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NURS246 Chapter 14 Practice Questions and
Answers (Expert Solutions)
Q: The nurse provides care to a client who is experiencing an acute illness. What
information about family-centered care should the nurse keep in mind when planning
this client's care?
1. Visiting hours should be strictly enforced.
2. Care conferences serve little purpose.
3. Families influence client recovery.
4. Discharge planning begins when the client stabilizes., 🗹🗹: 3. Families influence
client recovery.
Q: What should the nurse consider when determining the degree of family involvement
in discharge planning?
1. Current advance directive for the client
2. Family's education and information needs
3. A family letter stating expectations for discharge
4. Legal advice provided by an attorney during the discharge meeting, 🗹🗹: 2.
Family's education and information needs
Q: How should the nurse categorize a family who is willing to discuss withdrawal of
treatment, has good communication with other family members, uses facts and family
wishes to make decisions, and is able to identify a time and date to withdraw treatment?
1. Struggling
2. Progressing
3. Maintaining
4. Accommodating, 🗹🗹: 2. Progressing
Q: For which reason might a nurse experience role ambiguity when caring for a critically
ill client and the family?
1. Deciding whether to eliminate the family's worries or provide emotional support
2. Weighing the biomedical technical model of care against the holistic nursing model of
care
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3. Asking to withhold information from the health care provider until test results are
confirmed
4. Balancing the professional relationship and the more personal relationship the family
seeks with the nurse, 🗹🗹: 1. Deciding whether to eliminate the family's worries or
provide emotional support
Q: What type of communication from nurses do families find as being the most helpful?
1. Brief
2. Honest
3. Vague
4. Limited, 🗹🗹: 2. Honest
Q: What research information should the nurse manager use as evidence to increase the
amount of family involvement in the care of a hospitalized client?
1. Increases the cost of care
2. Causes poor outcomes
3. Increases family stress
4. Improves outcomes, 🗹🗹: 4. Improves outcomes
Q: The nurse notes that a client has an advance directive stating that no cardiopulmonary
resuscitation (CPR) should be performed if the heart stops. Which type of prescription
should the nurse expect to be placed on this client's medical record?
1. All but CPR
2. Do not resuscitate (DNR)
3. Comfort measures only
4. No extraordinary measures, 🗹🗹: 2. Do not resuscitate (DNR)
Q: A family accompanies a client to the hospital for treatment of an acute illness. Which
characteristic is likely to increase the degree of family stress? Select all that apply.
1. Feeling alone
2. Being unsure of their role
3. Feeling chaos and loss of control
4. Neglecting personal health needs
NURS246 Chapter 14 Practice Questions and
Answers (Expert Solutions)
Q: The nurse provides care to a client who is experiencing an acute illness. What
information about family-centered care should the nurse keep in mind when planning
this client's care?
1. Visiting hours should be strictly enforced.
2. Care conferences serve little purpose.
3. Families influence client recovery.
4. Discharge planning begins when the client stabilizes., 🗹🗹: 3. Families influence
client recovery.
Q: What should the nurse consider when determining the degree of family involvement
in discharge planning?
1. Current advance directive for the client
2. Family's education and information needs
3. A family letter stating expectations for discharge
4. Legal advice provided by an attorney during the discharge meeting, 🗹🗹: 2.
Family's education and information needs
Q: How should the nurse categorize a family who is willing to discuss withdrawal of
treatment, has good communication with other family members, uses facts and family
wishes to make decisions, and is able to identify a time and date to withdraw treatment?
1. Struggling
2. Progressing
3. Maintaining
4. Accommodating, 🗹🗹: 2. Progressing
Q: For which reason might a nurse experience role ambiguity when caring for a critically
ill client and the family?
1. Deciding whether to eliminate the family's worries or provide emotional support
2. Weighing the biomedical technical model of care against the holistic nursing model of
care
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3. Asking to withhold information from the health care provider until test results are
confirmed
4. Balancing the professional relationship and the more personal relationship the family
seeks with the nurse, 🗹🗹: 1. Deciding whether to eliminate the family's worries or
provide emotional support
Q: What type of communication from nurses do families find as being the most helpful?
1. Brief
2. Honest
3. Vague
4. Limited, 🗹🗹: 2. Honest
Q: What research information should the nurse manager use as evidence to increase the
amount of family involvement in the care of a hospitalized client?
1. Increases the cost of care
2. Causes poor outcomes
3. Increases family stress
4. Improves outcomes, 🗹🗹: 4. Improves outcomes
Q: The nurse notes that a client has an advance directive stating that no cardiopulmonary
resuscitation (CPR) should be performed if the heart stops. Which type of prescription
should the nurse expect to be placed on this client's medical record?
1. All but CPR
2. Do not resuscitate (DNR)
3. Comfort measures only
4. No extraordinary measures, 🗹🗹: 2. Do not resuscitate (DNR)
Q: A family accompanies a client to the hospital for treatment of an acute illness. Which
characteristic is likely to increase the degree of family stress? Select all that apply.
1. Feeling alone
2. Being unsure of their role
3. Feeling chaos and loss of control
4. Neglecting personal health needs
