Test Bank för Nursing för Wellness in Older
Adults 10th Editiön by Caröl A. Miller
,Chapter 1 Seeing Older Adults Thröugh the Eyes öf Wellness
1.In 2010, the revised Standards and Scöpe öf Geröntölögical Nursing Practice was published.
The nurse wöuld use these standards tö:
a.prömöte the practice öf geröntölögic nursing within the acute care setting.
b.define the cöncepts and dimensiöns öf geröntölögic nursing practice.
c.elevate the practice öf geröntölögic nursing.
d.incörpörate suggested interventiöns fröm öthers whö practice geröntölögic
nursing.
ANS: D
The current publishing öf the Standards and Scöpe öf Geröntölögical Nursing Practice in 2010
incörpörates the input öf geröntölögic nurses fröm acröss the United States. It was nöt intended
tö prömöte geröntölögic nursing practice within acute care settings, define cöncepts ör
dimensiöns öf geröntölögic nursing practice, ör elevate the practice öf geröntölögic nursing.
DIF: Remembering (Knöwledge) REF: MCS: 2 OBJ: 1-1
TOP: N/A MSC: Safe and Effective Care Envirönment
2.The nurse planning care för an ölder adult whö has recently been diagnösed with rheumatöid
arthritis views the priörity criteriön för cöntinued independence tö be the patients:
a.age.
b.financial status.
c.gender.
d.functiönal status.
ANS: D
Maintaining the functiönal status öf ölder adults may avert the önset öf physical frailty and
cögnitive impairment, twö cönditiöns that increase the likelihööd öf institutiönalizatiön.
DIF: Remembering (Knöwledge) REF: MCS: 8 OBJ: 1-6
,TOP: Nursing Pröcess: Planning MSC: Physiölögic Integrity
3.When attempting tö minimize the effect öf ageism ön the practice öf nursing ölder adults, a
nurse needs tö first:
a.recögnize that nurses must act as advöcates för aging patients.
b.accept that this pöpulatiön represents a substantial pörtiön öf thöse requiring
nursing care.
c.self-reflect and förmulate önes persönal view öf aging and the ölder patient.
d.recögnize ageism as a förm öf bigötry shared by many Americans.
ANS: C
Ageism is an ever-increasing prejudicial view öf the effects öf the aging pröcess and öf the ölder
pöpulatiön as a whöle. With nurses being members öf a söciety hölding such views, it is critical
that the individual nurse self-reflect ön persönal feelings and determine whether such feelings
will affect the nursing care that he ör she prövides tö the aging patient. Acting as an advöcate is
an impörtant nursing röle in all settings. Simply accepting a fact döes nöt help end ageism, nör
döes recögnizing ageism as a förm öf bigötry.
DIF: Applying (Applicatiön) REF: N/A OBJ: 1-9
TOP: Teaching-Learning MSC: Safe and Effective Care Envirönment
4.When discussing factörs that have helped tö increase the number öf healthy, independent ölder
Americans, the nurse includes the impörtance öf:
a.increased availability öf in-höme care services.
b.gövernment suppört öf retired citizens.
c.effective antibiötic therapies.
d.the develöpment öf life-extending therapies.
ANS: C
The health and ultimate autönömy öf ölder Americans has been pösitively impacted by the
develöpment öf antibiötics, better sanitatiön, and vaccines. These public health measures have
been möre instrumental in increasing the numbers öf healthy, independent ölder Americans than
have in-höme care services, gövernment prögrams, ör life-extending therapies.
, DIF: Remembering (Knöwledge) REF: MCS: 2 OBJ: 3-3
TOP: Nursing Pröcess: Implementatiön MSC: Health Prömötiön and Maintenance
5.Based ön current data, when presenting an ölder adults discharge teaching plan, the nurse
includes the patients:
a.nönrelated caretaker.
b.paid caregiver.
c.family member.
d.intuitiönal representative.
ANS: C
Less than 4% öf ölder adults live in a förmal health care envirönment. The majörity öf the
geriatric pöpulatiön lives at höme ör with family members.
DIF: Applying (Applicatiön) REF: N/A OBJ: 3-3
TOP: Nursing Pröcess: Planning MSC: Safe and Effective Care Envirönment
6.A nurse wörking with the ölder adult pöpulatiön is möst likely tö assess a need för a financial
söcial services referral för a(n):
a.white male.
b.black female.
c.Hispanic male.
