Deck 35: Caring Interventions

Question 1

A nurse in a rural community is employed in a facility that has had a shortage of nurses for several years.As a result,several nurses have left the institution citing "burnout." To avoid risking burnout,the nurse regularly works out,practices yoga,socializes with friends once or twice a week,and participates in at least one annual national or state nursing conference.This approach to work-life balance reflects which concept within the framework of Caring Interventions?

A) Self-compassion
B) Self-care
C) Self-control
D) Self-actualizing

Answer 1

Self-care

Question 2

The nurse manager is evaluating behaviors of nurses caring for clients with terminal cancer using Watson's Carative Factor to Clinical Caritas Processes chart.Which behavior is being demonstrated when a nurse encourages a dying client to "not give up"? Table 35-1 Carative Factor to Clinical Caritas Processes

Source: Julia B.George (2011).Nursing theories: The base for professional nursing practice,6th ed.,Box 18-2.
Upper Saddle River,NJ: Prentice Hall.

A)Forming a humanistic-altruistic system of values
B)Enabling and sustaining faith-hope
C)Promoting and accepting the expression of positive and negative feelings and emotions
D)Promoting transpersonal teaching-learning

Answer 2

Enabling and sustaining faith-hope

Question 3

While caring for a client with respiratory alkalosis caused by hyperventilation,the nurse decides that having students in the room may increase the client's anxiety and decides to assign another client for care.Which type of knowledge is the nurse demonstrating when assigning another client for care?

A) Empirical
B) Aesthetic
C) Creative
D) Personal

Answer 3

Aesthetic

Question 4

A mountain climber in his early 30s with a love for the outdoors became critically ill with pancreatic cancer.The client states to the nurse,"I want to die outdoors where I can see the mountains." The nurse takes the client to an outdoor patio that overlooks open space and the distant mountains.The nurse is applying the carative factor of "Engaging in creative,individualized problem-solving caring processes." This action exemplifies which theory of caring in nursing?

A) Roach's Theory of Caring as the Human Mode of Being
B) Benner and Wrubel's Theory of Caring
C) Leininger's Theory of Culture Care Diversity and Universality
D) Watson's Theory of Human Care

Question 5

A hospital is preparing for the American Nurses' Credentialing Center's magnet hospital designation process.Nurse representatives on the Magnet Council consider several Professional Practice Models (PPMs)as their approach to nursing care.After selecting a PPM model,members of the Council plan a series of nursing grand rounds.These focus on nursing's code of ethics,ethical frameworks for handling moral judgments,the organization's value statement,and ethics case studies led by the hospital chaplain.What particular nursing theory,philosophical approach,or framework of caring have the nurses decided to adopt?

A) Watson's Theory of Human Care
B) Leininger's Theory of Culture Care Diversity and Universality
C) Carper's Ways of Knowing in Nursing
D) Boykin and Schoenhofer's Nursing as Caring Theory

Question 6

The nurse decides to take a few days of personal time to invest in self-nurturing activities.Which activities indicate the nurse is taking steps to care for self? Select all that apply.

A) Sleeping 4 hours each night
B) Eating one meal a day
C) Being active in church
D) Participating in regular exercise
E) Participating in daily meditation

Question 7

During a care conference the nursing student differentiates between the different theories of caring when discussing client care.Which type of knowledge is the student demonstrating?

A) Aesthetic knowing
B) Ethical knowing
C) Personal knowing
D) Empirical knowing

Question 8

During a performance appraisal,a unit manager praises a staff nurse on the ability to use presencing when caring for terminally ill clients.What did the nurse demonstrate that would exemplify this caring behavior? Select all that apply.

A) Face-to-face discussions with clients
B) Instructing clients on how they should perform certain functions
C) Sitting quietly with clients
D) Taking the time to hold a client's hand
E) Guaranteeing quality and safety in care

Question 9

The family members of a recently deceased client wrote a letter to the unit manager,expressing their appreciation for the way the client was treated while dying in the hospital.The family mentioned characteristics that indicate the nurses were caring.What behaviors did the family most likely use to explain the caring actions of the nurses? Select all that apply.

A) Delivered care with style
B) Treated the client as a human being
C) Respected the client
D) Maintained client confidentiality
E) Established limits with the client