Patient Centered Care, Fundamentals 7 correctly
answered to pass
1. A nurse is caring for a pa-
tient in pain. Which ANS: A It is important to preserve a patient-centered
nursing approach is approach to patient care for all aspects of nursing,
priority? whether the care focuses on pain management,
a. Patient-centered teaching self-care, or basic hy- giene measures. While
b. Technology-centered technology, high tech, and family are important, they
c. High tech-centered are not the priority.
d. Family-centered
2. A nurse is providing pain
medication to patients
after surgery. Which ANS: A The American Organization of Nurse Executives
component is key for the de- scribes caring and knowledge as the core of
nurse's personal nursing, with car- ing being a key component of what a
philosophy of nursing? nurse brings to a patient experience. While
a. Caring
technology, informatics, and therapeutics are
b. Technology important, they are not the key components of nursing
c. Informatics
d. Therapeutics
3. A nurse attends a seminar
on nursing theories for car-
ing. Which information
from the nurse indicates a ANS: A Benner believes caring is highly connected
correct understanding of involving each nurse-patient encounter. Swanson
these theo- ries?
developed five caring processes, not four. Watson's
a. Benner identifies caring
as highly connected theory places care before cure and is transformative,
involving patient and nurse. whereas Leininger's transcultural caring views
b. Swanson develops four inclusion of culture as caring.
car- ing processes to
convey car- ing in nursing.
c. Watson's transcultural
car- ing views inclusion of
culture
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answered to pass
as caring.
d. Leininger's theory places
care before cure and is
trans- formative.
4. The patient has a ANS: C Enabling is facilitating another's passage
colostomy but has not yet through a life transition and unfamiliar events.
been able to look at it. The Working with the patient to find alternate ways to
nurse teaches the patient
how to care for the perform the task is doing just that. Know- ing is
colostomy. The nurse sits striving to understand an event because it has
meaning in the life of another. This must be done
before enabling can
with the patient, and together occur. Doing for is doing for the other as he or she
would do
they form a plan on how to ap- for self if it were at all possible. The nurse in this
situation is not
proach dealing with colosto- doing for the patient but is teaching/informing on how
to care
my care. Which caring process for the colostomy. Maintaining belief is sustaining
faith in the
is the nurse performing? d. Instilling values
a. Knowing
b. Doing for 6. A nurse provides care that is
c. Enabling
d. Maintaining belief
5. A nurse is using Watson's
model to provide care to
pa- tients. Which carative
factor will the nurse use?
a. Maintaining belief
b. Instilling faith-hope
c. Maintaining ethics
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answered to pass
1. A nurse is caring for a pa-
tient in pain. Which ANS: A It is important to preserve a patient-centered
nursing approach is approach to patient care for all aspects of nursing,
priority? whether the care focuses on pain management,
a. Patient-centered teaching self-care, or basic hy- giene measures. While
b. Technology-centered technology, high tech, and family are important, they
c. High tech-centered are not the priority.
d. Family-centered
2. A nurse is providing pain
medication to patients
after surgery. Which ANS: A The American Organization of Nurse Executives
component is key for the de- scribes caring and knowledge as the core of
nurse's personal nursing, with car- ing being a key component of what a
philosophy of nursing? nurse brings to a patient experience. While
a. Caring
technology, informatics, and therapeutics are
b. Technology important, they are not the key components of nursing
c. Informatics
d. Therapeutics
3. A nurse attends a seminar
on nursing theories for car-
ing. Which information
from the nurse indicates a ANS: A Benner believes caring is highly connected
correct understanding of involving each nurse-patient encounter. Swanson
these theo- ries?
developed five caring processes, not four. Watson's
a. Benner identifies caring
as highly connected theory places care before cure and is transformative,
involving patient and nurse. whereas Leininger's transcultural caring views
b. Swanson develops four inclusion of culture as caring.
car- ing processes to
convey car- ing in nursing.
c. Watson's transcultural
car- ing views inclusion of
culture
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15
, Patient Centered Care, Fundamentals 7 correctly
answered to pass
as caring.
d. Leininger's theory places
care before cure and is
trans- formative.
4. The patient has a ANS: C Enabling is facilitating another's passage
colostomy but has not yet through a life transition and unfamiliar events.
been able to look at it. The Working with the patient to find alternate ways to
nurse teaches the patient
how to care for the perform the task is doing just that. Know- ing is
colostomy. The nurse sits striving to understand an event because it has
meaning in the life of another. This must be done
before enabling can
with the patient, and together occur. Doing for is doing for the other as he or she
would do
they form a plan on how to ap- for self if it were at all possible. The nurse in this
situation is not
proach dealing with colosto- doing for the patient but is teaching/informing on how
to care
my care. Which caring process for the colostomy. Maintaining belief is sustaining
faith in the
is the nurse performing? d. Instilling values
a. Knowing
b. Doing for 6. A nurse provides care that is
c. Enabling
d. Maintaining belief
5. A nurse is using Watson's
model to provide care to
pa- tients. Which carative
factor will the nurse use?
a. Maintaining belief
b. Instilling faith-hope
c. Maintaining ethics
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15
