NURS 285 week 4 Questions with Complete
Solutions
John Adams has just been diagnosed of advanced cancer and is expected
to begin chemotherapy immediately. Samanta is his assigned registered
nurse. She spiritually connects with John as she discusses his health care
plan. Through genuine and authentic engagement, she is able to educate
John on what to expect. She thus practices the art of caring by providing
compassion, promoting healing, easing John's apprehension and
promoting his dignity in "the caring moment". From your knowledge of
nursing philosophies, whose nursing theory will you say is upheld by
these events
A) Madeleine Leininger's theory
B) Florence Nightingale's theory
C) Jean Watson's theory
D) Pare's theory Correct Answer-C) Jean Watson's theory
In the planning stage of the Nursing Process, the nurse will identify a
patient's desired health outcome, which the client care plan then aims to
achieve (Ferguson & Rohatinski, 2018). Considering this from the
evaluation stage of the nursing process, which of the following is not
part of the purpose for why a nurse would identify a desired outcome?
A) The desired outcome helps to create a more effective client centred
care plan
B) The desired outcome helps to determine which evaluation data to
collect
,C) The desired outcome helps to determine if referrals to other health
professionals are required
D) The desired outcome provides a standard for which to evaluate data
based on Correct Answer-C) The desired outcome helps to determine if
referrals to other health professionals are required
3. According to Peplau's interpersonal relations model, which of the
following scenarios demonstrate the Exploitation phase of the nurse-
client relationship?
A) Ruby asks for a nurse's help when she arrived in the emergency room
with slit wrists due to a suicide attempt. The nurse dresses her wounds
and listens to Ruby discussing her history of depression and personal
reasons leading to her attempted suicide.
B) Ruby is interviewed by a mental health nurse and they discuss the
meaning of Ruby's thoughts and behaviors. They agree on a common
goal and is guided by the nurse through her recovery.
C) Ruby has expressed her readiness for discharge and has asked her
nurse for community resources in order to keep her mental health in
check and to develop her coping behaviors further.
D) Ruby sees a counsellor from time to time and has now become an
advocate for depressive and suicidal teens, working alongside nurses in
Correct Answer-C) Ruby has expressed her readiness for discharge and
has asked her nurse for community resources in order to keep her mental
health in check and to develop her coping behaviors further.
One of your co-workers has a unique appearance. She has many
piercings, tattoos, shaves a half of her head, and colors the rest of her
,hair neon green. She got hired to work for medical assistance in dying
(MAID) and is going to her first case. Which of her actions would best
describe the attributes of caring?
A) Conducting a physical assessment, validating data, determining the
client's strengths, setting priorities and goals with the client, performing
the planned interventions, making decisions about the status of the
problem.
B) Covering up tattoos, taking off visible piercings, wearing a wig and
appropriate clothes to show respect to the dying client and his/her
family, and making accommodations in care that are satisfying to the
client and the family.
C) Facing the client squarely, maintaining eye contact, trying to be
relaxed, adopting an open posture, leaning toward the person.
D) Using open-ended questions Correct Answer-B) Covering up tattoos,
taking off visible piercings, wearing a wig and appropriate clothes to
show respect to the dying client and his/her family, and making
accommodations in care that are satisfying to the client and the family.
Luise E. was a nurse in the Meseritz-Obrawalde psychiatric institution
during the Nazi regime. She describes her actions in the following way:
" (Benedict & Georges, 2009). Which of the following concepts
illustrates Luise's epistemological process?
A) "I did not approve of killing patients who had totally lucid intervals
between their attacks of insanity and those in whom I could see some
hope for improvement...these were the cases which caused me the severe
conflict that I have talked about."
, B) "As a nurse or orderly, you don't have the level of education of a
physician and thus can't evaluate if the order of the physician is right.
The permanent process of obeying the order of a physician becomes
second nature to the extent that one's own thinking is switched off."
C) "In general, either the ward caregiver or I would sit the patient up in
her bed, put an arm around her and talk to her consolingly. So one of u
Correct Answer-B) "As a nurse or orderly, you don't have the level of
education of a physician and thus can't evaluate if the order of the
physician is right. The permanent process of obeying the order of a
physician becomes second nature to the extent that one's own thinking is
switched off."
6. When gathering data as part of the nursing process, information
obtained can be subjective or objective as well as from a primary or
secondary source. Which of the following presents subjective data from
a secondary source?
A) A client reports feeling weak upon exertion
B) A client's mother reports that her son has been feeling nauseous for
two days
C) Blood pressure measurements from a client read 90/50mmHg
D) A nurse observed that their client was crying while being interviewed
Correct Answer-B) A client's mother reports that her son has been
feeling nauseous for two days
7. A male patient with hypertensive emergency was recently discharged
from the hospital after treatment. A nurse recommended that he take and
record his BP twice every day and come back in one week with the
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