A nurse is providing care based on Maslow's hierarchy of basic human
needs.nursing
which For activities is this approach
useful?
a. Making accurate nursing
diagnoses
b. Establishing priorities of
care
c. Communicating concerns more
concisely
d. Integrating science into nursing care Correct answers b. Maslow's
hierarchy
human of basic
needs is useful for establishing priorities
of care.
The nurse is prioritizing nursing care for a patient in a long-term care
facility.
examples Which
of nursing interventions help meet physiologic needs? Select all
that apply.
a. Preventing falls in the
facility
b. Changing a patient's oxygen
tank
c. Providing materials for a patient who likes
to Helping
d. draw a patient eat his
dinner
e. Facilitating a visit from a
spouse
f. Referring a patient to a cancer support group. Correct answers b, d.
Physiologic
needs—oxygen, water, food, elimination, temperature, sexuality, physical
activity, andbe met at least minimally to maintain life. Providing food and
rest—must
oxygen areof interventions to meet these needs. Preventing falls helps meet
examples
safety
security and
needs, providing art supplies may help meet self-
actualization
facilitating needs,
visits from loved ones helps meet self-esteem needs, and
referring
to a patient
a support group helps meet love and belonging
needs.
The nurse caring for patients postoperatively uses careful hand hygiene
and sterile when handling patients. Which of Maslow's basic human needs is
techniques
being
by thismet
nurse?
a.
b. Safety and
Physiologic
security
c. Self-
esteem
d. Love and belonging Correct answers b. By carrying out careful hand
hygiene
using and technique, nurses provide safety from infection. An
sterile
example of a
physiologic need is clearing a patient's airway. Self-esteem needs may
be met by
allowing an older adult to talk about a past career. An example of helping
meetbelonging
and a love need is contacting a hospitalized patient's family to
arrange a visit.
, The nurse caring for patients in a long-term care facility knows that the
highest level
Maslow's on
hierarchy of needs is self-actualization needs. Which statements
accurately
describe the achievement of self-actualization? Select all
that apply.
a. Humans are born with a fully developed sense of self-
actualization.
b. Self-actualization needs are met by depending on others
forThe
c. help.
self-actualization process continues
throughout
d. Loneliness life.
and isolation occur when self-actualization needs
areAunmet.
e. person achieves self-actualization by focusing on problems
outside
f. self.
Self-actualization needs may be met by creatively solving problems.
Correct
c, answers
e, f. Self-actualization, or reaching one's full potential, is a process that
continues
throughout life. A person achieves self-actualization by focusing on
problems
oneself andoutside
using creativity as a guideline for solving problems and pursuing
interests.
Humans are not born with a fully developed sense of self-actualization,
and self-
actualization needs are not met specifically by depending on others for help.
Loneliness
and isolation are not always the result of unmet self-
actualization needs.
A nurse works with families in crisis at a community mental health care
facility.
the bestWhat
broad is definition of a
family?
a. A father, a mother, and
children
b. A group whose members are biologically
related
c. A unit that includes aunts, uncles, and
cousins
d. A group of people who live together and depend on each other for
support Correct
answers d. Although all the responses may be true, the best definition is
a groupwho
people of live together and depend on each other for physical, emotional,
or financial
suppor
t.
A nurse performs an assessment of a family consisting of a single
mother, a
grandmother, and two children. Which interview questions directed to the
single the
could mother
nurse use to assess the affective and coping family function?
Select all that
apply
.
a. Who is the person you depend on for emotional
support?
b. Who is the breadwinner in your
family?
c. Do you plan on having any more
d. Who keeps your family together in times of
children?
stress?
e. What family traditions do you pass on to your
children?
f. Do you live in an environment that you consider safe? Correct answers a,
d. The areas
major five of family function are physical, economic, reproductive,
affectiveand
coping, andsocialization. Asking who provides emotional support in
times of stress
assesses the affective and coping function. Assessing the breadwinner
focuses onfunction.
economic the Inquiring about having more children assesses the
reproductive
function, asking about family traditions assesses the socialization
function, and
checking the environment assesses the physical
function.