a) Planning for follow-up care
b) Addressing topics that have not yet been addressed
c) Assessing the client's mental status
d) Letting the client know you understood all he or she has told you
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a) Planning for follow-up care
An older adult client is brought to the ED. The client tells the nurse, "I feel like
something really heavy is sitting on my chest." The nurse then says to the client, "You
feel as if something heavy is sitting on your chest?" Of what type of nurse-client
communication is this an example?
a) Restatement
b) Active listening
, c) Encouraging elaboration
d) Reflection
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a) Restatement
The nurse documents information about a client's activity-exercise health pattern.
Which information did the nurse most likely document?
a) gained 15 lbs. over the last 6 months
b) experiences panic attacks several times a week
c) unable to go to the gym since having back surgery
d) misses seeing friends who used to go for walks together
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c) unable to go to the gym since having back surgery
The nurse is focusing an interview on a client's respiratory status. Which question
should the nurse ask first to begin this interview?
a) Do you currently have a cough?
b) Do you have any difficulty producing sputum?
c) Describe how you breathe for me
d) Do you experience any pain when you breathe?
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c) Describe how you breathe for me