NR 222 Exam 1|50 Questions with Answers
Which of the following nursing situations best reflects accountability?
a) The nurse assesses the patient for the possible cause of his pain
b) The nurse takes the oncology
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NR 222 Exam 1|50 Questions with Answers
Which of the following nursing situations best reflects accountability?
a) The nurse assesses the patient for the possible cause of his pain
b) The nurse takes the oncology nursing certification examination
c) The nurse files an incident report regarding a medication error.
d) An education seminar on "Eating for a healthy Heart" - CORRECT ANSWER c) The nurse files an incident report regarding a medication error.
Which statement is an accurate description of nursing?
a) "Nursing includes the diagnosis and treatment of human responses to health and
illness"
b) "Nursing is a profession dependent upon the physician."
c) "It is the role of the physician, not the nurse, to help patients understand their health."
d) "Nursing includes the diagnosis and cure of human diseases and any potential health
problems." - CORRECT ANSWER a) "Nursing includes the diagnosis and treatment of human responses to health and
illness"
What are the two major goals of Healthy People 2020?
a) Eliminate health disparities and increase the quality and years of healthy life
b) Support research in finding disease cures and increase focus on technology
c) Advance the access to care for all and reduce tobacco use among adolescents
d) Reduce fraud in healthcare spending and increase aid to dependent children - CORRECT ANSWER a) Eliminate health disparities and increase the quality and years of healthy life
The nurse plans to improve heart health in the community. Which primary prevention activity can the nurse do to improve heart health in the community?
a) An electrocardiogram (EKG) screening
b) A blood pressure screening
c) A cardiac surgical procedure
d) An education seminar on "Eating for a healthy Heart" - CORRECT ANSWER d) An education seminar on "Eating for a healthy Heart"
The first practicing nurse epidemiologist was
a) Florence Nightingale
b) Mildred Montag
c) Mary Agnes Snively
d) Clara Barton - CORRECT ANSWER a)Florence Nightingale
When assisting an obese patient to lose weight, it is very important to help the patient accomplish which of the following?
a) Attend occupational and physical therapy
b) Consult mental health counseling
c) Make lifestyle change
d) Make plans for surgery - CORRECT ANSWER c) Make lifestyle change
Which documentation information is most consistent with objective date?
a) The patient reports pain in his left leg
b) The family reports that the patient has elevated blood pressure
c) The lab reports a patient's glucose is high
d) The patient reports discomfort when he takes deep breaths - CORRECT ANSWER c) The lab reports a patient's glucose is high
A nurse moves from Chicago to Charlotte and begins working in a hospital. The most important factor for the nurse to consider when moving to another state is the?
a) Standard for nursing practice in Charlotte
b) Clinical ladder of mobility in the new hospital
c) Requirement for continuing education units (CEU) in North Carolina
d) North Carolina Nurse Practice Act - CORRECT ANSWER d) North Carolina Nurse Practice Act
The nurse assists the client in a health promotion activity that also reduces the cost of health care delivery when:
a) Administering medication
b) Treating a diabetic foot ulcer
c) Discussing exercise and nutrition
d) Obtaining an operative consent - CORRECT ANSWER c) Discussing exercise and nutrition
A nurse is accused of inappropriate professional behavior and malpractice. Which tool will be used to determine if the allegations are true?
a) ANA Standards of Practice
b) Advocacy
c) WHO Plan of Action for Registered Nurses
d) The JC National Patient Safety Goals - CORRECT ANSWER a) ANA Standards of Practice
How can nursing student best participate in evidence-based research?
a) Conducting polls on research topics
b) Incorporating research findings into their clinical experiences
c) Formulating research hypotheses
d) Developing theoretical frameworks - CORRECT ANSWER b) Incorporating research findings into their clinical experiences
Hospices provide care to terminally ill patients and their families in hospitals, in the home, or in special hospice facilities. Which level of intervention do hospices?
a) Primary Care
b) Tertiary Care
c) Secondary Care
d) Sub-Acute Care - CORRECT ANSWER b) tertiary care
While providing care to patient, the nurse is responsible, both professionally and legally.
