NUR 164 Final ECPI Questions And Answers With Verified Study Solutions

Law established to regulate nursing practice. - Answer-Nurse Practice Act (NPA) What type of family is made of two single-parent families joined together to form a new family unit? - Answer-Blended Family What type of family consist of a nuclear family and other related people? - Answer-Extended Family Any group of people who live together and depend on one another for physical, emotional, and financial support. - Answer-Family family unit, family of marriage, parenthood, or procreation, and their immediate children - AnswerNuclear Family According to Maslow's Hierarchy what is the most important need level? - Answer-Physiological (breathing, circulation, temperature, food and fluids, movement, and waste elimination) What is the second most important need in Maslow's Hierarchy? - Answer-Safety and Security (housing, community/neighborhood, and climate) What is least important in Maslow's Hierarchy? - Answer-Self-actualization (values, beliefs, fulfillment, and thinking) What is Maslow's Hierarchy in order from most important to least? - Answer-1)Physiologic 2)Safety and Security 3)Love and Belonging 4)Self-esteem 5)Self-actualization State board examination to become a registered nurse. - Answer-NCLEXWhat is ADPIE? - Answer-The Nursing Process- Assessing, Diagnosing, Planning, Implementing, and Evaluating What part of the nursing process consist of gathering information by speaking with and examining the patient? - Answer-Assessing What part of the nursing process involves prescribing treatment? - Answer-Implementing What part of the nursing process involves looking over the outcome of treatment? - Answer-Evaluating The knowledgeable, voluntary permission obtained from a patient to perform a specific test or procedure. - Answer-Informed Consent Wrongfully infringing on the rights of another. - Answer-Tort What are the two types of tort? - Answer-Intentional and Unintentional a threat or an attempt to make bodily contact with another person without the person's consent - Answer-Assault Carried out assault that includes willful, angry, and violent or negligent touching of another person's body or clothes or anything attached to or held by that other person. - Answer-Battery Tort in which one party makes derogatory remarks about another that diminish the other party's reputation. - Answer-Defamation of Character The release of confidential information to a person or place that does not have consent from the patient to be shared. - Answer-Invasion of Privacy Unjustified retention or prevention of movement of an individual. - Answer-False Imprisonmentwillful and purposeful misrepresentation that could cause, or has caused, loss or harm to a person or property. - Answer-Fraud Performing of an act that a reasonable person under the same circumstances would not do, or failing to perform an act that a reasonable person under the same circumstances would do. - Answer-Negligence Negligence by a professional person is called - Answer-Malpractice What is an unintentional tort? - Answer-Negligence and Malpractice What are intentional torts? - Answer-1)Assault 2)Battery 3)Defamation 4)Fraud 5)False Imprisonment 6)Invasion of Privacy Report filed when an error is made that causes harm or danger to a patient, visitor, or employee. - Answer-Incident Report Indications that a nurse may have a substance abuse problem: - Answer--Change in job performance -Absence from the unit for extended periods of time -Frequent bathroom trips -Arriving late or leaving early -Incorrect narcotic counts -patients frequently complain of ineffective pain relief What role does a nurse play in the case of suspected abuse of a child or elderly person? - AnswerMandated ReporterWhat type of precaution does every patient in the clinical setting follow? - Answer-Standard Precaution What type of precaution is used for someone who has tuberculosis, varicella, and rubeola (measles)? - Answer-Airborne Precaution What type of precaution is used for flu, rubella, and mumps? - Answer-Droplet Precaution What type of precaution is used for C. Diff and MRSA? - Answer-Contact Precaution What is the best mask to be worn in an airborne precaution such as TB? - Answer-N-95 What is the normal range of white blood cells? - Answer-5,000-10,000 If a person has a WBC count of less than 5,000 what is the concern? - Answer-They are at risk for infection. If a person has a WBC count of greater than 10,000 what is the concern? - Answer-They have an infection. What are the major pulse sites? - Answer--Temporal -Carotid -Brachial -Radial -Femoral -Popliteal -Posterior Tibial -Dorsalis Pedis What may cause Reye's Syndrome in children? - Answer-AspirinWhat means "nothing by mouth" - Answer-NPO If TPN is being administered what should be monitored? - Answer-Glucose Which side should a cane be used on? - Answer-Unaffected, healthy side What do anticoagulants increase? - Answer-Bleeding Risk Precautions to help nurses reduce/prevent injury - Answer-Ergonomics What type of medication increases urination and can cause one to wake up frequently at night to urinate? - Answer-Diuretic What scale is used for children to show their level of pain? - Answer-FACES Pain in an area removed from that in which stimulation has its origin. - Answer-Referred Pain What are the factors that relieve pain? - Answer-Alleviating Factors What are the factors that cause pain? - Answer-Aggravating Factors What is OSA? - Answer-Obstructive Sleep Apnea What is used to treat moderate to severe OSA? - Answer-Continuous Positive Airway Pressure Machine (CPAP) Normal Temperature - Answer-96.4-99.5Normal Pulse - Answer-60-100 beats per minute Normal Respirations - Answer-12-20 breaths per minute