NSG 3180 COMMUNICATION EXAM QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS
Nursing Theory examines four meta paradigms - Answers - nursing, person, health,
environment
The history of nursing and nursing education is rich. Nursing was quick to allow people
of all races, however was slow to allow men into the fold. The first man to be accepted
into the military nursing services was: - Answers - Edward T. Lyon
The nurse provides the same quality of care to all clients of every ethnic and cultural
background. - Answers - justice
Immediately after making a medication error, the nurse seeks out the nurse manager
and self-reports the error. - Answers - accountability
The nurse refuses to provide client information by telephone to a caller who claims to be
the client's relative. - Answers - Confidentiality
The nurse performs the "Rights" of medication administration prior to administering the
client's medication. - Answers - Beneficence
When admitting a patient to the medical-surgical unit, the nurse asks the patient about
cultural issues. The nurse is demonstrating use of the concept of: - Answers -
Environment
The central constructs of person, environment, health, and nursing are found in all
nursing theories and models and are referred to as: - Answers - Nursing Metaparadigm
In the circular transactional model of communication, - Answers - questions are framed
in order to recognize the context of the message
A student nurse is learning about how to reduce errors and increase safety. The nursing
instructor recognizes that further teaching is warranted when the student nurse states
which of the following? - Answers - I will promote communication with patients that is
ambiguous."
When educating staff about how to reduce errors and increase safety, the nurse
manager emphasizes the importance of communication that is (Select all that apply.) -
Answers - Timely
Accurate
Clear
Unambiguous
, When a night shift nurse completes a shift, she gives a report about her patients to the
oncoming day shift nurse. When beginning the report, the night shift nurse introduces
herself and states her role, states the patient's name, identifiers, age, sex, and location.
Which of the following should the nurse do next? - Answers - Relate patient's chief
complaint, vital signs, symptoms, and diagnosis
When calling a healthcare provider, the nurse provides name, what unit and what
hospital the call is being made from, the patient's name, and that the patient is having
trouble breathing. The nurse is demonstrating which step in the SBAR format for
communicating with a patient's physician? - Answers - Situation
The nurse is teaching a patient who is alert and oriented about the medication, warfarin.
When teaching the patient about this drug, the nurse emphasizes the need to be
consistent with Vitamin K intake, which is found primarily in green leafy vegetables.
When the patient's spouse comes to visit, the patient states, "I can no longer consume
green leafy vegetables." This is an example of what type of failure caused by a
communication problem? - Answers - Reception failure
A 16-year-old trauma victim arrives in the emergency department with a life-threatening
condition and requires emergency surgery. The nurse knows that - Answers - surgery
can be performed without consent.
The nurse fails to demonstrate effective communication by engaging in what activity? -
Answers - Making sure that unilateral information is exchanged between patients and
nurses.
Whose code of ethics for nurses establishes principled guidelines designed to protect
the integrity of patients related to their care, health, safety, and rights? - Answers -
American Nurses Association
Values clarification can be incorporated within the intervention phase of the nursing
process by - Answers - identifying care guidelines
The student nurse can best learn the steps in critical thinking through - Answers -
repeated practice
The ethical decision-making model where good is defined as maximum welfare or
happiness is known as the - Answers - Utilitarian model
While professional values can be transmitted by tradition in nursing classes and clinical
experiences, or modeled by expert nurses and assimilated as part of the role
socialization process, which is perhaps the best method of acquiring them? - Answers -
The value should be the result of conscious choice.
ANSWERS
Nursing Theory examines four meta paradigms - Answers - nursing, person, health,
environment
The history of nursing and nursing education is rich. Nursing was quick to allow people
of all races, however was slow to allow men into the fold. The first man to be accepted
into the military nursing services was: - Answers - Edward T. Lyon
The nurse provides the same quality of care to all clients of every ethnic and cultural
background. - Answers - justice
Immediately after making a medication error, the nurse seeks out the nurse manager
and self-reports the error. - Answers - accountability
The nurse refuses to provide client information by telephone to a caller who claims to be
the client's relative. - Answers - Confidentiality
The nurse performs the "Rights" of medication administration prior to administering the
client's medication. - Answers - Beneficence
When admitting a patient to the medical-surgical unit, the nurse asks the patient about
cultural issues. The nurse is demonstrating use of the concept of: - Answers -
Environment
The central constructs of person, environment, health, and nursing are found in all
nursing theories and models and are referred to as: - Answers - Nursing Metaparadigm
In the circular transactional model of communication, - Answers - questions are framed
in order to recognize the context of the message
A student nurse is learning about how to reduce errors and increase safety. The nursing
instructor recognizes that further teaching is warranted when the student nurse states
which of the following? - Answers - I will promote communication with patients that is
ambiguous."
When educating staff about how to reduce errors and increase safety, the nurse
manager emphasizes the importance of communication that is (Select all that apply.) -
Answers - Timely
Accurate
Clear
Unambiguous
, When a night shift nurse completes a shift, she gives a report about her patients to the
oncoming day shift nurse. When beginning the report, the night shift nurse introduces
herself and states her role, states the patient's name, identifiers, age, sex, and location.
Which of the following should the nurse do next? - Answers - Relate patient's chief
complaint, vital signs, symptoms, and diagnosis
When calling a healthcare provider, the nurse provides name, what unit and what
hospital the call is being made from, the patient's name, and that the patient is having
trouble breathing. The nurse is demonstrating which step in the SBAR format for
communicating with a patient's physician? - Answers - Situation
The nurse is teaching a patient who is alert and oriented about the medication, warfarin.
When teaching the patient about this drug, the nurse emphasizes the need to be
consistent with Vitamin K intake, which is found primarily in green leafy vegetables.
When the patient's spouse comes to visit, the patient states, "I can no longer consume
green leafy vegetables." This is an example of what type of failure caused by a
communication problem? - Answers - Reception failure
A 16-year-old trauma victim arrives in the emergency department with a life-threatening
condition and requires emergency surgery. The nurse knows that - Answers - surgery
can be performed without consent.
The nurse fails to demonstrate effective communication by engaging in what activity? -
Answers - Making sure that unilateral information is exchanged between patients and
nurses.
Whose code of ethics for nurses establishes principled guidelines designed to protect
the integrity of patients related to their care, health, safety, and rights? - Answers -
American Nurses Association
Values clarification can be incorporated within the intervention phase of the nursing
process by - Answers - identifying care guidelines
The student nurse can best learn the steps in critical thinking through - Answers -
repeated practice
The ethical decision-making model where good is defined as maximum welfare or
happiness is known as the - Answers - Utilitarian model
While professional values can be transmitted by tradition in nursing classes and clinical
experiences, or modeled by expert nurses and assimilated as part of the role
socialization process, which is perhaps the best method of acquiring them? - Answers -
The value should be the result of conscious choice.