Which concept does this describe?
a) Accountability
b) Autonomy
c) Patient Advocacy
d) Patient Education - CORRECT ANSWER a) accountability
Which of the following individuals will most likely experiences a disparity in helath and healthcare? (Select all that apply)
a) African American man
b) White middle-aged man
c) Single Latino woman
d) Unemployed woman - CORRECT ANSWER A) African American man
C) single latino woman
d) unemployed woman
Which nurse most likely kept records on sanitation techniques and the effects on health?
a. Florence Nightingale
b. Mary Nutting
c. Clara Barton
d. Lillian Wald - CORRECT ANSWER c. Florence Nightingale
A patient is scheduled for surgery. When getting ready to obtain the informed consent, the patient tells the nurse, "I have no idea what is going to happen. I couldn't ask any questions." The nurse does not allow the patient to sign the permit and notifies the health care provider
of the situation. Which role is the nurse displaying?
a) Clinical Nurse Specialist
b) Patient Educator
c) Patient Advocate
d) Manager - CORRECT ANSWER c) patient Advocate
A nurse teaches a group of nursing students about nurse practice acts. Which information is most important to include in the teaching session about nurse practice acts?
a) Protects the hospital
b) Protects the insurance
c) Protects the provider
d) Protects the public - CORRECT ANSWER d) Protects the public
Which statement would indicate the nursing student understood the role of the nurse?
a) It is the role of the physician, not the nurse, to help patient understand their health
b) Nursing is a profession dependent upon physician orders
c) Nurses are using diagnoses and treat the human responses to injury and illness
d) Nursing includes the diagnosis and cure of human disease and any potential medical problems - CORRECT ANSWER c) Nurses are using diagnoses and treat the human responses to injury and illness
A nurse attends a workshop on current nursing issues provided by the American Nurses Association. Which type of education did the nurse receive?
a) Continuing education
b) Graduate education
c) Registered nurse education
d) In-service education - CORRECT ANSWER a) Continuing education
A nurse is told by a colleague that an Asian-American individual on home care is using
complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). Which of the following conclusions can
accurately be drawn from this statement?
a) The client will have adverse complications from using this form of medicine
b) The client does not agree with the current professional care medication regimen
c) The client will soon be returning to his or her native country for further treatment
d) The client may be using medication, acupuncture, or another therapy - CORRECT ANSWER d) The client may be using medication, acupuncture, or another therapy
A nurse discussing the care of a person on the surgical unit following gastric bypass surgery with a friend is in violation of the
a) Health Insurance Portability and Accountability act of 1996
b) Patient Self-Determination Act
c) Civil Rights Act
d) Americans with Disability act - CORRECT ANSWER a) Health Insurance Portability and Accountability act of 1996
A nurse is using a guide that provides principles of right and wrong to provide care to patients. Which guide is the nurse using?
a) Code of Ethics
b) Quality and Safety Education for Nurses
c) Standards of Practice
d) Standards of Professional Performance - CORRECT ANSWER a) code of Ethics
A nurse assesses a patient's fluid status and decides that the patient needs to drink more
fluids. The nurse then encourages the patient to drink more fluids. Which concept is the nurse
demonstrating?
a) Certification
b) Accountability
c) Autonomy
d) Licensure - CORRECT ANSWER c) Autonomy
An experienced medical-surgical nurse chooses to work in obstetrics. Which level of
proficiency is the nurse upon initial transition to the obstetrical unit?
a) Competent
b) Proficient
c) Advanced beginner
d) Novice - CORRECT ANSWER d) Novice
The nurse prescribes strategies and alternatives to attain expected outcome. Which standard of nursing practices is the nurse following?
a) Planning
b) Assessment
c) Implementation
d) Diagnosis - CORRECT ANSWER a) planning
A nurse is accused of inappropriate professional behavior and malpractice. Which tool will be used to determine if the allegations are true?
a) WHO Plan of Action for Registered Nurses
b) The JC National Patient Safety Goals
c) NLN Education Summit Report
d) ANA Standards of Practice - CORRECT ANSWER d) ANA Standards of Practice
A patient from a different culture has had numerous visitors during his stay. In fact, there are visitors in the room at all times. In order to address this in a culturally sensitive manner, the nurse should?
