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NURS406 Midterm Exam Questions With
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A nurse is caring for a client who is in preterm labor at 32 weeks of gestation. The client asks
the nurse, "Will my baby be okay?" A good response is: - answer✔"You must be feeling scared
and powerless."
A nurse is caring for a client who ingested a poison and is now experiencing a seizure. What is
the priority action the nurse should take? - answer✔Check the patency of the client's airway.
A nurse is planning to use the SBAR communication tool when calling a provider. What type of
information is included in the B step? - answer✔Background or context of the situation
A nurse is providing care to a client who asks, "What is the meaning of holistic nursing care?"
How would you respond (define holistic nursing)? - answer✔"Holistic nursing care involves
viewing the client as a whole."
What is the action of retrospectively making sense of occurrences, experiences, situations, or
decisions and consequently learning from them? - answer✔Reflection
The nurse should include that interpreting data is included in which step of critical thinking? -
answer✔analysis
A charge nurse is providing teaching to a group of nurses on collaborative teamwork skills.
Which of the teamwork skill includes providing feedback to the team? - answer✔mutual
support
A nurse is taking a few days of personal time and focusing on selfcare. What are some activities
that reflect this focus? - answer✔participating in regular exercise; daily meditation; being active
in church.
A nurse communicates with the charge nurse that their assignment is unfair. What level of
communication is this? - answer✔interpersonal
What are the 5 phases of the nursing process? - answer✔Assessment, Diagnosis, Planning,
Implementation , and Evaluation
When using active listening skills, the nurse should: - answer✔Use intermittent eye contact
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A novice nurse is planning care for an elderly patient with COPD and sepsis due to UTI. After
completing the plan of care, what other action should the nurse do to enhance the skill of
critical thinking? - answer✔Request a review of the plan with the nurse's preceptor/mentor
A nurse overhears two assistive personnel (APs) disagreeing about client care assignments.
Which of action by the nurse demonstrates conflict resolution? - answer✔Confront the APs to
discuss their argument.
The family members of a recent patient on the unit wrote a letter to the unit manager,
expressing their appreciation for the way the client was treated in the hospital. The family
mentioned characteristics that indicate the nurses were caring. What behaviors did the family
most likely use to explain the caring actions of the nurse? - answer✔treating client as a human
being, maintaining client confidentiality, respecting the client, being honest with the client,
listening attentively to the client, treating the client as an individual?
The nurse is caring for a patient that while in the hospital for an skin infection was newly
diagnosed with hypertension. The nurse using the SMART goal method developed a goal for
this patient in regards to learning his new high blood pressure medication, Lisinopril. What
would the SMART goal be for this patient using all required elements? - answer✔The patient
will state the purpose of their new medication, Lisinopril, and when and how to take it by
discharge from the hospital.
A nurse is caring for a client who has hypertension and is afraid to take his blood pressure
medication. A therapeutic communication response of reflection to this statement is: -
answer✔"You seem upset about taking your blood pressure medication."
What types of clinical information or cues, when patterned together can be translated into a
nursing diagnosis for a patient? - answer✔Salient cues
A charge nurse allows two nurses who are arguing about who gets to go to lunch first to go
together. The charge nurse agrees to take care of both of the nurses' clients while they are at
lunch. The charge nurse is demonstrating what type of conflict management? -
answer✔cooperating
A client's wishes about his care clash with what the nurse believes would be the best possible
care for the client, this could cause a conflict between caring interventions and what other
nursing concept? - answer✔ethics
What is finding unique solutions to unique problems when traditional interventions are not
effective? - answer✔creativity
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NURS406 Midterm Exam Questions With
Correct Answers
A nurse is caring for a client who is in preterm labor at 32 weeks of gestation. The client asks
the nurse, "Will my baby be okay?" A good response is: - answer✔"You must be feeling scared
and powerless."
A nurse is caring for a client who ingested a poison and is now experiencing a seizure. What is
the priority action the nurse should take? - answer✔Check the patency of the client's airway.
A nurse is planning to use the SBAR communication tool when calling a provider. What type of
information is included in the B step? - answer✔Background or context of the situation
A nurse is providing care to a client who asks, "What is the meaning of holistic nursing care?"
How would you respond (define holistic nursing)? - answer✔"Holistic nursing care involves
viewing the client as a whole."
What is the action of retrospectively making sense of occurrences, experiences, situations, or
decisions and consequently learning from them? - answer✔Reflection
The nurse should include that interpreting data is included in which step of critical thinking? -
answer✔analysis
A charge nurse is providing teaching to a group of nurses on collaborative teamwork skills.
Which of the teamwork skill includes providing feedback to the team? - answer✔mutual
support
A nurse is taking a few days of personal time and focusing on selfcare. What are some activities
that reflect this focus? - answer✔participating in regular exercise; daily meditation; being active
in church.
A nurse communicates with the charge nurse that their assignment is unfair. What level of
communication is this? - answer✔interpersonal
What are the 5 phases of the nursing process? - answer✔Assessment, Diagnosis, Planning,
Implementation , and Evaluation
When using active listening skills, the nurse should: - answer✔Use intermittent eye contact
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A novice nurse is planning care for an elderly patient with COPD and sepsis due to UTI. After
completing the plan of care, what other action should the nurse do to enhance the skill of
critical thinking? - answer✔Request a review of the plan with the nurse's preceptor/mentor
A nurse overhears two assistive personnel (APs) disagreeing about client care assignments.
Which of action by the nurse demonstrates conflict resolution? - answer✔Confront the APs to
discuss their argument.
The family members of a recent patient on the unit wrote a letter to the unit manager,
expressing their appreciation for the way the client was treated in the hospital. The family
mentioned characteristics that indicate the nurses were caring. What behaviors did the family
most likely use to explain the caring actions of the nurse? - answer✔treating client as a human
being, maintaining client confidentiality, respecting the client, being honest with the client,
listening attentively to the client, treating the client as an individual?
The nurse is caring for a patient that while in the hospital for an skin infection was newly
diagnosed with hypertension. The nurse using the SMART goal method developed a goal for
this patient in regards to learning his new high blood pressure medication, Lisinopril. What
would the SMART goal be for this patient using all required elements? - answer✔The patient
will state the purpose of their new medication, Lisinopril, and when and how to take it by
discharge from the hospital.
A nurse is caring for a client who has hypertension and is afraid to take his blood pressure
medication. A therapeutic communication response of reflection to this statement is: -
answer✔"You seem upset about taking your blood pressure medication."
What types of clinical information or cues, when patterned together can be translated into a
nursing diagnosis for a patient? - answer✔Salient cues
A charge nurse allows two nurses who are arguing about who gets to go to lunch first to go
together. The charge nurse agrees to take care of both of the nurses' clients while they are at
lunch. The charge nurse is demonstrating what type of conflict management? -
answer✔cooperating
A client's wishes about his care clash with what the nurse believes would be the best possible
care for the client, this could cause a conflict between caring interventions and what other
nursing concept? - answer✔ethics
What is finding unique solutions to unique problems when traditional interventions are not
effective? - answer✔creativity
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