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Chapter 01: Professional Nursing Practice Lewis
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: Medical-Surgical Nursing, 10th Edition
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1. The nurse completes an admission database and explains that the plan of care and discharge goals w
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ill be developed with the patient’s input. The patient states, “How is this different from what the doct
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or 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 by y
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our doctor.” r
b. “The nurse’s job is to help the doctor by collecting information and co
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mmunicating any problems that occur.” r r r r
c. “Nurses perform many of the same procedures as the doctor, but nurses are with the p
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atients for a longer time than the doctor.” r r r r r r r
d. “In addition to caring for you while you are sick, the nurses will assist you to devel
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op an individualized plan to maintain your health.”
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ANS: D r
This response is consistent with the American Nurses Association (ANA) definition of nursing, w
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hich describes the role of nurses in promoting health. The other responses describe some of the depe
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ndent and collaborative functions of the nursing role but do not accurately describe the nurse’s role
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in the health care system.
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DIF: Cognitive Level: Understand (comprehension) REF: 3 r r r r
TOP: Nursing Process: Implementation
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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, woul
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d be the most accurate?
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a. “Inferences from clinical research studies are used as a guide.” r r r r r r r r r
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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d. “Recommendations are based on research, clinical expertise, and patient pr r r r r r r r r r
eferences.”
ANS: D r
Evidence-based practice (EBP) is the use of the best research- r r r r r r r r r
based evidence combined with clinician expertise. Clinical judgment based on the nurse’s clinical
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experience is part of EBP, but clinical decision making should also incorporate current research an
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based guidelines. Evaluation of patient outcomes is important, but interventions should be based o
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n research from randomized control studies with a large number of subjects.
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DIF: Cognitive Level: Remember (knowledge) REF: 15 r r r r
TOP: Nursing Process: Planning
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3. The nurse teaches a student nurse about how to apply the nursing process when providing patie
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nt care. Which statement, if made by the student nurse, indicates that teaching was successful?
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a. “The nursing process is a scientific- r r r r r
based method of diagnosing the patient’s health care problems.”
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b. “The nursing process is a problem-solving tool used to identify and treat patients’
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health care needs.” r r
c. “The nursing process is used primarily to explain nursing interventions to other hea
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lth care professionals.” r r
d. “The nursing process is based on nursing theory that incorporates the bio
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psychosocial nature of humans.” r r r
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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 one p
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hase of the nursing process. The primary use of the nursing process is in patient care, not to establish
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nursing theory or explain nursing interventions to other health care professionals.
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DIF: Cognitive Level: Understand (comprehension) REF: 5 r r r r
TOP: Nursing Process: Implementation
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4. A patient has been admitted to the hospital for surgery and tells the nurse, “I do not feel comfortabl
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e leaving my children with my parents.” Which action should the nurse take next?
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a. Reassure the patient that these feelings are common for parents. r r r r r r r r r
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 pro
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vided.
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Because a complete assessment is necessary in order to identify a problem and choose an appropria
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te intervention, the nurse’s first action should be to obtain more information. The other actions may
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be appropriate, but more assessment is needed before the best intervention can be chosen.
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DIF: Cognitive Level: Apply (application) r r r REF: 6
OBJ: Special Questions: Prioritization
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TOP: Nursing Process: Assessment r r r r
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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 the
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left hip. Which nursing diagnosis is most appropriate?
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a. Impaired physical mobility related to left-sided paralysis r r r r r r
b. Risk for impaired tissue integrity related to left-sided weakness
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c. Impaired skin integrity related to altered circulation and pressure r r r r r r r r
d. Ineffective tissue perfusion related to inability to move independently r r r r r r r r
ANS: C r
The patient’s major problem is the impaired skin integrity as demonstrated by the presence of a pre
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ssure ulcer. The nurse is able to treat the cause of altered circulation and pressure by frequently repo
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sitioning the patient. Although left- r r r r
sided weakness is a problem for the patient, the nurse cannot treat the weakness. The “risk for” diag
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nosis is not appropriate for this patient, who already has impaired tissue integrity. The patient does
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have ineffective tissue perfusion, but the impaired skin integrity diagnosis indicates more clearly
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what the health problem is. r r r r
DIF: Cognitive Level: Apply (application) REF: 7 r r r
TOP: Nursing Process: Diagnosis r MSC: NCLEX: Physiological Integrity r r r r r
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