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Linda Workman, Cherie R. Rebar, Nicole M. Heimgartner
Chapter 01: Overview of Professional Nursing Concepts for Medical-Surgical Nursing
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Nursing, 10th Edition
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. A new nurse is working with a preceptor on a medical-surgical unit. The preceptor advises the
new nurse that which is the priority when working as a professional nurse?
a. Attending to holistic client needs
b. Ensuring client safety
c. Not making medication errors
d. Providing client-focused care
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ANS: B
All actions are appropriate for the professional nurse. However, ensuring client safety is the
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priority. Health care errors have been widely reported for 25 years, many of which result in
client injury, death, and increased health care costs. There are several national and
international organizations that have either recommended or mandated safety initiatives.
Every nurse has the responsibility to guard the client‘s safety. The other actions are important
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for quality nursing, but they are not as vital as providing safety. Not making medication errors
does provide safety, but is too narrow in scope to be the best answer.
DIF: Understanding
KEY: Client safety
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T O P : Integrated Process: Nursing Process: Intervention
MSC: Client Needs Category: Safe and Effective Care Environment: Safety and Infection Control
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2. A nurse is orienting a new client and family to t h e m e d i c a l - surgical unit. What information
does the nurse provide to best help the client promote his or her own safety?
a. Encourage the client and family to be active partners.
b. Have the client monitor hand hygiene in caregivers.
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c. Offer the family the opportunity to stay with the client.
d. Tell the client to always wear his or her armband.
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client to be active in his or her health care as a safety partner is the most critical. The other
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KEY: Client safety abirb.com/test
MSC: Client Needs Category: Safe and Effective Care Environment: Safety and Infection Control
3. A nurse is caring for a postoperative client on the surgical unit. The client‘s blood pressure
was 142/76 mm Hg 30 minutes ago, and now is 88/50 mm Hg. What action would the nurse
take first?
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a. Call the Rapid Response Team.
b. Document and continue to monitor.
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c. Notify the primary health care provider.
d. Repeat the blood pressure in 15 minutes.
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ANS: A
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The purpose of the Rapid Response Team (RRT) is t o intervene when clients are deteriorating
before they suffer either respiratory or cardiac arrest. Since the client has manifested a
significant change, the nurse would call the RRT. Changes in blood pressure, mental status,
heart rate, temperature, oxygen saturation, and last 2 hours‘ urine output are particularly
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significant and are part of the Modified Early Warning System guide. Documentation is vital,
but the nurse must do more than document. The primary health care provider would be
notified, but this is not more important than calling the RRT. The client‘s blood pressure
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would be reassessed frequently, but the priority is getting the rapid care to the client.
DIF: Applying TOP: Integrated Process: Communication and Documentation
KEY: Rapid Response Team (RRT), Clinical judgment
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MSC: Client Needs Category: Physiological Integrity: Physiological Adaptation
4. A nurse wishes to provide client-centered care in all interactions. Which action by the nurse
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best demonstrates this concep t?
a. Assesses for cultural influences affecting health care.
b. Ensures that all the client‘s basic needs are met.
c. Tells the client and family about all upcoming tests.
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d. Thoroughly orients the client and family to the room.
ANS: A
Showing respect for the client and family‘s preferences and needs is essential to ensure a
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holistic or ―whole-person‖ approach to care. By assessing the effect of the client‘s culture on
health care, this nurse is practicing client-focused care. Providing for basic needs does not
demonstrate this competence. Simply telling the client about all upcoming tests is not
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providing empowering education. Orienting the client and family to the room is an important
safety measure, but not directly related to demonstrating client-centered care.
DIF: Understanding T O P : Integrated Process: Culture and Spirituality
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KEY: Client-centered care, Culture om
MSC: /tNeeds
Client est Category: Psychosocial Integrity
5. A client is going to be admitted for a scheduled surgical procedure. Which action does the
nurse explain is the most important thing the client can do to protect against errors?
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a. Bring a list of all medications and what they are for.
b. Keep the provider‘s phone number by the telephone.
c. Make sure that all providers wash hands before entering the room.
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d. Write down the name of each caregiver who comes in the room.
ANS: A
Medication reconciliation is a formal process in which the client‘s actual current medications
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are compared to the prescribed medications at the time of admission, transfer, or discharge.
This National client Safety Goal is important to reduce medication errors. The client would
not have to be responsible for providers washing their hands, and even if the client does so,
this is too narrow to be the most important action to prevent errors. Keeping the provider‘s
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phone number nearby and documenting everyone who enters the room also do not guarantee
safety.
