Dimensions of Nursing Final Exam-Multiple Choice
1. Join professional organizations in large numbers: What is the most effective
method that nurses can use to gain power over their practice?
2. Sentinel Event: What is an unexpected occurrence involving death or serious
physical or psychological injury or the risk thereof serious injury including loss of
limbs or function?
3. They enhance comfort and produce an inner peace with disability or death-
: What is the purpose of spiritual modes of healing?
4. The gold standard for comparison of hospital performance: What is the
Leapfrog Group and its recommendations?
5. Data: A client's blood pressure of 180/110 mmHg is an example of what?
6. A client who is quietly reading a book: What is an example of an appropriate
time to discuss discharge teaching with a client?
7. Health-care workers avoiding harm to clients: What is the definition of the
ethical principle of non maleficence?
8. Gender issues and residential status: What characteristics are hard to identify,
but have an even more profound effect on an individuals cultural identity?
9. High-quality interpersonal relationships between students and teachers: -
What is a key element to effective education of nursing students?
10. Notifying the police of Mr. Brown's gunshot wound: What is not considered
an invasion of privacy?
11. Inquire what complimentary practices the client is using to ensure client
safety: What is an appropriate response from the nurse when caring for a client
using complimentary medicine?
12. Emphasis is placed on diagnosis and cure based on physical symptoms-
: What is not a characteristic of integrative medicine?
13. No: Does a person with spiritual needs have to participate in religious rituals and
practices?
14. Language: What is the single most obvious barrier to providing culturally com-
petent care?
15. Conventional medicine primarily uses therapy from the outside and inte-
grative from within: What describes conventional and integrative medicine?
16. Uses newly developed coping skills to resolve future crises: What charac-
teristic is required in a person to be able to resolve difficult crises?
17. Nurse Practice Act: Where would a nurse look to find their scope of practice as
defined by state law?
18. Identify changes in behaviors linking criminals to criminal offenses: What
is an important aspect of forensic psychiatric nurses?
19. The Joint Commission has a standard of patient care with inclusion of
spirituality: Why is there such an emphasis on spirituality in health care?
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, Dimensions of Nursing Final Exam-Multiple Choice
20. Determining the skill level of the person to whom the task is being dele-
gated: What is the first step in the delegation process?
21. The client's perceptions and beliefs about the disease process and the
modalities of treatment: What is the most important element for the nurse naviga-
tor to include in the planning of care for a patient?
22. Correctional Institutions: What is a secure setting for the practice of forensic
nursing?
23. The establishment of appropriate reimbursement for nursing activities: -
What would be a likely result of the development of a universally agreed upon
nomenclature and taxonomy for nursing clinical information and management data?
24. As old age sets in due to the development of multiple chronic illnesses: -
When do most health-care expenditures occur in a person's life?
25. Elimination of the barriers to care to make moving through the treatment
maze easier: What is the primary goal of the nurse navigator role?
26. Assertive: What is a communication style that involves interpersonal behaviors
that permit people to defend and maintain the legitimate rights in a respectful manner
that does not violate the rights of others?
27. Explain the nurse's religious beliefs and values immediately when request-
ed to do so by the client: What nursing intervention is of limited effectiveness in
addressing the needs of a client with a nursing diagnosis of Spiritual Distress?
28. The receiver thinks about the information, understands it, and forms an
idea based on the message: When does the encoding process of communication
take place?
29. Hippocrates: Who is called the "father of modern medicine"?
30. Turning a client with a CVA every 2 hours: What task may be delegated to an
LPN if all of the clients are stable?
31. The switch to the new ICD-10 coding system: What is the primary change that
increased the need for many more certified RN-coders and certified RN-auditors?
32. Client, health, environment, nursing: What are the 4 concepts that are com-
mon in most nursing theories?
33. The nurse specifies short and long term outcomes for the client: What
demonstrates the planning phase of the nursing process?
34. Link positive reinforcement to changes in behavior: What is the best way to
increase the motivation to learn in the elderly population?
35. Nurses are often in positions to report crimes or preserve evidence: Why
is it important for nurses in general practice to have an awareness of forensic
knowledge?
