LVN Mid Term CCI (1) questions and
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What does each States’s Nursing Practice Act outline? - correct answer ✔✔ Scope of Practice
What is the nurse's ethical duty in regards to confidentiality? - correct answer ✔✔ Nurses have
a duty to protect information about a patient and is on a need to know basis.
How can a nurse avoid a lawsuit? - correct answer ✔✔ By providing competent and
compassionate care.
What does it mean for a nurse to be the patient's advocate? - correct answer ✔✔ The nurse
accepts the role to defend or plead a cause or issue on behalf of another.
Legal Guidelines for Documentation - correct answer ✔✔ - Do not erase
- Enter objective data
- Correct errors promptly
- Record all facts
- No blank spaces
- Legible writing
- Record clarification
- Chart for self
- Concise descriptions
- Start w/ date and time and end with signature
- Password confidental
, What is aggressive communication and why should the nurse avoid aggressive communication?
How would the patient feel? - correct answer ✔✔ When one person interacts with another in
an overpowering and forceful manner that benefits one's personal needs at the expense of
another. This is non-therapeutic and benefits no one. The patient would feel humiliated and
unworthy.
What situations would a nurse use touch as a therapeutic way of communicating? - correct
answer ✔✔ In care of a patient whose culture expresses it, a small child, or an older patient for
comfort.
Verbal Therapeutic Communication Techniques. - correct answer ✔✔ - Conveying Acceptance
- Minimal encouragement
- Closed ended questions
- Open ended questions
- Restating
- Paraphrasing
- Clarifying
How can eye contact be a therapeutic way of communicating? - correct answer ✔✔ Intention to
interact, interest, respect, and care.
How does understanding and accepting a patient's culture contribute to holistic care? - correct
answer ✔✔ The nurse need to accept that it is not possible to act the same with all patients
and still give effective, individualized, holistic care
What are the different cultures' death rites? How do Chinese Americans practice
communicating? - correct answer ✔✔ Mexican Americans: Small children are shielded from the
dying/death scene. Families take turns around the dying person. Grief expressed with seizure
type of behavior.
answers rated A+
What does each States’s Nursing Practice Act outline? - correct answer ✔✔ Scope of Practice
What is the nurse's ethical duty in regards to confidentiality? - correct answer ✔✔ Nurses have
a duty to protect information about a patient and is on a need to know basis.
How can a nurse avoid a lawsuit? - correct answer ✔✔ By providing competent and
compassionate care.
What does it mean for a nurse to be the patient's advocate? - correct answer ✔✔ The nurse
accepts the role to defend or plead a cause or issue on behalf of another.
Legal Guidelines for Documentation - correct answer ✔✔ - Do not erase
- Enter objective data
- Correct errors promptly
- Record all facts
- No blank spaces
- Legible writing
- Record clarification
- Chart for self
- Concise descriptions
- Start w/ date and time and end with signature
- Password confidental
, What is aggressive communication and why should the nurse avoid aggressive communication?
How would the patient feel? - correct answer ✔✔ When one person interacts with another in
an overpowering and forceful manner that benefits one's personal needs at the expense of
another. This is non-therapeutic and benefits no one. The patient would feel humiliated and
unworthy.
What situations would a nurse use touch as a therapeutic way of communicating? - correct
answer ✔✔ In care of a patient whose culture expresses it, a small child, or an older patient for
comfort.
Verbal Therapeutic Communication Techniques. - correct answer ✔✔ - Conveying Acceptance
- Minimal encouragement
- Closed ended questions
- Open ended questions
- Restating
- Paraphrasing
- Clarifying
How can eye contact be a therapeutic way of communicating? - correct answer ✔✔ Intention to
interact, interest, respect, and care.
How does understanding and accepting a patient's culture contribute to holistic care? - correct
answer ✔✔ The nurse need to accept that it is not possible to act the same with all patients
and still give effective, individualized, holistic care
What are the different cultures' death rites? How do Chinese Americans practice
communicating? - correct answer ✔✔ Mexican Americans: Small children are shielded from the
dying/death scene. Families take turns around the dying person. Grief expressed with seizure
type of behavior.
