TEST BANK
Brunner & Suddarth's Textbook of Medical-Surgical Nursing
Janice L. Hinkle & Kerry H. Cheever
13th Edition
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Test Bank - Brunner & Suddarth's Textbook of Medical-Surgical Nursing, 13e (Hinkle, 2013)
Chapter 01: Health Care Delivery and Evidence-Based Nursing Practice
Hinkle: Brunner & Suddarth's Textbook of Medical-Surgical Nursing, 13th Edition
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. The public health nurse is presenting a health promotion class to a group of new mothers. How should
the nurse best define health?
A) Health is being disease free.
B) Health is having fulfillment in all domains of life.
C) Health is having psychological and physiological harmony.
D) Health is being connected in body, mind, and spirit.
ANS: D
The World Health Organization (WHO) defines health in the preamble to its constitution as a state of
complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease and infirmity.
The other answers are incorrect because they are not congruent with the WHO definition of health.
2. A nurse is speaking to a group of prospective nursing students about what it is like to be a nurse. What
is one characteristic the nurse would cite as necessary to possess to be an effective nurse?
A) Sensitivity to cultural differences
B) Team-focused approach to problem-solving
C) Strict adherence to routine
D) Ability to face criticism
ANS: A
To promote an effective nurse-patient relationship and positive outcomes of care, nursing care must be
culturally competent, appropriate, and sensitive to cultural differences. Team-focused nursing and
strict adherence to routine are not characteristics needed to be an effective nurse. The ability to handle
criticism is important, but to a lesser degree than cultural competence.
3. With increases in longevity, people have had to become more knowledgeable about their health and
the professional health care that they receive. One outcome of this phenomenon is the development of
organized self-care education programs. Which of the following do these programs prioritize?
A) Adequate prenatal care
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B) Government advocacy and lobbying
C) Judicious use of online communities
D) Management of illness
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ANS: D
Organized self-care education programs emphasize health promotion, disease prevention, management
of illness, self-care, and judicious use of the professional health care system. Prenatal care, lobbying,
and Internet activities are secondary.
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4. The home health nurse is assisting a patient and his family in planning the patient's return to work after
surgery and the development of postsurgical complications. The nurse is preparing a plan of care that
addresses the patient's multifaceted needs. To which level of Maslow's hierarchy of basic needs does
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the patient's need for self- fulfillment relate?
A) Physiologic
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B) Transcendence
C) Love and belonging
D) Self-actualization
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ANS: D
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Test Bank - Brunner & Suddarth's Textbook of Medical-Surgical Nursing, 13e (Hinkle, 2013)
Maslow's highest level of human needs is self-actualization, which includes self- fulfillment, desire to
know and understand, and aesthetic needs. The other answers are incorrect because self-fulfillment
does not relate directly to them.
5. The view that health and illness are not static states but that they exist on a continuum is central to
professional health care systems. When planning care, this view aids the nurse in appreciating which
of the following?
A) Care should focus primarily on the treatment of disease.
B) A person's state of health is ever-changing.
C) A person can transition from health to illness rapidly.
D) Care should focus on the patient's compliance with interventions.
ANS: B
By viewing health and illness on a continuum, it is possible to consider a person as being neither
completely healthy nor completely ill. Instead, a person's state of health is ever-changing and has the
potential to range from high-level wellness to extremely poor health and imminent death. The other
answers are incorrect because patient care should not focus just on the treatment of disease. Rapid
declines in health and compliance with treatment are not key to this view of health.
6. A group of nursing students are participating in a community health clinic. When providing care in this
context, what should the students teach participants about disease prevention?
A) It is best achieved through attending self-help groups.
B) It is best achieved by reducing psychological stress.
C) It is best achieved by being an active participant in the community.
D) It is best achieved by exhibiting behaviors that promote health.
