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You are preparing a presentation for your classmates
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regarding the clinical care coordination conference for a
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patient with terminal cancer. As part of the preparation,
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you have your classmates read the Nursing Code of Ethics
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for Professional Registered Nurses. Your instructor asks
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the class why this document is important. Which
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statement best describes this code? |\ |\ |\ |\
1. Improves self-health care
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2. Protects the patient's confidentiality
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3. Ensures identical care to all patients
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4. Defines the principles of right and wrong to provide
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patient care - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔4
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A nurse is caring for a patient with end-stage lung
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disease. The patient wants to go home on oxygen and be
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comfortable. The family wants the patient to have a new |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
surgical procedure. The nurse explains the risk and
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benefits of the operation to the family and discusses the
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patient's wishes with them. The nurse is acting as the
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patient's:
,1. Educator
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2. Advocate
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3. Caregiver
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4. Communicator - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔2
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The nurse spends time with a patient and family
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reviewing a dressing change procedure for the patient's
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wound. The patient's spouse demonstrates how to change
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the dressing. The nurse is acting in which professional
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role?
1. Educator
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2. Advocate
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3. Caregiver
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4. Communicator - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔1
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The examination for RN licensure is the same in every
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state in the United States. This examination:
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1. Guarantees safe nursing care for all patients
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2. Ensures standard nursing care for all patients
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3. Provides the minimal standard of knowledge for an RN
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in practice
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,4. Guarantees standardized education across all
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prelicensure programs - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔3 |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
Contemporary nursing requires that the nurse have |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
knowledge and skills for a variety of professional roles
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and responsibilities. Which of the following are examples
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of these roles and responsibilities? (Select all that apply.)
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1. Caregiver
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2. Autonomy
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3. Patient advocate
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4. Health promotion
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5. Genetic counselor - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔1,2, 3,4
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Match the advanced practice nurse specialty with the
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statement about the role. |\ |\ |\
|\ 1. Clinical nurse
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specialist
2. Nurse
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anesthetist
3. Nurse
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practitioner
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midwife
a. Provides independent care, including pregnancy and
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gynecological services |\
b. Expert clinician in a specialized area of practice such as
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adult diabetes care
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c. Provides comprehensive care, usually in a primary care
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setting, directly managing the medical care of patients
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who are healthy or have chronic conditions
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d. Plans and delivers anesthesia and pain management to
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patients across the life span - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔1-
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b
2- d |\
3- c |\
4- a |\
Health care reform will bring changes in the emphasis of
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care. Which of these models is expected from health care
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reform?