COMMUNICATION 3180 EXAM 1
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
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Nursing Theory examines four meta paradigms
a. Caring, Patient, Health, Energy
b. Nursing, Person, Health, Environment
c. Caring, Person, Health, Environment
d. Nursing, Patient, Well-Being, Energy
Harriet Tubman
known as the Moses of her people
Dorothea Dix
Became the Union Army's Superintendent of female nurses
Florence Nightingale
Performed research necessary to prove that good hygiene positively impacted patient
health
Mary Mahoney
first African American professional nurse
The nurse provides the same quality of care to all clients of every ethnic and
cultural background.
a. Justice
b. Beneficence
c. Accountability
d. Non-maleficience
immediately after making a medication error, the nurse seeks out the nurse
manager and self-reports the error.
a. Veracity
b. Accountability
,c. Non-maleficience
d. Autonomy
The nurse performs hand hygiene before providing client care
a. Justice
b. Beneficence
c. Confidentiality
d. Autonomy
The nurse supports the client's decision to refuse chemotherapy for treatment of
cancer.
a. Autonomy
b. Non-maleficience
c. Justice
d. Beneficence
Which of the following statements about communication theory is true?
a. Primates are able to learn new languages to share ideas and feelings.
b. Concepts include only verbal communication.
c. Perceptions are clarified through feedback.
d. Past experience does not influence communication.
Today, professional nursing education begins at the
a. advanced practice level.
b. administrative level.
c. graduate level.
d. undergraduate level.
The nursing profession's first nurse researcher, who served as an early advocate
for high-quality care and used statistical data to document the need for hand
washing in preventing infection, was
a. Hildegard Peplau.
b. Florence Nightingale.
c. Abraham Maslow.
d. Martha Rogers.
, A young mother tells the nurse, "I'm worried because my son needs a blood
transfusion. I don't know what to do, because blood transfusions cause AIDS."
Which central nursing construct is represented in this situation?
a. Person
b. Environment
c. Health
d. Caring
The nurse manager is educating the unit staff about ways to promote safer
clinical practice. The nurse manager emphasizes that this can be done through
the incorporation of which of the following? (Select all that apply.)
a. Collaboration
b. Cooperation
c. Communication clarity
d. Correlation
e. Cultural sensitivity
When educating staff about how to reduce errors and increase safety, the nurse
manager emphasizes the importance of communication that is (Select all that
apply.)
a. accurate.
b. timely.
c. clear.
d. unambiguous.
e. vague.
When educating a student nurse about safety communication improvement
solutions, the nursing instructor recognizes that additional teaching is warranted
when the student nurse lists which of the following as a safety communication
improvement solution?
a. Disempowering patients to be partners in safer care
b. Participating in team training communication seminars
c. Adopting technology-oriented tools
d. Using standardized verbal and electronic communication tools
When using the acronym "I PASS the BATON," the nurse demonstrates
understanding by beginning with an introduction; then stating the patient's name,
identifiers, age, sex, and location; then discussing the assessment of the patient;
and then talking about
a. the situation, including current status.
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
GRADED A+ LATEST
Nursing Theory examines four meta paradigms
a. Caring, Patient, Health, Energy
b. Nursing, Person, Health, Environment
c. Caring, Person, Health, Environment
d. Nursing, Patient, Well-Being, Energy
Harriet Tubman
known as the Moses of her people
Dorothea Dix
Became the Union Army's Superintendent of female nurses
Florence Nightingale
Performed research necessary to prove that good hygiene positively impacted patient
health
Mary Mahoney
first African American professional nurse
The nurse provides the same quality of care to all clients of every ethnic and
cultural background.
a. Justice
b. Beneficence
c. Accountability
d. Non-maleficience
immediately after making a medication error, the nurse seeks out the nurse
manager and self-reports the error.
a. Veracity
b. Accountability
,c. Non-maleficience
d. Autonomy
The nurse performs hand hygiene before providing client care
a. Justice
b. Beneficence
c. Confidentiality
d. Autonomy
The nurse supports the client's decision to refuse chemotherapy for treatment of
cancer.
a. Autonomy
b. Non-maleficience
c. Justice
d. Beneficence
Which of the following statements about communication theory is true?
a. Primates are able to learn new languages to share ideas and feelings.
b. Concepts include only verbal communication.
c. Perceptions are clarified through feedback.
d. Past experience does not influence communication.
Today, professional nursing education begins at the
a. advanced practice level.
b. administrative level.
c. graduate level.
d. undergraduate level.
The nursing profession's first nurse researcher, who served as an early advocate
for high-quality care and used statistical data to document the need for hand
washing in preventing infection, was
a. Hildegard Peplau.
b. Florence Nightingale.
c. Abraham Maslow.
d. Martha Rogers.
, A young mother tells the nurse, "I'm worried because my son needs a blood
transfusion. I don't know what to do, because blood transfusions cause AIDS."
Which central nursing construct is represented in this situation?
a. Person
b. Environment
c. Health
d. Caring
The nurse manager is educating the unit staff about ways to promote safer
clinical practice. The nurse manager emphasizes that this can be done through
the incorporation of which of the following? (Select all that apply.)
a. Collaboration
b. Cooperation
c. Communication clarity
d. Correlation
e. Cultural sensitivity
When educating staff about how to reduce errors and increase safety, the nurse
manager emphasizes the importance of communication that is (Select all that
apply.)
a. accurate.
b. timely.
c. clear.
d. unambiguous.
e. vague.
When educating a student nurse about safety communication improvement
solutions, the nursing instructor recognizes that additional teaching is warranted
when the student nurse lists which of the following as a safety communication
improvement solution?
a. Disempowering patients to be partners in safer care
b. Participating in team training communication seminars
c. Adopting technology-oriented tools
d. Using standardized verbal and electronic communication tools
When using the acronym "I PASS the BATON," the nurse demonstrates
understanding by beginning with an introduction; then stating the patient's name,
identifiers, age, sex, and location; then discussing the assessment of the patient;
and then talking about
a. the situation, including current status.
