BSN 225 Hesi TEST BANK prep EXAM \LATEST UPDATE
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2025
D. creativity
Which trait of critical
thinking is the nurse
Nurses require various traits such as creativity, fairness, risk taking,
exhibiting when instructing curiousity,
the parents of a malnourished discipline, and perseverance. In this case the nurseis
child to make the child's food trying to stimulate the appetite of the child by
colorful and attractive? instructing the parents to make the food colorful and
A. fairness
attractive. This shows that the nurse is using the trait of
B. curiosity
creativity. Fairness is the trait of a nurse who avoids
C. discipline
personal bias while caring for a patient/ Curiosity is
D. creativity
the trait of a critical
thinking nurse who always tries to ask "why?" A
disciplined nurse follows a systemativ approach to plan
and achieve goals.
Which Quality and Safety in B. safety
the Education of Nurses
(QSEN) competency is the Helping patients understand the consequences and
nurse exhibiting by complications of multiple health care providers and
working with a couple to multiple medications helps ensure patient safety.
determine what they know Informatics is a multidisciplinary field that uses health
about their
inforamtion technology to improve health care via any
medications and helping
combination of high quality, higher efficiency, and new
them decide on one care
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provider rather than two opportunities. Patient- centered care focuses on direct
when caring for an care rendered to patients. Teamwork and
older-adult couple in a collaboration seeks information or help from other
community-based assisted health care professions and disciplines
living facility?
A. safety
B. informatics
C. patient-centered care
D. teamwork and collaboration
A 40-year-old patient is C. Current medical conditions of chronic diabetes w/
experiencing poorly hypertension
controlled hypertension.
When using SBAR communication protocol, the nurse should first
The dietitian recommends
identify the
several dietary patient's situation. In this case, that means the nurse
modifications to the should convey that the patient is suffering from chronic
patient. The patient tries diabetes and hypertension. The nurse then should
to explain the reason for further
her poor dietary address the breakdown of the situation and ask the
compliance; she says she dietitian to consider revising the diet. Following the
works dietary assessment and consult, the recommendations
extra hours and does not for dietary changes-- including low-salt and low-
have the time to cook. The sugar meals--should be made.
patient further adds that
she has diabetes. The
patient expresses that it is
difficult for her to choos a diet
that is low in sugar and low
in salt and carbohydrates.
The nurse communicates
this to the dietitian using
SBAR technique. Which
patient information would
be addressed first?
A. the need for a diet revision
b. the desire for a dietary
consult
c. current medical
conditions of chronic
diabtese w/
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hypertension
d. the need for the patient to
eat low-salt, low-sugar
meals
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Which body mass index A. 12.5 kg/m2
(BMI) would require
hospitalization? Patients whose BMI is less than 13 kg/m2 are considered
A. 12.5 kg/m2 severely malnourished and require highly skilled nursing
B 18.9 kg/m2 care w/ hospitalization. A BMI of 18.5 to 24.9 kg/m2
C. 21.2 kg/m2 indicates that the patient has normal weight and does
D. 24.6 kg/m2
not require nursing care and hospitalization
Which action would the B. contact the hospital pharmacist
nurse take when unable to
find information about the When a primary health care provider prescribes a mediation, the
nurse is
medication in any of the
knowledgeable of its use, the expected outcome, and
hospital databases or
any adverse effects and drug interactions. The nurse
electronic health records
requests the information form the pharmacist when the
when
informatio nis not available in any of the resources
attempting to decrease
available. The nurse cannot avoid administering the
the patient's adverse
medication if the information is unavailable. Instead,
reactions to
the nurse
prescribed
medications? obtains the information from another resource. The
A. avoid administering nurse contacts the pharmacist rather than informing
medication the primary health care provider. The patient's written
B. contact the hospital consent is required only if the drug is still under trial or
pharmacist
if it has potentially harmful adverse reactions.
C. contact the primary health
care provider
D. ask the patient for written
consent before
administering
Which action would the C. Giving large bites to stimulate swallow reflex
nurse aboid when assisting
an older adult w/ Bites should be small to help avoid aspiration. Thickened
dysphagia to liquids are easy to swallow. Making the patient sit
eat? upright while eating helps the nurse prevent aspiration.
A. thick liquids Keeping the patient upright for 45 to 60 minutes after
B. sitting the patient upright eating helps in gastric emptying and prevents
during meal time aspiration.
C. giving large bites to
stimulate swallow reflex
D. keeping the patient upright
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