FUNDAMENTALS EXAM 2 PRACTICE TEST WITH WELL VERIFIED ANSWERS [GRADED A+] REAL EXAM 100% [NEW!!!NEW!!!

FUNDAMENTALS EXAM 2 PRACTICE TEST
WITH WELL VERIFIED ANSWERS [GRADED
A+] REAL EXAM 100% [NEW!!!NEW!!!
Which of the following is a collaborative intervention?
A. Rubbing patients back to facilitate relaxation
B. measuring the patients blood pressure
C. Assessing the patients educational needs related to discharge
D. Administering prescribed medications to a patient - ANS✔✔---D.
Administering prescribed medications to a patient
(Administering medications requires a physicians order and pharmacist to
dispense, it is therefore a collaborative intervention for the nurse)
When assessing the level of cardiorespiratory fitness in healthy, middle-aged
adults without joint restriction or mobility impairment, what screening activity
would be most suitable for the nurse to ask the patient to perform? -
ANS✔✔---Step Test
(appropriate for most adults without mobility impairment or joint restriction or
pain. rate: 24 steps per min for 3 mins)
How is critical pathway DIFFERENT from a standardized care plan? A critical
pathway: - ANS✔✔---Specifies patient outcomes and interventions for each
day, or other period of time
(some situations (labor and delivery) each hr)
Critical pathways include: - ANS✔✔----medical orders
-standardized, not individualized
-Both critical pathways and standardized care plans are preprinted documents
for a particular diagnosis or condition
Why is implementation know as the action phase of the nursing process?
Because it is the stage in which the nurse: - ANS✔✔---Performs or
delegates the planned interventions
Unit standards of care are: - ANS✔✔---- A description of minimal level of
care a patient is expected to receive
- NOT part of the care plan that is included in the patients chart
What is the most important reason for a nurse to remain calm, greet patient by
name, and introduce herself to a new patient, even when the nurse is upset by
something else that has happened? - ANS✔✔---These actions help to
establish a trusting relationship
The nurse would try to identify the patients locus of control when trying to
change health promotion behavior because she wanted to determine? -
ANS✔✔---Perception of powerlessness
(people who feel powerless about preventing illness are least likely to engage in
health promotion activities)
The Structural-functional theory views the family as - ANS✔✔---A social
system with focus on outcomes
A nurse admitting a 75-year-old patient to the nursing unit, accompanied by his
son. Using a life span approach to care, what is essential for the nurse to do? -
ANS✔✔---Ask the patient if he has had any falls in the past year
(Falls are a major source of morbidity in hospitalized patients. On admission,
nurse should ask all older adults (65 +) if they have had any falls in the past
year)
A nurse spends time with a dying patient. She holds the patients hand and prays
with her quietly. This action is most clearly an example of whose nursing theory?
- ANS✔✔---Jean Watson
(Science of Human Caring theory, which describes caring from a nursing
perspective)
What form propositions when linked together and are considered "building
blocks" of theories? - ANS✔✔---Concepts
(provide a framework for a theory)
Unit standards are not organized according to - ANS✔✔---nursing diagnosis
What is wrong with this goal statment? "The patient will walk to the doorway with
the help of one person." - ANS✔✔---TARGET TIME
(Its action verb is "patient" and its special conditions