Unitek midterm Questions and
Answers
What best defines the nursing process?
✓ ~~~ 1. Assessment - identify a client's health care status
✓ 2. Diagnosis - actual or potential health problems
✓ 3. Outcomes identification
✓ 4. Planning - establish plans to meet the identified needs
✓ 5. Implementation - to deliver specific nursing interventions to address those needs
✓ 6. Evaluation - determine if goals were met
What is the most effective process to ensure that the care plan is meeting the needs
of the patient?
✓ ~~~ Evaluation
How may a newly licensed LPN/LVN practice?
✓ ~~~ Under the supervision of a physician or RN
Whose influence on nursing practice in the 19th century was related to improvement
of patient environment as a method of health promotion?
✓ ~~~ Florence Nightingale
What document identifies the roles and responsibilities of the LPN/LVN?
✓ ~~~ The Nurse Practice Act (NPA)
What does documentation of type of care, time of care, and signature of the person
prove?
✓ ~~~ That interventions were implemented to meet the patient's needs.
, The nurse charts only additional treatments done, changes in patient condition, and
new concerns. What is this system of documentation?
✓ ~~~ Charting by exception
What form explains the lapse when events are not consistent with facility or national
standards of expected care?
✓ ~~~ Incident report
Although the patient denies pain, the nurse observes the patient breathing rapidly
with clenched fists and facial grimacing. What is the nurse's best response to these
observations?
A. "I am glad you are feeling better and have no discomfort."
B. "Where do you hurt?"
C. "What you are saying and what I am observing don't seem to match."
D. "It makes me uncomfortable when you are not honest with me."
✓ ~~~ C. "What you are saying and what I am observing don't seem to match."
What does therapeutic communication accomplish?
✓ ~~~ Forms a positive and trusting nurse-patient relationship and actively involves the
patient in all areas of care.
What therapeutic communication technique requires a great deal of skill and is not
used as frequently as other communication techniques?
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