Nursing 3000 Exam questions and
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Nourishment comes in the form of? - ANS✅✅food, exercise, sleep, relationships, meaningful work,
environment, memories
How does a patient usually describe an illness? - ANS✅✅usually described in terms of how it
makes the person feel
What is normalcy? - ANS✅✅helps patient's cope with illness
What are factors that influence a person's response to disruptions? - ANS✅✅age, family patterns,
culture, support, access to healthcare, stage and nature of illness, etc.
What are the top three risks for functional decline? - ANS✅✅cognitive impairment
depression
disease burden
What are the stages of illness behavior? - ANS✅✅Experiencing symptoms
sick role behavior
seeking professional care
dependence on others
recovery
What is Remission - ANS✅✅When you are feeling better
What is Exacerbation? - ANS✅✅when your symptoms worsen
A 28 year old client underwent surgery for testicular cancer. Which factor might increase the client's
recovery time?
A. Drinking a glass of red wine daily
B. the client's developmental age
,C. Exercising three times a day
D. History of tobacco use - ANS✅✅D
When do people typically begin to increase awareness of the compelling reality of death?
A. adolescence
B. young adulthood
C. middle age
D. Older adult - ANS✅✅C
Which health conditions would be considered acute illness? A patient with..
A. diabetes mellitus
B. AIDS
C. appendicitis
D. multiple sclerosis - ANS✅✅C
What is the most important reason for a nurse to remain calm, greet the patient by name, and
introduce herself to a new patient, even when the nurse is upset by something else that has
happened?
A. the nurse will work more efficiently if she is not upset
B. these actions help establish an trusting relationship
C. hospital policies prohibit nurses from showing emotion in a patient's presence
D. if the nurse is upset, she may not recall all the assessments she needs to make - ANS✅✅B
A nurse is admitting a 75 year old patient to the nursing unit, accompanied by his son. Using a life
span approach to care, which of the following is essential for the nurse to do?
A. increase the room temperature
B. speak slowly and use short sentences
C. direct admission questions to the son
D. ask the patient if he has had any falls in the past year - ANS✅✅D
The nurse is responsible for setting up special equipment (oxygen, suction). Aside from that, which
of the following procedures can the nurse delegate in its entirety to the NAP?
, A. preparing a room for a newly admitted patient
B. admitting a patient to a hospital unit
C. transferring a patient to a long term care facility
D. discharging a patient to home - ANS✅✅A
Explain how full-spectrum nurses define health and illness - ANS✅✅nurses understand health and
illness as individual experiences, emerging from each patient's unique responses
Define hardiness - ANS✅✅developing a very strong positive force to live - and enjoying the fight
"I can deal with this" attitude
What is the difference between attuning, acceptance, and enjoying? - ANS✅✅Attuning: being
maximally attentive
Acceptance: you accept people as values, unique individuals despite their differences from you
Enjoying: goes beyond acceptance, you actually come to see and enjoy commonalities among more
types of people
What are the three aspects of facilitating communication - ANS✅✅Attuning
Acceptance
Enjoying
Culture includes.... - ANS✅✅shared values, beliefs, norms, and practices that guide a particular
group's thinking, decision making, and actions
What are culture universals - ANS✅✅values, beliefs, and practices that people from ALL cultures
share
What are culture specifics - ANS✅✅values, beliefs, and practices that are unique to a culture
What is cultural stereotype? - ANS✅✅belief that all people of a certain racial or ethnic group are
alike in certain aspects
answers graded A+
Nourishment comes in the form of? - ANS✅✅food, exercise, sleep, relationships, meaningful work,
environment, memories
How does a patient usually describe an illness? - ANS✅✅usually described in terms of how it
makes the person feel
What is normalcy? - ANS✅✅helps patient's cope with illness
What are factors that influence a person's response to disruptions? - ANS✅✅age, family patterns,
culture, support, access to healthcare, stage and nature of illness, etc.
What are the top three risks for functional decline? - ANS✅✅cognitive impairment
depression
disease burden
What are the stages of illness behavior? - ANS✅✅Experiencing symptoms
sick role behavior
seeking professional care
dependence on others
recovery
What is Remission - ANS✅✅When you are feeling better
What is Exacerbation? - ANS✅✅when your symptoms worsen
A 28 year old client underwent surgery for testicular cancer. Which factor might increase the client's
recovery time?
A. Drinking a glass of red wine daily
B. the client's developmental age
,C. Exercising three times a day
D. History of tobacco use - ANS✅✅D
When do people typically begin to increase awareness of the compelling reality of death?
A. adolescence
B. young adulthood
C. middle age
D. Older adult - ANS✅✅C
Which health conditions would be considered acute illness? A patient with..
A. diabetes mellitus
B. AIDS
C. appendicitis
D. multiple sclerosis - ANS✅✅C
What is the most important reason for a nurse to remain calm, greet the patient by name, and
introduce herself to a new patient, even when the nurse is upset by something else that has
happened?
A. the nurse will work more efficiently if she is not upset
B. these actions help establish an trusting relationship
C. hospital policies prohibit nurses from showing emotion in a patient's presence
D. if the nurse is upset, she may not recall all the assessments she needs to make - ANS✅✅B
A nurse is admitting a 75 year old patient to the nursing unit, accompanied by his son. Using a life
span approach to care, which of the following is essential for the nurse to do?
A. increase the room temperature
B. speak slowly and use short sentences
C. direct admission questions to the son
D. ask the patient if he has had any falls in the past year - ANS✅✅D
The nurse is responsible for setting up special equipment (oxygen, suction). Aside from that, which
of the following procedures can the nurse delegate in its entirety to the NAP?
, A. preparing a room for a newly admitted patient
B. admitting a patient to a hospital unit
C. transferring a patient to a long term care facility
D. discharging a patient to home - ANS✅✅A
Explain how full-spectrum nurses define health and illness - ANS✅✅nurses understand health and
illness as individual experiences, emerging from each patient's unique responses
Define hardiness - ANS✅✅developing a very strong positive force to live - and enjoying the fight
"I can deal with this" attitude
What is the difference between attuning, acceptance, and enjoying? - ANS✅✅Attuning: being
maximally attentive
Acceptance: you accept people as values, unique individuals despite their differences from you
Enjoying: goes beyond acceptance, you actually come to see and enjoy commonalities among more
types of people
What are the three aspects of facilitating communication - ANS✅✅Attuning
Acceptance
Enjoying
Culture includes.... - ANS✅✅shared values, beliefs, norms, and practices that guide a particular
group's thinking, decision making, and actions
What are culture universals - ANS✅✅values, beliefs, and practices that people from ALL cultures
share
What are culture specifics - ANS✅✅values, beliefs, and practices that are unique to a culture
What is cultural stereotype? - ANS✅✅belief that all people of a certain racial or ethnic group are
alike in certain aspects
