Exam 19: Caring in Nursing Practice

A nurse enters a patient's room and is very methodical in her assessment skills and in providing a safe environment,but only speaks with the patient when necessary to gather data.This nurse is:

Madeleine Leininger identifies the concept of care as the essence and unifying domain that sets nursing apart from other health care disciplines.Which of the following is true in her view?

Nurses care for a variety of patients.What is an activity that best demonstrates the caring role of a nurse?

A female patient has just found a large lump in her breast.The health care provider needs to perform a breast biopsy.The nurse assists the patient into the proper position and offers support during the biopsy.What is the nurse doing?

The patient was admitted to the hospital with advanced-stage cancer.As the nurse was admitting her,the patient told her about how her little dog learned a new trick,and could play dead when she said "bang-bang." Why did the nurse listen attentively to the patient's story?

The relief of pain and suffering give a patient comfort,dignity,respect,and peace.To enhance the therapeutic environment,what should the nurse do?

The patient was hospitalized with pneumonia.He had always been very healthy and was concerned that now his family would have to take care of him.During one conversation the nurse said to him,"This gives the ones who love you a chance to show you how much they care for you." The comment that the nurse made best demonstrated which behavior?

A registered nurse who works for an orthopedic unit of an acute care hospital makes hourly rounds on his patients.He also closes the door and pulls the curtains around the beds of patients in semiprivate rooms before exposing them for treatments.This is an example of which of the following behaviors?

A nurse is working in a health care clinic.She loves her work because of all the different people she meets.She professes to care for all of them and states that she understands them because she realizes which of the following is true?

Which of the following would indicate that the nurse has established a level of mutual problem solving?

One of the five caring processes described by Swanson (1991)is knowing the patient.The concept comprises both a nurse's understanding of a specific patient and subsequent selection of interventions.To become adept at knowing patients early,what should the nurse do?

Nurses demonstrate caring behaviors when they do which of the following? (Select all that apply.)

A registered nurse who worked in an extended care facility could see that a patient was in the process of dying.The lab technician came to draw his blood.The nurse requested that the blood draw be postponed for a while so that the patient's wife,who was at his bedside,could spend some quiet time with her husband.This is an example of which caring behavior?

When individuals become ill,there may be a story about the meaning of the illness.When a nurse listens,the patient is:

The ANA,National League for Nursing,AONE,and American Association of Colleges of Nursing recommend strategies to reverse the current nursing shortage.A number of the strategies have potential for creating work environments that enable nurses to demonstrate more caring behaviors.Which of the following provisions is advocated to create a more desirable work environment?