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TEST BANK - Medical-Surgical
Nursing,
8th Edition (Linton), Chapters 1 -
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, Chapter 01: Aspects of Medical-Surgical Nursing Linton:
Medical-Surgical Nursing, 8th Edition
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. What provides direction for individualized care and assures the delivery
of accurate, safe care through a definitive pathway that
promotes the client’s and the support persons’ progress toward positive
outcomes?
a. Physician’s orders
b. Progress notes
c. Nursing care plan
d. Client health history
ANSWER:C
The nursing care plan provides direction for individualized care and assures
the delivery of accurate, safe care through a definitive pathway that
promotes the client’s and the support persons’ progress toward positive
outcomes.
DIF: Cognitive Level: Comprehension REF: p.
2 OBJ: 1 TOP: Nursing Care Plan KEY: Nursing
Process Step: Planning MSC: NCLEX: Physiological Integrity:
Reduction of Risk
2. The nurse is performing behaviors and actions that assist clients and
significant
a. others in meeting their needs and the identified outcomes of
Assessment
the
b. splan of care. What is the correct term for these nursing behaviors?
c. Interventio
d. ns
Planning
ANSWER:B
Evaluatio
Caring
n interventions are those nursing behaviors and actions that assist
clients and significant others in meeting their needs and the identified
outcomes of the plan of care.
DIF: Cognitive Level: Comprehension REF: p.
3 OBJ: 1 TOP: Interventions KEY: Nursing Process
Step: Planning MSC: NCLEX: Physiological Integrity:
Reduction of Risk
3. The nurse understands the importance of being answerable for all
actions
a. and the possibility of being called on to explain or justify them.
Reliability
What term best describes this concept?
b. Maturity
c. Accountabili
d. ty Liability
ANSWER:C
Accountability means that a person is answerable for his or her actions and
may be called on to explain or justify them.
DIF: Cognitive Level: Comprehension REF: pp. 6-7 OBJ: 3 | 5
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