Caring (Pearson) Flashcards
The nurse is caring for a patient with lower extremity weakness. For which caring behavior should the nurse instruct the patient on the use of a walker?
Advocacy
Advocating for patients includes performing activities that enhance well-being, understanding, and self-care, such as teaching a patient to use a walker
The nurse is asked about the concept of caring. Which information should be included in the response?
Develops a deeper relationship over time.
Caring is a process that develops over time, resulting in a deepening and transformation of the relationship
The nurse sees a patient grimace but does not assume that this is a physical pain reaction. Which process from Swanson’s theory of caring should explain this approach?
Knowing
Avoiding assumptions is part of the process of knowing in Swanson’s theory of caring
The nurse engages in regular self-care practices. In which way should this benefit the nurse?
Improve self-esteem
Engaging in self-care practices leads to a sense of wholeness that comes from and contributes to self-esteem.
A patient expresses the desire to reach an optimal level of health. On which theorist should the nurse focus to become a coparticipant with this patient?
Watson
The nurse wants to enhance their ability to care for others. Which philosopher’s views should the nurse study to learn more about having a personal place in the world?
Mayeroff
Mayeroff believed that by caring and being cared for, each person finds a place in the world. Roach focuses on caring as a philosophical concept and proposes that caring is the human mode of being.
The nurse returns to work after being on maternity leave. Which caring behavior should the nurse most likely have developed about maternal-newborn patients?
Compassion
The nurse plans to use positive affirmations to improve self-care.
Which statement should the nurse make at the start of each day?
“I am prepared to do a good job today.”
Each day should start with positive statements about potential actions. “I am prepared to do a good job today” is a positive affirmation that helps control self-doubt and leads to greater self-esteem.
A patient is unable to dress independently.
Which caring behavior should the nurse exhibit when assisting the patient?
Enabling
Performing substitutive care, or choosing to act on the patient’s behalf when the patient cannot act independently, is an example of enabling behavior
The nurse wants to promote healthy nutrition at the workplace. Which snacks should the nurse bring to the break room to share?
Vegetables and hummus
The nurse wants to enhance self-care activities.
For which reason should the nurse engage in 150 minutes of moderate-intensity exercise a week?
Improve joint stiffness
The nurse is preparing to go to work in the morning.
For which self-care behavior should the nurse say, “I am going to do a good job today?”
Positive affirmation
The nurse engages in journaling.
Which step should the nurse take to reflect on a challenging situation?
Evaluate the situation using outside knowledge.
The goal of any reflective framework is to encourage description and self-awareness, as well as critical thinking and analysis. Knowledge and experience from outside the situation should be used to enlighten and compare
A patient forcefully grabs and squeezes a family member’s wrist, causing the family member to cry out in pain.
For which component of caring should the nurse feel responsible to approach the patient about this behavior?
Conscience
Conscience is an awareness of personal responsibility to address an action, such as observing abusive behavior.
The nurse sees a patient grimace but does not assume that this is a physical pain reaction.
Which process from Swanson’s theory of caring should explain this approach?
Knowing
Which knowing framework should be used when viewing a patient as a holistic being?
Aesthetic
Aesthetic knowing is used to provide care that is both effective and satisfying, such as having empathy and caring for a patient as a whole being. Aesthetic knowing is expressed through the creativity and style used by the nurse when meeting the needs of patients.
The nurse wants to enhance their ability to care for others.
Which philosopher’s views should the nurse study to learn more about having a personal place in the world?
Mayeroff
The nurse has decreased energy that is negatively impacting the ability to deliver quality patient care. Which action should the nurse take to improve energy level?
Eat a varied diet
The nurse is asked to explain the relationship between competence and compassion.
Which information should the nurse include?
Compassion without competence is meaningless and dangerous.
Compassion without competence is meaningless and dangerous, while competence without compassion is cold and inhumane. Technical skills are used to demonstrate competence. The nurse who is competent understands the patient’s health problem, treatment, and associated care.
The nurse is planning care for a patient with depression. For which reason should the nurse provide the patient with self-care measures to address the health problem?
Demonstrate presence
The nurse wants to bring balance to personal thoughts and emotions.
In which practice should the nurse engage?
Storytelling
The nurse is attending a continuing education program about caring.
Which belief should be associated with Roach’s theory?
All individuals are caring; caring is not unique to nursing.
Roach believes that all individuals are caring and develop their caring abilities by being true to themselves. Watson’s theory views caring as the essence and the moral ideal of nursing. Swanson views caring as a nurturing way of relating with a personal sense of commitment and responsibility to others who are valued. Mayeroff proposed that to care for others is to help them grow and actualize themselves.
The nurse decides to watch a favorite movie after ending a shift.
Which health problem should this self-care measure help prevent?
Burnout
The nurse is reviewing the different theories about caring. Which theorist believes all individuals are caring and that caring is not unique to nursing?
Roach
A patient desires to be more independent with self-care.
Which action should the nurse take to advocate for this patient?
Teach the patient how to use a walker.
The nurse is caring for a patient experiencing anxiety.
Which action should the nurse take to provide comfort?
Prepare a warm bath.
Comfort is often associated with compassionate care. Many interventions are carried out to provide comfort, such as preparing a warm bath for a patient
A patient wants to improve self-care practices.
Which practice should best support the nurse counseling the patient about self-care practices?
Personally engages in healthy behaviors.
The nurse desires to display compassion when providing patient care. In which situation should the nurse pay special attention to a patient’s spiritual needs?
Death and bereavement
The nurse is caring for a patient with lower extremity weakness. For which caring behavior should the nurse instruct the patient on the use of a walker?
Advocacy
The nurse utilizes different types of knowledge when caring for patients. Which action should the nurse use to demonstrate personal knowing?
Evaluate personal lifestyle choices when caring for a patient.
Personal knowing promotes wholeness and integrity in the personal encounter, achieves engagement rather than detachment, and denies the manipulative or impersonal approach. Being aware of personal knowing is a critical factor in the therapeutic relationship. Personal knowing views the patient as a unique individual who is free to choose a lifestyle.
A patient is experiencing anxiety.
For which caring behavior should the nurse prepare a warm bath for the patient?
Comfort
A patient practices a lifestyle that is different from the nurse’s.
Which type of knowing should the nurse use to support the development of a relationship with this patient?
Personal
Personal knowing promotes wholeness and integrity in the personal encounter, achieves engagement rather than detachment, and denies the manipulative or impersonal approach.
A patient is unable to dress independently.
Which caring behavior should the nurse exhibit when assisting the patient?
Enabling
