NUR 311 Exam 1 Questions With Complete
Solutions
- *Dispositional traits:*
o Warmth and friendliness
o Openness and respect
o Empathy (NOT sympathy)
o Honesty, authenticity, and trust
o Caring
o Competence
- *Rapport Builders:*
o Specific objectives
o Comfortable environment
o Privacy
o Confidentiality
o Patient vs. task focus
o Utilization of nursing observations
o Optimal pacing Correct Answers What are
factors that promote effective communication?
- Active range-of-motion exercises are those the
patient performs, with a nurse or a physical
therapist supervising to ensure that the patient is
doing them correctly. They involve moving each
joint through its complete range of motion. These
exercises maintain and increase muscle strength
and help keep joint problems and contractures
from developing.
,- Passive range-of-motion exercises are performed
for patients by a nurse or a physical therapist. They
also involve moving each joint through its complete
range of motion. These exercises are performed so
that patients who are completely immobilized can
retain as much joint range of motion as possible.
Because muscles do not contract during passive
range-of-motion exercises, muscle strength is
neither maintained nor increased. Correct Answers
Compare and contrast active and passive range-of-
motion exercises.
- Allows expertise of various members of the
interdisciplinary team to be maximized
- Facilitates coordination of client care
- Promotes trust and respect between members
- Involves group process and team decision making
- Achieve continuity of care
- Necessary for referrals, transfers, and discharge
planning
- Helps avoid fragmentation of care and controls
cost Correct Answers What is the value of
interdisciplinary collaborative communication?
- Ask other nurses for assistance with ambulation
when you do not feel safe lifting the patient on
your own
,- Use interdisciplinary communication to notify all
caregivers of the plan regarding ambulation and
ROM exercises, if needed.
- Chart the activities
- Delegate to UAP who has proven capable Correct
Answers How do you coordinate with health care
team members when planning and providing care
for patients with mobility problems?
- Be alert to indications of depression, anxiety, or
other behavioral changes
- Educate the hazards of smoking, alcohol, legal
and illegal substances, and unprotected sex
- Discuss the dangers of social networking and the
internet Correct Answers What teaching methods
should be completed for parents of adolescents
regarding other risks?
- Be sure the child has learned to swim and knows
rules of water safety
- Prevent unsupervised access to pools or other
bodies of water
- Teach wearing a lifejacket in boats Correct
Answers What teaching methods should be
completed for parents of preschoolers and school
age children in regard to drowning?
- Benefits: standardization, accuracy,
confidentiality, easy access for multiple users,
providing ease in maintaining ongoing health
, record of client's condition, and rapid acquisition
and transfer of client's information
- Limitations: learning the system and knowing how
to correct errors
- Risks: security risks, privacy, confidentiality
Correct Answers Discuss the benefits, limitations,
and risks of electronic health record.
- Clients have the right to expect all information in
their record and communicated with providers to
be kept confidential!
- Confidential:
o All information about patients written on paper,
spoken aloud, saved on computer
o Name, address, phone, fax, social security
number
o Reason the person is sick
o Treatments patient receives
o Information about past health conditions
- Do not write clients' name on any clinical papers
- Know facility policies about removing and copying
records
- Keep info out of sight of others not involved in the
client's care
- Do not discuss patient information in oublic areas
- Do not leave information in a public area
- Do not leave a computer unattended
- Do not fail to log off when finished
- Do not share passwords
Solutions
- *Dispositional traits:*
o Warmth and friendliness
o Openness and respect
o Empathy (NOT sympathy)
o Honesty, authenticity, and trust
o Caring
o Competence
- *Rapport Builders:*
o Specific objectives
o Comfortable environment
o Privacy
o Confidentiality
o Patient vs. task focus
o Utilization of nursing observations
o Optimal pacing Correct Answers What are
factors that promote effective communication?
- Active range-of-motion exercises are those the
patient performs, with a nurse or a physical
therapist supervising to ensure that the patient is
doing them correctly. They involve moving each
joint through its complete range of motion. These
exercises maintain and increase muscle strength
and help keep joint problems and contractures
from developing.
,- Passive range-of-motion exercises are performed
for patients by a nurse or a physical therapist. They
also involve moving each joint through its complete
range of motion. These exercises are performed so
that patients who are completely immobilized can
retain as much joint range of motion as possible.
Because muscles do not contract during passive
range-of-motion exercises, muscle strength is
neither maintained nor increased. Correct Answers
Compare and contrast active and passive range-of-
motion exercises.
- Allows expertise of various members of the
interdisciplinary team to be maximized
- Facilitates coordination of client care
- Promotes trust and respect between members
- Involves group process and team decision making
- Achieve continuity of care
- Necessary for referrals, transfers, and discharge
planning
- Helps avoid fragmentation of care and controls
cost Correct Answers What is the value of
interdisciplinary collaborative communication?
- Ask other nurses for assistance with ambulation
when you do not feel safe lifting the patient on
your own
,- Use interdisciplinary communication to notify all
caregivers of the plan regarding ambulation and
ROM exercises, if needed.
- Chart the activities
- Delegate to UAP who has proven capable Correct
Answers How do you coordinate with health care
team members when planning and providing care
for patients with mobility problems?
- Be alert to indications of depression, anxiety, or
other behavioral changes
- Educate the hazards of smoking, alcohol, legal
and illegal substances, and unprotected sex
- Discuss the dangers of social networking and the
internet Correct Answers What teaching methods
should be completed for parents of adolescents
regarding other risks?
- Be sure the child has learned to swim and knows
rules of water safety
- Prevent unsupervised access to pools or other
bodies of water
- Teach wearing a lifejacket in boats Correct
Answers What teaching methods should be
completed for parents of preschoolers and school
age children in regard to drowning?
- Benefits: standardization, accuracy,
confidentiality, easy access for multiple users,
providing ease in maintaining ongoing health
, record of client's condition, and rapid acquisition
and transfer of client's information
- Limitations: learning the system and knowing how
to correct errors
- Risks: security risks, privacy, confidentiality
Correct Answers Discuss the benefits, limitations,
and risks of electronic health record.
- Clients have the right to expect all information in
their record and communicated with providers to
be kept confidential!
- Confidential:
o All information about patients written on paper,
spoken aloud, saved on computer
o Name, address, phone, fax, social security
number
o Reason the person is sick
o Treatments patient receives
o Information about past health conditions
- Do not write clients' name on any clinical papers
- Know facility policies about removing and copying
records
- Keep info out of sight of others not involved in the
client's care
- Do not discuss patient information in oublic areas
- Do not leave information in a public area
- Do not leave a computer unattended
- Do not fail to log off when finished
- Do not share passwords
