Exam 2: Values, Beliefs, and Caring

Touch is the intentional physical contact between two or more people and it is deemed to be an essential and universal component of nursing care. The nurse knows that task-oriented touch occurs during which activities?

When the nurse is dealing with the concept of beliefs and values, the nurse recognizes which type is based in the unconscious?

The nurse identifies the concept of enduring ideas about what a person considers desirable or has worth in life is known by which term?

The nurse is observed sitting at the bedside of a patient discussing the nursing care plan for the shift. The nurse identifies which theory or model most accurately reflects this nurse-patient relationship?

A group of nursing students are discussing the history of nursing to a staff nurse. When a student states, "Yeah, nurses used to be called the doctors' handmaidens." the staff nurse recognizes that this comment is identified by which term?

Which action observed by a nurse manager is not indicative of the qualities and behaviors of caring?

The nurse identifies which nursing theorist/theorists who describes/describe the nurse-patient relationship as a situation in which the nurse and patient share the lived experience of caring?

When dealing with patient who has a values conflict in which substance abuse or an addiction is involved, the nurse should conduct an assessment interview and use which techniques that will make the interview most effective?

The nurse is caring for a patient scheduled for heart surgery. Which statement made by the patient requires further discussion?

Caring, according to the American Nurses Association (ANA) Code of Ethics (2015), is having concern or regard for that which affects the welfare of another. The nurse recognizes that as a profession, nursing can trace its earliest beginnings to what types of nurturing activities that demonstrate care?

The nurse recognizes that a vital aspect of providing effective and appropriate nursing care is being able to actively listen to a patient and then demonstrates this concept when carrying out which activity?

The nurse knows providing care that is consistent and predictable can make the health care experience less intimidating for the patient. What additional action can the nurse take to enhance this experience?

When planning to change a dressing on an anxious patient, the nurse recognizes which to be the best approach?

The student nurse is planning care for a patient who believes that Western medicine is effective but not always accurate and recognizes which nursing theory would best explain the patient's health practices?

The nurse recognizes that when developing a nursing practice, it is important for the nurse to: carry out which action?

The nurse on a busy medical-surgical floor contacts a social worker requesting a home care referral prior to a patient's discharge. This action is best illustrated by which of Swanson's five caring processes?

While helping patients with values clarification and care decisions, the nurse should complete which action?

The nurse is caring for a patient with lung disease. The patient tells the nurse that the most important thing to do during the shift is to walk down to the nurses' station and back without having shortness of breath. The patient's request is an example of which nursing theory?

A patient with terminal cancer says to the nurse, "I just don't know if I should allow CPR in the event I quit breathing. What do you think?" Which statement by the nurse would be most beneficial to the patient?

The nurse is caring for a patient who is under arrest for murder and is attempting to perform nursing care duties while, at the same time, feeling a sense of repugnance toward the patient. The nurse recognizes this situation is identified by which term?