Fundamentals Exam 2 Practice Test Questions & Answers
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Course
Fundamental
Institution
Fundamental
Which of the following is a collaborative intervention?
A. Rubbing patients back to facilitate relaxation
B. measuring the patients blood pressure
C. Assessing the patients educational needs related to discharge
D. Administering prescribed medications to a patient - ANSWERSD. Administering pres...
Fundamentals Exam 2 Practice Test
Questions & Answers
Which of the following is a collaborative intervention?
A. Rubbing patients back to facilitate relaxation
B. measuring the patients blood pressure
C. Assessing the patients educational needs related to discharge
D. Administering prescribed medications to a patient - ANSWERSD. Administering
prescribed medications to a patient
(Administering medications requires a physicians order and pharmacist to dispense, it is
therefore a collaborative intervention for the nurse)
What is the most important reason for a nurse to remain calm, greet patient by name,
and introduce herself to a new patient, even when the nurse is upset by something else
that has happened? - ANSWERSThese actions help to establish a trusting relationship
The nurse would try to identify the patients locus of control when trying to change health
promotion behavior because she wanted to determine? - ANSWERSPerception of
powerlessness
(people who feel powerless about preventing illness are least likely to engage in health
promotion activities)
The Structural-functional theory views the family as - ANSWERSA social system with
focus on outcomes
A nurse admitting a 75-year-old patient to the nursing unit, accompanied by his son.
Using a life span approach to care, what is essential for the nurse to do? -
ANSWERSAsk the patient if he has had any falls in the past year
(Falls are a major source of morbidity in hospitalized patients. On admission, nurse
should ask all older adults (65 +) if they have had any falls in the past year)
A nurse spends time with a dying patient. She holds the patients hand and prays with
her quietly. This action is most clearly an example of whose nursing theory? -
ANSWERSJean Watson
(Science of Human Caring theory, which describes caring from a nursing perspective)
What form propositions when linked together and are considered "building blocks" of
theories? - ANSWERSConcepts
(provide a framework for a theory)
When assessing the level of cardiorespiratory fitness in healthy, middle-aged adults
without joint restriction or mobility impairment, what screening activity would be most
suitable for the nurse to ask the patient to perform? - ANSWERSStep Test
, (appropriate for most adults without mobility impairment or joint restriction or pain. rate:
24 steps per min for 3 mins)
How is critical pathway DIFFERENT from a standardized care plan? A critical pathway:
- ANSWERSSpecifies patient outcomes and interventions for each day, or other period
of time
(some situations (labor and delivery) each hr)
Critical pathways include: - ANSWERS-medical orders
-standardized, not individualized
-Both critical pathways and standardized care plans are preprinted documents for a
particular diagnosis or condition
Why is implementation know as the action phase of the nursing process? Because it is
the stage in which the nurse: - ANSWERSPerforms or delegates the planned
interventions
Unit standards of care are: - ANSWERS- A description of minimal level of care a patient
is expected to receive
- NOT part of the care plan that is included in the patients chart
Unit standards are not organized according to - ANSWERSnursing diagnosis
What is wrong with this goal statment? "The patient will walk to the doorway with the
help of one person." - ANSWERSTARGET TIME
(Its action verb is "patient" and its special conditions are "with the help of one person")
The nurse would advise which patient to have a fasting lipid panel performed at least
once every 5 years? - ANSWERSAdult with total cholesterol greater than 150 mg/dL
A facility is using ______ nursing care when scientifically sound research data are used
to make nursing care decisions. - ANSWERSEvidence-based
Evidence-based nursing care uses - ANSWERSsolid, scientific data to make decisions
about the nursing practice
Most nurses see nursing as focusing on the entire person and his response to cellular
changes. This global perspective of nursing is known as a nursing: -
ANSWERSParadigm (worldview or ideology)
What is the most global conceptual framework of a discipline? - ANSWERSParadigm
A nurse has an educational background that prepares her to manage research project.
Which nursing degree does this nurse most likely hold? - ANSWERSDoctoral degree
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