1. All of the following are true about the nursing code of ethics except:
Provides specific answer to many ethical dilemmas
2. The nurse is assigned to see a home-bound client on a daily basis to prepare the client's medications. The nurse fails to visit the client and does not request that another nurse visit the client. The client is later admitted to the hospital after taki
Abandonment
3. A client is held down by the nurse and forced to have a nasogastric tube placed. Which of the following could this represent?
Battery
4. When applying the nursing process which of the following should always be addressed first?
Assessment
5. How can most living organisms be classified in general systems theory?
Open systems
6. Which of the following are the steps to the nursing process? select all that apply
Planning, Implementation, Diagnosis, Evaluation, Access
7. What type of tort may occur if a client is not allowed to leave the hospital after receiving emergency care until the bill is paid?
False imprisonment
8. Which of the following is the best substitute for self-determination if an individual is no longer competent to make their own health care decisions?
Advance Directive
9. Does clinical reasoning and judgment require various ways of thinking in the role of a nurse?
True
10. A client complains of hip pain and requests pain medication. For the nurse to apply the nursing process what would the nurse do next?
Assess the hip and ask the client about their pain
11. The client's short term outcome was to walk in the hallway by the end of the day. The nurse reviews the client outcome determines that it was not met and modifies the interventions. Which phase of the nursing process is this?
Evaluation
12. Which of the following phases of the nursing process determines client problems risks and strengths?
Diagnosis
13. What is another term that can be used for professional negligence?
Malpractice
14. An example of invasion of privacy would be:
Discussing Mrs. Green's surgery in the hospital cafeteria
15. The client must have a treatment requiring an informed consent. Whose role is it to review the proposed treatment and its associated risks with the client?
Physician
16. Team building nurse retention and patient satisfaction are all benefits of being sensitive to personality types.
True
17. Why is it important for nurses to understand and use a nursing theory or model in practice?
Using models or theories aids the nurse to provide care in an organized manner.
18. Which of the following theorists authored the Model of Goal Attainment?
Imogene King
19. A client suffered a ruptured appendix and had to have an open appendectomy. She is post-op day 1. She is able to perform many of her activities of daily living independently such as wash her face brush her teeth feed herself and reposition. However sh
Partially compensated care
What are the primary ethical issues involved in genetic research?
Violations of confidentially and informed consent
Which of the following would not be appropriate to chart?
The nurse thinks the patient is rude.
Identify the four concepts that are common in most nursing theories.
Client, Health, Environment, and Nursing
You are teaching a group of senior citizens about the importance of getting their influenza and pneumonia vaccines. What type of intervention are you providing based on Neuman's Health Care Systems Model?
Primary
Upon what ethical principle do supporters of assisted suicide base their support for the practice?
Self-determination which includes the decision to end ones life.
.Which of the following does not describe critical thinking in nursing?
Avoids the use of intuition and creativity.
Which professionTheal nursing organization wrote the Code of Ethics for Nurses?
ANA (American Nurses Association)
This theorist states that even though you may be a novice now, with a solid educational base and many patient care experiences over time, you will one day become an expert.
Benner
A 16-year-old boy brought to the emergency room with a gunshot wound to the head is declared brain dead. His driver's license identifies him as an organ donor, but the hospital staff is unable to locate his family for permission to take his organs. Anothe
Continue to attempt to locate the client's family while preparing for the transplant
Identify the situation in which a nurse would likely be charged with negligence.
Leaving the side rails down on a bed of a confused client
Which situation is the nurse allowed to breach a client's right of confidentiality?
A 32 year old comes to the emergency room for care after being raped in a parking lot
Critical thinking can also be referred to as common sense.
False
The requirement that health-care providers do no harm to their clients is known as:
Nonmaleficence
Identify the statement that is most accurate concerning middle range nursing theories.
They form the foundation for the current evidence-based practice movement.
Which of the following is the appropriate order in Benner's stages of knowledge?
Novice, advanced beginner, competent, proficient, and expert
The nurse is caring for a client who is a kinesthetic learner. How would the nurse best approach teaching the client how to self-inject insulin before discharge?
Provide the patient with a practice syringe and vial
What is the practice of allowing a client to die without the use of any extraordinary measures?
Passive euthansia
A 9-month-old baby who is developmentally delayed is tested for genetic abnormalities. After the results are back from the laboratory, a representative from the client's medical insurance company calls the nurses' station on the phone and asks for the res
Refuse to give the information over the phone
What study advice would you provide to a visual learner?
In skills lab, don't go first, begin by observing the skill
The ethical principle which requires the health-care provider to tell the truth and not to deceive or mislead clients is known as:
Veracity
Under which category are nursing licensure laws included?
Civil Laws
What is the underlying legal concept that protects health-care professionals under the Good Samaritan Act?
Implied Consent
A client complains of pain to the nurse. The nurse medicates the client as prescribed, but then fails to follow up and make sure the patient is no longer in pain. Which of the following ethical principles has the nurse failed to demonstrate?
Fidelity
Which of the following demonstrates the planning phase of the nursing process?
The nurse specifies short and long term outcomes for the client.
A nurse is providing a back rub to a client just after administering a pain medication to help decrease the client's pain. Which phase of the nursing process is this nurse demonstrating?
Implementation
An 18 -month-old infant is brought into the emergency room with several recent cigarette burns on his chest and legs. What is the nurse's legal responsibility in this case?
Notify the attending physician or the emergency room supervisor.
Which of the following "rights" are based on a moral principle?
Ethical rights.
A client is in a coma and unable to make health-care decisions. Who should sign the informed consent for a non-emergent, scheduled surgery?
Designated durable power of attorney for health care.
The processes used in ethical decision making include all of the following except:
Voting of best course of action.
Theory can be defined in nursing as which of the following?
An attempt to identify a relationship that helps explain an observable phenomenon
The term tort refers to a violation of the civil law
True