients on a medical-surgical unit. Which nursing
interventions address patients' physiologic needs? Select all that apply.
a. preventing falls during admission
b. administering oxygen to a patient with shortness of breath
c. providing a magazine for a patient without visitors
d. assisting a patient who had a stroke eat their dinner
e. facilitating a visit from the patient's significant other
f. referring a patient to a cancer support group
b. administering oxygen to a patient with shortness of breath
d. assisting a patient who had a stroke eat their dinner
A nurse provides care for postoperative patients using meticulous hand hygiene and aseptic
technique. Which of Maslow's basic human needs is the nurse addressing?
Safety and security
A nurse caring for patients in a long term care facility develops strategies to help patients
achieve Maslow's highest level of needs: self-actualization. Which concepts will the nurse
incorporate when planning care?
1. No matter the patient's age, the self-actualization process continues throughout life.
2. A person achieves self-actualization by focusing on problems outside the self.
3. Self-actualization needs may be met by creatively solving problems.
A nurse in a family-centered health clinic is assessing a new family composed of two parents
and three preschool children. Which value does the nurse include in a family-centered approach
, to health care?
A. Each person in the family will be evaluated and treated independently of the others.
B. Time will be saved as there is only one clinic to contact for health problems.
C. All members of the family can be part of health-related decisions.
D. Interdependence of family members affects them in illness and health.
D. Interdependence of family members affects them in illness and health.
A nurse assesses a family consisting of a single parent, a grandparent, and two children. What
interview questions will the nurse direct toward the mother to best determine the family's
affective and coping functions?
1. Who is the person you depend on for emotional support?
2. Who keeps your family together in times of stress?
A nurse caring for families in a free health care clinic assesses for psychosocial risk factors for
altered family health. Which example best describes on of these risk factors?
Both parents work and leave a 12 yo child to care for his younger brother.
A nurse working in an "Aging in Place" facility interviews a married couple in their late 70s.
Based on Duvall's Developmental Tasks of Families, what developmental task is most
appropriate for the nurse to assess?
Adjustment to retirement years
A nurse working in a new community performs an assessment to determine the health of the
community. What finding indicates a healthy community?
offers access to health care services
A nurse is practicing community-based nursing in a mobile health clinic. Which example best
demonstrates community-based nursing?
Caring for a mother and her child who have diabetes.
After receiving a change-of-shift report, the nurse on a medical-surgical unit sets the initial
priorities for care. According to Maslow's hierarchy of needs, which patient requires immediate
assessment?
Patient who calls for assistance because they are breathing fast and feel faint.
Basic Human Needs Model
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
