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Test Bank for Medical-Surgical Nursing: Concepts for Interprofessional Collaborative Care 10th Edition by Donna D. Ignatavicius, M. Linda Workman & Cherie R. Rebar , ISBN: 9780323612425 |All Chapters Verified| Guide A+

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Chapter 01: Overview of Professional Nursing Concepts for Medical-Surgical Nursing
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Ignatavicius: Medical-Surgical Nursing, 10th Edition
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1. A nurse is caring for a postoperative client on the surgical unit. The client’s blood
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pressure was 142/76 mm Hg 30 minutes ago, and now is 88/50 mm Hg. What
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action would the nurse take first?
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The purpose of the Rapid Response Team (RRT) is to intervene when clients are
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deteriorating before they suffer either respiratory or cardiac arrest. Since the client has
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manifested a significant change, the nurse would call the RRT. Changes in blood
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pressure, mental status, heart rate, temperature, oxygen saturation, and last 2 hours’
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urine output are particularly significant and are part of the Modified Early Warning
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System guide.
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care provider would be notified, but this is not more important than calling the RRT.
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The client’s blood pressure would be reassessed frequently, but the priority is getting
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the rapid care to the client.
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DIF: Applying TOP: Integrated Process: Communication and t y ty ty ty


Documentation KEY: Rapid Response Team (RRT), Clinical
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judgment
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MSC: Client Needs Category: Physiological Integrity: Physiological Adaptation
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2. A new nurse is working with a preceptor on a medical-surgical unit. The preceptor
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advises the new nurse that which is the priority when working as a professional
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nurse?
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All actions are appropriate for the professional nurse. However, ensuring client safety is
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the priority. Health care errors have been widely reported for 25 years, many of which
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result in client injury, death, and increased health care costs. There are several national
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and international organizations that have either recommended or mandated safety
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initiatives.
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Every nurse has the responsibility to guard the client’s safety. The other
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actions are important for quality nursing, but they are not as vital as providing safety.
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Not making medication errors does provide safety, but is too narrow in scope to be
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the best answer.
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DIF: Understanding TOP: Integrated Process: Nursing t y ty ty


Process: Intervention KEY: Client safety
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MSC: Client Needs Category: Safe and Effective Care Environment: Safety and Infection Control
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3. A nurse is orienting a new client and family to the medical-surgical unit. What
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information does the nurse provide to best help the client promote his or her
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own safety?
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a. Encourage the client and family to be active partners. ty ty ty ty ty ty ty ty


b. Have the client monitor hand hygiene in caregivers.
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c. Offer the family the opportunity to stay with the client.
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d. Tell the client to always wear his or her armband.
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Each action could be important for the client or family to perform. However, encouraging the
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client to be active in his or her health care as a safety partner is the most critical. The
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other actions are very limited in scope and do not provide the broad protection that being
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active and involved does.
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KEY: Client safety
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MSC: Client Needs Category: Safe and Effective Care Environment: Safety and Infection Control
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4. A nurse wishes to provide client-centered care in all interactions. Which action by the
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a. Assesses for cultural influences affecting health care.
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b. Ensures that all the client’s basic needs are met.
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c. Tells the client and family about all upcoming tests.
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d. Thoroughly orients the client and family to the room. ty ty ty ty ty ty ty ty




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Showing respect for the client and family’s preferences and needs is essential to ensure a
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holistic or “whole-person” approach to care. By assessing the effect of the client’s
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culture on health care, this nurse is practicing client-focused care. Providing for basic
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needs does not demonstrate this competence. Simply telling the client about all
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upcoming tests is not providing empowering education. Orienting the client and family
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to the room is an important safety measure, but not directly related to demonstrating
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client-centered care.
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Spirituality KEY: Client-centered care, Culture
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Psychosocial Integrity
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5. A client is going to be admitted for a scheduled surgical procedure. Which action
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does the nurse explain is the most important thing the client can do to protect
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against errors?
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a. Bring a list of all medications and what they are for.
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b. Keep the provider’s phone number by the telephone.
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c. Make sure that all providers wash hands before entering the room.
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d. Write down the name of each caregiver who comes in the room.
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Medication reconciliation is a formal process in which the client’s actual current
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medications are compared to the prescribed medications at the time of admission,
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transfer, or discharge. This National client Safety Goal is important to reduce medication
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errors. The client would not have to be responsible for providers washing their
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hands, and even if the client does so, this is too narrow to be the most important
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action to prevent errors. Keeping the provider’s phone number nearby and
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documenting everyone who enters the room also do not guarantee safety.
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MSC: Client Needs Category: Safe and Effective Care Environment: Safety and Infection Control
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6. Which action by the nurse working with a client best demonstrates respect for autonomy?
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a. Asks if the client has questions before signing a consent.
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b. Gives the client accurate information when questioned.
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Autonomy is self-determination. The client would make decisions regarding care. When the
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nurse obtains a signature on the consent form, assessing if the client still has questions is
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vital, because without full information the client cannot practice autonomy. Giving accurate
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information is practicing with veracity. Keeping promises is upholding fidelity. Treating the
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client fairly is providing social justice.
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MSC: Client Needs Category: Safe and Effective Care Environment: Management
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of Care
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7. A nurse asks a more seasoned colleague to explain best practicesqwhenq communicating
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with a person from the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning/queer
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(LGBTQ) community. What answer by the faculty is most accurate?
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a. Avoid embarrassing the client by asking questions. ty ty ty ty ty ty


b. Don’t make assumptions about his or her health needs.
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c. Most LGBTQ people do not want to share information.
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d. No differences exist in communicating with this population.
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Many members of the LGBTQ community haveqfaced discrimination from health care
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providers and may be reluctant to seek health care. The nurse would never make
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assumptions about the needs of members of this population. Rather, respectful questions
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are appropriate. If approached withqsensitivity, qthe client with any health care need is
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more likely to answer honestly.
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KEY: Health care disparities, LGBTQ MSC: Client Needs Category: Psychosocial Integrity
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8. A nurse is callingq theqon-callq health care provider about a client who had a
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hysterectomy 2 days ago andqhas painqthat is unrelieved by the prescribed opioid
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pain medication. Whichqstatement qcomprises the background portion of the SBAR
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format for communication?
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a. “Iqwould qlike you to order a different pain medication.” ty ty ty ty ty ty ty ty


b. “This clientq has allergies to morphine and codeine.”
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c. “Dr. Smith doesn’t like nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory meds.”
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d. “Thisqclient had a vaginal hysterectomy 2 days ago.” ty ty ty ty ty ty ty




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