NURS 246 Exam 2 questions with accurate answers
assisted brushing: standing at front position Ans✓✓✓ Have the patient
sitting on the edge of the bed facing you or sitting in a chair
• If the patient is 'bed-bound' support the head with pillows
• Support the resident's chin with your index finger and thumb
• Be careful not to place pressure on the throat with your remaining
fingers
• This is sometimes called the 'pistol grip'
• The thumb holding the chin can be used to 'roll down' and hold the
lower lip allowing better vision and access
• Maintaining eye contact with your patient is enhanced when using this
position
Assisted brushing: the cuddle postion Ans✓✓✓ Assisted brushing: the
cuddle postion
* Stand behind and to the side of the patient
• Rest the patient's head against the side of your body and arm
• Support he patient's chin with your index finger and thumb
• Be careful not to place pressure on the throat with your remaining
fingers
• This is referred to as the 'pistol grip'
• The thumb holding the chin can be used to roll down and hold the
lower lip for better vision and access
• Greater head control is achieved in this position
• Especially for patient who are experiencing tremors
,Compare and contrast teaching and learning. Ans✓✓✓ Teaching:
giving lessons about a particular subject to a group of learners
Learning: gaining knowledge by studying, being taught, and
experiencing
Contrast nursing diagnosis with medical diagnosis. Ans✓✓✓ Medical:
sprained ankle
Nursing: Pain r/t swelling and soft tissue injury secondary to sprain
Create SMART Goals. Ans✓✓✓ Patient will state that pain is at a
perceived level of 3 out of 10 by end of shift.
defince culture Ans✓✓✓ Transmitted behavioral patterns, beliefs,
values, customs, lifeways, art, and all other products of human work that
guide one's worldview and decision-making.
Define a nurse's communication approach within the four phases of a
helping relationship. Ans✓✓✓ Pre-interaction
Orientation (Introductory)
Working
Termination
Define and explain the factors that inhibit sensitivity to diversity.
Ans✓✓✓ · Generalization
,· Stereotyping
· Prejudice
· Discrimination
· Racism
Define and explain the principles of acquisition of cultural identity.
Ans✓✓✓ · Acculturation: the process by which a newcomer adopts the
cultural behaviors common in the host country
· Assimilation: the process of adopting or conforming to the practices,
habits, and norms of a cultural group
· Ethnocentrism: The belief that one's own culture is superior to all
others
· Socialization: The teaching of a culture to others/ passing it down in
the family
· Rituals: a ceremony or action performed in a customary way
Define etiology. Ans✓✓✓ cause of disease
Related factors or r/t
The underlying cause of patient problem but not a medical diagnosis.
Knowledge of pathophysiology and the patients "big picture"
Ex. Impaired skin integrity r/t decreased circulation.
Define health disparities and challenges with health care. Ans✓✓✓ · a
particular type of health difference that is closely linked with social,
economic, and/or environmental disadvantage. Health disparities
adversely affect groups of people who have systematically experienced
, greater obstacles to health based on their racial or ethnic group; religion;
socioeconomic status; gender; age; mental health; cognitive, sensory, or
physical disability; sexual orientation or gender identity; geographic
location; or other characteristics historically linked to discrimination or
exclusion
· Inadequate access to care
· Substandard care
· Minority populations more likely to
· Have poor health
· Die at an earlier age
· Have lower quality of preventive, primary and specialty care - poor
access to health care
Define health literacy Ans✓✓✓ having the ability to find, understand,
and use information and services to inform health-related decisions and
actions for themselves and others.
