Exam 2: Values, Beliefs, and Caring

Nurses must collaborate effectively with patients to find treatment methods that are congruent with the patients' belief systems and that promote healthy outcomes. This approach requires:

The nurse is preparing to perform a health history interview with a non-English speaking patient. An interpreter has been assigned to assist in the translation. Which action by the nurse indicates understanding the guidelines for working with an interpreter?

Enduring ideas about what a person considers is desirable or has worth in life is known as a:

A group of students are discussing the history of nursing. A student states, "Yea, nurses used to be called the doctor's handmaiden." This type of comment is known as a:

Caring, according to the American Nurses Association (ANA) Code of Ethics (2001), is having concern or regard for that which affects the welfare of another. As a profession, nursing can trace its earliest beginnings to the types of nurturing activities that demonstrate care, such as: (Select all that apply.)