Exam 25: The Art of Caring in Technology-Laden Environments

All of the following are advantages of technology-mediated care except:

A nurse is teaching a nursing student about the art of nursing. Which statement by the nurse is correct?

A nurse is performing a physical exam on a patient and sees that the patient is crying. Which of the following demonstrates that the nurse is practicing transcendent practice?

A critical care nurse is considering how the nursing care guidelines and policies could be modified to better respond to a patient's complex care needs. This is an example of which of the following?

A new nurse is seeking ways to improve nursing practice, and an experienced nurse encourages the new nurse to use reflective journaling. Which of the following is a question the nurse might consider when journaling?

Nurses can be thought of as instruments of healing.

While relationship-centered care promotes enhanced mental and physical well-being in patients, it has little effect on nurses.

A physician is typing on a computer when a patient asks a question. The physician responds to the patient but does not stop typing or use the patient's name. Which type of presence is the physician demonstrating?

Nurses who take care of their own health are more likely to be effective in patient and family care.

If a nurse is fully present to the patient, the nurse will be able to notice subtle changes in the patient.

A nurse who is completing multiple tasks, including answering the telephone, documenting on the computer, and answering a patient's question, is demonstrating caring presence.

A nurse and patient develop a helping-trusting, authentic caring relationship, which promotes which of the following?

A nurse is performing nursing interventions effectively but is inattentive and does not respond to the patient's questions or concerns. The nurse is which of the following?

Choose a caring presence strategy to implement in your practice and use the reflective journal template provided in the chapter to reflect on your practice.

A nurse calls the patient by name, communicates openly, and pays attention to the patient's responses during the interaction. The nurse is demonstrating which of the following?

Practicing techniques related to caring presence may promote mindfulness in practice.

Humanistic nursing care increases patient and nursing satisfaction.

In patient care, a nurse synthesizes his or her own perspective with experience, education, and intuition, which is referred to as:

Some technologies such a telehealth encounters may present barriers to active listening.

A nurse is working in a busy, high-acuity nursing unit and enters into each nursing situation with the intentional commitment to fully care for another person. This describes which of the following?