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NCLEX-RN EXAM REVIEW
133 terms Family_firstPreview NCLEX-PN Review Questions 75 terms awithem240Preview Archer Review 6b 75 terms chedrick_john_andam Preview Fundam 55 terms bob Nursing can best be defined as a discipline that focuses on which of the following?
- Human responses to health and illness
- A wide variety of disease states
- The interaction between nurses and other disciplines
- The relationship between prevention and teaching
- Human responses to health and illness
- Developing standardized plans of care to control
- Teaching patients to become more dependent on their
- Caring for patients in acute care as the length of stay
- Using evidenced-based practice skills as much as
- Using evidenced-based practice skills as much as possible in daily care
Which challenge must a nurse in today's health care field be prepared to meet?
costs
health care provider
increases
possible in daily care
Can you name 3 roles of a nurse?Caregiver Manager Educator Communicator Professional Advocate Researcher
What nurse established the American Red Cross in 1882?
- Florence Nightingale
- Clara Barton
- Dorothea Dix
- Mary Breckinridge
- Margret Sanger
- Mary Mahoney
- Clara Barton
- Nurse Practice Acts
- Quality and safety education for nursing
- American Nurses Association
- National League for Nursing
- Nurse Practice Acts
What organization protects the public with regard to nursing practice?
True or False:
A child is born with values and forms new values during a lifetime from information from the environment, family, and culture.False Rationale: A child is not born with values, but rather forms values during a lifetime from information from the environment, family, and culture.Which value involves acting in accordance with an appropriate code of ethics and accepted standards of practice?
- Altruism
- Autonomy
- Human dignity
- Integrity
- Social justice
- Integrity
Rationale: Integrity involves acting in accordance with a code of ethics and
accepted standards of practice.Altruism is a concern for the welfare of others.Autonomy is the right to self-determination.Human dignity is respect for the worth and uniqueness of individuals and populations.Social justice is upholding moral, legal, and humanistic principles.Tell whether the following statement is true or false.A nurse who is dedicated to providing culturally competent care to her patients finds herself without the resources to communicate with a patient who speaks a different language. This problem may result in an ethical dilemma for the nurse.False
Rationale: This problem may result in ethical distress for the nurse.
Ethical distress occurs when the nurse knows the right thing to do but either personal or institutional factors make it difficult to follow the correct course of action.Ethical dilemma occurs when two (or more) clear moral principles apply but support mutually inconsistent courses of action.A nurse attempts to obtain an order for a feeding tube for an anorexic teenager who refuses to eat. What is the term for the ethical problem this nurse is experiencing?
- Deception
- Confidentiality
- Allocation of scarce nursing resources
- Advocacy in market-driven environment
- Paternalism
- Paternalism
Rationale:
Paternalism occurs when a nurse acts for a patient without consent to secure good or prevent harm.Deception occurs when a nurse deceives a person for a perceived benefit.Patient confidentiality is questioned when a patient confidence may lead to harm.Allocation of scarce nursing resources and advocacy in market-driven environment involve patient harm due to inadequate staffing/finances.
Tell whether the following statement is true or false.The state nurse practice act is the most important law affecting nursing practice.True Rationale: The state nurse practice act is the most important law affecting nursing practice.Each nurse practice act protects the public by broadly defining the legal scope of nursing practice.This is the function of the PA State Board of Nursing** RN's who practice in PA are licensed in PA by the Pennsylvania State Board of Nursing
Which is the correct term for this nursing action: A nurse
falsely imprisons a patient by an unauthorized use of restraints.
- Crime
- Tort
- Misdemeanor
- Felony
- Tort
Rationale: A tort is a wrong committed by a person against another person or that person's property.False imprisonment is an intentional tort.A crime is a wrong against a person or that person's property as well as the public.Crimes can be classified as misdemeanors or felonies.Tell whether the following statement is true or false.In all health care agencies, informed and voluntary consent is needed for admission, for specialized diagnostic procedures or medical-surgical treatment, and for any experimental treatments or procedures.True Rationale: In all health care agencies, informed and voluntary consent is needed for admission, for specialized diagnostic procedures or medical-surgical treatment, and for any experimental treatments or procedures.The family member of an elderly client objects that the restraints are being used to prevent the client from wandering into other patient's rooms, especially at night.In order to avoid the use of restraints, the nurse should
consider:
- Providing visual and auditory stimuli
- Using antianxiety medications as prescribed
- Assigning the client to a room near the nurse's station
- Locking the other client's rooms
- Assigning the client to a room near the nurse;s station
- State Nurse Practice Acts
- National League for Nursing (NLN) accreditation
- American Nurses Association ANA) standards of
- State Board of Nursing guidelines
- State Nurse Practice Acts
Kate is a 22-year old graduate nurse. She has just taken her first job on a rehabilitation unit. To be aware of her legal responsibilities in her daily nursing practice, Kate should become familiar with which of the following?
nursing practice
A nurse is being charged with malpractice. The element of malpractice that is proven by determining that the
nurse did not meet the standard of care is:
- Duty
- Breach of duty
- Causation
- Damages
- Breach of duty
- Autonomy
- Fidelity
- Confidentiality
- Beneficence
- Confidentiality
- Consult with practice advisors from the state board of
- Document the client's claims and the events
- Enlist support from nursing and nonnursing colleagues
- Consult with the hospital's legal department as soon as
- Document the client's claims and the events surrounding the alleged incident.
- early civilization to 16th century
- 16th to 17th century
- 18th to 19th century
- pre-civilization
- 18th to 19th Century
- treating illness
- preventing illness
- restoring health
- facilitating coping
- Preventing Illness
You and your classmate discuss your clients in the parking lot. You think that others are not listening to your conversation. Which of the following principles did you breach?
A client states that the client's recent fall was caused by his scheduled antihypertensive medications being mistakenly administered by two different nurses, an event that is disputed by both of the nurses identified by the client. Which measure should the nurses prioritize when anticipating that legal action may follow?
nursing.
surrounding the alleged incident.
from the unit.
possible.
In what time period did nursing care as we now know it begin?
Teaching a woman about breast self-examination is an example of what broad aim of nursing?
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