Test Bank for Medical-Surgical Nursing: Assessment and Management of Clinical Problems, 10th Edition By: Sharon L. Lewis, Linda Bucher, Margaret M. Heitkemper, and Mariann M. Harding

Test Bank for Medical Surgical Nursing;
Assessment and Management of Clinical
Problems 10th Edition

,2. A nurse is speaking to a group of prospective nursing students about what it is like to
be a nurse. What is one characteristic the nurse would cite as necessary to possess to
be an effective nurse?
A) Sensitivity to cultural differences
B) Team-focused approach to problem-solving
C) Strict adherence to routine
D) Ability to face criticism - Ans: A
Feedback:
To promote an effective nurse-patient relationship and positive outcomes of care,
nursing care must be culturally competent, appropriate, and sensitive to cultural
differences. Team-focused nursing and strict adherence to routine are not
characteristics needed to be an effective nurse. The ability to handle criticism is
important, but to a lesser degree than cultural competence.


1. The public health nurse is presenting a health promotion class to a group of new
mothers. How should the nurse best define health?
A) Health is being disease free.
B) Health is having fulfillment in all domains of life.
C) Health is having psychological and physiological harmony.
D) Health is being connected in body, mind, and spirit. - Ans: D
Feedback:
The World Health Organization (WHO) defines health in the preamble to its constitution
as a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the
absence of disease and infirmity. The other answers are incorrect because they are not
congruent with the WHO definition of health.

3. With increases in longevity, people have had to become more knowledgeable about
their health and the professional health care that they receive. One outcome of this
phenomenon is the development of organized self-care education programs. Which of
the following do these programs prioritize?
A) Adequate prenatal care
B) Government advocacy and lobbying
C) Judicious use of online communities
D) Management of illness - Ans: D
Feedback:
Organized self-care education programs emphasize health promotion, disease
prevention, management of illness, self-care, and judicious use of the professional
health care system. Prenatal care, lobbying, and Internet activities are secondary.

4. The home health nurse is assisting a patient and his family in planning the patients
return to work after surgery and the development of postsurgical complications. The
nurse is preparing a plan of care that addresses the patients multifaceted needs. To
which level of Maslows hierarchy of basic needs does the patients need for self-
fulfillment relate?
A) Physiologic

,B) Transcendence
C) Love and belonging
D) Self-actualization - Ans: D
Feedback:
Maslows highest level of human needs is self-actualization, which includes self-
fulfillment, desire to know and understand, and aesth

5. The view that health and illness are not static states but that they exist on a
continuum is central to professional health care systems. When planning care, this view
aids the nurse in appreciating which of the following?
A) Care should focus primarily on the treatment of disease.
B) A persons state of health is ever-changing.
C) A person can transition from health to illness rapidly.
D) Care should focus on the patients compliance with interventions - Ans: B
Feedback:
By viewing health and illness on a continuum, it is possible to consider a person as
being neither completely healthy nor completely ill. Instead, a persons state of health is
ever-changing and has the potential to range from high-level wellness to extremely poor
health and imminent death. The other answers are incorrect because patient care
should not focus just on the treatment of disease. Rapid declines in health and
compliance with treatment are not key to this view of health.

6. A group of nursing students are participating in a community health clinic. When
providing care in this context, what should the students teach participants about disease
prevention?
A) It is best achieved through attending self-help groups.
B) It is best achieved by reducing psychological stress.
C) It is best achieved by being an active participant in the community.
D) It is best achieved by exhibiting behaviors that promote health - Ans: D
Feedback:
Today, increasing emphasis is placed on health, health promotion, wellness, and self-
care. Health is seen
as resulting from a lifestyle oriented toward wellness. Nurses in community health
clinics do not teach
that disease prevention is best achieved through attending self-help groups, by reducing
stress, or by
being an active participant in the community, though each of these activities is
consistent with a healthy
lifestyle.

7. A nurse on a medical-surgical unit has asked to represent the unit on the hospitals
quality committee. When describing quality improvement programs to nursing
colleagues and members of other health
disciplines, what characteristic should the nurse cite?
A) These programs establish consequences for health care professionals actions.
B) These programs focus on the processes used to provide care.

, C) These programs identify specific incidents related to quality.
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Ans: B Feedback:
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Numerous models seek to improve the quality of health care delivery. A commonality
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among them is a XV XV XV



focus on the processes that are used to provide care. Consequences, a focus on incid
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ents, and XV



justification for health care costs are not universal characteristics of quality improvemen
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t efforts.
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8. Nurses in acute care settings must work with other health care team members t
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o maintain quality care
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while facing pressures to care for patients who are hospitalized for shorter periods of t
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ime than in the
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past. To ensure positive health outcomes when patients return to their homes, what a
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B) Close communication with insurers XV XV XV



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Ans: C Feedback:
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Following discharges that occur after increasingly short hospital stays, nurses in the c
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ommunity care for XV XV



patients who need high-technology acute care services as well as long-
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term care in the home. This is
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dependent on effective discharge planning to a greater degree than continuing educati
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on, communication
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with insurers, or promotion of health literacy.
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9. You are admitting a patient to your medical unit after the patient has been transferre
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d from the
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emergency department. What is your priority nursing action at this time?
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Feedback: Among the nurses important functions in health care delivery, identifying th
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e patients immediate needs and working in concert with the patient to address them i
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s most important. The other nursing functions are important, but they are not the mos
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t important functions.
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10. A nurse on a postsurgical unit is providing care based on a clinical pathway. Whe
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n performing
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assessments and interventions with the aid of a pathway, the nurse should prioritize w
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hat goal? XV