ANS: D
Today, increasing emphasis is placed on health, health promotion, wellness, and self- care. Health is
seen as resulting from a lifestyle oriented toward wellness. Nurses in community health clinics do not
teach that disease prevention is best achieved through attending self-help groups, by reducing stress, or
by being an active participant in the community, though each of these activities is consistent with a
healthy lifestyle.
7. A nurse on a medical-surgical unit has asked to represent the unit on the hospital's quality committee.
When describing quality improvement programs to nursing colleagues and members of other health
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disciplines, what characteristic should the nurse cite?
A) These programs establish consequences for health care professionals' actions.
B) These programs focus on the processes used to provide care.
C) These programs identify specific incidents related to quality.
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D) These programs seek to justify health care costs and systems.
ANS: B
Numerous models seek to improve the quality of health care delivery. A commonality among them is a
focus on the processes that are used to provide care. Consequences, a focus on incidents, and
justification for health care costs are not universal characteristics of quality improvement efforts.
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8. Nurses in acute care settings must work with other health care team members to maintain quality care
while facing pressures to care for patients who are hospitalized for shorter periods of time than in the
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past. To ensure positive health outcomes when patients return to their homes, what action should the
nurse prioritize?
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A) Promotion of health literacy during hospitalization
B) Close communication with insurers
C) Thorough and evidence-based discharge planning
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D) Participation in continuing education initiatives
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Test Bank - Brunner & Suddarth's Textbook of Medical-Surgical Nursing, 13e (Hinkle, 2013)
ANS: C
Following discharges that occur after increasingly short hospital stays, nurses in the community care
for patients who need high-technology acute care services as well as long-term care in the home. This
is dependent on effective discharge planning to a greater degree than continuing education,
communication with insurers, or promotion of health literacy.
9. You are admitting a patient to your medical unit after the patient has been transferred from the
emergency department. What is your priority nursing action at this time?
A) Identifying the immediate needs of the patient
B) Checking the admitting physician's orders
C) Obtaining a baseline set of vital signs
D) Allowing the family to be with the patient
ANS: A
Among the nurse's important functions in health care delivery, identifying the patient's immediate
needs and working in concert with the patient to address them is most important. The other nursing
functions are important, but they are not the most important functions.
10. A nurse on a postsurgical unit is providing care based on a clinical pathway. When performing
assessments and interventions with the aid of a pathway, the nurse should prioritize what goal?
A) Helping the patient to achieve specific outcomes
B) Balancing risks and benefits of interventions
C) Documenting the patient's response to therapy
D) Staying accountable to the interdisciplinary team
ANS: A
Pathways are an EBP tool that is used primarily to move patients toward predetermined outcomes.
Documentation, accountability, and balancing risks and benefits are appropriate, but helping the
patient achieve outcomes is paramount.
11. Staff nurses in an ICU setting have noticed that their patients required lower and fewer doses of
analgesia when noise levels on the unit were consciously reduced. They informed an advanced practice
RN of this and asked the APRN to quantify the effects of noise on the pain levels of hospitalized
patients. How does this demonstrate a role of the APRN?
A) Involving patients in their care while hospitalized
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B) Contributing to the scientific basis of nursing practice
C) Critiquing the quality of patient care
D) Explaining medical studies to patients and RNs
ANS: B
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Research is within the purview of the APRN. The activity described does not exemplify explaining
studies to RNs, critiquing care, or involving patients in their care.
12. Nurses now have the option to practice in a variety of settings and one of the fastest growing venues of
practice for the nurse in today's health care environment is home health care. What is the main basis
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for the growth in this health care setting?
A) Chronic nursing shortage
B) Western focus on treatment of disease
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C) Nurses' preferences for day shifts instead of evening or night shifts
D) Discharge of patients who are more critically ill
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ANS: D
With shorter hospital stays and increased use of outpatient health care services, more nursing care is
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provided in the home and community setting. The other answers are incorrect because they are not the
basis for the growth in nursing care delivered in the home setting.