DIF: Applying a b ir b .c o m / t e s t
TOP: Int eg rat e d Pr o ce ss: Te ac h in g/ Learning
KEY: Client safety, Informatics
MSC: Client Needs Category: Safe and Effective Care Environment: Safety and Infection Control
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Test Bank for Medical-Surgical Nursing, 10th Edition, Donna D. Ignatavicius,
Linda Workman, Cherie R. Rebar, Nicole M. Heimgartner
Chapter 01: Overview of Professional Nursing Concepts for Medical-Surgical Nursing
Ignatavicius: Medical-Surgical abirb.com/test
Nursing, 10th Edition
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. A new nurse is working with a preceptor on a medical-surgical unit. The preceptor advises the
new nurse that which is the priority when working as a professional nurse?
a. Attending to holistic client needs
b. Ensuring client safety
c. Not making medication errors
d. Providing client-focused care
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ANS: B
All actions are appropriate for the professional nurse. However, ensuring client safety is the
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priority. Health care errors have been widely reported for 25 years, many of which result in
client injury, death, and increased health care costs. There are several national and
international organizations that have either recommended or mandated safety initiatives.
Every nurse has the responsibility to guard the client‘s safety. The other actions are important
abirb.com/test
for quality nursing, but they are not as vital as providing safety. Not making medication errors
does provide safety, but is too narrow in scope to be the best answer.
DIF: Understanding
KEY: Client safety
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T O P : Integrated Process: Nursing Process: Intervention
MSC: Client Needs Category: Safe and Effective Care Environment: Safety and Infection Control
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2. A nurse is orienting a new client and family to t h e m e d i c a l - surgical unit. What information
does the nurse provide to best help the client promote his or her own safety?
a. Encourage the client and family to be active partners.
b. Have the client monitor hand hygiene in caregivers.
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c. Offer the family the opportunity to stay with the client.
d. Tell the client to always wear his or her armband.
ANS: A abirb.com/test
Each action could be important for the client or family to perform. However, encouraging the
client to be active in his or her health care as a safety partner is the most critical. The other
actions are very limited in scope and do not provide the broad protection that being active and
involved does. abirb.com/test
DIF: Understanding TOP: Integrated Process: Teaching/Learning
KEY: Client safety abirb.com/test
MSC: Client Needs Category: Safe and Effective Care Environment: Safety and Infection Control
3. A nurse is caring for a postoperative client on the surgical unit. The client‘s blood pressure
was 142/76 mm Hg 30 minutes ago, and now is 88/50 mm Hg. What action would the nurse
take first?
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a. Call the Rapid Response Team.
b. Document and continue to monitor.
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c. Notify the primary health care provider.
d. Repeat the blood pressure in 15 minutes.
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ANS: A
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The purpose of the Rapid Response Team (RRT) is t o intervene when clients are deteriorating
before they suffer either respiratory or cardiac arrest. Since the client has manifested a
significant change, the nurse would call the RRT. Changes in blood pressure, mental status,
heart rate, temperature, oxygen saturation, and last 2 hours‘ urine output are particularly
abirb.com/test
significant and are part of the Modified Early Warning System guide. Documentation is vital,
but the nurse must do more than document. The primary health care provider would be
notified, but this is not more important than calling the RRT. The client‘s blood pressure
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would be reassessed frequently, but the priority is getting the rapid care to the client.
DIF: Applying TOP: Integrated Process: Communication and Documentation
KEY: Rapid Response Team (RRT), Clinical judgment
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MSC: Client Needs Category: Physiological Integrity: Physiological Adaptation
4. A nurse wishes to provide client-centered care in all interactions. Which action by the nurse
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best demonstrates this concep t?
a. Assesses for cultural influences affecting health care.
b. Ensures that all the client‘s basic needs are met.
c. Tells the client and family about all upcoming tests.
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d. Thoroughly orients the client and family to the room.
ANS: A
Showing respect for the client and family‘s preferences and needs is essential to ensure a
abirb.com/test
holistic or ―whole-person‖ approach to care. By assessing the effect of the client‘s culture on
health care, this nurse is practicing client-focused care. Providing for basic needs does not
demonstrate this competence. Simply telling the client about all upcoming tests is not
abirb.com/test
providing empowering education. Orienting the client and family to the room is an important
safety measure, but not directly related to demonstrating client-centered care.
DIF: Understanding T O P : Integrated Process: Culture and Spirituality
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KEY: Client-centered care, Culture om
MSC: /tNeeds
Client est Category: Psychosocial Integrity
5. A client is going to be admitted for a scheduled surgical procedure. Which action does the
nurse explain is the most important thing the client can do to protect against errors?
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a. Bring a list of all medications and what they are for.
b. Keep the provider‘s phone number by the telephone.
c. Make sure that all providers wash hands before entering the room.
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d. Write down the name of each caregiver who comes in the room.
ANS: A
Medication reconciliation is a formal process in which the client‘s actual current medications
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are compared to the prescribed medications at the time of admission, transfer, or discharge.
This National client Safety Goal is important to reduce medication errors. The client would
not have to be responsible for providers washing their hands, and even if the client does so,
this is too narrow to be the most important action to prevent errors. Keeping the provider‘s
abirb.com/test
phone number nearby and documenting everyone who enters the room also do not guarantee
safety.
DIF: Applying a b ir b .c o m / t e s t
TOP: Int eg rat e d Pr o ce ss: Te ac h in g/ Learning
KEY: Client safety, Informatics
MSC: Client Needs Category: Safe and Effective Care Environment: Safety and Infection Control
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