Nursing 125 Exam 2 with 100% Correct
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When communicating with a patient from a different culture, the health care worker
should:
A. Limit the time spent with the patient
B. Know that less emphasis should be placed on nonverbal messages
C. Keep personal beliefs to oneself
D. Encourage the patients to change cultural practices and beliefs - ANS-C. Keep
personal beliefs to oneself
One of the goals of communicating with a hospitalized patient is to:
A. Help the patient make informed decisions
B. make medical decisions for the patient
C. Act as a conduit for information between the patient and family
D. Teach the coping methods and behavior expected of inpatients - ANS-A. Help the
patient make informed decisions
Communication is the:
A. Last step in the nursing process
B. Most vital link between diagnosis and disease
C. Exchange of information and ideas
D. Basis for all thinking processes - ANS-C. Exchange of information and ideas
A health care worker's professional appearance should communicate:
A. Incompetence
B. Lack of concern
C. Knowledge
D. Acceptance - ANS-C. Knowledge
Which of the following describes nonverbal behavior?
A. Written word
B. Spoken word
C. Tone of voice
D. Aggressive style - ANS-C. Tone of voice
According to Freud, what part of the mind acts as one's conscience?
A. Id
B. Ego
C. Superego
, D. Libido - ANS-C. Superego
According to Erikson's stages of development, which of the following tasks would
Roger, age 9, be completing?
A. Trust
B. Industry
C. Initiative
D. Autonomy - ANS-B. Industry
At the completion of Piaget's sensorimotor stage of cognitive development, the child:
A. Can problem-solve
B. Can reason hypothetically
C. Has abstract thinking ability
D. Recognizes himself or herself as separate - ANS-D. Recognizes himself or herself as
separate
Theories of personality help the nurse to:
A. Place judgment on the patient
B. Direct patient goals
C. Provide individual health care
D. Limit ego development - ANS-C. Provide individual health care
Maslow's humanistic approach to development emphasizes the importance of:
A. Basic goodness in humans
B. The pleasure principle
C. Developmental tasks
D. Conditioning - ANS-A. Basic goodness in humans
The term most associated with Maslow is:
A. Pleasure principle
B. Psychosocial task
C. Self-actualization
D. Concrete operations - ANS-C. Self-actualization
According to Freud's theory, the rational portion of the mind that tries to balance id
impulses with the demands of the superego is:
A. Conscience
B. Ego
C. Libido
D. Oedipal period - ANS-B. Ego
The purpose of defense mechanisms is to:
A. Perceive boundaries between self and others
B. Explain life situations
C. Reduce anxiety
D. Provide pleasure and gratification - ANS-C. Reduce anxiety
Answers
When communicating with a patient from a different culture, the health care worker
should:
A. Limit the time spent with the patient
B. Know that less emphasis should be placed on nonverbal messages
C. Keep personal beliefs to oneself
D. Encourage the patients to change cultural practices and beliefs - ANS-C. Keep
personal beliefs to oneself
One of the goals of communicating with a hospitalized patient is to:
A. Help the patient make informed decisions
B. make medical decisions for the patient
C. Act as a conduit for information between the patient and family
D. Teach the coping methods and behavior expected of inpatients - ANS-A. Help the
patient make informed decisions
Communication is the:
A. Last step in the nursing process
B. Most vital link between diagnosis and disease
C. Exchange of information and ideas
D. Basis for all thinking processes - ANS-C. Exchange of information and ideas
A health care worker's professional appearance should communicate:
A. Incompetence
B. Lack of concern
C. Knowledge
D. Acceptance - ANS-C. Knowledge
Which of the following describes nonverbal behavior?
A. Written word
B. Spoken word
C. Tone of voice
D. Aggressive style - ANS-C. Tone of voice
According to Freud, what part of the mind acts as one's conscience?
A. Id
B. Ego
C. Superego
, D. Libido - ANS-C. Superego
According to Erikson's stages of development, which of the following tasks would
Roger, age 9, be completing?
A. Trust
B. Industry
C. Initiative
D. Autonomy - ANS-B. Industry
At the completion of Piaget's sensorimotor stage of cognitive development, the child:
A. Can problem-solve
B. Can reason hypothetically
C. Has abstract thinking ability
D. Recognizes himself or herself as separate - ANS-D. Recognizes himself or herself as
separate
Theories of personality help the nurse to:
A. Place judgment on the patient
B. Direct patient goals
C. Provide individual health care
D. Limit ego development - ANS-C. Provide individual health care
Maslow's humanistic approach to development emphasizes the importance of:
A. Basic goodness in humans
B. The pleasure principle
C. Developmental tasks
D. Conditioning - ANS-A. Basic goodness in humans
The term most associated with Maslow is:
A. Pleasure principle
B. Psychosocial task
C. Self-actualization
D. Concrete operations - ANS-C. Self-actualization
According to Freud's theory, the rational portion of the mind that tries to balance id
impulses with the demands of the superego is:
A. Conscience
B. Ego
C. Libido
D. Oedipal period - ANS-B. Ego
The purpose of defense mechanisms is to:
A. Perceive boundaries between self and others
B. Explain life situations
C. Reduce anxiety
D. Provide pleasure and gratification - ANS-C. Reduce anxiety
