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TEST BANK - CONCEPTS FOR NURSING PRACTICE 4TH EDITION JEAN
GIDDENS/ALL CHAPTERS COVERED/COMPLETE GUIDE 2026
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1. The nurse is assessing a patient's functional ability. Which patient
best demonstrates the definition of functional ability?
a. Considers self as a healthy individual; uses cane for stability
b. College educated; travels frequently; can balance a checkbook
c. Works out daily, reads well, cooks, and cleans house on the weekends
d. Healthy individual, volunteers at church, works part time, takes care
of family and
house - ANSWER -ANS: D
Functional ability refers to the individual's ability to perform the normal
daily activities
required to meet basic needs; fulfill usual roles in the family, workplace,
and community;
and maintain health and well-being. The other options are good;
however, healthy
individual, church volunteer, part time worker, and the patient who
takes care of the family
and house fully meets the criteria for functional ability.
2. The nurse is assessing a patient's functional performance. What
assessment parameters will
be most important in this assessment?
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a. Continence assessment, gait assessment, feeding assessment,
dressing assessment,
transfer assessment
b. Height, weight, body mass index (BMI), vital signs assessment
c. Sleep assessment, energy assessment, memory assessment,
concentration
assessment
d. Health and well-being, amount of community volunteer time,
working outside the
home, and ability to care for family and house - ANSWER -ANS: A
Functional impairment, disability, or handicap refers to varying degrees
of an individual's
inability to perform the tasks required to complete normal life activities
without assistance.
Height, weight, BMI, and vital signs are part of a physical assessment.
Sleep, energy,
memory, and concentration are part of a depression screening. Healthy,
volunteering,
working, and caring for family and house are functional abilities, not
performance.
3. The nurse is assessing a patient with a mobility dysfunction and
wants to gain insight into the patient's functional ability. What question
would be the most appropriate?
a. "Are you able to shop for yourself?"
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b. "Do you use a cane, walker, or wheelchair to ambulate?"
c. "Do you know what today's date is?"
d. "Were you sad or depressed more than once in the last 3 days?" -
ANSWER -ANS: B
"Do you use a cane, walker, or wheelchair to ambulate?" will assist the
nurse in determining
the patient's ability to perform self-care activities. A nutritional health
risk assessment is not
the functional assessment. Knowing the date is part of a mental status
exam. Assessing
sadness is a question to ask in the depression screening.
The nurse is developing an interdisciplinary plan of care using the
Roper-Logan-Tierney
Model of Nursing for a patient who is currently unconscious. Which
interventions would be
most critical to developing a plan of care for this patient?
a. Eating and drinking, personal cleansing and dressing, working and
playing
b. Toileting, transferring, dressing, and bathing activities
c. Sleeping, expressing sexuality, socializing with peers
d. Maintaining a safe environment, breathing, maintaining temperature
- ANSWER -ANS: D
The most critical aspects of care for an unconscious patient are safe
environment, breathing, and temperature. Eating and drinking are
TEST BANK - CONCEPTS FOR NURSING PRACTICE 4TH EDITION JEAN
GIDDENS/ALL CHAPTERS COVERED/COMPLETE GUIDE 2026
,2|Page
1. The nurse is assessing a patient's functional ability. Which patient
best demonstrates the definition of functional ability?
a. Considers self as a healthy individual; uses cane for stability
b. College educated; travels frequently; can balance a checkbook
c. Works out daily, reads well, cooks, and cleans house on the weekends
d. Healthy individual, volunteers at church, works part time, takes care
of family and
house - ANSWER -ANS: D
Functional ability refers to the individual's ability to perform the normal
daily activities
required to meet basic needs; fulfill usual roles in the family, workplace,
and community;
and maintain health and well-being. The other options are good;
however, healthy
individual, church volunteer, part time worker, and the patient who
takes care of the family
and house fully meets the criteria for functional ability.
2. The nurse is assessing a patient's functional performance. What
assessment parameters will
be most important in this assessment?
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a. Continence assessment, gait assessment, feeding assessment,
dressing assessment,
transfer assessment
b. Height, weight, body mass index (BMI), vital signs assessment
c. Sleep assessment, energy assessment, memory assessment,
concentration
assessment
d. Health and well-being, amount of community volunteer time,
working outside the
home, and ability to care for family and house - ANSWER -ANS: A
Functional impairment, disability, or handicap refers to varying degrees
of an individual's
inability to perform the tasks required to complete normal life activities
without assistance.
Height, weight, BMI, and vital signs are part of a physical assessment.
Sleep, energy,
memory, and concentration are part of a depression screening. Healthy,
volunteering,
working, and caring for family and house are functional abilities, not
performance.
3. The nurse is assessing a patient with a mobility dysfunction and
wants to gain insight into the patient's functional ability. What question
would be the most appropriate?
a. "Are you able to shop for yourself?"
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b. "Do you use a cane, walker, or wheelchair to ambulate?"
c. "Do you know what today's date is?"
d. "Were you sad or depressed more than once in the last 3 days?" -
ANSWER -ANS: B
"Do you use a cane, walker, or wheelchair to ambulate?" will assist the
nurse in determining
the patient's ability to perform self-care activities. A nutritional health
risk assessment is not
the functional assessment. Knowing the date is part of a mental status
exam. Assessing
sadness is a question to ask in the depression screening.
The nurse is developing an interdisciplinary plan of care using the
Roper-Logan-Tierney
Model of Nursing for a patient who is currently unconscious. Which
interventions would be
most critical to developing a plan of care for this patient?
a. Eating and drinking, personal cleansing and dressing, working and
playing
b. Toileting, transferring, dressing, and bathing activities
c. Sleeping, expressing sexuality, socializing with peers
d. Maintaining a safe environment, breathing, maintaining temperature
- ANSWER -ANS: D
The most critical aspects of care for an unconscious patient are safe
environment, breathing, and temperature. Eating and drinking are
