Deck 10: How to Move Beyond Basic Family Nursing Skills

Question 1

The nurse uses advanced interviewing skills. Advanced interviewing skills differ from basic skills because they include which of the following?

A) Greater attention to psychiatric nursing
B) Advanced case management skills
C) Attention to patient-centered care
D) Greater attention to the uniqueness of each practice context

Answer 1

Greater attention to the uniqueness of each practice context

Question 2

The nurse is using a concept developed by Duhamel that creates knowledge and applies it to practice in unique clinical settings. What is this concept called?

A) Applied scholarship
B) Engaged scholarship
C) Interactive scholarship
D) Evidence-based scholarship

Answer 2

Engaged scholarship

Question 3

The nurse is reviewing nursing theories with nursing students. Which theorist developed the theory about nurses evolving from novices to experts?

A) Harper-Jaques
B) Benner
C) Leahey
D) Svavarsdottir

Answer 3

Benner

Question 4

The nurse explains in a board meeting that the research of Duhamel and Dupuis (2011) shows the circular process among which of the following?

A) Education, research, and practice
B) Administration, clinical units, and academia
C) Classroom instructors, clinical instructors, and laboratory instructors
D) Classroom instructors, simulation instructors, and laboratory instructors

Question 5

The difference between a novice nurse interviewer and an expert nurse interviewer is that the more advanced interviewer does which of the following? Select the best answer.

A) Maximizes both the nurse's and the family's ability to care for the client
B) Gets much more information about the client
C) Makes the family feel appreciated
D) Remembers all the questions without prompting

Question 6

The nurse is discussing that it takes at least 10,000 hours of deliberate practice to become an expert in a skill. This theory is attributed to whom?

A) Benner
B) Ericsson
C) Chesla
D) Moules, Laing, Morck, and Toner

Question 7

The nurse has increased knowledge about skills, but awareness of information does not necessarily lead to implementation or executive skills. Which researcher or researchers stated this?

A) Benner
B) Ericsson
C) Chesla
D) Moules, Laing, Morck, and Toner

Question 8

The nurse asks the client's family, "Is there anything about your father that we should know but that he might not have told us?" What information is the nurse seeking?

A) Cultural background
B) Unspoken information
C) Family dysfunction
D) Rapport with family members

Question 9

The nurse is reviewing the comments made during an interview. Which of these statements is the least therapeutic?

A) "Which advice was the least helpful to you?"
B) "You must control it; if you don't, it will control you."
C) "Don't worry. Things will get better."
D) "The world does not stop just because you are in pain."

Question 10

The nurse uses relative-influence questioning. Which is the definition of this kind of questioning?

A) Using relatives to influence the client
B) Encouraging clients to see how their problems are relative
C) Helping clients to appreciate their relationship with the problem
D) Having clients influence how their relatives care for them

Question 11

Before bringing the family into the room, the nurse asks the client if there is anything that she would like more help with from the family. This is an example of which type of questioning?

A) One-question questioning
B) Difference questioning
C) Spirituality and belief questioning
D) Relative-influence questioning

Question 12

The nurse is ending the interview. Which of the following would not be an appropriate intervention at this time?

A) Recommending a ritual
B) Commending the client on strengths
C) Suggesting taking a holiday from pain talk
D) Selecting a one-question questioning goal

Question 13

The nurse is assessing the biopsychosocial factors in the interview. Which of the following are biopsychosocial factors? Select all that apply.

A) Blood pressure
B) Belief in God
C) Relationships with other people
D) Anxiety

Question 14

The nurse frames practice with Leahey and Harper-Jacques's theory. Which of the following are levels in Leahey and Harper-Jacques's theory? Select all that apply.

A) Apprentice
B) Expert
C) Proficient
D) Competent

Question 15

The nurse is conducting an advanced-level interview. Which should be included? Select all that apply.

A) Commending the client
B) Using the nurse's language
C) Summarizing expressed thoughts
D) Asking for the advice of others