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1. Join professional organizations in large numbers: What is the most effective
method that nurses can use to gain power over their practice?
2. Sentinel Event: What is an unexpected occurrence involving death or serious
physical or psychological injury or the risk thereof serious injury including loss of
limbs or function?
3. They enhance comfort and produce an inner peace with disability or death-
: What is the purpose of spiritual modes of healing?
4. The gold standard for comparison of hospital performance: What is the
Leapfrog Group and its recommendations?
5. Data: A client's blood pressure of 180/110 mmHg is an example of what?
6. A client who is quietly reading a book: What is an example of an appropriate
time to discuss discharge teaching with a client?
7. Health-care workers avoiding harm to clients: What is the definition of the
ethical principle of non maleficence?
8. Gender issues and residential status: What characteristics are hard to identify,
but have an even more profound effect on an individuals cultural identity?
9. High-quality interpersonal relationships between students and teachers: -
What is a key element to effective education of nursing students?
10. Notifying the police of Mr. Brown's gunshot wound: What is not considered
an invasion of privacy?
11. Inquire what complimentary practices the client is using to ensure client
safety: What is an appropriate response from the nurse when caring for a client
using complimentary medicine?
12. Emphasis is placed on diagnosis and cure based on physical symptoms-
: What is not a characteristic of integrative medicine?
13. No: Does a person with spiritual needs have to participate in religious rituals and
practices?
14. Language: What is the single most obvious barrier to providing culturally com-
petent care?
15. Conventional medicine primarily uses therapy from the outside and inte-
grative from within: What describes conventional and integrative medicine?
16. Uses newly developed coping skills to resolve future crises: What charac-
teristic is required in a person to be able to resolve difficult crises?
17. Nurse Practice Act: Where would a nurse look to find their scope of practice as
defined by state law?
18. Identify changes in behaviors linking criminals to criminal offenses: What
is an important aspect of forensic psychiatric nurses?
19. The Joint Commission has a standard of patient care with inclusion of
spirituality: Why is there such an emphasis on spirituality in health care?
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, Dimensions of Nursing Final Exam-Multiple Choice
20. Determining the skill level of the person to whom the task is being dele-
gated: What is the first step in the delegation process?
21. The client's perceptions and beliefs about the disease process and the
modalities of treatment: What is the most important element for the nurse naviga-
tor to include in the planning of care for a patient?
22. Correctional Institutions: What is a secure setting for the practice of forensic
nursing?
23. The establishment of appropriate reimbursement for nursing activities: -
What would be a likely result of the development of a universally agreed upon
nomenclature and taxonomy for nursing clinical information and management data?
24. As old age sets in due to the development of multiple chronic illnesses: -
When do most health-care expenditures occur in a person's life?
25. Elimination of the barriers to care to make moving through the treatment
maze easier: What is the primary goal of the nurse navigator role?
26. Assertive: What is a communication style that involves interpersonal behaviors
that permit people to defend and maintain the legitimate rights in a respectful manner
that does not violate the rights of others?
27. Explain the nurse's religious beliefs and values immediately when request-
ed to do so by the client: What nursing intervention is of limited effectiveness in
addressing the needs of a client with a nursing diagnosis of Spiritual Distress?
28. The receiver thinks about the information, understands it, and forms an
idea based on the message: When does the encoding process of communication
take place?
29. Hippocrates: Who is called the "father of modern medicine"?
30. Turning a client with a CVA every 2 hours: What task may be delegated to an
LPN if all of the clients are stable?
31. The switch to the new ICD-10 coding system: What is the primary change that
increased the need for many more certified RN-coders and certified RN-auditors?
32. Client, health, environment, nursing: What are the 4 concepts that are com-
mon in most nursing theories?
33. The nurse specifies short and long term outcomes for the client: What
demonstrates the planning phase of the nursing process?
34. Link positive reinforcement to changes in behavior: What is the best way to
increase the motivation to learn in the elderly population?
35. Nurses are often in positions to report crimes or preserve evidence: Why
is it important for nurses in general practice to have an awareness of forensic
knowledge?
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