Practice Questions for Fundamentals of Nursing With Guaranteed Pass Solutions.
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Course
Nursing Fundamentals
Institution
Nursing Fundamentals
Which healthcare worker should the nurse counsel a patient about financial and family stressors impacting healthcare?
1) Social worker
2) Occupational therapy
3) Physician's assistant
4) Charge nurse - Answer 1) Social worker
The social worker coordinates services and counsels patients ab...
Practice Questions for Fundamentals of
Nursing With Guaranteed Pass
Solutions.
Which healthcare worker should the nurse counsel a patient about financial and family stressors
impacting healthcare?
1) Social worker
2) Occupational therapy
3) Physician's assistant
4) Charge nurse - Answer 1) Social worker
The social worker coordinates services and counsels patients about financial, housing, marital, and
family issues.
Which of the following contributions of Florence Nightingale had an immediate impact on improving
patient's health?
1) Providing a clean environment
2) Improving nursing education
3) Changing the delivery of care in hospitals
4) establishing nursing as a distinct profession - Answer 1) providing a clean environment
Improved sanitation greatly and immediately reduced the rate of infection and mortality in hospitals.
Which of the following is an example of an illness prevention activity?
1) Encouraging the use of a food diary
2) Joining a cancer support group
3) Administering the immunization for HPV
4) Teaching a diabetic client about his diet - Answer 3) Administering the immunization for HPV
,This is a prevention activity.
What is the most influential factor that has shaped the nursing profession?
1) Physician's need for handmaidens
2) Societal need for healthcare outside the home
3) Military demand for nurses in the field
4) Germ theory influence on sanitation - Answer 3) Military demand for nurses in the field
______________ is a health program, administered by the state and funded by federal and state
governments to provide care for low-income people.
1) Medicare
2) Medicaid
3) Obama care
4) Welfare - Answer 2) Medicaid
Medicaid is intended to provide healthcare individuals without ability to pay for services. Medicare is
designed to protect people age 65 and older from the rising cost of healthcare.
Which of the following is the most important reason for nurses to be critical thinkers?
1) Nurses need to follow policies and procedures
2) Nurses work with other healthcare professionals
3) Nurses care for patients with multiple health issues
4) Nurses have to be flexible and work different schedules - Answer 3) Nurses care for patients with
multiple health issues
Nurses use critical thinking to care for them.
Which of the following characteristics do the various definitions of critical thinking have in common?
Which of the following includes objective and subjective data?
1) Patient's BP is 132/68 and HR is 88
2) Patient's cholesterol is elevated, and stated that he likes fried food
3) Patient states she is having trouble sleeping and drinks coffee at night
4) Patient states he gets frequent headaches and takes aspirin for it. - Answer 2) Patient's cholesterol is
elevated, and stated that he likes fried food
Elevated cholesterol is objective and states "likes fried food" is subjective
Which of the following is an example of an active listening behavior?
1) Taking frequent notes
2) Asking for more details
3) Leaning in, facing the patient
4) Sitting with legs crossed - Answer 3) Leaning in, facing the patient
Which of the following are cues rather than inferences? Select all that apply.
1) Ate 50% of his meal
2) Patient is depressed today
3) States "I slept well today"
4) White blood cell count 15000/mm - Answer 1) Ate 50% of his meal
3) States "I slept well today"
4) White blood cell count 15000/mm
Patient is depressed today is an inference.
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