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Brunner & Suddarth's Textbook of Medical-Surgical Nursing
Janice L. Hinkle & Kerry H. Cheever
13th Edition
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Ap
lu
s st
uv
ia
,______________________________________________________________________________________________
Test Bank - Brunner & Suddarth's Textbook of Medical-Surgical Nursing, 13e (Hinkle, 2013)
Chapter 01: Health Care Delivery and Evidence-Based Nursing Practice
Hinkle: Brunner & Suddarth's Textbook of Medical-Surgical Nursing, 13th Edition
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. The public health nurse is presenting a health promotion class to a group of new mothers. How should
the nurse best define health?
A) Health is being disease free.
B) Health is having fulfillment in all domains of life.
C) Health is having psychological and physiological harmony.
D) Health is being connected in body, mind, and spirit.
ANS: D
The World Health Organization (WHO) defines health in the preamble to its constitution as a state of
complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease and infirmity.
The other answers are incorrect because they are not congruent with the WHO definition of health.
2. A nurse is speaking to a group of prospective nursing students about what it is like to be a nurse. What
is one characteristic the nurse would cite as necessary to possess to be an effective nurse?
A) Sensitivity to cultural differences
B) Team-focused approach to problem-solving
C) Strict adherence to routine
D) Ability to face criticism
ANS: A
To promote an effective nurse-patient relationship and positive outcomes of care, nursing care must be
culturally competent, appropriate, and sensitive to cultural differences. Team-focused nursing and
strict adherence to routine are not characteristics needed to be an effective nurse. The ability to handle
criticism is important, but to a lesser degree than cultural competence.
3. With increases in longevity, people have had to become more knowledgeable about their health and
the professional health care that they receive. One outcome of this phenomenon is the development of
organized self-care education programs. Which of the following do these programs prioritize?
A) Adequate prenatal care
@
B) Government advocacy and lobbying
C) Judicious use of online communities
D) Management of illness
Ap
ANS: D
Organized self-care education programs emphasize health promotion, disease prevention, management
of illness, self-care, and judicious use of the professional health care system. Prenatal care, lobbying,
and Internet activities are secondary.
lu
4. The home health nurse is assisting a patient and his family in planning the patient's return to work after
surgery and the development of postsurgical complications. The nurse is preparing a plan of care that
addresses the patient's multifaceted needs. To which level of Maslow's hierarchy of basic needs does
s
the patient's need for self- fulfillment relate?
A) Physiologic
st
B) Transcendence
C) Love and belonging
D) Self-actualization
uv
ANS: D
ia
______________________________________________________________________________________________
1|Page
,______________________________________________________________________________________________
Test Bank - Brunner & Suddarth's Textbook of Medical-Surgical Nursing, 13e (Hinkle, 2013)
Maslow's highest level of human needs is self-actualization, which includes self- fulfillment, desire to
know and understand, and aesthetic needs. The other answers are incorrect because self-fulfillment
does not relate directly to them.
5. The view that health and illness are not static states but that they exist on a continuum is central to
professional health care systems. When planning care, this view aids the nurse in appreciating which
of the following?
A) Care should focus primarily on the treatment of disease.
B) A person's state of health is ever-changing.
C) A person can transition from health to illness rapidly.
D) Care should focus on the patient's compliance with interventions.
ANS: B
By viewing health and illness on a continuum, it is possible to consider a person as being neither
completely healthy nor completely ill. Instead, a person's state of health is ever-changing and has the
potential to range from high-level wellness to extremely poor health and imminent death. The other
answers are incorrect because patient care should not focus just on the treatment of disease. Rapid
declines in health and compliance with treatment are not key to this view of health.
6. A group of nursing students are participating in a community health clinic. When providing care in this
context, what should the students teach participants about disease prevention?
A) It is best achieved through attending self-help groups.
B) It is best achieved by reducing psychological stress.
C) It is best achieved by being an active participant in the community.
D) It is best achieved by exhibiting behaviors that promote health.
