NSG-3250 EXAM 1 Questions and Answers
Question 1.
Medical-surgical nursing
Correct Answer: a specialty area of practice that provides nursing services to
patients from adolescence through the end-of-life in hospital medical-surgical
units, clinics, ambulatory care units, urgent care centers, home health care
agencies, and long-term care facilities
Question 2.
Rehospitalization
Correct Answer: admission to the hospital within 30 days of a prior discharge
from a hospitalization
Question 3.
transitional care
Correct Answer: coordinated services and supports during the interval between
preparing a patient to leave one setting and enter another
Question 4.
A home health nurse is conducting an assessment of a client who may qualify for
Medicare. Consequently, the nurse is utilizing the Outcome and Assessment Instrument
Set (OASIS). When performing an assessment using this instrument, the nurse should
assess what domain of the client's current status?
Correct Answer: Functional status
Question 5.
Critical Care Nursing
Correct Answer: a specialty area of practice that provides nursing services to
critically ill patients across the lifespan in acute care settings such as the
hospital intensive unit; current practice settings have expanded to include
virtual care and community settings
Question 6.
Rehabilitation nursing
Correct Answer: returning patients to optimal functionality through a holistic
approach to care that is based on scientific evidence.
Question 7.
Home health
Correct Answer: skilled nursing in a persons home
, Question 8.
community-based nursing
Correct Answer: promoting and maintaining the health of individuals and
families, preventing and minimizing the progression of disease, and improving
quality of life
Question 9.
activities of daily living (ADLs)
Correct Answer: basic self-care tasks such as eating, bathing, toileting, walking,
and dressing
Question 10.
instrumental activities of daily living (IADLs)
Correct Answer: tasks necessary to conduct the business of daily life and also
requiring some cognitive competence, such as telephoning, shopping, food
preparation, housekeeping, and paying bills
Question 11.
nurse navigator
Correct Answer: assist clients with transitions in different levels of care, such as
from the hospital to a rehabilitation facility
Question 12.
case manager
Correct Answer: ensure cost-effective care and to communicate with the medical
insurance company
Question 13.
Medicare, Medicaid, and third party payers require
Correct Answer: documentation of the client's homebound status and the need
for skilled professional nursing care
Question 14.
When is discharge planning started?
Correct Answer: Upon admission
Question 15.
preoperative phase
Correct Answer: period of time from when the decision for surgical intervention
is made to when the patient is transferred to the operating room table
Question 1.
Medical-surgical nursing
Correct Answer: a specialty area of practice that provides nursing services to
patients from adolescence through the end-of-life in hospital medical-surgical
units, clinics, ambulatory care units, urgent care centers, home health care
agencies, and long-term care facilities
Question 2.
Rehospitalization
Correct Answer: admission to the hospital within 30 days of a prior discharge
from a hospitalization
Question 3.
transitional care
Correct Answer: coordinated services and supports during the interval between
preparing a patient to leave one setting and enter another
Question 4.
A home health nurse is conducting an assessment of a client who may qualify for
Medicare. Consequently, the nurse is utilizing the Outcome and Assessment Instrument
Set (OASIS). When performing an assessment using this instrument, the nurse should
assess what domain of the client's current status?
Correct Answer: Functional status
Question 5.
Critical Care Nursing
Correct Answer: a specialty area of practice that provides nursing services to
critically ill patients across the lifespan in acute care settings such as the
hospital intensive unit; current practice settings have expanded to include
virtual care and community settings
Question 6.
Rehabilitation nursing
Correct Answer: returning patients to optimal functionality through a holistic
approach to care that is based on scientific evidence.
Question 7.
Home health
Correct Answer: skilled nursing in a persons home
, Question 8.
community-based nursing
Correct Answer: promoting and maintaining the health of individuals and
families, preventing and minimizing the progression of disease, and improving
quality of life
Question 9.
activities of daily living (ADLs)
Correct Answer: basic self-care tasks such as eating, bathing, toileting, walking,
and dressing
Question 10.
instrumental activities of daily living (IADLs)
Correct Answer: tasks necessary to conduct the business of daily life and also
requiring some cognitive competence, such as telephoning, shopping, food
preparation, housekeeping, and paying bills
Question 11.
nurse navigator
Correct Answer: assist clients with transitions in different levels of care, such as
from the hospital to a rehabilitation facility
Question 12.
case manager
Correct Answer: ensure cost-effective care and to communicate with the medical
insurance company
Question 13.
Medicare, Medicaid, and third party payers require
Correct Answer: documentation of the client's homebound status and the need
for skilled professional nursing care
Question 14.
When is discharge planning started?
Correct Answer: Upon admission
Question 15.
preoperative phase
Correct Answer: period of time from when the decision for surgical intervention
is made to when the patient is transferred to the operating room table
