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Test Bank for Ignatavicius: Medical-Surgical Nursing,

8th Edition A+
Chapter 1: Introduction to Medical-Surgical Nursing Practice

MULTIPLE CHOICES:



1. A new nurse is working with a preceptor on an inpatient medical-surgical unit. The

preceptor advises the student that which is the priority when working as a professional nurse?

a. Attending to holistic client needs

b. Ensuring client safety

c. Not making medication errors

d. Providing client-focused care

ANS: B

All actions are appropriate for the professional nurse. However, ensuring client safety is the

priority. Up to 98,000 deaths result each year from errors in hospital care, according to the 2000

Institute of Medicine report. Many more clients have suffered injuries and less serious outcomes.

Every nurse has the responsibility to guard the client’s safety.



DIF: Understanding/Comprehension REF: 2 KEY: Patient safety MSC: Integrated

Process: Nursing Process: Intervention

NOT: Client Needs Category: Safe and Effective Care Environment: Safety and Infection

Control




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2. A nurse is orienting a new client and family to the inpatient unit. What information does

the nurse provide to help the client promote his or her own safety?

a. Encourage the client and family to be active partners.

b. Have the client monitor hand hygiene in caregivers.

c. Offer the family the opportunity to stay with the client.

d. Tell the client to always wear his or her armband.

ANS: A

Each action could be important for the client or family to perform. However, encouraging the

client to be active in his or her health care as a partner is the most critical. The other actions are

very limited in scope and do not provide the broad protection that being active and involved

does.



DIF: Understanding/Comprehension REF: 3 KEY: Patient safety MSC: Integrated

Process: Teaching/Learning

NOT: Client Needs Category: Safe and Effective Care Environment: Safety and Infection

Control



3. A nurse is caring for a postoperative client on the surgical unit. The client’s blood

pressure was 142/76 mm Hg 30 minutes ago, and now is 88/50 mm Hg. What action by the nurse

is best?

a. Call the Rapid Response Team.

b. Document and continue to monitor.

c. Notify the primary care provider.



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d. Repeat blood pressure measurement in 15 minutes.




ANS: A

The purpose of the Rapid Response Team (RRT) is to intervene when clients are deteriorating

before they suffer either respiratory or cardiac arrest. Since the client has manifested a significant

change, the nurse should call the RRT. Changes in blood pressure, mental status, heart rate, and

pain are particularly significant. Documentation is vital, but the nurse must do more than

document. The primary care provider should be notified, but this is not the priority over calling

the RRT. The client’s blood pressure should be reassessed frequently, but the priority is getting

the rapid care to the client.



DIF: Applying/Application REF: 3 KEY: Rapid Response Team (RRT)| medical

emergencies

MSC: Integrated Process: Communication and Documentation

NOT: Client Needs Category: Physiological Integrity: Physiological Adaptation



4. A nurse wishes to provide client-centered care in all interactions. Which action by the

nurse best demonstrates this concept?

a. Assesses for cultural influences affecting health care

b. Ensures that all the clients’ basic needs are met



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c. Tells the client and family about all upcoming tests

d. Thoroughly orients the client and family to the room

ANS: A

Competency in client-focused care is demonstrated when the nurse focuses on communication,

culture, respect, compassion, client education, and empowerment. By assessing the effect of the

client’s culture on health care, this nurse is practicing

client-focused care. Providing for basic needs does not demonstrate this competence. Simply

telling the client about all upcoming tests is not providing empowering education. Orienting the

client and family to the room is an important safety measure, but not directly related to

demonstrating client-centered care.



DIF: Understanding/Comprehension REF: 3

KEY: Patient-centered care| culture MSC: Integrated Process: Caring NOT: Client Needs

Category: Psychosocial Integrity



5. A client is going to be admitted for a scheduled surgical procedure. Which action does

the nurse explain is the most important thing the client can do to protect against errors?

a. Bring a list of all medications and what they are for.

b. Keep the doctor’s phone number by the telephone.

c. Make sure all providers wash hands before entering the room.

d. Write down the name of each caregiver who comes in the room.

ANS: A




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