Exam 2 Prep

Question 1

Feeling and exhibiting concern and empathy for others.

Answer 1

caring

Question 2

The ability to accept patient beliefs and attitudes despite the nurses personal feelings about them. Learn to separate personal reactions from the situation.

Answer 2

unconditional positive regard

Question 3

One of Roach’s 6 C’s of caring, the awareness of one’s relationship to others, sharing their joys, sorrows, pain, and accomplishments. Participation in the experience of another.

Answer 3

compassion

Question 4

One of Roach’s 6 C’s of caring, having knowledge, judgment, skills, energy, experience, and motivation to respond adequately to others with in the demands of professional responsibilities.

Answer 4

competence

Question 5

One of Roach’s 6 C’s of caring, the quality that fosters trusting relationships. Comfort with self, client, and family.

Answer 5

confidence

Question 6

One of Roach’s 6 C’s of caring, morals, ethics, and an informed sense of right and wrong. Awareness of personal responsibility. This also is related to accountability.

Answer 6

conscience

Question 7

One of Roach’s 6 C’s of caring, convergence between one’s desires and obligations and the deliberate choice to act in accordance with them.

Answer 7

commitment

Question 8

One of Roach’s 6 C’s of caring, appropriate demeanor, dress, and language, that are in harmony with a caring presence. Presenting oneself as someone who respects others and in turn demands respect.

Answer 8

comportment

Question 9

Being available with the wholeness of one’s being.

Answer 9

presence

Question 10

What are some advantages of establishing presence with a client?

Answer 10

it helps calm anxiety, it allows the nurse to advocate, the nurse can coach the client with reassurance, the client trusts putting their feelings into words and expressing needs.

Question 11

What is the intention for task-oriented type of touch?

Answer 11

competently completing a procedure in a caring manner

Question 12

What is the intention for a comfort or caring touch?

Answer 12

support, interest, unconditional acceptance

Question 13

What is the intention of protective touch?

Answer 13

safety - think of preventing a fall or an immediate risk

Question 14

What is the intention of sexual touch?

Answer 14

arousal or sensual pleasure

Question 15

An approach to care that uses the client’s unique personal preferences and needs to customize their healthcare.

Answer 15

person centered care

Question 16

Name two theorists who support the idea of patient centered care.

Answer 16

Leininger and Watson

Question 17

Your judgment and attitudes about yourself.

Answer 17

self-concept

Question 18

The active process of learning about the components of yourself.

Answer 18

self-awareness

Question 19

What are the 5 levels of Maslow’s hierarchy in order, top to bottom.

Answer 19

self actualization, self-esteem, love and belonging, safety and security, physiological needs

Question 20

The way an individual experiences the world through seeing, hearing, touching, tasting, smelling and/or proprioception.

Answer 20

sensory perception

Question 21

The agent or act that stimulates the nerve receptor.

Answer 21

stimulus

Question 22

A nerve cell that acts by converting the stimulus to a nerve impulse.

Answer 22

receptor

Question 23

The travel of nerve impulse along nerve pathway to spinal cord or directly to the brain.

Answer 23

impulse conduction

Question 24

Awareness and intepretation of stimuli.

Answer 24

perception

Question 25

A deficit in the normal function of sensory reception and perception.

Answer 25

sensory deficits

Question 26

Inadequate quality or quantity of stimulation.

Answer 26

sensory deprivation

Question 27

Reception of multiple sensory stimuli.

Answer 27

sensory overload

Question 28

A loss of center vision.

Answer 28

macular degeneration

Question 29

A loss of peripheral vision.

Answer 29

glaucoma

Question 30

Vision becomes fuzzy.

Answer 30

cataracts

Question 31

A type of hearing impairment where there is a reduced ability of sound conduction.

Answer 31

conductive hearing impairment

Question 32

A type of hearing impairment where there is damage to inner ear or nerve pathway.

Answer 32

sensorineural hearing impairment

Question 33

The loss of ability to interpret language within the brain.

Answer 33

central hearing impairment

Question 34

Any positive and/or negative actions taken by persons that affect their state of well-being and level of function.

Answer 34

health behaviors