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Test Bank - Lewis Medical Surgical Nursing, 10th Edition (Lewis, 2017), Chapter 1-68 | All Chapters
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ls will be developed with the patient‘s input. The patient states, ―How is this different from what
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the doctor does?‖ Which response would be most appropriate for the nurse to make?
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a. ―The role of the nurse is to administer medications and other treatments prescribed b
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c. ―Nurses perform many of the same procedures as the doctor, but nurses are with th
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e patients for a longer time than the doctor.‖
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d. ―In addition to caring for you while you are sick, the nurses will assist you to d
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This response is consistent with the American Nurses Association (ANA) definition of nursing,
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which describes the role of nurses in promoting health. The other responses describe some of the
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dependent and collaborative functions of the nursing role but do not accurately describe the nur
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se‘s role in the health care system.
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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, w
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ould be the most accurate?
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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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based evidence combined with clinician expertise. Clinical judgment based on the nurse‘s clinic
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al experience is part of EBP, but clinical decision making should also incorporate current resear
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based guidelines. Evaluation of patient outcomes is important, but interventions should be based
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on research from randomized control studies with a large number of subjects.
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3. The nurse teaches a student nurse about how to apply the nursing process when providing p
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atient care. Which statement, if made by the student nurse, indicates that teaching was succ
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The nursing process is a problem-
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solving approach to the identification and treatment of patients‘ problems. Diagnosis is only on
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e phase of the nursing process. The primary use of the nursing process is in patient care, not to es
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tablish nursing theory or explain nursing interventions to other health care professionals.
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4. A patient has been admitted to the hospital for surgery and tells the nurse, ―I do not feel comfo
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rtable leaving my children with my parents.‖ Which action should the nurse take next?
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b. Have the patient call the children to ensure that they are doing well.
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c. Gather more data about the patient‘s feelings about the child-care arrangements.
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d. Call the patient‘s parents to determine whether adequate child care is being p
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Because a complete assessment is necessary in order to identify a problem and choose an appro
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priate intervention, the nurse‘s first action should be to obtain more information. The other acti
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ons may be appropriate, but more assessment is needed before the best intervention can be chose
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5. A patient who is paralyzed on the left side of the body after a stroke develops a pressure ulcer on
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the left hip. Which nursing diagnosis is most appropriate?
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b. Risk for impaired tissue integrity related to left-sided weakness
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The patient‘s major problem is the impaired skin integrity as demonstrated by the presence of a
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pressure ulcer. The nurse is able to treat the cause of altered circulation and pressure by frequen
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tly repositioning the patient. Although left-
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sided weakness is a problem for the patient, the nurse cannot treat the weakness. The ―risk for‖ di
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agnosis is not appropriate for this patient, who already has impaired tissue integrity. The patient
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does have ineffective tissue perfusion, but the impaired skin integrity diagnosis indicates more
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