Module 1: Nurs 6700 in class practice questions with
correct answers
While providing care to a patient, the nurse is responsible, both
professionally and legally, for the appropriateness and proper execution
of the care. Which concept does this describe? correct answer✔✔
Accountability
The nurse is assessing a patient's skin during an office visit. What part of
the hand and technique would be used to best assess the patient's skin
temperature? correct answer✔✔ Dorsal surface of the hand
Dorsa of hands and fingers are best for determining temp bc the skin is
thinner on the dorsal surfaces than on the palms. Fingertips are best for
fine, tactile discrimination, not for assessing skin temp. The ulnar and
palmar surfaces of the hands are not useful to assess skin temp
The nursing instructor is teaching a class on nursing theory. One of the
students asks, "Why do we need to know this stuff? It doesn't really
affect patients." What is the instructor's best response? correct
answer✔✔ "Theories help explain why nurses do what they do."
Theories offer well-grounded rationales for how and why nurses perform
specific interventions and for predicting and/or prescribing nursing care
measures. Although nursing theory will help the nurse in graduate
school, it is also an important basis for the nurse's approach to daily
patient care, and it expands scientific knowledge of the profession.
,Who invented evidence-based practice theoretical stages such as novice
and proficient? correct answer✔✔ Brenner
Book: "From Novice to Expert: Excellence and Power in Clinical
Nursing Practice".
Brenner's stages of nursing proficiency correct answer✔✔ novice,
advanced beginner, competent, proficient, expert
The nurse is caring for a patient diagnosed with essential hypertension.
The health care provider prescribes blood pressure medication that the
nurse administers. The nurse then monitors the patient's blood pressure
for several days to help determine effectiveness. Which system
component is the nurse evaluating correct answer✔✔ Output
Output is the end product of a system, and in the case of the nursing
process, it is defined as where the patient's health status improves or
oremains stable as a result of nursing care. Input consists of the data that
comes from a pt's assessment. Feedback serves to inform a system about
how it functions. Content is the product and information obtained from
the system
Who invented the self-care deficit theory? correct answer✔✔ Orem
The patient is terminally ill and is receiving hospice care. The nurse
cares for the patient by bathing, shaving, and repositioning him. The
patient would like a Catholic priest called to provide the Sacrament of
, the Sick. The nurse places a call and arranges for the priest's visit. Which
theory does this nurse's care represent? correct answer✔✔ Henderson's
Theory
Henderson defines nursing as assisting the pt with 14 activities (hygiene,
positioning, worship) until pts can meet these needs for themselves- or
assist pts to have a peaceful death.
Roy's model is to help the person adapt to changes in physiological
needs, self-concept, role function, and interdependence domains.
Watson's theory believes that the purpose of nursing is to understand the
interrelationship btw health, illness, and human behavior. The goal of
Orem's theory is to help the pt perform self-care.
A nurse uses evidence-based practice (EBP) to provide nursing care.
What is the best rationale for the nurse's behavior? correct answer✔✔
EBP is a guide for nurses in making clinical decisions
guide for nurses to structure how to make appropriate, timely, and
effective clinical decisions. A textbook relies on the scientific literature,
which may be outdated by the time the book is published. Unfortunately,
much of hte best evidence never reaches the bedside. EBP is not be
blindly applied without using good judgement and critical thinking
skills.
The nurse is using critical thinking skills during the first phase of the
nursing process. Which action indicates the nurse is in the first phase?
a. identifies pertinent nursing diagnoses
correct answers
While providing care to a patient, the nurse is responsible, both
professionally and legally, for the appropriateness and proper execution
of the care. Which concept does this describe? correct answer✔✔
Accountability
The nurse is assessing a patient's skin during an office visit. What part of
the hand and technique would be used to best assess the patient's skin
temperature? correct answer✔✔ Dorsal surface of the hand
Dorsa of hands and fingers are best for determining temp bc the skin is
thinner on the dorsal surfaces than on the palms. Fingertips are best for
fine, tactile discrimination, not for assessing skin temp. The ulnar and
palmar surfaces of the hands are not useful to assess skin temp
The nursing instructor is teaching a class on nursing theory. One of the
students asks, "Why do we need to know this stuff? It doesn't really
affect patients." What is the instructor's best response? correct
answer✔✔ "Theories help explain why nurses do what they do."
Theories offer well-grounded rationales for how and why nurses perform
specific interventions and for predicting and/or prescribing nursing care
measures. Although nursing theory will help the nurse in graduate
school, it is also an important basis for the nurse's approach to daily
patient care, and it expands scientific knowledge of the profession.
,Who invented evidence-based practice theoretical stages such as novice
and proficient? correct answer✔✔ Brenner
Book: "From Novice to Expert: Excellence and Power in Clinical
Nursing Practice".
Brenner's stages of nursing proficiency correct answer✔✔ novice,
advanced beginner, competent, proficient, expert
The nurse is caring for a patient diagnosed with essential hypertension.
The health care provider prescribes blood pressure medication that the
nurse administers. The nurse then monitors the patient's blood pressure
for several days to help determine effectiveness. Which system
component is the nurse evaluating correct answer✔✔ Output
Output is the end product of a system, and in the case of the nursing
process, it is defined as where the patient's health status improves or
oremains stable as a result of nursing care. Input consists of the data that
comes from a pt's assessment. Feedback serves to inform a system about
how it functions. Content is the product and information obtained from
the system
Who invented the self-care deficit theory? correct answer✔✔ Orem
The patient is terminally ill and is receiving hospice care. The nurse
cares for the patient by bathing, shaving, and repositioning him. The
patient would like a Catholic priest called to provide the Sacrament of
, the Sick. The nurse places a call and arranges for the priest's visit. Which
theory does this nurse's care represent? correct answer✔✔ Henderson's
Theory
Henderson defines nursing as assisting the pt with 14 activities (hygiene,
positioning, worship) until pts can meet these needs for themselves- or
assist pts to have a peaceful death.
Roy's model is to help the person adapt to changes in physiological
needs, self-concept, role function, and interdependence domains.
Watson's theory believes that the purpose of nursing is to understand the
interrelationship btw health, illness, and human behavior. The goal of
Orem's theory is to help the pt perform self-care.
A nurse uses evidence-based practice (EBP) to provide nursing care.
What is the best rationale for the nurse's behavior? correct answer✔✔
EBP is a guide for nurses in making clinical decisions
guide for nurses to structure how to make appropriate, timely, and
effective clinical decisions. A textbook relies on the scientific literature,
which may be outdated by the time the book is published. Unfortunately,
much of hte best evidence never reaches the bedside. EBP is not be
blindly applied without using good judgement and critical thinking
skills.
The nurse is using critical thinking skills during the first phase of the
nursing process. Which action indicates the nurse is in the first phase?
a. identifies pertinent nursing diagnoses
