NUR401 Midterm Exam Questions with
Answers
One of the most important outcomes of the orientation phase of the nurse-patient relationship
is the development of mutual....? - ✔✔Trust
What important information should the nurse share with the patient during the orientation
phase? - ✔✔Name, credentials, and extent of responsibility.
How can a nurse help a patient be successful during the termination phase? - ✔✔Summarize
the gains and patient has made.
What is the difference between communication congruence and incongruence? -
✔✔Congruence- the verbal and non-verbal communication matches each other. Incongruence-
the verbal and non-verbal communication doesn't match each other.
How can a nurse illustrate non-judgmental acceptance of a patient? - ✔✔acceptance for who
they are and personal beliefs, habits, expression or lifestyle. Therapeutic use of self begins with
the ability to convey acceptance to patients.
What are attending skills? - ✔✔Active listening and paying attention, reception, perception.
SOLAR.
What has research shown about the effects of touch and patient care? - ✔✔Allows the patient
to become relaxed and feel more comfortable.
What is false reassurance? - ✔✔Reassuring or promising a patient of something that may or
may not happen. ("I promise everything will be okay")
, Which type of questions should be avoided to encourage open communication? -
✔✔Judgmental, closed-ended questions.
What are the goals of SBAR communication? - ✔✔standardized communication with other
nurses
What is ethnocentrism? - ✔✔Practice of judging another culture by the standards of one's own
culture
What is spiritual nursing care? - ✔✔View spirituality as one aspect of the whole human person
and to assess patients for spiritual distress.
what is spiritual distress? - ✔✔impaired ability to experience and integrate meaning and
purpose in life through connectedness with self, others, art, music, literature, nature, and/or a
power greater than oneself.
What is anxiety? - ✔✔Ill-defined, diffuse feeling of apprehension and uncertainty.
What factors create barriers to patient learning? - ✔✔high anxiety, sensory deficits, pain,
fatigue, hunger/thirst, SOB, cultural expectations, language barriers, differing health values, low
literacy, lack of motivation, environmental factors.
What are the overall goals of QSEN (Quality and Safety Education for Nurses)? - ✔✔???
What is the definition of the term nursing research? - ✔✔Systematic investigation of
phenomena related to improving patient care.
What are the steps in the research process? - ✔✔Identification of researchable problem
Review of literature
Answers
One of the most important outcomes of the orientation phase of the nurse-patient relationship
is the development of mutual....? - ✔✔Trust
What important information should the nurse share with the patient during the orientation
phase? - ✔✔Name, credentials, and extent of responsibility.
How can a nurse help a patient be successful during the termination phase? - ✔✔Summarize
the gains and patient has made.
What is the difference between communication congruence and incongruence? -
✔✔Congruence- the verbal and non-verbal communication matches each other. Incongruence-
the verbal and non-verbal communication doesn't match each other.
How can a nurse illustrate non-judgmental acceptance of a patient? - ✔✔acceptance for who
they are and personal beliefs, habits, expression or lifestyle. Therapeutic use of self begins with
the ability to convey acceptance to patients.
What are attending skills? - ✔✔Active listening and paying attention, reception, perception.
SOLAR.
What has research shown about the effects of touch and patient care? - ✔✔Allows the patient
to become relaxed and feel more comfortable.
What is false reassurance? - ✔✔Reassuring or promising a patient of something that may or
may not happen. ("I promise everything will be okay")
, Which type of questions should be avoided to encourage open communication? -
✔✔Judgmental, closed-ended questions.
What are the goals of SBAR communication? - ✔✔standardized communication with other
nurses
What is ethnocentrism? - ✔✔Practice of judging another culture by the standards of one's own
culture
What is spiritual nursing care? - ✔✔View spirituality as one aspect of the whole human person
and to assess patients for spiritual distress.
what is spiritual distress? - ✔✔impaired ability to experience and integrate meaning and
purpose in life through connectedness with self, others, art, music, literature, nature, and/or a
power greater than oneself.
What is anxiety? - ✔✔Ill-defined, diffuse feeling of apprehension and uncertainty.
What factors create barriers to patient learning? - ✔✔high anxiety, sensory deficits, pain,
fatigue, hunger/thirst, SOB, cultural expectations, language barriers, differing health values, low
literacy, lack of motivation, environmental factors.
What are the overall goals of QSEN (Quality and Safety Education for Nurses)? - ✔✔???
What is the definition of the term nursing research? - ✔✔Systematic investigation of
phenomena related to improving patient care.
What are the steps in the research process? - ✔✔Identification of researchable problem
Review of literature
