Board Vitals Health Promotion Practice Questions

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• Health is being connected in body, mind, and spirit. The public health nurse is presenting a health promotion class to a group of new

mothers. How should the nurse best define health?

• Health is being disease free.
• Health is having fulfillment in all domains of life.
• Health is having psychological and physiological harmony.
• Health is being connected in body, mind, and spirit.
• Sensitivity to cultural differencesA nurse is speaking to a group of prospective nursing students about what it is like

to be a nurse. What is one characteristic the nurse would cite as necessary to possess to be an effective nurse?

• Sensitivity to cultural differences
• Team-focused approach to problem-solving
• Strict adherence to routine
• Ability to face criticism

• Management of illnessWith increases in longevity, people have had to become more knowledgeable

about their health and the professional health care that they receive. One outcome of this phenomenon is the development of organized self-care education programs. Which of the following do these programs prioritize?

• Adequate prenatal care
• Government advocacy and lobbying
• Judicious use of online communities
• Management of illness
• Self-actualization4. The home health nurse is assisting a patient and his family in planning the

patient's return to work after surgery and the development of postsurgical complications. The nurse is preparing a plan of care that addresses the patient's multifaceted needs. To which level of Maslow's hierarchy of basic needs does the patient's need for self-fulfillment relate?

• Physiologic
• Transcendence
• Love and belonging
• Self-actualization
• A person's state of health is ever-changing.5. The view that health and illness are not static states but that they exist on a

continuum is central to professional health care systems. When planning care, this view aids the nurse in appreciating which of the following?

• Care should focus primarily on the treatment of disease.
• A person's state of health is ever-changing.
• A person can transition from health to illness rapidly.
• Care should focus on the patient's compliance with interventions.
• It is best achieved by exhibiting behaviors that

promote health.A group of nursing students are participating in a community health clinic. When providing care in this context, what should the students teach participants about disease prevention?

• It is best achieved through attending self-help groups.
• It is best achieved by reducing psychological stress.
• It is best achieved by being an active participant in the community.
• It is best achieved by exhibiting behaviors that promote health.

• These programs seek to justify health care costs and

systems.

• A nurse on a medical-surgical unit has asked to represent the unit on the

hospital's quality committee. When describing quality improvement programs to nursing colleagues and members of other health disciplines, what characteristic should the nurse cite?

• These programs establish consequences for health care professionals' actions.
• These programs focus on the processes used to provide care.
• These programs identify specific incidents related to quality.
• These programs seek to justify health care costs and systems.
• Thorough and evidence-based discharge planning Nurses in acute care settings must work with other health care team members to

maintain quality care while facing pressures to care for patients who are hospitalized for shorter periods of time than in the past. To ensure positive health outcomes when patients return to their homes, what action should the nurse prioritize?

• Promotion of health literacy during hospitalization
• Close communication with insurers
• Thorough and evidence-based discharge planning
• Participation in continuing education initiatives
• Identifying the immediate needs of the patient You are admitting a patient to your medical unit after the patient has been

transferred from the emergency department. What is your priority nursing action at this time?

• Identifying the immediate needs of the patient
• Checking the admitting physician's orders
• Obtaining a baseline set of vital signs
• Allowing the family to be with the patient
• Helping the patient to achieve specific outcomes A nurse on a postsurgical unit is providing care based on a clinical pathway. When

performing assessments and interventions with the aid of a pathway, the nurse should prioritize what goal?

• Helping the patient to achieve specific outcomes
• Balancing risks and benefits of interventions
• Documenting the patient's response to therapy
• Staying accountable to the interdisciplinary team

• Clinical nurse specialistNurses have different educational backgrounds and function under many titles in

their practice setting. If a nurse practicing in an oncology clinic had the goal of improving patient outcomes and nursing care by influencing the patient, the nurse, and the health care system, what would most accurately describe this nurse's title?

• Nursing care expert
• Clinical nurse specialist
• Nurse manager
• Staff nurse
• PhysiologicA hospice nurse is caring for a patient who is dying of lymphoma. According to

Maslow's hierarchy of needs, what dimension of care should the nurse consider primary in importance when caring for a dying patient?

• Spiritual
• Social
• Physiologic
• Emotional
• Administering pain medicationA nurse is planning a medical patient's care with consideration of Maslow's

hierarchy of needs. Within this framework of understanding, what would be the nurse's first priority?

• Allowing the family to see a newly admitted patient
• Ambulating the patient in the hallway
• Administering pain medication
• Teaching the patient to self-administer insulin safely
• American Nurses Association's Social Policy Statement A medical-surgical nurse is aware of the scope of practice as defined in the state

where the nurse provides care. This nurse's compliance with the nurse practice act demonstrates adherence to which of the following?

• National Council of Nursing's guidelines for care
• National League for Nursing's Code of Conduct
• American Nurses Association's Social Policy Statement
• Department of Health and Human Service's White Paper on Nursing
• Leninger.When the nurse encourages a Native American to seek health counsel from the

tribe's shaman, the nurse is following the tenets of

• King.
• Leninger.
• Pender.
• Rogers.