Nursing Concepts Practice Questions
A primary care provider's orders indicate that a surgical consent form needs to be signed.
Since the nurse was not present when the primary care provider discussed the surgical
procedure, which statement best illustrates the nurse fulfilling the client advocate role? -
ANS-What were you told about the procedure you are going to have?
\After recovering from her hip replacement, an older adult client wants to go home. The
family wants the client to go to a nursing home. If the nurse were acting as a client advocate,
the nurse would do which of the following:
Inform the family that the client has a right to decide on her own.
Ask the primary care provider to discharge the client to home.
Suggest the client hire a lawyer to protect her rights.
Help the client and family communicate their views to each other - ANS-help the client and
family communicate their views to each other
\Although the client refused the procedure, the nurse insisted and inserted a nasogastric
tube in the right nostril. The nurse has committed which of the following?
a. unintentional tort
b.assault
c.invasion of privacy
d.battery - ANS-Battery
\An ethical issue arises involving the nurse's assigned client. One of the most important
nursing responsibilities in managing this client care situation would be which of the following:
Be able to defend the morality of one's own actions.
Remain neutral and detached when making ethical decisions.
Ensure that a team is responsible for deciding ethical questions.
Follow the client's and family's wishes exactly. - ANS-Be able to defend the morality of one's
own actions
\Assault - ANS-is the attempt or threat to touch another person unjustifiably or without
permission.
\Authoritarian - ANS-This is a situation in which urgent decisions are needed, and one
person provides instructions without input from others (authoritarian). This is especially
appropriate if the rest of the group is not functioning at an appropriate level.
\Autocratic leadership - ANS-makes decisions for the group without the use of the group's
creativity or self-motivation.
\Autonomy - ANS-Autonomy is the client's (or surrogate's) right to make his or her own
decision. The nurse is obliged to respect a client's or significant others' informed decision.
These parents may modify their decision as time goes on and the child's condition, or their
feelings, change.
\Bureacratic - ANS-Option 4 involves the rigid use of rules; since managing casualties is a
highly unpredictable activity, enforcement of rules is not appropriate.
\Bureaucratic leadershio - ANS-do not trust themselves or others to make decisions and rely
on the organization's rules.
\Democratic - ANS-Option 2 would be found in shared governance structures when the risks
are low and there is time for collaboration
A primary care provider's orders indicate that a surgical consent form needs to be signed.
Since the nurse was not present when the primary care provider discussed the surgical
procedure, which statement best illustrates the nurse fulfilling the client advocate role? -
ANS-What were you told about the procedure you are going to have?
\After recovering from her hip replacement, an older adult client wants to go home. The
family wants the client to go to a nursing home. If the nurse were acting as a client advocate,
the nurse would do which of the following:
Inform the family that the client has a right to decide on her own.
Ask the primary care provider to discharge the client to home.
Suggest the client hire a lawyer to protect her rights.
Help the client and family communicate their views to each other - ANS-help the client and
family communicate their views to each other
\Although the client refused the procedure, the nurse insisted and inserted a nasogastric
tube in the right nostril. The nurse has committed which of the following?
a. unintentional tort
b.assault
c.invasion of privacy
d.battery - ANS-Battery
\An ethical issue arises involving the nurse's assigned client. One of the most important
nursing responsibilities in managing this client care situation would be which of the following:
Be able to defend the morality of one's own actions.
Remain neutral and detached when making ethical decisions.
Ensure that a team is responsible for deciding ethical questions.
Follow the client's and family's wishes exactly. - ANS-Be able to defend the morality of one's
own actions
\Assault - ANS-is the attempt or threat to touch another person unjustifiably or without
permission.
\Authoritarian - ANS-This is a situation in which urgent decisions are needed, and one
person provides instructions without input from others (authoritarian). This is especially
appropriate if the rest of the group is not functioning at an appropriate level.
\Autocratic leadership - ANS-makes decisions for the group without the use of the group's
creativity or self-motivation.
\Autonomy - ANS-Autonomy is the client's (or surrogate's) right to make his or her own
decision. The nurse is obliged to respect a client's or significant others' informed decision.
These parents may modify their decision as time goes on and the child's condition, or their
feelings, change.
\Bureacratic - ANS-Option 4 involves the rigid use of rules; since managing casualties is a
highly unpredictable activity, enforcement of rules is not appropriate.
\Bureaucratic leadershio - ANS-do not trust themselves or others to make decisions and rely
on the organization's rules.
\Democratic - ANS-Option 2 would be found in shared governance structures when the risks
are low and there is time for collaboration
