Solutions 2024
A nurse is discussing restorative health care with a newly licensed nurse. Which of the following
examples should the nurse include in the teaching? - Answer -Home health care
Rehabilitation facilities
Skilled nursing facilities
A nurse is explaining the various types of health care coverage clients might have to a group of nursing
students. Which of the following health care financing mechanisms are federally funded? - Answer -
Medicare
Medicaid
A nurse manager is developing strategies to care for the increasing number of clients who have obesity.
Which of the following actions should the nurse include as a primary health care strategy? - Answer -
Collaborating with providers to perform obesity screenings during routine office visits
A nurse is discussing the purpose of regulatory agencies during a staff meeting. Which of the following
should the nurse identify as the responsibility of state licensing boards? - Answer -Ensuring that health
care providers comply with regulations
A nurse is explaining the various levels of health care services to a group of newly licensed nurses. Which
of the following examples of care or care settings should the nurse classify as TERTIARY care? - Answer -
Intensive Care Unit
Oncology treatment center
Burn Center
,A nurse is caring for a group of clients on a medical-surgical unit. For which of the following client care
needs should the nurse initiate a referral for a social worker? - Answer -A client who has terminal cancer
requests hospice care in her home
A client asks about community resources available for older adults
A client requests an electric wheelchair for use after discharge
A goal for a client who has difficulty with self-feeding due to rheumatoid arthritis is to use adaptive
devices. The nurse caring for the client should initiate a referral to which of the following members of
the interprofessional care team? - Answer -Occupational Therapy
A client who is postoperative following knee arthroplasty is concerned about the adverse effects of the
medication he is receiving for pain management. Which of the following members of the
interprofessional care team can assist the client in understanding the medication's effects? - Answer -
Provider
Pharmacist
Registered Nurse
A client who has had a cerebrovascular accident has persistent problems with dysphagia. The nurse
caring for the client should initiate a referral with which of the following members of the
interprofessional care team? - Answer -Speech-language pathologist
A nurse is acquainting a group
of newly licensed nurses with the
roles of the various members of the
health care team they will encounter
on a medical-surgical unit. When
she gives examples of the types
of tasks certified nursing assistants
(CNAs) may perform, which of the
,following client activities should
she include? (Select all that apply.)
A. Bathing
B. Ambulating
C. Toileting
D. Determining pain level
E. Measuring vital signs - Answer -Bathing
Ambulating
Toileting
Measuring Vital Signs
A nurse is caring for a client who decides not to have surgery despite significant blockages in his coronary
arteries. The nurse understands that this client's choice is an example of which of the the following
ethical principles? - Answer -Autonomy
A nurse offers pain medication to a client who is postoperative prior to ambulation. The nurse
understands that this aspect of care delivery is an example of which of the following ethical principles?
A. Fidelity
B. Autonomy
C. Justice
D. Beneficence - Answer -Beneficience
A nurse is instructing a group of nursing students about the responsibilities organ donation and
procurement invinvolves. When the nurse explains that all clients waiting for a kidney transplant have to
meet the same qualifications, the students should understand that this aspect of care delivery is an
example of which of the following ethical principle? - Answer -Justice
, A nurse questions a medication prescription as too extreme in light of the client's advanced age and
unstable status. The nurse understands that this action is an example of which of the following ethical
principles? - Answer -Nonmaleficence
A nurse is instructing a group of nursing students about how to know and what to expect when ethical
dilemmas arise. Which of the following situations should the students identify as an ethical dilemma? -
Answer -A family has conflicting feelings about the initiation of enteral tube feedings for their father,
who is terminally ill.
A nurse observes an assistive personnel (AP) reprimanding a client for not using the urinal properly. The
AP tells him if he does not use the urinal more carefully next time. Which of the following torts is the AP
committing? - Answer -Assault
A nurse is caring for a competent adult client who tells the nurse that he is thinking about leaving the
hospital AMA. The nurse believes that this is not in the client's best interest, so she prepares to
administer a PRN sedative medication the client has not requested along with his usual medication.
Which of the following types of tort is the nurse about to commit? - Answer -False imprisonment
A nurse in a surgeon's office is providing preoperative teaching for a client who is scheduled for surgery
the following week. The client tells the nurse that he will prepare his advance directives before he goes
to the hospital. Which of the following statements made by the client should indicate to the nurse an
understanding of advance directives?
A. "I'd rather have my brother make decisions for me, but I know it has to be my wife."
B. "I know they won't go ahead with the surgery unless I prepare these forms."
C. "I plan to write that I don't want them to keep me on a breathing machine."
D. "I will get my regular doctor to approve my plan before I hand it in at the hospital." - Answer -I plan to
write that I don't want them to keep me on a breathing machine
A nurse is caring for a client who is about to undergo an elective surgical procedure. The nurse should
take which of the following actions regarding informed consent? - Answer -Make sure the surgeon
obtained the client's consent
Witness the client's signature on the consent form
A nurse has noticed several occasions in the past week when another nurse on the unit seemed drowsy
& unable to focus on the issue at hand. Today, she found the nurse asleep in a chair in the break room
when she was not on break. Which of the following actions should the nurse take?
A. Remind the nurse that safe client care is a priority on the unit