a) Assess the benefits of family participation in the patient's care
b) Question the family as to how they see their interaction with the patient
c) Tell the patient that he has to limit visitors unless they start doing the bath and dressing changes
d) Have the physician limit the number of visitors the patient can have - CORRECT ANSWER a) Assess the benefits of family participation in the patient's care
A healthcare provider is discussing the importance of receiving routine preventative care with a Hispanic family that has recently immigrated to the US. Which of the following would best describe why the family would not be interested in receiving professional care? (Select all that apply)
a) Lack of health insurance
b) Increased family support
c) Lack of interpreter service
d) Increased access to healthcare - CORRECT ANSWER a) Lack of health insurance
c) Lack of interpreter service
A healthcare provider is working with an African American woman who has recently
suffered a stroke and is homebound. She insists that she must get out of the house and attend Sunday worship services. Which is the most likely explanation for her insisting that she participates in this cultural practice?
a) Church should not be important in this woman's life because she is sick
b) The church is the only place where the woman can read the bible
c) The church is the only place she can meet her family
d) The church serves as social support for its members - CORRECT ANSWER d) The church serves as social support for its members
Which of the following actions demonstrates a healthcare professional providing culturally competent care?
a) Demonstrating the proper way to administer an insulin injection
b) Asking the person to describe his folk healing methods
c) Encouraging the person to take medications as prescribed
d) Assisting the person with discussing his health problems with the family - CORRECT ANSWER b) Asking the person to describe his folk healing methods
Which of the following statements about ethnic minorities in the US is accurate?
a) The increasing population of ethnic minorities has helped decrease the health disparities faced by this population
b) It is estimated that percentage of ethnic minorities will decrease during the next 30 years
c) It is estimated that ethnic minorities will increase to one in two by 2050
d) The increasing population of refuges has been a significant contributor to the decrease in healthcare costs - CORRECT ANSWER c) It is estimated that ethnic minorities will increase to one in two by 2050
A nurse is assessing the healthcare disparities among population groups. Which area is the nurse monitoring?
a) Prevalence of complications
b) Incidence of diseases
c) Outcomes of health conditions
d) Accessibility of healthcare services - CORRECT ANSWER d) Accessibility of healthcare services
Which action indicates the nurse is meeting a primary goal of cultural competent care for
patients?
a) Provides care patients that is individualized
b) Provides care to restore relationships
c) Provides care to surgical patients
d) Provides care to transgender patients - CORRECT ANSWER d) Provides care to transgender patients
A nurse is beginning to use patient-centered care and cultural competence to improve nursing care. Which step should the nurse take first?
a) Learning about the world view of others
b) Assessing own biases and attitudes
c) Developing cultural skills
d) Assessing own biases and attitude - CORRECT ANSWER d) Assessing own biases and attitude
A patient reports that her husband is taking a new job in another city. She feels stress about the move and does not want to go. Which action by the nurse would be best?
a) Assess the patient's and family's coping mechanisms is handling stress
b) Tell the patient that all families cope with new situations like these from time to time
c) Encourage the patient to re-frame her thinking about the move
d) Talk to the husband to get his perspective on the move - CORRECT ANSWER a) Assess the patient's and family's coping mechanisms is handling stress
Creating an education program in both English and Spanish in an area that has both
predominate languages demonstrates with competency?
a) Cultural beliefs
b) Health beliefs
c) Ethics
d) Cultural sensitivity - CORRECT ANSWER d) cultural sensitivity
Which of the following best describes the responsibilities nurses have for education clients?
a) Teaching falls within the scope of nursing practice and is the primary role of the registered nurse
b) Legally, the patient must be told detailed information about the medical diagnosis
c) The American Hospital Association formalized the patient's right to information
d) Because of short hospital stays, nurses attempt to teach the patients about discharge - CORRECT ANSWER a) Teaching falls within the scope of nursing practice and is the primary role of the registered nurse
The nurse recognizes that when planning healthcare for any group, which factor has the greatest impact on whether the interventions are effective or not?