ANS: D
Today, increasing emphasis is placed on health, health promotion, wellness, and self- care. Health is
seen as resulting from a lifestyle oriented toward wellness. Nurses in community health clinics do not
teach that disease prevention is best achieved through attending self-help groups, by reducing stress, or
by being an active participant in the community, though each of these activities is consistent with a
healthy lifestyle.
7. A nurse on a medical-surgical unit has asked to represent the unit on the hospital's quality committee.
When describing quality improvement programs to nursing colleagues and members of other health
@
disciplines, what characteristic should the nurse cite?
A) These programs establish consequences for health care professionals' actions.
B) These programs focus on the processes used to provide care.
C) These programs identify specific incidents related to quality.
Ap
D) These programs seek to justify health care costs and systems.
ANS: B
Numerous models seek to improve the quality of health care delivery. A commonality among them is a
focus on the processes that are used to provide care. Consequences, a focus on incidents, and
justification for health care costs are not universal characteristics of quality improvement efforts.
lu
8. Nurses in acute care settings must work with other health care team members to maintain quality care
while facing pressures to care for patients who are hospitalized for shorter periods of time than in the
s
past. To ensure positive health outcomes when patients return to their homes, what action should the
nurse prioritize?
st
A) Promotion of health literacy during hospitalization
B) Close communication with insurers
C) Thorough and evidence-based discharge planning
uv
D) Participation in continuing education initiatives
ia
______________________________________________________________________________________________
2|Page
, ______________________________________________________________________________________________
Test Bank - Brunner & Suddarth's Textbook of Medical-Surgical Nursing, 13e (Hinkle, 2013)
ANS: C
Following discharges that occur after increasingly short hospital stays, nurses in the community care
for patients who need high-technology acute care services as well as long-term care in the home. This
is dependent on effective discharge planning to a greater degree than continuing education,
communication with insurers, or promotion of health literacy.
9. You are admitting a patient to your medical unit after the patient has been transferred from the
emergency department. What is your priority nursing action at this time?
A) Identifying the immediate needs of the patient
B) Checking the admitting physician's orders
C) Obtaining a baseline set of vital signs
D) Allowing the family to be with the patient
ANS: A
Among the nurse's important functions in health care delivery, identifying the patient's immediate
needs and working in concert with the patient to address them is most important. The other nursing
functions are important, but they are not the most important functions.
10. A nurse on a postsurgical unit is providing care based on a clinical pathway. When performing
assessments and interventions with the aid of a pathway, the nurse should prioritize what goal?
A) Helping the patient to achieve specific outcomes
B) Balancing risks and benefits of interventions
C) Documenting the patient's response to therapy
D) Staying accountable to the interdisciplinary team
ANS: A
Pathways are an EBP tool that is used primarily to move patients toward predetermined outcomes.
Documentation, accountability, and balancing risks and benefits are appropriate, but helping the
patient achieve outcomes is paramount.
11. Staff nurses in an ICU setting have noticed that their patients required lower and fewer doses of
analgesia when noise levels on the unit were consciously reduced. They informed an advanced practice
RN of this and asked the APRN to quantify the effects of noise on the pain levels of hospitalized
patients. How does this demonstrate a role of the APRN?
A) Involving patients in their care while hospitalized
@
B) Contributing to the scientific basis of nursing practice
C) Critiquing the quality of patient care
D) Explaining medical studies to patients and RNs
ANS: B
Ap
Research is within the purview of the APRN. The activity described does not exemplify explaining
studies to RNs, critiquing care, or involving patients in their care.
12. Nurses now have the option to practice in a variety of settings and one of the fastest growing venues of
practice for the nurse in today's health care environment is home health care. What is the main basis
lu
for the growth in this health care setting?
A) Chronic nursing shortage
B) Western focus on treatment of disease
s
C) Nurses' preferences for day shifts instead of evening or night shifts
D) Discharge of patients who are more critically ill
st
ANS: D
With shorter hospital stays and increased use of outpatient health care services, more nursing care is
uv
provided in the home and community setting. The other answers are incorrect because they are not the
basis for the growth in nursing care delivered in the home setting.
ia
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