NURS246 Chapter 14 Practice Questions
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The nurse provides care to a client who is experiencing an acute illness. What information about
family-centered care should the nurse keep in mind when planning this client's care?
1. Visiting hours should be strictly enforced.
2. Care conferences serve little purpose.
3. Families influence client recovery.
4. Discharge planning begins when the client stabilizes. - 3. Families influence client recovery.
What should the nurse consider when determining the degree of family involvement in
discharge planning?
1. Current advance directive for the client
2. Family's education and information needs
3. A family letter stating expectations for discharge
4. Legal advice provided by an attorney during the discharge meeting - 2. Family's education and
information needs
How should the nurse categorize a family who is willing to discuss withdrawal of treatment, has
good communication with other family members, uses facts and family wishes to make
decisions, and is able to identify a time and date to withdraw treatment?
1. Struggling
2. Progressing
3. Maintaining
4. Accommodating - 2. Progressing
, For which reason might a nurse experience role ambiguity when caring for a critically ill client
and the family?
1. Deciding whether to eliminate the family's worries or provide emotional support
2. Weighing the biomedical technical model of care against the holistic nursing model of care
3. Asking to withhold information from the health care provider until test results are confirmed
4. Balancing the professional relationship and the more personal relationship the family seeks
with the nurse - 1. Deciding whether to eliminate the family's worries or provide emotional
support
What type of communication from nurses do families find as being the most helpful?
1. Brief
2. Honest
3. Vague
4. Limited - 2. Honest
What research information should the nurse manager use as evidence to increase the amount
of family involvement in the care of a hospitalized client?
1. Increases the cost of care
2. Causes poor outcomes
3. Increases family stress
4. Improves outcomes - 4. Improves outcomes
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The nurse provides care to a client who is experiencing an acute illness. What information about
family-centered care should the nurse keep in mind when planning this client's care?
1. Visiting hours should be strictly enforced.
2. Care conferences serve little purpose.
3. Families influence client recovery.
4. Discharge planning begins when the client stabilizes. - 3. Families influence client recovery.
What should the nurse consider when determining the degree of family involvement in
discharge planning?
1. Current advance directive for the client
2. Family's education and information needs
3. A family letter stating expectations for discharge
4. Legal advice provided by an attorney during the discharge meeting - 2. Family's education and
information needs
How should the nurse categorize a family who is willing to discuss withdrawal of treatment, has
good communication with other family members, uses facts and family wishes to make
decisions, and is able to identify a time and date to withdraw treatment?
1. Struggling
2. Progressing
3. Maintaining
4. Accommodating - 2. Progressing
, For which reason might a nurse experience role ambiguity when caring for a critically ill client
and the family?
1. Deciding whether to eliminate the family's worries or provide emotional support
2. Weighing the biomedical technical model of care against the holistic nursing model of care
3. Asking to withhold information from the health care provider until test results are confirmed
4. Balancing the professional relationship and the more personal relationship the family seeks
with the nurse - 1. Deciding whether to eliminate the family's worries or provide emotional
support
What type of communication from nurses do families find as being the most helpful?
1. Brief
2. Honest
3. Vague
4. Limited - 2. Honest
What research information should the nurse manager use as evidence to increase the amount
of family involvement in the care of a hospitalized client?
1. Increases the cost of care
2. Causes poor outcomes
3. Increases family stress
4. Improves outcomes - 4. Improves outcomes
