OpenStax Medical-Surgical Nursing Test Bank
OpenStax Medical-Surgical Nursing Test Bank
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, OpenStax Medical-Surgical Nursing Test Bank
OpenStax Medical-Surgical Nursing Test Bank
OpenStax Medical Surgical Test Bank
Chapter 1: Professional Medical-Surgical Nursing
OpenStax Medical-Surgical Nursing Test
Bank
Chapter 1: Professional Medical-Surgical Nursing
Review Questions
Multiple Choice
1. What organizational elements strive to improve delivery of overall quality of care for
patients while also reducing negative patient outcomes?
A. Joint Commission Best Practices
B. Quality and Safety Education for Nurses
C. Nurse Practice Act
D. National Patient Safety Goals *
LO: 01.1.2
Difficulty: Easy
Blooms: Remember
AACN: 1.1a
2. While communicating with another member of your interprofessional care team you use
the ISBAR technique. You explain via telephone that you have a patient who will receive test
results this morning, and their family is en route to help them review the test results and
make decisions about their care plan. Which ISBAR technique are you using at this point in
the conversation?
A. situation
B. background *
C. assessment
D. recommendations
LO: 01.2.2
Difficulty: Difficult
Blooms: Remember; Understand; Apply; Analyze; Evaluate
AACN: 1.1b
3. While using the ISBAR technique to communicate, you describe the patient’s current
condition, the patient’s pain rating, and the medication they received this morning. Which
ISBAR technique are you using at this point in the conversation?
A. situation
B. background
C. assessment *
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D. recommendations
LO: 01.2.2
Difficulty: Difficult
Blooms: Remember; Understand; Apply; Analyze; Evaluate
AACN: 1.1b
4. What are the decisions, plans, and actions that are undertaken to achieve specific
healthcare goals within a society?
A. collaborative care model
B. patient-centered care
C. health policy *
D. scope of practice
LO: 01.3.1
Difficulty: Moderate
Blooms: Remember; Understand
AACN: 1.1a
5. Which principle in the field of nursing ethics acknowledges that patients have the right to
maintain control and make their own decisions related to treatment and care?
A. autonomy *
B. beneficence
C. justice
D. nonmaleficence
LO: 01.3.3
Difficulty: Easy
Blooms: Remember; Understand
AACN: 1.1a
6. What process involves making clinical decisions based on the best available evidence from
the most up-to-date research?
A. nursing research
B. evidence-based practice *
C. quality improvement initiatives
D. nonmaleficence
LO: 01.4.1
Difficulty: Moderate
Blooms: Remember
AACN: 1.1a
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OpenStax Medical Surgical Test Bank
Chapter 1: Professional Medical-Surgical Nursing
7. What process involves systematic inquiry designed to develop knowledge about issues of
importance to the nursing profession, including nursing practice, nursing education, and
nursing administration?
A. nursing research *
B. evidence-based practice
C. quality improvement initiatives
D. nonmaleficence
LO: 01.4.2
Difficulty: Moderate
Blooms: Remember
AACN: 1.1a
8. What is the framework used in healthcare to systematically improve the ways care is
delivered to patients?
A. collaborative care model
B. evidence-based practice
C. nursing best practices
D. quality improvement *
LO: 01.4.4
Difficulty: Easy
Blooms: Remember; Understand
AACN: 1.1a
9. You are trying to determine if your clinic provides effective healthcare. To make this
determination, your data include the results of patient satisfaction surveys, as well as
information about patients who were readmitted to the clinic. What type of metrics are you
reviewing?
A. balancing
B. outcome *
C. process
D. structure
LO: 01.4.4
Difficulty: Difficult
Blooms: Remember; Understand; Apply; Analyze; Evaluate
AACN: 1.1b
10. What approach to healthcare is based on a collection of interdependent elements that
interact to achieve a common purpose?
