Deck 18: Caring in Nursing Practice

Question 1

The nurse is reading about different theories of caring and wants to adopt Leininger's theory as an approach for her patients.Which of the following is a key element in this theory?

A) Five categories or processes of caring
B) Connectedness with others
C) Spiritual dimensions and healing
D) Transcultural perspectives

Answer 1

D

Question 2

How can the nurse best demonstrate caring to family members of a terminally ill patient?

A) Providing the family with the proposed plan of care
B) Explaining all procedures before they are executed
C) Exploring with the family how they see their role in caring for the patient
D) Suggesting to the family appropriate support systems

Answer 2

C

Question 3

Which of the following is the most important aspect for a student nurse to learn in relation to knowing the patient?

A) Establishing a caring relationship
B) Gathering assessment data
C) Treating discomforts quickly
D) Assuming emotional needs

Answer 3

A

Question 4

A number of nursing theorists discuss and describe the concept of caring in nursing practice.According to Benner,how is "caring" defined?

A) The central, unifying, and dominant domain necessary for health and survival
B) Preserving human dignity in the technological, cure-dominated health care system
C) Knowing, being with, doing for, enabling, and maintaining belief
D) A person, event, project, or thing that matters to a person

Question 5

Which of the following codes or practices was Sister Simone Roach,a Canadian nursing theorist,instrumental in developing for the Canadian Nurses Association (CNA)?

A) Code of Competence
B) Code of Ethics
C) Code of Conduct
D) Practice standards

Question 6

Which of the following behaviours demonstrates that the nurse provides presence to a patient?

A) The nurse performs those activities of daily living that the patient is unable to do.
B) The nurse remains with the patient throughout a procedure that the patient has identified as frightening.
C) The nurse demonstrates confidence in preparing for and administering nursing care to patients.
D) The nurse remains calm during administration of care.

Question 7

Which of the following is the most important aspect of knowing a patient for a beginning nurse to recognize?

A) Interconnectedness between the nurse and the patient
B) Caring social process that results in bonding
C) Clinical signs and symptoms
D) Abnormal lab data

Question 8

Which of the following should the nurse be aware of when practising cultural aspects of nurse caring behaviours?

A) Maintaining eye contact
B) Avoiding use of idioms
C) Disregarding gender-congruent caregivers
D) Continuing prolonged use of touch to convey caring

Question 9

According to Watson's theory of caring,a conscious intention to care promotes which of the following?

A) Health
B) Healing and wholeness
C) The nurse-patient relationship
D) Positive differences in well-being outcomes

Question 10

According to Watson,which of the following "carative" processes refers to being authentically present?

A) Humanistic-altruistic values
B) Instilling or enabling faith
C) Promoting expression of feelings
D) Assisting with gratification of human needs

Question 11

Which one of the following ideas about caring is the common theme shared by the caring theorists?

A) Caring is founded on relationships.
B) Caring is not always a necessary component of nursing care.
C) Caring is focused on the patient.
D) The health and well-being of patients is founded on expert care.

Question 12

The nurse has elected to apply Swanson's concepts of caring.Which of the following nursing activities is an example of Swanson's "enabling" in the caring process?

A) Staying with the patient before surgery
B) Performing a catheterization skillfully
C) Assessing the patient's health history
D) Teaching the patient how to self-inject insulin

Question 13

To best improve the bathing care provided by a student nurse,what should the nurse teacher do?

A) Tell the student how to correctly give baths to patients.
B) Provide the student with good resources to read on bathing patients.
C) Ask another student nurse to provide the bathing care on the next shift.
D) Assist and observe the student in the bathing care of the patient.

Question 14

The nurse is walking with a male patient on the unit.The patient becomes unsteady,and is about to fall when the nurse supports him and enables him to regain equilibrium.This is an example of which of the following types of touch?

A) Caring
B) Safety
C) Protective
D) Task-oriented