CLIENT-CENTERED CARE EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
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1. What is client-centered care?: a concept that puts the client at the center of the
nurse's care, it is a crucial element of nursing in today's health care environment
2. What aspects have a role in ensuring that the client is receiving the best
possible care?: caring, client preferences, and cultural considerations
3. The Picker Institutes 8 principles of patient-centered cares what are they?-
: Respect for patients' values, beliefs, preferences and expressed needs, Coordina-
tion and integration of care, Information and education, Physical comfort, Emotional
support and alleviation of fear and anxiety, Involvement of family and friends,
Continuity and transition, access to care
4. What does caring mean?: the act of nurturing another person to whom one feels
commitment or responsibility
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5. What is caring foundational to?: the role of the nurse, as nurses have a
responsibility to care for clients
6. How is caring demonstrated?: by nurturing clients in a holistic manner, often
physically, emotionally, and spiritually
7. When care is patient centered what is improved?: patient satisfaction and
outcomes
8. What are 4 methods of showing concern?: eye contact, tone of voice/pace of
speech, body language, and attention directed towards patient
9. What is this scenario an example of?
When assessing a patient and asking questions maintain eye contact, do not
look at computer screen, phone, watch while talking to patient, open body
language, open arms relaxed hands. If talking with a patient sit down at a
face-to-face level, focus on the patient and use active listening.: caring
10. What is Watson's Theory of Human Caring?: suggests that to care for others,
nurses must first care for themselves and attempt to achieve inner balance and
spirituality. Nurses should establish a presence with clients, practice the act of
"being," and work on developing trusting relationships
11. The Jean Watson theory equals what?: holistic healing
12. What is the first thing in Caritas Processes?: sustaining humanistic-altruistic
values through the practice of loving-kindness, compassion, and equanimity with
self and other
13. What is the second thing in the Caritas Processes?: being authentically
present, enabling faith/hope/belief system, and honoring subjective inner, lifeworld
of self and other
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