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Nursing 204 - Foundations Nurs PractQuestion & Answers 2024
When working with an older adult who is hearing-impaired, the use of
which techniques would improve communication? (select all that apply)
a. Check for needed adaptive equipment.
b. Exaggerate lip movements to help the patient lip read.
c. Give the patient time to respond to questions.
d. Keep communication short and to the point.
e. Communicate only through written information - Correct Answers
✅a. Check for needed adaptive equipment
c. Give the patient time to respond to questions
d. Keep communication short and to the point
Nurses must communicate effectively with the health care team for
which of the following reasons? (select all that apply)
a. Improve the nurse's status with the health team members
b. Reduce the risk of errors to the patient
c. Provide optimum level of patient care
d. Improve patient outcomes
e. Prevent issues that need to be reported to outside agencies - Correct
Answers ✅b. Reduce the risk of errors to the patient
c. Provide optimum level of patient care
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Question & Answers 2024
d. Improve patient outcomes
A new nurse complains to her preceptor that she has no time for
therapeutic communication with her patients. Which of the following is
the best strategy to help the nurse find more time for this
communication?
a. Include communication while performing tasks such as changing
dressings and checking vital signs
b. Ask the patient if you can talk during the last few minutes of visiting
hours
c. Ask Pastoral care to come back a little later in the day.
d. Remind the nurse to complete all her tasks and then set up
remaining time for communication - Correct Answers ✅a. Include
communication while performing tasks such as changing dressings and
checking vital signs
Motivational interviewing (MI) is a technique that applies
understanding a patient's values and goals in helping the patient make
behavior changes. What are other benefits of using MI techniques?
(select all that apply)
a. Gaining an understanding of patient's motivations
b. Focusing on opportunities to avoid poor health choices
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Question & Answers 2024
c. Recognizing patient's strengths and supporting their efforts
d. Providing assessment data that can be shared with families to
promote change
e. Identifying differences in patient's health goals and current behaviors
- Correct Answers ✅a. Gaining an understanding of patient's
motivations
c. Recognizing patient's strengths and supporting their efforts
e. Identifying differences in patient's health goals and current behaviors
A nurse is talking with a young-adult patient about the purpose of a
new medication. The nurse says, "I want to be clear. Can you tell me in
your words the purpose of this medicine?" this exchange is an example
of which element of the transactional communication process?
a. Message
b. Obtaining feedback
c. Channel
d. Referent - Correct Answers ✅b. Obtaining feedback
A patient who is Spanish-speaking does not appear to understand the
nurse's information on wound care. Which action should the nurse
take?
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Question & Answers 2024
a. Arrange for a Spanish-speaking social worker to explain the
procedure
b. Ask a fellow Spanish-speaking patient to help explain the procedure
c. Use a professional interpreter to provide wound care education in
Spanish
d. Ask the patient to write down questions that he or she has for the
nurse - Correct Answers ✅c. Use a professional interpreter to
provide wound care education in Spanish
A nurse prepares to contact a patient's condition. Put the following
statements in the correct order using SBAR (Situation, Background,
Assessment, and Recommendation)communication.
a. "She is a 53-year-old female who was admitted 2 days ago with
pneumonia and was started on Levaquin at 5pm yesterday. She
complains of poor appetite."
b. "The patient reported feeling very nauseated after her dose of
Levaquin an hour ago"
c. "Would you like to make a change in antibiotics, or could we give her
a nutritional supplement before her medication?"
d. "The patient started complaining of nausea yesterday evening and
has vomited several times during the night." - Correct Answers
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