Define Nursing Diagnosis. Ans✓✓✓ Identification of a patient's
response to a disease condition or a life condition
- Holistic consideration
Ex. Impaired skin integrity r/t poor nutrition and bowel incontinence
AEB red excoriated skin in perineal area
Define self-concept and self-esteem Ans✓✓✓ Self-concept: how you
view yourself how you "think" you are- developed at a young age and
hard to change
assisted brushing: standing at front position Ans✓✓✓ Have the patient
sitting on the edge of the bed facing you or sitting in a chair
• If the patient is 'bed-bound' support the head with pillows
• Support the resident's chin with your index finger and thumb
• Be careful not to place pressure on the throat with your remaining
fingers
• This is sometimes called the 'pistol grip'
• The thumb holding the chin can be used to 'roll down' and hold the
lower lip allowing better vision and access
• Maintaining eye contact with your patient is enhanced when using this
position
Assisted brushing: the cuddle postion Ans✓✓✓ Assisted brushing: the
cuddle postion
* Stand behind and to the side of the patient
• Rest the patient's head against the side of your body and arm
• Support he patient's chin with your index finger and thumb
• Be careful not to place pressure on the throat with your remaining
fingers
• This is referred to as the 'pistol grip'
• The thumb holding the chin can be used to roll down and hold the
lower lip for better vision and access
• Greater head control is achieved in this position
• Especially for patient who are experiencing tremors
,Compare and contrast teaching and learning. Ans✓✓✓ Teaching:
giving lessons about a particular subject to a group of learners
Learning: gaining knowledge by studying, being taught, and
experiencing
Contrast nursing diagnosis with medical diagnosis. Ans✓✓✓ Medical:
sprained ankle
Nursing: Pain r/t swelling and soft tissue injury secondary to sprain
Create SMART Goals. Ans✓✓✓ Patient will state that pain is at a
perceived level of 3 out of 10 by end of shift.
defince culture Ans✓✓✓ Transmitted behavioral patterns, beliefs,
values, customs, lifeways, art, and all other products of human work that
guide one's worldview and decision-making.
Define a nurse's communication approach within the four phases of a
helping relationship. Ans✓✓✓ Pre-interaction
Orientation (Introductory)
Working
Termination
Define and explain the factors that inhibit sensitivity to diversity.
Ans✓✓✓ · Generalization
,· Stereotyping
· Prejudice
· Discrimination
· Racism
Define and explain the principles of acquisition of cultural identity.
Ans✓✓✓ · Acculturation: the process by which a newcomer adopts the
cultural behaviors common in the host country
· Assimilation: the process of adopting or conforming to the practices,
habits, and norms of a cultural group
· Ethnocentrism: The belief that one's own culture is superior to all
others
· Socialization: The teaching of a culture to others/ passing it down in
the family
· Rituals: a ceremony or action performed in a customary way
Define etiology. Ans✓✓✓ cause of disease
Related factors or r/t
The underlying cause of patient problem but not a medical diagnosis.
Knowledge of pathophysiology and the patients "big picture"
Ex. Impaired skin integrity r/t decreased circulation.
Define health disparities and challenges with health care. Ans✓✓✓ · a
particular type of health difference that is closely linked with social,
economic, and/or environmental disadvantage. Health disparities
adversely affect groups of people who have systematically experienced
, greater obstacles to health based on their racial or ethnic group; religion;
socioeconomic status; gender; age; mental health; cognitive, sensory, or
physical disability; sexual orientation or gender identity; geographic
location; or other characteristics historically linked to discrimination or
exclusion
· Inadequate access to care
· Substandard care
· Minority populations more likely to
· Have poor health
· Die at an earlier age
· Have lower quality of preventive, primary and specialty care - poor
access to health care
Define health literacy Ans✓✓✓ having the ability to find, understand,
and use information and services to inform health-related decisions and
actions for themselves and others.
Define Nursing Diagnosis. Ans✓✓✓ Identification of a patient's
response to a disease condition or a life condition
- Holistic consideration
Ex. Impaired skin integrity r/t poor nutrition and bowel incontinence
AEB red excoriated skin in perineal area
Define self-concept and self-esteem Ans✓✓✓ Self-concept: how you
view yourself how you "think" you are- developed at a young age and
hard to change
