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.
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Ans: D
Feedback: 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.
,The role of the certified nurse practitioner (CNP) has become a dominant role for
nurses in all levels of health care. Which of the following activities are considered
integral to the CNP role? Select all that apply.
A) Educating patients and family members
B) Coordinating care with other disciplines
C) Using direct provision of interventions
D) Educating registered nurses and practical nurses
E) Coordinating payment plans for patients
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Ans: A, B, C
Feedback: This role is a dominant one for nurses in primary, secondary, and
tertiary health care settings and in home care and community nursing.
Nurses help patients meet their needs by using direct intervention, by
teaching patients and family members to perform care, and by
coordinating and collaborating with other disciplines to provide needed
services. The other answers are incorrect because NPs do not commonly
perform education of nurses and they do not focus on matters related to
payment.
A nurse has been offered a position on an obstetric unit and has learned that the unit
offers therapeutic abortions, a procedure which contradicts the nurses personal
beliefs. What is the nurses ethical obligation to these patients?
A) The nurse should adhere to professional standards of practice and offer service to
these patients.
B) The nurse should make the choice to decline this position and pursue a different
nursing role.
C) The nurse should decline to care for the patients considering abortion.
D) The nurse should express alternatives to women considering terminating their
pregnancy.
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, Ans: B
Feedback: To avoid facing ethical dilemmas, nurses can follow certain
strategies. For example, when applying for a job, a nurse should ask
questions regarding the patient population. If a nurse is uncomfortable with
a particular situation, then not accepting the position would be the best
option. The nurse is only required by law (and practice standards) to
provide care to the patients the clinic accepts; the nurse may not
discriminate between patients and the nurse expressing his or her own
opinion and providing another option is inappropriate.
A recent nursing graduate is aware of the differences between nursing actions that
are independent and nursing actions that are interdependent. A nurse performs an
interdependent nursing intervention when performing which of the following actions?
A) Auscultating a patients apical heart rate during an admission assessment
B) Providing mouth care to a patient who is unconscious following a cerebrovascular
accident
C) Administering an IV bolus of normal saline to a patient with hypotension
D) Providing discharge teaching to a postsurgical patient about the rationale for a
course of oral antibiotics
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Ans: C
Feedback: Although many nursing actions are independent, others are
interdependent, such as carrying out prescribed treatments, administering
medications and therapies, and collaborating with other health care team
members to accomplish specific, expected outcomes and to monitor and
manage potential complications. Irrigating a wound, administering pain
medication, and administering IV fluids are interdependent nursing actions
and require a physicians order. An independent nursing action occurs when
the nurse assesses a patients heart rate, provides discharge education, or
provides mouth care.
, The home health nurse is assisting a patient and his family in planning the patients
return to work after surgery and the development of postsurgical complications. The
nurse is preparing a plan of care that addresses the patients multifaceted needs. To
which level of Maslows hierarchy of basic needs does the patients need for self-
fulfillment relate?
A) Physiologic
B) Transcendence
C) Love and belonging
D) Self-actualization
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Ans: D
Feedback: Maslows 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.
A hospice nurse is caring for a patient who is dying of lymphoma. According to
Maslows hierarchy of needs, what dimension of care should the nurse consider
primary in importance when caring for a dying patient?
A) Spiritual
B) Social
C) Physiologic
D) Emotional
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Ans: C
Feedback: Maslow ranked human needs as follows: physiologic needs;
safety and security; sense of belonging and affection; esteem and self-
respect; and self-actualization, which includes self-fulfillment, desire to
know and understand, and aesthetic needs. Such a hierarchy of needs is a
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.
Give this one a try later!
Ans: D
Feedback: 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.
,The role of the certified nurse practitioner (CNP) has become a dominant role for
nurses in all levels of health care. Which of the following activities are considered
integral to the CNP role? Select all that apply.
A) Educating patients and family members
B) Coordinating care with other disciplines
C) Using direct provision of interventions
D) Educating registered nurses and practical nurses
E) Coordinating payment plans for patients
Give this one a try later!
Ans: A, B, C
Feedback: This role is a dominant one for nurses in primary, secondary, and
tertiary health care settings and in home care and community nursing.
Nurses help patients meet their needs by using direct intervention, by
teaching patients and family members to perform care, and by
coordinating and collaborating with other disciplines to provide needed
services. The other answers are incorrect because NPs do not commonly
perform education of nurses and they do not focus on matters related to
payment.
A nurse has been offered a position on an obstetric unit and has learned that the unit
offers therapeutic abortions, a procedure which contradicts the nurses personal
beliefs. What is the nurses ethical obligation to these patients?
A) The nurse should adhere to professional standards of practice and offer service to
these patients.
B) The nurse should make the choice to decline this position and pursue a different
nursing role.
C) The nurse should decline to care for the patients considering abortion.
D) The nurse should express alternatives to women considering terminating their
pregnancy.
Give this one a try later!
, Ans: B
Feedback: To avoid facing ethical dilemmas, nurses can follow certain
strategies. For example, when applying for a job, a nurse should ask
questions regarding the patient population. If a nurse is uncomfortable with
a particular situation, then not accepting the position would be the best
option. The nurse is only required by law (and practice standards) to
provide care to the patients the clinic accepts; the nurse may not
discriminate between patients and the nurse expressing his or her own
opinion and providing another option is inappropriate.
A recent nursing graduate is aware of the differences between nursing actions that
are independent and nursing actions that are interdependent. A nurse performs an
interdependent nursing intervention when performing which of the following actions?
A) Auscultating a patients apical heart rate during an admission assessment
B) Providing mouth care to a patient who is unconscious following a cerebrovascular
accident
C) Administering an IV bolus of normal saline to a patient with hypotension
D) Providing discharge teaching to a postsurgical patient about the rationale for a
course of oral antibiotics
Give this one a try later!
Ans: C
Feedback: Although many nursing actions are independent, others are
interdependent, such as carrying out prescribed treatments, administering
medications and therapies, and collaborating with other health care team
members to accomplish specific, expected outcomes and to monitor and
manage potential complications. Irrigating a wound, administering pain
medication, and administering IV fluids are interdependent nursing actions
and require a physicians order. An independent nursing action occurs when
the nurse assesses a patients heart rate, provides discharge education, or
provides mouth care.
, The home health nurse is assisting a patient and his family in planning the patients
return to work after surgery and the development of postsurgical complications. The
nurse is preparing a plan of care that addresses the patients multifaceted needs. To
which level of Maslows hierarchy of basic needs does the patients need for self-
fulfillment relate?
A) Physiologic
B) Transcendence
C) Love and belonging
D) Self-actualization
Give this one a try later!
Ans: D
Feedback: Maslows 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.
A hospice nurse is caring for a patient who is dying of lymphoma. According to
Maslows hierarchy of needs, what dimension of care should the nurse consider
primary in importance when caring for a dying patient?
A) Spiritual
B) Social
C) Physiologic
D) Emotional
Give this one a try later!
Ans: C
Feedback: Maslow ranked human needs as follows: physiologic needs;
safety and security; sense of belonging and affection; esteem and self-
respect; and self-actualization, which includes self-fulfillment, desire to
know and understand, and aesthetic needs. Such a hierarchy of needs is a
