A client has designated his daughter as a person to make health care decisions for the client if he is not able to do so. What type of advance directive is this considered?
A. living will
B. durable power of attorney for health care
C. power of attorney
D. do not resuscitate order - ️️B
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Exam 1 40 Capstone Final Review
Questions
A client has designated his daughter as a person to make health care decisions for the client if he is not
able to do so. What type of advance directive is this considered?
A. living will
B. durable power of attorney for health care
C. power of attorney
D. do not resuscitate order - ✔ ✔ B
A client informs the nurse that she is a single parent with four children and cannot afford to pay for
medical insurance for her and her family. What coverage does the nurse understand this client and her
family may be eligible for?
A. prospective payment system
B. medigap insurance
C. medicare
D. medicaid - ✔ ✔ D
A client is admitted to an acute care facility after having a stroke. The client will require a variety of
healthcare services throughout the hospital stay as well as coordination of care prior to discharge. What
referral would be a priority for overseeing the client's care?
A. Dietary services
B. physical therapy
C. case management
D. occupational therapy - ✔ ✔ C
A graduate nurse wants to make the transition from being a student to a employee a smooth one on a
busy geriatric rehabilitation unit. The nurse should take which action to be more successful? SATA
, A. find out before beginning the job the client population's most frequent medical diagnoses and study
the nursing care needed
B. ask an experienced nurse on the unit for suggestions on how to best organize care for your
assignment
C. if you are presented with a medical diagnosis that is unfamiliar, look it up to learn how to care for the
client and ask for help as needed
D. clock out at the end of the shift on time and continue to work to catch up with tasks not completed
E. ask other nurses to perform some of the duties initially to lighten the workload, and gradually take on
more of the assignment if there is time - ✔ ✔ A, B, C
A licensed practical/vocational nurse (LP/VN) is caring for a client as a private duty nurse in the client's
home. The client needs to be hospitalized. The private duty nurse should best serve the client in this
situation by:
A. caring for the client in the hospital taking on all duties as the primary care nurse and charting in the
electronic medical record
B. accompanying the client to the hospital and staying with the client acting as the client's advocate and
abiding by the hospital guidelines
C. going to the client's home and setting up anticipated equipment and supplies may need once the
client is discharged from the hospital
D. giving report to the nurse caring for the client now in the hospital, and then the private duty nurse is
not needed until the client is discharged - ✔ ✔ B
A licensed practical/vocational nurse (LP/VN) is caring for an older adult client on the geriatric
psychiatric unit. The nurse is in a hurry and enters the client's room to provide the morning care, change
his dressing, and get him dressed and walk him in the hall with assistance of one. The nurse has cared
for him for days, and the client always spoke in a soft voice and was pleasant, but today, the client
started yelling and swinging at the nurse. Which is the best first action for the nurse to provide?
A. talk loudly because the client has problem hearing
B. administer the as-needed sedation
C. get back from the client's swinging distance and speak calmly
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