Test Bank for Focus on Adult Health: Medical-Surgical Nursing 2nd Edition by Linda Honan

Chapter 1 The nurse’s Role in Adult Health Nursing MULTIPLE CHOICE 1.The nurse ensures that a clients bedspace is neat and clean with the call light within easy reach.The nurse is focusing on which nursing theorist who realized the importance of the environment for care? 1. Florence Nightingale 2. Sister Callista Roy 3. Dorothea Orem 4. Martha Rogers ANS: 1 Florence Nightingales theory focused on the environment for care. Sister Callista Roys model is based in systems theory and an individuals ability to adapt. Dorothea Orems model is the selfcare deficit theory. Martha Rogers model is the science of unitary human beings. PTS:1DIF:Apply REF:Emergence of Contemporary Nursing in the United States 2.The nurse is instructing a client on self-administration of insulin so that the client will not needa health care provider to do this activity. The nurse is implementing which of the following aspects of Virginia Hendersons theory of nursing? 1. A caring relationship 2. Helping the client achieve independence from the nurses assistance as quickly as possible 3. Integration of objective and subjective data 4. Application of critical thinking ANS: 2 Virginia Hendersons theory of nursing is to help people achieve health or a peaceful death so that they can be independent from the nurses assistance as quickly as possible. A caring relationship, integration of objective and subjective data, and application of critical thinking are included in the American Nurses Associations essential features of professional nursing. PTS:1DIF:Analyze REF:Emergence of Contemporary Nursing in the United States A. client tells the nurse that he has an HMO for his health insurance. The nurse understands that the purpose of this type of health plan is to: 1. ensure payment is made to Medicare for services rendered. 2. maximize the utilization of health care resources. 3. efficiently manage costs while providing quality care. 4. focus on the illness when providing care. ANS: 3 Health maintenance organizations (HMOs) were created to efficiently manage health care costs while providing quality care. An HMO is a type of managed care plan with the goal of providing wellness care and not focusing on the illness during the provision of care. HMOs do not ensure payment is made to Medicare for services rendered. HMOs also do not maximize the utilization of health care resources but rather uses financial incentives to decrease care costs. PTS: 1 DIF: Understand REF: Cost of Care 4.A client tells the nurse that he does not have a primary care physician but rather makes an appointment with a doctor who specializes in the area in which he is experiencing a problem. The nurse realizes this client is at risk for which of the following? 1. Fragmented care 2. Overpayment of services 3. Inability to sustain health 4. Finding an appropriate general practitioner ANS: 1 In the 1980s, the close and trusting relationship between an individual and the individuals physician waned and was replaced by acquaintances with specialists based upon particular health care problems. These episodes of care cause fragmentation of care. The client who utilizes specialists is not at risk for overpayment of services, the inability to sustain health, or finding an appropriate general practitioner. PTS:1DIF:AnalyzeREFroviders of Care 5.The nurse is attending a masters degree program in efforts to be educationally prepared to serve as a hospital leader. The nurse realizes that this educational preparation will: 1. hinder the nurses ability to work with physicians. 2. be viewed as not supporting the profession of nursing by other nurses. 3. ensure the nurse is biased towards clinicians interests. p