, Test Bank For Lewis’s Medical Surgical Nursing 11th Edition Harding
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Chapter 01: Professional Nursing 0i 0i 0i
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E CHOICE
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1. The nurse teaches a student nurse about how to apply the nursing process when providing patient care.
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Which statement, if made by the student nurse, indicates that teaching was successful?
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a. The nursing process is a scientific-based method of diagnosing the patients health care problems.
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b. The nursing process is a problem-solving tool used to identify and treat patients health care needs.
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c. The nursing process is based on nursing theory that incorporates the biopsychosocial nature of
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humans.
d. The nursing process is used primarily to explain nursing interventions to other health care
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professionals.
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ANS: B 0i
The nursing process is a problem-
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solving approach to the identification and treatment of patients problems. Diagnosis is only one phase of the
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nursing process. The primary use of the nursing process is in patient care, not to establish nursing theory
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ior explain nursing interventions to other health care professionals.
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2. The nurse describes to a student nurse how to use evidence-
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based practice guidelines when caring for patients. Which statement, if made by the nurse, would
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be the most accurate?
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a. Inferences from clinical research studies are used as a guide.
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b. Patient care is based on clinical judgment, experience, and traditions.
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c. Data are evaluated to show that the patient outcomes are consistently met.
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d. Recommendations are based on research, clinical expertise, and patient preferences.
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ANS: D 0i
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based evidence combined with clinician expertise. Clinical judgment based on the nurses clinical ex
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perience is part of EBP, but clinical decision making should also incorporate current research and resear
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ch-
based guidelines. Evaluation of patient outcomes is important, but interventions should be based on r
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esearch from randomized control studies with a large number of subjects.
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