NCLEX Practice Questions Exam 1
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A nurse is providing care based on b. Maslow's hierarchy of basic human needs is useful for establishing priorities of
Maslow's hierarchy of basic human needs. care.
For which nursing activities is this
approach useful?
a. Making accurate nursing diagnoses
b. Establishing priorities of care
c. Communicating concerns more
concisely
d. Integrating science into nursing care
The nurse is prioritizing nursing care for a b, d. Physiologic needs—oxygen, water, food, elimination, temperature, sexuality,
patient in a long-term care facility. Which physical activity, and rest—must be met at least minimally to maintain life.
examples of nursing interventions help Providing food and oxygen are examples of interventions to meet these needs.
meet physiologic needs? Select all that Preventing falls helps meet safety and security needs, providing art supplies may
apply. help meet self-actualization needs, facilitating visits from loved ones helps meet
self-esteem needs, and referring a patient to a support group helps meet love
a. Preventing falls in the facility and belonging needs.
b. Changing a patient's oxygen tank
c. Providing materials for a patient who
likes to draw
d. Helping a patient eat his dinner
e. Facilitating a visit from a spouse
f. Referring a patient to a cancer support
group.
, The nurse caring for patients b. By carrying out careful hand hygiene and using sterile technique, nurses
postoperatively uses careful hand provide safety from infection. An example of a physiologic need is clearing a
hygiene and sterile techniques when patient's airway. Self-esteem needs may be met by allowing an older adult to talk
handling patients. Which of Maslow's about a past career. An example of helping meet a love and belonging need is
basic human needs is being met by this contacting a hospitalized patient's family to arrange a visit.
nurse?
a. Physiologic
b. Safety and security
c. Self-esteem
d. Love and belonging
The nurse caring for patients in a long- c, e, f. Self-actualization, or reaching one's full potential, is a process that
term care facility knows that the highest continues throughout life. A person achieves self-actualization by focusing on
level on Maslow's hierarchy of needs is problems outside oneself and using creativity as a guideline for solving problems
self-actualization needs. Which and pursuing interests. Humans are not born with a fully developed sense of self-
statements accurately describe the actualization, and self-actualization needs are not met specifically by depending
achievement of self-actualization? Select on others for help. Loneliness and isolation are not always the result of unmet self-
all that apply. actualization needs.
a. Humans are born with a fully
developed sense of self-actualization.
b. Self-actualization needs are met by
depending on others for help.
c. The self-actualization process
continues throughout life.
d. Loneliness and isolation occur when
self-actualization needs are unmet.
e. A person achieves self-actualization by
focusing on problems outside self.
f. Self-actualization needs may be met by
creatively solving problems.
A nurse works with families in crisis at a d. Although all the responses may be true, the best definition is a group of people
community mental health care facility. who live together and depend on each other for physical, emotional, or financial
What is the best broad definition of a support.
family?
a. A father, a mother, and children
b. A group whose members are
biologically related
c. A unit that includes aunts, uncles, and
cousins
d. A group of people who live together
and depend on each other for support