a) The interventions should be gender specific
b) The interventions should be cost effective
c) The interventions should be culturally sensitive
d) The interventions should be based on the nurse's priorities - CORRECT ANSWER c) The interventions should be culturally sensitive
A nurse is using the holistic approach to care. Which goal is the priority?
a) Integrate spiritual treatments
b) Join physical care with a vegan diet
c) Use complementary and alternative therapies
d) Incorporate the mind-body-spirt connection - CORRECT ANSWER d) Incorporate the mind-body-spirt connection
A diagnostic error can influence the application of the nursing care plan. A likely source for a nursing diagnosis error is the nurse:
a) Validates the assessment information in the data base
b) Formulates a diagnosis too closely resembling a medical diagnosis
c) Uses the North American Nursing Diagnosis Association, International (NANDA-I) NANDA-I list of diagnoses as a primary source
d) Distinguishes the nursing focus instead of other health care disciplines - CORRECT ANSWER b) Formulates a diagnosis too closely resembling a medical diagnosis
A nurse is trying to reduce barriers that patients may face as they work to achieve their outcomes. Which action by the nurse is most appropriate?
a) Criticize patients who do not adhere to nursing care plans
b) Develop trial-and-error approaches to implementing patients' care plans
c) Ensure that patients are involved in the plan of care
d) Teach patients how to develop a nursing care plan - CORRECT ANSWER c) Ensure that patients are involved in the plan of care
When modifying a care plan to meet a patient whose status has changed significantly over the past few days, the nurse should:
a) Add more nursing interventions from a standardized plan of care
b) Redevelop the entire patient care plan
c) Perform a complete reassessment of all patient factors
d) Focus on changing the nursing diagnoses and goals - CORRECT ANSWER c) Perform a complete reassessment of all patient factors
A state of physical, mental, spiritual, and social functioning that realizes a person's potential and is experienced within a developmental context is known as:
a) Functioning
b) high-level wellness
c) Growth and development
d) health - CORRECT ANSWER d) health
Standards of care in nursing __________
a) Serve as laws that must be abided by in providing nursing care
b) Allow professional nurses to practice without boundaries
c) Serve as safety guidelines established by the profession for nursing practice
d) Determine a professional nurse's rights in delivering nursing care - CORRECT ANSWER Serve as safety guidelines established by the profession for nursing practice
An adult patient has recently been diagnosed with cancer. The patient's family has asked the nurse to withhold this information from the patient because they feel that this information would cause the patient to give up on life and become very depressed. The nurse believes the patient should be told this information. Which ethical principle is being upheld by the nurse?
a) Veracity
b) Nonmaleficence
c) Justice
d) Beneficence - CORRECT ANSWER a) Veracity
What is the concept of ethics that is described as the "duty to maximize the benefits of actions while minimizing harm"
a) Autonomy
b) Justice
c) Beneficence
d) Advocacy - CORRECT ANSWER c) Beneficence
A primary prevention method for obesity is to:
a) Create an eating plan for overweight children
b) Encourage an active lifestyle during childhood years
c) Start a support group for parents of obese children
d) Establish an exercise program for obese children - CORRECT ANSWER b) Encourage an active lifestyle during childhood years
The best approach a nurse should consider for a person who states he is ready to start exercising is to:
a) Schedule a follow-up in two months to see if he still feels the same way
b) Provide him with information on the benefits of exercising
c) Develop an exercise plan with him
d) Do nothing, because he has already made the decision to implement a change - CORRECT ANSWER c) Develop an exercise plan with him
During a parent-teachers association meeting at the school, the nurse explains the need for nutritional aid for low income children who are not getting meals at home and encourages the school to start a free breakfast and lunch program for these children. What role does the
nurse fulfill?
a) Consultant
b) Educator
c) Advocate
d) Care manager - CORRECT ANSWER c) Advocate
A nurse is providing HIV/AIDS education to adults of various ethnic and sexual orientations. Which is the priority for the nurse to communicate?
a) Prevention
b) Statistics of HIV mortality
c) Medications available for treatment
d) Symptom management - CORRECT ANSWER a) prevention
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