Test Bank for Davis Advantage for Basic Nursing Thinking,
Doing, and Caring Thinking, Doing, and Caring 4th Edition
By Leslie S. Treas
All Chapters (1-41) | Expert Verified Answers | Graded A+
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter 1 Evolution of Nursing Thought & Action ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................3
Chapter 2 Clinical Judgement .................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 18
Chapter 3 Nursing Process........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 25
Chapter 4 Evidence-Based Practice: Theory & Research ............................................................................................................................................................................................................ 36
Chapter 5 Life Span: Infancy Through Middle Adulthood ........................................................................................................................................................................................................... 44
Chapter 6 Life Span: Older Adults .......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 52
Chapter 7 Experiencing Health and Illness ........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 60
Chapter 8 Stress & Adaptation ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 70
Chapter 9 Psychosocial Health & Illness ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 79
Chapter 10. Family Health......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 95
Chapter 11 Culture and Ethnicity ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 101
Chapter 12 Spirituality ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 110
Chapter 13 Experiencing Loss .............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 120
Chapter 14 Promoting Health ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 134
Chapter 15 Communication & Therapeutic Relationships ...................................................................................................................................................................................................... 143
Chapter 17 Documenting & Reporting ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 157
Chapter 16 Patient Education............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 172
Chapter 18 Measuring Vital Signs ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 181
Chapter 19 Health Assessment ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 199
Chapter 20 Promoting Asepsis & Preventing Infection ............................................................................................................................................................................................................. 222
Chapter 21 Promoting Safety ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 237
Chapter 22 Facilitating Hygiene .......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 247
Chapter 23 Administering Medication ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 261
Chapter 24 Nutrition ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 279
Chapter 25 Urinary Elimination .......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 293
Chapter 26 Bowel Elimination ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 306
Chapter 27 Sensation, Perception, & Cognition ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 320
Chapter 28 Pain .......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 332
Chapter 29 Activity & Mobility ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 349
Chapter 30 Sexual Health ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 366
Chapter 31 Sleep & Rest .......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 377
Chapter 32 Skin Integrity & Wound Healing .................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 386
Chapter 33 Oxygenation ......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 404
Chapter 34 Circulation ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 418
Chapter 35 Hydration & Homeostasis .............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 425
Chapter 36 Caring for the Surgical Patient ..................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 446
Chapter 37 Community & Home Health Nursing ......................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 458
Chapter 38 Informatics ........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 476
Chapter 39 Leading & Managing ......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 482
Chapter 40 Ethics & Values for Nursing Practice ......................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 491
Chapter 41 Legal Accountability ......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 499
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Chapter 1 Evolution of Nursing Thought & Action
Multiple Choice
Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
1. What is the most influential factor that has shaped the nursing profession?
1) Physicians need for handmaidens
2) Societal need for healthcare outside the home
3) Military demand for nurses in the field
4) Germ theory influence on sanitation
ANSWER: 3
Throughout the centuries, stability of the government has been related to the success of the military
to protect or extend its domain. As the survival and well-being of soldiers is critical, nurses
provided healthcare to the sick and injured at the battle site. The physicians handmaiden was/is a
nursing stereotype rather than an influence on nursing. Although there has been need for
healthcare outside the home throughout history, this has more influence on the development of
hospitals than on nursing; this need provided one more setting for nursing work. Germ theory and
sanitation helped to improve healthcare but did not shape nursing.
PTS: 1 DIF: Moderate REF: dm 910 KEY: Nursing process: N/A Client need: N/A | Cognitive level:
Recall
2. Which of the following is an example of an illness prevention activity? Select all that apply.
1) Encouraging the use of a food diary
2) Joining a cancer support group
3) Administering immunization for HPV
4) Teaching a diabetic patient about his diet
ANSWER: 3
Administering immunization for HPV is an example of illness prevention. Although cancer is a
disease, it is assumed that a person joining a support group would already have the disease;
therefore, this is not disease prevention but treatment. Illness-prevention activities focus on
avoiding a specific disease. A food diary is a health-promotion activity. Teaching a diabetic patient
about diet is a treatment for diabetes; the patient already has diabetes, so it cannot prevent
diabetes.
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PTS: 1 DIF: Moderate REF: p. 18; high-level question, not directly stated in text KEY: Nursing
process: N/A | Client need: HPM | Cognitive level: Application
3. Which of the following contributions of Florence Nightingale had an immediate impact on
improving patients health?
1) Providing a clean environment
2) Improving nursing education
3) Changing the delivery of care in hospitals
4) Establishing nursing as a distinct profession
ANSWER: 1
Improved sanitation (a clean environment) greatly and immediately reduced the rate of infection
and mortality in hospitals. The other responses are all activities of Florence Nightingale that
improved healthcare or nursing, but the impact is long range, not immediate.
PTS: 1 DIF: Easy REF: V1, p. 3; student must infer from content | V1, p. 10; student must infer from
content
KEY: Nursing process: N/A | Client need: SECE | Cognitive level: Application
4. All of the following are aspects of the full-spectrum nursing role. Which one is essential for
the nurse to do in order to successfully carry out all the others?
1) Thinking and reasoning about the clients care
2) Providing hands-on client care
3) Carrying out physician orders
4) Delegating to assistive personnel
ANSWER: 1
A substantial portion of the nursing role involves using clinical judgment, critical thinking, and
problem solving, which directly affect the care the client will actually receive. Providing hands-on
care is important; however, clinical judgment, critical thinking, and problem solving are essential to
do it successfully. Carrying out physician orders is a small part of a nurses role; it, too, requires
nursing assessment, planning, intervention, and evaluation. Many simple nursing tasks are being
delegated to nursing assistive personnel; delegation requires careful analysis of patient status and
the appropriateness of support personnel to deliver care. Another way to analyze this question is
that none of the options of providing hands-on care, carrying out physician orders, and delegating
to assistive personnel is required for the nurse to think and reason about a clients care; so the
answer must be 1.
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