Chapter 23 Flashcards
New health care provider orders are transcribed for a patient to receive a colonoscopy. What
must be completed before the colonoscopy to indicate the patient has been given full
knowledge about what will be done along with its risks and complications?
a. Patients’ rights
b. Advance directive
c. Informed consent
d. Patient protection
c. Informed consent
The nurse is preparing a patient for a diagnostic examination. What can the nurse implement
to assist with reducing anxiety?
a. Explain the costs of the examination.
b. Demonstrate use of equipment.
c. Answer questions for clarification.
d. Fill out required paperwork.
c. Answer questions for clarification.
A patient is required to provide a sample of body excretions per health care provider order.
What action can the nurse take when providing proper instructions to lessen the patient’s
embarrassment?
a. Instruct patient to provide the specimen behind a screen.
b. Instruct patient to obtain his or her own specimen.
c. Instruct patient to return later when he or she is more comfortable.
d. Instruct patient to use a CNA for assistance to obtain the specimen.
b. Instruct patient to obtain his or her own specimen.
What health care professional has the responsibility for notifying the health care provider
when laboratory and diagnostic studies deviate from the norm?
a. Laboratory technician
b. Cooperating health care provider
c. Nurse
d. Supervisor
c. Nurse
What is the term for the cleanest part of a voided urine specimen that is collected after
voiding is initiated and before it is finished?
a. Sterile specimen
b. “Caught” specimen
c. Midstream specimen
d. Patient-collected specimen
c. Midstream specimen
The patient is to be catheterized for residual urine. The nurse must perform this
catheterization within how many minutes following voiding?
a. 40 minutes
b. 30 minutes
c. 20 minutes
d. 10 minutes
d. 10 minutes
The process for collecting a blood specimen for measuring blood glucose levels begins by
asking the patient to hold the selected arm at his or her side for 30 seconds. From what
anatomic location is the specimen obtained?
a. Tip of the finger
b. Cubital fossa
c. Side of the finger
d. Center of the thumb
c. Side of the finger
What type of stool specimen must be sent to the laboratory immediately?
a. Occult blood
b. Ova and parasites
c. Infection
d. Fats
b. Ova and parasites
What is the probable source of bright red blood in the stool?
a. Stomach
b. Small intestine
c. Lower gastrointestinal tract
d. Higher intestinal tract
c. Lower gastrointestinal tract
A sputum specimen is ordered on a patient diagnosed with pneumonia. When is the best
time for the nurse to the attempt to collect this specimen?
a. At bedtime
b. After lunch
c. In the early morning
d. After breakfast
c. In the early morning
A patient is unable to obtain a sputum specimen by coughing and expectorating. What is the
best way for the nurse to collect this specimen?
a. Ask the patient to spit.
b. Direct the patient to turn, cough, and breathe deeply.
c. Perform tracheal suctioning.
d. Perform a bronchoscopy.
c. Perform tracheal suctioning.
The nurse is collecting a specimen for a wound culture. What should be avoided when
collecting this specimen?
a. A dressing
b. Deep in the wound
c. The outer edge of the wound
d. Old drainage
d. Old drainage
Anaerobic organisms tend to grow within body cavities. What will the nurse use to collect
an anaerobic specimen?
a. Sterile cotton applicator
b. Sterile culture tube
c. Sterile syringe tip
d. Sterile glass rod
c. Sterile syringe tip
The nurse is obtaining a throat culture. What area will the nurse swab with a cotton-tipped
applicator?
a. Larynx
b. Oral mucosa
c. Pharynx
d. Trachea
c. Pharynx
The nurse explains that electrocardiograms are graphic representations of electric impulses
generated by the heart. What type of abnormalities can an electrocardiogram identify?
a. Those that produce a cardiac cycle
b. Those that interfere with electric conduction
c. Those that result from an interrupted blood flow
d. Those that interfere with heart contractionc. Pharynx
b. Those that interfere with electric conduction