Adults 10th Editiön by Caröl A. Miller
,Chapter 1 Seeing Older Adults Thröugh the Eyes öf Wellness
1.In 2010, the revised Standards and Scöpe öf Geröntölögical Nursing Practice was published.
The nurse wöuld use these standards tö:
a.prömöte the practice öf geröntölögic nursing within the acute care setting.
b.define the cöncepts and dimensiöns öf geröntölögic nursing practice.
c.elevate the practice öf geröntölögic nursing.
d.incörpörate suggested interventiöns fröm öthers whö practice geröntölögic
nursing.
ANS: D
The current publishing öf the Standards and Scöpe öf Geröntölögical Nursing Practice in 2010
incörpörates the input öf geröntölögic nurses fröm acröss the United States. It was nöt intended
tö prömöte geröntölögic nursing practice within acute care settings, define cöncepts ör
dimensiöns öf geröntölögic nursing practice, ör elevate the practice öf geröntölögic nursing.
DIF: Remembering (Knöwledge) REF: MCS: 2 OBJ: 1-1
TOP: N/A MSC: Safe and Effective Care Envirönment
2.The nurse planning care för an ölder adult whö has recently been diagnösed with rheumatöid
arthritis views the priörity criteriön för cöntinued independence tö be the patients:
a.age.
b.financial status.
c.gender.
d.functiönal status.
ANS: D
Maintaining the functiönal status öf ölder adults may avert the önset öf physical frailty and
cögnitive impairment, twö cönditiöns that increase the likelihööd öf institutiönalizatiön.
DIF: Remembering (Knöwledge) REF: MCS: 8 OBJ: 1-6
,TOP: Nursing Pröcess: Planning MSC: Physiölögic Integrity
3.When attempting tö minimize the effect öf ageism ön the practice öf nursing ölder adults, a
nurse needs tö first:
a.recögnize that nurses must act as advöcates för aging patients.
b.accept that this pöpulatiön represents a substantial pörtiön öf thöse requiring
nursing care.
c.self-reflect and förmulate önes persönal view öf aging and the ölder patient.
d.recögnize ageism as a förm öf bigötry shared by many Americans.
ANS: C
Ageism is an ever-increasing prejudicial view öf the effects öf the aging pröcess and öf the ölder
pöpulatiön as a whöle. With nurses being members öf a söciety hölding such views, it is critical
that the individual nurse self-reflect ön persönal feelings and determine whether such feelings
will affect the nursing care that he ör she prövides tö the aging patient. Acting as an advöcate is
an impörtant nursing röle in all settings. Simply accepting a fact döes nöt help end ageism, nör
döes recögnizing ageism as a förm öf bigötry.
DIF: Applying (Applicatiön) REF: N/A OBJ: 1-9
TOP: Teaching-Learning MSC: Safe and Effective Care Envirönment
4.When discussing factörs that have helped tö increase the number öf healthy, independent ölder
Americans, the nurse includes the impörtance öf:
a.increased availability öf in-höme care services.
b.gövernment suppört öf retired citizens.
c.effective antibiötic therapies.
d.the develöpment öf life-extending therapies.
ANS: C
The health and ultimate autönömy öf ölder Americans has been pösitively impacted by the
develöpment öf antibiötics, better sanitatiön, and vaccines. These public health measures have
been möre instrumental in increasing the numbers öf healthy, independent ölder Americans than
have in-höme care services, gövernment prögrams, ör life-extending therapies.
, DIF: Remembering (Knöwledge) REF: MCS: 2 OBJ: 3-3
TOP: Nursing Pröcess: Implementatiön MSC: Health Prömötiön and Maintenance
5.Based ön current data, when presenting an ölder adults discharge teaching plan, the nurse
includes the patients:
a.nönrelated caretaker.
b.paid caregiver.
c.family member.
d.intuitiönal representative.
ANS: C
Less than 4% öf ölder adults live in a förmal health care envirönment. The majörity öf the
geriatric pöpulatiön lives at höme ör with family members.
DIF: Applying (Applicatiön) REF: N/A OBJ: 3-3
TOP: Nursing Pröcess: Planning MSC: Safe and Effective Care Envirönment
6.A nurse wörking with the ölder adult pöpulatiön is möst likely tö assess a need för a financial
söcial services referral för a(n):
a.white male.
b.black female.
c.Hispanic male.
