PNR Test Questions – Practice and Revision Set
What aspects of the therapeutic nurse Client relationship is addressed in the article "lend an
ear"? - ANS ✔✔Trust and respect
What is one way a nurse violates the nurse client relationship? - ANS ✔✔When we don't listen.
What is the goal behind listening according to Broeder-morin and land? - ANS ✔✔Gain
empathetic understanding
How does a nurse show they are listening? - ANS ✔✔Eye contact, arms uncrossed, facial
expression, touch, warmth
What are the client consequences of not being listened to according to the article? - ANS
✔✔Depression, frustration, complaints about care , perceived nurses as being rude, abrupt and
not caring.
What happened in a recents coroners report when a client was not listened to? - ANS ✔✔A
man died due to a med error because the client was not listening when he said it did not like
the pills he received before and no double check was made.
What does an electronic health record(EHR) do? - ANS ✔✔Enhances communication among
healthcare providers and thus patient safety.
Nurses are legally and ethically to keep patient information confidential, how long are records
retained for? - ANS ✔✔Minimum of 10 years.
,Communication between healthcare providers is important in client care. What must the nurse
do in order to ensure that communication is adequate? - ANS ✔✔provide accurate, detailed,
objective, and timely information.
SOAP - ANS ✔✔subjective, objective, assessment, plan
SOAPIE - ANS ✔✔subjective, objective, assessment, plan, intervention, evaluation
Focus charting (DAR) - ANS ✔✔data, action, response
PIE - ANS ✔✔Problem, intervention, evaluation
A nurse has just admitted a patient with a medical diagnosis of heart failure. When the
admission paperwork is filled out, what does the nurse need to record? - ANS ✔✔Objective
data that are observed
Health documentation is an electronic format is an evolving process that faces many challenges.
Which of the following is one of these challenges? - ANS ✔✔Ensuring that documentation is
accurate and precise.
What about the patient should be confidential? - ANS ✔✔All written, verbal communication,
only people involved in care may have access to records, can not be copied or duplicated, and
clients can view their health record often due with a person in authority so that questions may
be answered
5 red flags that need to be advised in chart altering - ANS ✔✔1. Don't add info later without
indicating you did so
2. Don't date the entry so it appears to have e been written at an earlier time
3. Don't add inaccurate info
, 4. Don't destroy records
5. No writing in margins
When might a health care provider suspect a patient is experiencing urinary retention? - ANS
✔✔The patient indicates pain in the suprapubic region.
Is the rectum sterile? - ANS ✔✔No, you have to clean it.
Is the ostomy stertile? - ANS ✔✔No.
Patients with cardiovascular disease should be cautioned against straining while having a bowel
movement. What does this help to avoid? - ANS ✔✔Decreased venous return to the heart
To maintain normal elimination patterns in the hospitalized patient, the nurse should encourage
the patient to defecate 1 hour after meals for which reason? - ANS ✔✔Mass colonic peristalsis
occurs at this time.
A patient states that he has recently had a change in medications and reports that his stools are
now dry and hard, which makes them difficult to eliminate. What condition is this type of bowel
pattern consistent with? - ANS ✔✔Constipation.
What side do patients turn on for rectal checks? - ANS ✔✔Patients always go on their left side
with there knees flexed and pad underneath.
Which type of urine specimen is obtained through catheterization? - ANS ✔✔Cultural and
sensitivity
What is the medical terminology used for microscopic amounts of blood in stool? - ANS
✔✔Gastrointestinal hematochezia
What aspects of the therapeutic nurse Client relationship is addressed in the article "lend an
ear"? - ANS ✔✔Trust and respect
What is one way a nurse violates the nurse client relationship? - ANS ✔✔When we don't listen.
What is the goal behind listening according to Broeder-morin and land? - ANS ✔✔Gain
empathetic understanding
How does a nurse show they are listening? - ANS ✔✔Eye contact, arms uncrossed, facial
expression, touch, warmth
What are the client consequences of not being listened to according to the article? - ANS
✔✔Depression, frustration, complaints about care , perceived nurses as being rude, abrupt and
not caring.
What happened in a recents coroners report when a client was not listened to? - ANS ✔✔A
man died due to a med error because the client was not listening when he said it did not like
the pills he received before and no double check was made.
What does an electronic health record(EHR) do? - ANS ✔✔Enhances communication among
healthcare providers and thus patient safety.
Nurses are legally and ethically to keep patient information confidential, how long are records
retained for? - ANS ✔✔Minimum of 10 years.
,Communication between healthcare providers is important in client care. What must the nurse
do in order to ensure that communication is adequate? - ANS ✔✔provide accurate, detailed,
objective, and timely information.
SOAP - ANS ✔✔subjective, objective, assessment, plan
SOAPIE - ANS ✔✔subjective, objective, assessment, plan, intervention, evaluation
Focus charting (DAR) - ANS ✔✔data, action, response
PIE - ANS ✔✔Problem, intervention, evaluation
A nurse has just admitted a patient with a medical diagnosis of heart failure. When the
admission paperwork is filled out, what does the nurse need to record? - ANS ✔✔Objective
data that are observed
Health documentation is an electronic format is an evolving process that faces many challenges.
Which of the following is one of these challenges? - ANS ✔✔Ensuring that documentation is
accurate and precise.
What about the patient should be confidential? - ANS ✔✔All written, verbal communication,
only people involved in care may have access to records, can not be copied or duplicated, and
clients can view their health record often due with a person in authority so that questions may
be answered
5 red flags that need to be advised in chart altering - ANS ✔✔1. Don't add info later without
indicating you did so
2. Don't date the entry so it appears to have e been written at an earlier time
3. Don't add inaccurate info
, 4. Don't destroy records
5. No writing in margins
When might a health care provider suspect a patient is experiencing urinary retention? - ANS
✔✔The patient indicates pain in the suprapubic region.
Is the rectum sterile? - ANS ✔✔No, you have to clean it.
Is the ostomy stertile? - ANS ✔✔No.
Patients with cardiovascular disease should be cautioned against straining while having a bowel
movement. What does this help to avoid? - ANS ✔✔Decreased venous return to the heart
To maintain normal elimination patterns in the hospitalized patient, the nurse should encourage
the patient to defecate 1 hour after meals for which reason? - ANS ✔✔Mass colonic peristalsis
occurs at this time.
A patient states that he has recently had a change in medications and reports that his stools are
now dry and hard, which makes them difficult to eliminate. What condition is this type of bowel
pattern consistent with? - ANS ✔✔Constipation.
What side do patients turn on for rectal checks? - ANS ✔✔Patients always go on their left side
with there knees flexed and pad underneath.
Which type of urine specimen is obtained through catheterization? - ANS ✔✔Cultural and
sensitivity
What is the medical terminology used for microscopic amounts of blood in stool? - ANS
✔✔Gastrointestinal hematochezia
