NSG 3180 GALEN COLLEGE OF NURSING
EXAM 2 ASSESSMENT SCRIPT 2026 VERIFIED
ANSWERS COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW
◉ When a night shift nurse completes a shift, she gives a report
about her patients to the oncoming day shift nurse. When beginning
the report, the night shift nurse introduces herself and states her
role, states the patient's name, identifiers, age, sex, and location.
Which of the following should the nurse do next?
Answer: Relate patient's chief complaint, vital signs, symptoms, and
diagnosis
◉ When calling a healthcare provider, the nurse provides name,
what unit and what hospital the call is being made from, the
patient's name, and that the patient is having trouble breathing. The
nurse is demonstrating which step in the SBAR format for
communicating with a patient's physician?
Answer: Situation
◉ The nurse is teaching a patient who is alert and oriented about
the medication, warfarin. When teaching the patient about this drug,
the nurse emphasizes the need to be consistent with Vitamin K
intake, which is found primarily in green leafy vegetables. When the
patient's spouse comes to visit, the patient states, "I can no longer
,consume green leafy vegetables." This is an example of what type of
failure caused by a communication problem?
Answer: Reception failure
◉ A 16-year-old trauma victim arrives in the emergency department
with a life-threatening condition and requires emergency surgery.
The nurse knows that
Answer: surgery can be performed without consent.
◉ The nurse fails to demonstrate effective communication by
engaging in what activity?
Answer: Making sure that unilateral information is exchanged
between patients and nurses.
◉ Whose code of ethics for nurses establishes principled guidelines
designed to protect the integrity of patients related to their care,
health, safety, and rights?
Answer: American Nurses Association
◉ Values clarification can be incorporated within the intervention
phase of the nursing process by
Answer: identifying care guidelines
, ◉ The student nurse can best learn the steps in critical thinking
through
Answer: repeated practice
◉ The ethical decision-making model where good is defined as
maximum welfare or happiness is known as the
Answer: Utilitarian model
◉ While professional values can be transmitted by tradition in
nursing classes and clinical experiences, or modeled by expert
nurses and assimilated as part of the role socialization process,
which is perhaps the best method of acquiring them?
Answer: The value should be the result of conscious choice.
◉ Environment Theory - Nurses should support the environment to
assist patient healing.
Answer: Florence Nightingale
◉ Theory of Human Caring - 10 Carative Fators
Answer: Jean Watson
◉ Theory of Caring - 5 Caring Processes
Answer: Kristen Swanson
EXAM 2 ASSESSMENT SCRIPT 2026 VERIFIED
ANSWERS COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW
◉ When a night shift nurse completes a shift, she gives a report
about her patients to the oncoming day shift nurse. When beginning
the report, the night shift nurse introduces herself and states her
role, states the patient's name, identifiers, age, sex, and location.
Which of the following should the nurse do next?
Answer: Relate patient's chief complaint, vital signs, symptoms, and
diagnosis
◉ When calling a healthcare provider, the nurse provides name,
what unit and what hospital the call is being made from, the
patient's name, and that the patient is having trouble breathing. The
nurse is demonstrating which step in the SBAR format for
communicating with a patient's physician?
Answer: Situation
◉ The nurse is teaching a patient who is alert and oriented about
the medication, warfarin. When teaching the patient about this drug,
the nurse emphasizes the need to be consistent with Vitamin K
intake, which is found primarily in green leafy vegetables. When the
patient's spouse comes to visit, the patient states, "I can no longer
,consume green leafy vegetables." This is an example of what type of
failure caused by a communication problem?
Answer: Reception failure
◉ A 16-year-old trauma victim arrives in the emergency department
with a life-threatening condition and requires emergency surgery.
The nurse knows that
Answer: surgery can be performed without consent.
◉ The nurse fails to demonstrate effective communication by
engaging in what activity?
Answer: Making sure that unilateral information is exchanged
between patients and nurses.
◉ Whose code of ethics for nurses establishes principled guidelines
designed to protect the integrity of patients related to their care,
health, safety, and rights?
Answer: American Nurses Association
◉ Values clarification can be incorporated within the intervention
phase of the nursing process by
Answer: identifying care guidelines
, ◉ The student nurse can best learn the steps in critical thinking
through
Answer: repeated practice
◉ The ethical decision-making model where good is defined as
maximum welfare or happiness is known as the
Answer: Utilitarian model
◉ While professional values can be transmitted by tradition in
nursing classes and clinical experiences, or modeled by expert
nurses and assimilated as part of the role socialization process,
which is perhaps the best method of acquiring them?
Answer: The value should be the result of conscious choice.
◉ Environment Theory - Nurses should support the environment to
assist patient healing.
Answer: Florence Nightingale
◉ Theory of Human Caring - 10 Carative Fators
Answer: Jean Watson
◉ Theory of Caring - 5 Caring Processes
Answer: Kristen Swanson
