QUESTION A neighbor of a nurse comes to the clinic complaining of fever, malaise, cough, and night sweats. The neighbor is given directions to rest, drink plenty of fluids, and take medication to relieve the fever. The neighbor complains to the nurse over the backyard fence that she is still not feeling her best and […]
QUESTION A physician writes an order for a client on the unit to have a diuretic due to the medical diagnosis of congestive heart failure. As congestive heart failure is a disease to the client in this situation, which of the following traits is included as a description of disease as read in the text? […]
QUESTION A nurse and a client engage in communication about the client’s length of stay as a result of having open-heart surgery. The unit uses day-by-day specific instructions for nursing care on a form that is at the client’s bedside. What is the cognitive tool that is used in this specific instance that has reduced […]
QUESTION A client arrives from surgery and the nurse assesses the client vital signs, pain level, and bleeding status. Following the assessment, the nurse writes “acute pain related to surgery as evidenced by moaning, verbalization of pain being 10 on a scale of one to 10, and elevated blood pressure.” What portion of the nursing […]
QUESTION A nurse on a busy cardiac unit experiences her first code, and the client is sent to the coronary care intensive-care unit for further care. The nurse feels that her participation in the code could have been performed in a more efficient manner. What type of thinking was utilized in this scenario? A) Critical […]
QUESTION A professional organization has called for abstracts and the theme is theory in practice. The nurse sends in the abstract using a model in which the purpose of nursing is to facilitate the harmonious pattern of the essence fields of both client and nurse. Which theory is inclusive of this concept of nursing? A) […]
QUESTION A nursing preceptor is reviewing the nursing process during the first day together with his preceptee. The steps of assessment, diagnosis, planning, implementation, and evaluation are reviewed, and the preceptor stresses that the process has the advantage of keeping nurses organized and provides structure for problem solving. While strengths were listed, what is one […]
QUESTION The strengths of which of the following nursing models utilizes the systems approach and makes it relevant to current nursing practice? A) Callista Roy’s Adaptation Model and Martha Rogers’ Science of Unitary Human Beings B) Rosemarie Parse’s Human Becoming Theory and Susan Leddy’s Human Energy Model C) Betty Neuman’s Health Care Systems Model and […]
QUESTION During postconference, the clinical instructor reviews theories that utilize the nursing process and how they differ in their approach to the nursing process. Which of the following theories delineates assessment by including perception, communication, and interaction of the nurse and the client in the definition of the assessment phase? A) King’s Theory of Goal […]
QUESTION A nurse who has worked on the medical-surgical unit for 25 years discusses with a colleague the way that she learned to do things in nursing school. There is a new policy that has been implemented, and the nurse is having difficulty adjusting to the new procedure. Which of the following nursing-based practices does […]
