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NURS299 Exam 3- Test Questions and Answers*Which of the following is a strategy for creating work environments that enable nurses to
demonstrate more caring behaviors? (Select all that apply.)*
1. Decreasing the number of consecutive shifts of the nursing staff
2. Increasing salary and vacation benefits of the nursing staff
3. Increasing the number of nurses who work each shift to decrease the nurse-patient ratio
4. Encouraging increased input concerning nursing functions from health care providers
5. Providing nursing staff an opportunity to discuss practice changes they can implement to
enhance opportunities for patient caring CORRECT ANS-3,5
*When a nurse helps a patient find the meaning of cancer by supporting beliefs about life,
this is an example of:*
1. Instilling hope and faith.
2. Forming a human-altruistic value system.
3. Cultural caring.
4. Being with. CORRECT ANS-1
*An example of a nurse caring behavior that families of acutely ill patients perceive as
important to patients' well-being is:*
1. Making health care decisions for patients.
2. Having family members provide a patient's total personal hygiene.
3. Injecting the nurse's perceptions about the level of care provided.
4. Asking permission before performing a procedure on a patient. CORRECT ANS-4
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*A nurse demonstrated caring by helping family members to: (Select all that apply.)*
1. Become active participants in care.
2. Remove themselves from personal care.
3. Make health care decisions for the patient.
4. Have uninterrupted time for family and patient to be together.
5. Have opportunities for the family to discuss their concerns. CORRECT ANS-1,4,5
*Listening is not only "taking in" what a patient says, but it also includes:*
1. Incorporating the views of the physician.
2. Correcting any errors in the patient's understanding.
3. Injecting the nurse's personal views and statements.
4. Interpreting and understanding what the patient means. CORRECT ANS-4
*A nurse is caring for an older adult who needs to enter an assisted-living facility following
discharge from the hospital. Which of the following is an example of listening that displays
caring?*
1. The nurse encourages the patient to talk about his concerns while reviewing the computer
screen in the room.
2. The nurse sits at the patient's bedside, listens as he relays his fear of never seeing his home
again, and then asks if he wants anything to eat.
3. The nurse listens to the patient's story while sitting on the side of the bed and then
summarizes the story.
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4. The nurse listens to the patient talk about his fears of not returning home and then tells
him to think positively. CORRECT ANS-3
*Presence involves a person-to-person encounter that:*
1. Enables patients to care for self.
2. Provides personal care to a patient.
3. Conveys a closeness and a sense of caring.
4. Describes being in close contact with a patient. CORRECT ANS-3
*A nurse enters a patient's room, arranges the supplies for a Foley catheter insertion, and
explains the procedure to the patient. She tells the patient what to expect; just before
inserting the catheter, she tells the patient to relax and that, once the catheter is in place, she
will not feel the bladder pressure. The nurse then proceeds to skillfully insert the Foley
catheter. This is an example of what type of touch?*
1. Caring touch
2. Protective touch
3. Task-oriented touch
4. Interpersonal touch CORRECT ANS-3
*A hospice nurse sits at the bedside of a male patient in the final stages of cancer. He and his
parents made the decision that he would move home and they would help him in the final
stages of his disease. The family participates in his care, but lately the nurse has increased the
amount of time she spends with the family. Whenever she enters the room or approaches the
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patient to give care, she touches his shoulder and tells him that she is present. This is an
example of what type of touch?*
1. Caring touch
2. Protective touch
3. Task-oriented touch
4. Interpersonal touch CORRECT ANS-1
*Match the following caring behaviors with their definitions.*
Behaviors:
1. Knowing
2. Being with
3. Doing for
4. Maintaining belief
Definitions:
a. Sustaining faith in one's capacity to get through a situation
b. Striving to understand an event as meaning for another person
c. Being emotionally there for another person
d. Providing for another as he or she would do for themselves CORRECT ANS-1b, 2c, 3d, 4a
*You are a new graduate nurse completing your orientation on a very busy intensive care unit.
You cannot read a health care provider's order for one of your patient's medications. You have
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