Test Bank for Brunner and Suddarth’s Textbook
of Medical-Surgical Nursing 15th Edition all
chapters included
Chapter 01: Professional Nursing Practice
1. A nurse is speaking to a group of prospective nursing students about what it
is like to be a nurse. What is one characteristic the nurse would cite as
necessary to possess to be an effective nurse?
A) Sensitivity to cultural differences
B) Team-focused approach to problem-solving
C) Strict adherence to routine
D) Ability to face criticism
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,Ans: A
Feedback:
To promote an effective nurse-patient relationship and positive outcomes of
care, nursing care must be culturally competent, appropriate, and sensitive
to cultural differences. Team-focused nursing and strict adherence to routine
are not characteristics needed to be an effective nurse. The ability to handle
criticism is important, but to a lesser degree than cultural competence.
3. With increases in longevity, people have had to become more
knowledgeable about their health and the professional health care that they
receive. One outcome of this phenomenon is the development of organized
self-care education programs. Which of the following do these programs
prioritize?
A) Adequate prenatal care
B) Government advocacy and lobbying
C) Judicious use of online communities
D) Management of illness
Ans: D
Feedback:
Organized self-care education programs emphasize health promotion,
disease prevention, management of illness, self-care, and judicious use of
the professional health care system. Prenatal care, lobbying, and Internet
activities are secondary.
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, 1. 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.
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.
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, 4. 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 selffulfillment relate?
A) Physiologic
B) Transcendence
C) Love and belonging
D) Self-actualization
Ans: D
Feedback:
Maslows highest level of human needs is self-actualization, which includes
selffulfillment, desire to know and understand, and aesthetic needs. The
other answers are incorrect because self-fulfillment does not relate directly
to them.
5. The view that health and illness are not static states but that they exist on a
continuum is central to professional health care systems. When planning
care, this view aids the nurse in appreciating which of the following?
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of Medical-Surgical Nursing 15th Edition all
chapters included
Chapter 01: Professional Nursing Practice
1. A nurse is speaking to a group of prospective nursing students about what it
is like to be a nurse. What is one characteristic the nurse would cite as
necessary to possess to be an effective nurse?
A) Sensitivity to cultural differences
B) Team-focused approach to problem-solving
C) Strict adherence to routine
D) Ability to face criticism
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,Ans: A
Feedback:
To promote an effective nurse-patient relationship and positive outcomes of
care, nursing care must be culturally competent, appropriate, and sensitive
to cultural differences. Team-focused nursing and strict adherence to routine
are not characteristics needed to be an effective nurse. The ability to handle
criticism is important, but to a lesser degree than cultural competence.
3. With increases in longevity, people have had to become more
knowledgeable about their health and the professional health care that they
receive. One outcome of this phenomenon is the development of organized
self-care education programs. Which of the following do these programs
prioritize?
A) Adequate prenatal care
B) Government advocacy and lobbying
C) Judicious use of online communities
D) Management of illness
Ans: D
Feedback:
Organized self-care education programs emphasize health promotion,
disease prevention, management of illness, self-care, and judicious use of
the professional health care system. Prenatal care, lobbying, and Internet
activities are secondary.
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, 1. 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.
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.
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, 4. 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 selffulfillment relate?
A) Physiologic
B) Transcendence
C) Love and belonging
D) Self-actualization
Ans: D
Feedback:
Maslows highest level of human needs is self-actualization, which includes
selffulfillment, desire to know and understand, and aesthetic needs. The
other answers are incorrect because self-fulfillment does not relate directly
to them.
5. The view that health and illness are not static states but that they exist on a
continuum is central to professional health care systems. When planning
care, this view aids the nurse in appreciating which of the following?
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