ANSWERS FULLY SOLVED STUDY MATERIAL
◉ One of the most important outcomes of the orientation phase of the
nurse-patient relationship is the development of mutual....? Answer:
Trust
◉ What important information should the nurse share with the patient
during the orientation phase? Answer: Name, credentials, and extent
of responsibility.
◉ How can a nurse help a patient be successful during the termination
phase? Answer: Summarize the gains and patient has made.
◉ What is the difference between communication congruence and
incongruence? Answer: Congruence- the verbal and non-verbal
communication matches each other. Incongruence- the verbal and
non-verbal communication doesn't match each other.
◉ How can a nurse illustrate non-judgmental acceptance of a patient?
Answer: acceptance for who they are and personal beliefs, habits,
expression or lifestyle. Therapeutic use of self begins with the ability
to convey acceptance to patients.
,◉ What are attending skills? Answer: Active listening and paying
attention, reception, perception. SOLAR.
◉ What has research shown about the effects of touch and patient
care? Answer: Allows the patient to become relaxed and feel more
comfortable.
◉ What is false reassurance? Answer: Reassuring or promising a
patient of something that may or may not happen. ("I promise
everything will be okay")
◉ Which type of questions should be avoided to encourage open
communication? Answer: Judgmental, closed-ended questions.
◉ What are the goals of SBAR communication? Answer:
standardized communication with other nurses
◉ What is ethnocentrism? Answer: Practice of judging another
culture by the standards of one's own culture
◉ What is spiritual nursing care? Answer: View spirituality as one
aspect of the whole human person and to assess patients for spiritual
distress.
◉ what is spiritual distress? Answer: impaired ability to experience
and integrate meaning and purpose in life through connectedness with
, self, others, art, music, literature, nature, and/or a power greater than
oneself.
◉ What is anxiety? Answer: Ill-defined, diffuse feeling of
apprehension and uncertainty.
◉ What factors create barriers to patient learning? Answer: high
anxiety, sensory deficits, pain, fatigue, hunger/thirst, SOB, cultural
expectations, language barriers, differing health values, low literacy,
lack of motivation, environmental factors.
◉ What are the overall goals of QSEN (Quality and Safety Education
for Nurses)? Answer: ???
◉ What is the definition of the term nursing research? Answer:
Systematic investigation of phenomena related to improving patient
care.
◉ What are the steps in the research process? Answer: Identification
of researchable problem
Review of literature
Formulation of research question or hypothesis
Design of study
Implementation of study
Drawing conclusion based on finding
Discussion and clinical implication