FUNDAMENTALS NURSING ACTIVE
LEARNING 1ST EDITION TEST BANK 2025
ACTUAL QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED
ANSWERS ALREADY GRADED A+
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, Fundamentals Nursing Active Learning 1st
Edition Test Bank 2025 NEW EXAM LATEST
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Sample Test
Chapter 03: Communication
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. The nurse is caring for an adult patient with a recent below-the-knee amputation. During shift report, the
nurse reports that the patient has urinated in the bed multiple times since the surgery. Which defense
mechanism best describes this behavior?
a. compensation
b. denial
c. rationalization
d. regression
ANS: D
Regression is the return to an earlier developmental stage as a means of avoiding unpleasant or
unacceptable thoughts. The adult patient recently lost a limb and reverted to bedwetting as a coping
mechanism.
Compensation refers to a strategy that uses a personal strength to counterbalance a weakness or a feeling of
inadequacy. Refusing to accept a fact or reality as truth is termed denial. Rationalization is the act of
suggesting a different explanation for one that is painful, negative, or unacceptable.
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, DIF: Understanding REF: p. 51 OBJ: 3.8
TOP: Assessment MSC: NCLEX Client Needs Category: Psychosocial Integrity NOT: Concepts: Coping
2. A female patient is admitted to the emergency department after being raped by a neighbor. The patient
refuses to discuss the circumstances surrounding the event with the sexual assault nurse examiner. This
patient is most likely using the defense mechanism of:
suppression
sublimation
displacement
rationalization
Suppression is the conscious decision to conceal unacceptable or painful thoughts. The patient refuses to talk
about the rape possibly because of the emotional and physical pain associated with the act. Sublimation is
the rechanneling of unacceptable impulses into socially acceptable activities. Displacement is an unconscious
defense mechanism used to avoid conflict and anxiety by transferring emotions from one object to another
object that produces less anxiety. Rationalization is the act of suggesting a different explanation for one that
is painful, negative, or unacceptable.
DIF: Understanding REF: p. 51 OBJ: 3.8
a.
b.
c.
3
, d.
ANS: A
TOP: Assessment MSC: NCLEX Client Needs Category: Psychosocial Integrity NOT: Concepts: Coping
3. A patient calls the nurse to report the smell of cigarette smoke in the bathroom. The event which triggers
this communication process is referred to as the:
a. channel.
b. referent.
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LEARNING 1ST EDITION TEST BANK 2025
ACTUAL QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED
ANSWERS ALREADY GRADED A+
1
, Fundamentals Nursing Active Learning 1st
Edition Test Bank 2025 NEW EXAM LATEST
UPDATED GRADED AND RATED A+ PASS!!!
Sample Test
Chapter 03: Communication
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. The nurse is caring for an adult patient with a recent below-the-knee amputation. During shift report, the
nurse reports that the patient has urinated in the bed multiple times since the surgery. Which defense
mechanism best describes this behavior?
a. compensation
b. denial
c. rationalization
d. regression
ANS: D
Regression is the return to an earlier developmental stage as a means of avoiding unpleasant or
unacceptable thoughts. The adult patient recently lost a limb and reverted to bedwetting as a coping
mechanism.
Compensation refers to a strategy that uses a personal strength to counterbalance a weakness or a feeling of
inadequacy. Refusing to accept a fact or reality as truth is termed denial. Rationalization is the act of
suggesting a different explanation for one that is painful, negative, or unacceptable.
2
, DIF: Understanding REF: p. 51 OBJ: 3.8
TOP: Assessment MSC: NCLEX Client Needs Category: Psychosocial Integrity NOT: Concepts: Coping
2. A female patient is admitted to the emergency department after being raped by a neighbor. The patient
refuses to discuss the circumstances surrounding the event with the sexual assault nurse examiner. This
patient is most likely using the defense mechanism of:
suppression
sublimation
displacement
rationalization
Suppression is the conscious decision to conceal unacceptable or painful thoughts. The patient refuses to talk
about the rape possibly because of the emotional and physical pain associated with the act. Sublimation is
the rechanneling of unacceptable impulses into socially acceptable activities. Displacement is an unconscious
defense mechanism used to avoid conflict and anxiety by transferring emotions from one object to another
object that produces less anxiety. Rationalization is the act of suggesting a different explanation for one that
is painful, negative, or unacceptable.
DIF: Understanding REF: p. 51 OBJ: 3.8
a.
b.
c.
3
, d.
ANS: A
TOP: Assessment MSC: NCLEX Client Needs Category: Psychosocial Integrity NOT: Concepts: Coping
3. A patient calls the nurse to report the smell of cigarette smoke in the bathroom. The event which triggers
this communication process is referred to as the:
a. channel.
b. referent.
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