Core values of nursing

Question 1

Multiple Choice(1-10 items)
1. Taz, a senior nurse knows that the principles or standards that influence behavior and decision making which
are based on experience, religion, education and culture is called:
a. morals
b. ethics
c. values
d. standards of practice

Answer 1

C. Values

Question 2

2. The administration of a community hospital is trying to encourage a more collaborative environment among its staff members. Which idea is the priority for the administration to develop first?
   a. Post educational posters about how well collaboration is being performed
   b. Arrange meetings every now and then for each department on how their role affects patients
   c. Put emphasis that no single profession can meet the needs of all patients
   d. Start by implementing evaluations of collaborative skills on yearly performance reviews

Answer 2

C. Put emphasis that no single profession can meet the needs of all patients.

Question 3

3. Which of the following scenarios describes the best example of collaboration among health professionals?
   a. The pediatrician, respiratory therapist, and the nurse have all visited separately the patient.
   b. The pediatrician, respiratory therapist, and the nurse have all developed separate care plans for the patient.
   c. The nurse mentions to the respiratory therapist that the patient may benefit from a pulmonary function test.
   d. The nurse and respiratory therapist discuss the patient’s pulmonary function testresults and initiate a referral for respiratory treatment therapy

Answer 3

D. The nurse and respiratory therapist discuss the patient’s pulmonary fumction test results and initiate a referral for respiratory treatment therapy.

Question 4

4. Jessa, a newly hired nurse is assigned to an experienced nurse for training onOB ward unit of ABC hospital. What type of nurse-to-nurse collaboration does this assignment exhibit?
   a. Interprofessional collaboration
   b. Shared governance collaboration
   c. Mentoring collaboration
   d. Interorganizational collaboration

Answer 4

C. Mentoring collaboration

Question 5

5. Which of the following statements would best explain the role of the nurse when planning care for patients with different cultures? The nurse will plan a care to:
   a. Include plan of care that is culturally coinciding with the staff from predetermined criteria.
   b. Provide care to the client while aware of one’s own bias, focusing on the client’s needs rather than the staff’s practices.
   c. Focus on the demands of the patient, ignoring the nurse’s practices and beliefs.
   d. Combine the values of the nurse that would only benefit the client and minimize the client’s individual values and beliefs during care.

Answer 5

B. provide care to the client while aware of one’s own bias, focusing on the client’s needs rather than the staff’s practices.

Question 6

6. What should be the nurse appropriate action when planning a care for a patient with diverse cultural
   background? The nurse should:
   a. Allow the family to provide care to their sick loved one during the hospital stay so no rituals or customs are broken.
   b. Determine how these cultural variables affect the client’s health problem.
   c. Always speak slowly and show images to make sure the client always understands.
   d. Explain how the client must adjust to the hospital routines to be effectively cared for by healthcare workers
   while in the hospital

Answer 6

B. Determine how these sultural variables affect the client’s health problems.

Question 7

7. Melissa, a senior nurse is providing instructions to a Japanese-American pregnant client about the frequency and dosages of the take home medicines. When providing the health teaching, the client continuously turns away from Melissa. She should do which of the following appropriate action?
   a. Go around the client so that she can always face the client.
   b. Call the client by speaking loudly.
   c. Continue with the instructions and then confirm if the client understands.
   d. Give a written instruction and discuss only what the client doesn’t understand

Answer 7

C. continue with the instructions and then confirm if the client understands.

Question 8

8. Fredrick is a nurse caring for a Native American pregnant client who experiences emotional distress due to a work-related problem. In anticipating pharmacological treatment for the client, the nurse understands that they would most likely:
   a. Establish rapport first before accepting the treatment.
   b. Utilize with the use of herbal medicines with healing properties.
   c. Call a priest to ask for the religious preference of the treatment.
   d. Manage the emotional distress on their own to avoid disgrace their reputation.

Answer 8

B. Utilize with the use of herbal medicines with healing properties.

Question 9

9. Molly, a nurse assigned in the medical-surgical ward is preparing a care plan for a client who is a Jehovah’s
   Witness. The client has been told that the surgery is necessary. Molly considers the client’s religious preferences
   in making the care plan and documents that:
   a. Alternative medicines like herbal medicines can be advised.
   b. Surgery is strongly not allowed.
   c. Blood products can not be administered.
   d. Giving any medication is not allowed.

Answer 9

C. Blood products can not be administered.

Question 10

10. A Filipino-American registered nurse tries to speak with a Indonesian pregnant client who cannot understand the English language. To effectively communicate to a client with a different language, which of the following should the nurse implement?
    A. Have an interpreter to translate.
    B. Speak very slow.
    C. Speak loudly and closely to the client.
    D. Speak to the client and family together.

Answer 10

A. Have an interpreter to translate