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OpenStax Medical-Surgical Nursing Test Bank
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, OpenStax Medical-Surgical Nursing Test Bank
OpenStax Medical-Surgical Nursing Test Bank
OpenStax Medical Surgical Test Bank
Chapter 1: Professional Medical-Surgical Nursing
OpenStax Medical-Surgical Nursing Test
Bank
Chapter 1: Professional Medical-Surgical Nursing
Review Questions
Multiple Choice
1. What organizational elements strive to improve delivery of overall quality of care for
patients while also reducing negative patient outcomes?
A. Joint Commission Best Practices
B. Quality and Safety Education for Nurses
C. Nurse Practice Act
D. National Patient Safety Goals *
LO: 01.1.2
Difficulty: Easy
Blooms: Remember
AACN: 1.1a
2. While communicating with another member of your interprofessional care team you use
the ISBAR technique. You explain via telephone that you have a patient who will receive test
results this morning, and their family is en route to help them review the test results and
make decisions about their care plan. Which ISBAR technique are you using at this point in
the conversation?
A. situation
B. background *
C. assessment
D. recommendations
LO: 01.2.2
Difficulty: Difficult
Blooms: Remember; Understand; Apply; Analyze; Evaluate
AACN: 1.1b
3. While using the ISBAR technique to communicate, you describe the patient’s current
condition, the patient’s pain rating, and the medication they received this morning. Which
ISBAR technique are you using at this point in the conversation?
A. situation
B. background
C. assessment *
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OpenStax Medical-Surgical Nursing Test Bank
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Chapter 1: Professional Medical-Surgical Nursing
D. recommendations
LO: 01.2.2
Difficulty: Difficult
Blooms: Remember; Understand; Apply; Analyze; Evaluate
AACN: 1.1b
4. What are the decisions, plans, and actions that are undertaken to achieve specific
healthcare goals within a society?
A. collaborative care model
B. patient-centered care
C. health policy *
D. scope of practice
LO: 01.3.1
Difficulty: Moderate
Blooms: Remember; Understand
AACN: 1.1a
5. Which principle in the field of nursing ethics acknowledges that patients have the right to
maintain control and make their own decisions related to treatment and care?
A. autonomy *
B. beneficence
C. justice
D. nonmaleficence
LO: 01.3.3
Difficulty: Easy
Blooms: Remember; Understand
AACN: 1.1a
6. What process involves making clinical decisions based on the best available evidence from
the most up-to-date research?
A. nursing research
B. evidence-based practice *
C. quality improvement initiatives
D. nonmaleficence
LO: 01.4.1
Difficulty: Moderate
Blooms: Remember
AACN: 1.1a
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OpenStax Medical-Surgical Nursing Test Bank
OpenStax Medical Surgical Test Bank
Chapter 1: Professional Medical-Surgical Nursing
7. What process involves systematic inquiry designed to develop knowledge about issues of
importance to the nursing profession, including nursing practice, nursing education, and
nursing administration?
A. nursing research *
B. evidence-based practice
C. quality improvement initiatives
D. nonmaleficence
LO: 01.4.2
Difficulty: Moderate
Blooms: Remember
AACN: 1.1a
8. What is the framework used in healthcare to systematically improve the ways care is
delivered to patients?
A. collaborative care model
B. evidence-based practice
C. nursing best practices
D. quality improvement *
LO: 01.4.4
Difficulty: Easy
Blooms: Remember; Understand
AACN: 1.1a
9. You are trying to determine if your clinic provides effective healthcare. To make this
determination, your data include the results of patient satisfaction surveys, as well as
information about patients who were readmitted to the clinic. What type of metrics are you
reviewing?
A. balancing
B. outcome *
C. process
D. structure
LO: 01.4.4
Difficulty: Difficult
Blooms: Remember; Understand; Apply; Analyze; Evaluate
AACN: 1.1b
10. What approach to healthcare is based on a collection of interdependent elements that
interact to achieve a common purpose?
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