Medical Surgical Nursing: QUESTIONS
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What is the priority when working as a professional nurse?
Ensuring client safety
What should a nurse encourage a client and family to promote safety?
Be active partners in health care
What action should a nurse take first for a postoperative client with a significant
blood pressure drop?
Call the Rapid Response Team
What action best demonstrates client-centered care by a nurse?
Assesses for cultural influences affecting health care
What is essential for a holistic approach to care?
Showing respect for the client and family's preferences and needs.
What is the most important action a client can take to protect against errors
during admission?
Bring a list of all medications and what they are for.
How can a nurse best demonstrate respect for a client's autonomy?
Asks if the client has questions before signing a consent.
What is the most accurate advice for communicating with the LGBTQ
community?
Don't make assumptions about their health needs.
What statement comprises the background portion of the SBAR format for
communication?
This client has allergies to morphine and codeine.
What action by the nurse could have prevented a negative outcome after
delegating vital signs?
Providing more appropriate supervision of the assistive personnel.
What is the best response to a newly graduated nurse hesitant about
participating in quality improvement projects?
Even being new, you can implement activities designed to improve care.
What advice should a nurse give a co-worker moving to a new state for
employment?
Find a hospital that has achieved Magnet status.
What does Magnet status certify about nurses?
It certifies that nurses can demonstrate how best current evidence guides their practice.
, Which areas should a nurse manager assess to ensure nursing staff demonstrate
competency according to the IOM report?
Collaborating with an interprofessional team, implementing evidence-based care, using
informatics in practice, using quality improvement in client care.
What actions best demonstrate interprofessional collaboration by a nurse?
Consults with other disciplines on client care, coordinates discharge planning for home
safety, participates in comprehensive client rounding, routinely asks other disciplines
about client progress.
What factors should a nurse consider when utilizing evidence-based practice
(EBP) in planning care?
Nurse's expertise, client preferences, research findings, values of the client.
What actions can a nurse manager take to improve hand-off communication
among staff?
Attend hand-off rounds to coach and mentor, create a template of suggested topics to
include in report, encourage staff to ask questions during hand-off, provide education on
the SBAR method of communication.
What is the observable outcome of critical thinking in nursing?
Clinical judgment.
What is a key competency in patient-centered care?
Recognizing the client as the source of control of his or her care.
What is patient-centered care?
A QSEN competency that recognizes the patient or caregiver as the source of control
and full partner in providing compassionate and coordinated care based on respect for
the patient's preferences, values, and needs.
What does QSEN stand for?
Quality and Safety Education for Nurses.
What is evidence-based practice in nursing?
The ability to use best evidence and practice when making care-related decisions.
What action by a nurse best influences health outcomes?
Lobbying with a national organization for health care policy.
What factor best predicts a nurse's willingness to employ critical thinking?
Caring behaviors, self-reflection, and insight.
What action does a nurse take to demonstrate clinical reasoning skills?
Requesting the provider order medication for a client with high potassium.
How does context affect clinical judgment?
Context considers the whole of the patient's story and circumstances.
What is the next action a nurse takes after analyzing cues?
Prioritize the hypotheses.
What is a key responsibility of a nurse in a medical home?
Coordinate interprofessional care.
Why is systems thinking important in nursing?
It is important for quality improvement and safety.
What elements are required for critical thinking in nursing?
Based on logic, creativity, and intuition; focused on safety and quality; guided by
standards.
What must critical thinking be based on?
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VERSION
What is the priority when working as a professional nurse?
Ensuring client safety
What should a nurse encourage a client and family to promote safety?
Be active partners in health care
What action should a nurse take first for a postoperative client with a significant
blood pressure drop?
Call the Rapid Response Team
What action best demonstrates client-centered care by a nurse?
Assesses for cultural influences affecting health care
What is essential for a holistic approach to care?
Showing respect for the client and family's preferences and needs.
What is the most important action a client can take to protect against errors
during admission?
Bring a list of all medications and what they are for.
How can a nurse best demonstrate respect for a client's autonomy?
Asks if the client has questions before signing a consent.
What is the most accurate advice for communicating with the LGBTQ
community?
Don't make assumptions about their health needs.
What statement comprises the background portion of the SBAR format for
communication?
This client has allergies to morphine and codeine.
What action by the nurse could have prevented a negative outcome after
delegating vital signs?
Providing more appropriate supervision of the assistive personnel.
What is the best response to a newly graduated nurse hesitant about
participating in quality improvement projects?
Even being new, you can implement activities designed to improve care.
What advice should a nurse give a co-worker moving to a new state for
employment?
Find a hospital that has achieved Magnet status.
What does Magnet status certify about nurses?
It certifies that nurses can demonstrate how best current evidence guides their practice.
, Which areas should a nurse manager assess to ensure nursing staff demonstrate
competency according to the IOM report?
Collaborating with an interprofessional team, implementing evidence-based care, using
informatics in practice, using quality improvement in client care.
What actions best demonstrate interprofessional collaboration by a nurse?
Consults with other disciplines on client care, coordinates discharge planning for home
safety, participates in comprehensive client rounding, routinely asks other disciplines
about client progress.
What factors should a nurse consider when utilizing evidence-based practice
(EBP) in planning care?
Nurse's expertise, client preferences, research findings, values of the client.
What actions can a nurse manager take to improve hand-off communication
among staff?
Attend hand-off rounds to coach and mentor, create a template of suggested topics to
include in report, encourage staff to ask questions during hand-off, provide education on
the SBAR method of communication.
What is the observable outcome of critical thinking in nursing?
Clinical judgment.
What is a key competency in patient-centered care?
Recognizing the client as the source of control of his or her care.
What is patient-centered care?
A QSEN competency that recognizes the patient or caregiver as the source of control
and full partner in providing compassionate and coordinated care based on respect for
the patient's preferences, values, and needs.
What does QSEN stand for?
Quality and Safety Education for Nurses.
What is evidence-based practice in nursing?
The ability to use best evidence and practice when making care-related decisions.
What action by a nurse best influences health outcomes?
Lobbying with a national organization for health care policy.
What factor best predicts a nurse's willingness to employ critical thinking?
Caring behaviors, self-reflection, and insight.
What action does a nurse take to demonstrate clinical reasoning skills?
Requesting the provider order medication for a client with high potassium.
How does context affect clinical judgment?
Context considers the whole of the patient's story and circumstances.
What is the next action a nurse takes after analyzing cues?
Prioritize the hypotheses.
What is a key responsibility of a nurse in a medical home?
Coordinate interprofessional care.
Why is systems thinking important in nursing?
It is important for quality improvement and safety.
What elements are required for critical thinking in nursing?
Based on logic, creativity, and intuition; focused on safety and quality; guided by
standards.
What must critical thinking be based on?
