Term 1 Final LVN/LPN Exam Questions
With Verified Answers.
Health care delivery system - answer✔To achieve optimal levels of health care
Purpose of an Individualized Plan of Care - answer✔Outlines the individual needs of the patient
and the approach of the health care team to meet those needs.
Document that identifies the roles and responsibilities of the LVN/LPN - answer✔Nurse Practice
Acts
Patient's Bill of Rights - answer✔Ensure the patients fundamental rights for treatment with
dignity and compassion were protected.
Purpose of licensing laws - answer✔To protect the public from unqualified practitioners in most
fields and professions.
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs - answer✔Individual behavior is formed needs which he identified
as physiologic, safety and security , love and belongingness, and esteem and self actualization.
Legally binding situation between nurse and patient - answer✔nurse-patient relationship
Standard of Care - answer✔Define acts whose performance is required, permitted or prohibited
Malpractice - answer✔Failure by a health professional to meet accepted standards
Negligence - answer✔The absence of due care
Informed Consent - answer✔Full disclosure of the facts the patient needs to make an intelligent
(informed) decision before any invasive treatment/procedure
Best Way to avoid a lawsuit - answer✔Practice within the rules and regulations, standard of care
and the employing agencies policies and procedures
HIPPA - answer✔Laws set rules and limits on who has permission to look at and receive health
info, and assigns penalties for wrongful disclosure
Assault - answer✔An intentional threat to cause bodily harm to another
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Battery - answer✔Unlawful touching of another person without informed consent
Subjective Data - answer✔information provided by the affected individual
Objective Data - answer✔observations or measurements of a patient's health status
OBRA - answer✔Regulate any institution that receives federal funding
Documentation and how to correct an error - answer✔Draw a single line through the error, write
initials, and record as correct
Therapeutic Communication - answer✔Its an exchange of info that facilitates the formation of a
positive nurse/patient relationship and actively involves patient in all areas of care.
Communicating with Nonverbal Patient - answer✔Using a White Board, Asking closed-ended
questions such as blink once for yes, twice for no.
nonverbal communication - answer✔methods transmitted without use of words, tone, rate of
voice, eye contact and physical appearance.
Person responsible for determining nursing diagnosis - answer✔The Registered Nurse
Phases of the Nursing Process and what happens in each phase - answer✔Assess- Gather
information about the patients condition
Diagnose- Identify the patients problems
Goals- Set goals of care and desired outcomes
Implement- perform the nursing action identified
Evaluate- determine if the goals have been met and outcomes have been achieved.
Appropriately written goals(outcomes) - answer✔A patient goal statement provides a description
of specific, measurable behavior that the pt will be able to exhibit in a given time frame after the
intervention
Difference between Nursing and Medical Diagnosis - answer✔Nursing- Clinical Judgement
concerning a human response to health conditions and vulnerability to the response.
Medical- identification of a disease or condition with evaluation of physical signs and symptoms,
etc
Ethnic Stereotype - answer✔a fixed concept of how all members of an ethnic group act or think
Matriarchal vs Patriarchal - answer✔Matriarchal- Woman makes all the decisions about health
care, disciplining the children