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chapter 1
The nurse manager of the perinatal services unit wants to improve
outcomes associated with perinatal loss. What action by the manager
would best help meet this goal?
A. Develop a unit specifically for this population.
B. Establish a multidisciplinary perinatal loss team.
C. Identify key nurses to care for these patients.
D. Provide debriefing services for the nursing staff.
A. Establish a multidisciplinary perinatal loss team.
A team approach to perinatal loss and bereavement is best to provide
a therapeutic
and caring experience for families suffering perinatal loss. The families
are best
cared for by expert perinatal nurses.
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A nurse is caring for a patient from a culture with which the nurse is
totally unfamiliar. What action by the nurse will best promote effective
communication?
A. Call for a professional interpreter to translate information.
B. Pattern voice tone and eye contact after the patient's behaviors.
C. Talk slowly and deliberately using simple language and cues.
D. Use nonverbal communication as much as possible with the patient.
B. Pattern voice tone and eye contact after the patient's behaviors.
In the situation where the nurse is unfamiliar with the patient's culture,
the nurse
should pattern verbal and nonverbal communication after the patient's
own style.
chapter 1
A nurse manager expects all employees to be patient advocates.
Which nursing action best demonstrates this nursing role?
A. Arranging a family-physician conference to clarify treatment plans
B. Encouraging treatment options based on personal beliefs and values
C. Giving contact information for governmental assistance agencies
D. Working on a political campaign to reduce poverty in the state
A. Arranging a family-physician conference to clarify treatment plans
In the advocate role, the nurse should promote patient-/family-
centered care and
work to provide the patient with more control, power, and self-
determination in the
health-care setting. The nurse who arranges a family-physician
conference to
clarify treatment plans is advocating for the patient.
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A patient and family have the nursing diagnosis of impaired verbal
communication secondary to a language barrier. What action by the
patient/family would best indicate that short-term goals for this
diagnosis have been met?
A. Able to communicate long-term desires for health of the patient
B. Demonstrates comprehension by head nodding and saying "yes"
C. States understanding of condition and treatment via an interpreter
D. Understands how nonverbal communication varies between cultures
C. States understanding of condition and treatment via an interpreter
For a language barrier, using a professional interpreter is not only the
best way to
manage communication, it is also legally required. The best short-term
goal for the
patient and family is to obtain understanding of the patient's illness and
treatment
and state, through the interpreter, that this is the case.
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A nurse is working with family members who have been striving to
improve their functioning as a family unit. What behavior would suggest
to the nurse that the family is meeting its goals?
A. The children are in multiple activities to develop talents.
B. The desire to be understood guides most communication.
C. Family members gave up some activities to eat dinner together on
most nights.
D. The parents have a strong desire for the children to succeed.
C. Family members gave up some activities to eat dinner together on
most nights.
Effective tools for families include ways to enhance family
performance. One very
effective tool is to put the family first in this very chaotic world. Giving
up some
activities to eat dinner together shows the family is putting the unit first
over
individual desires.