Review Questions Chapter 2 Flashcards
A patient is struggling with the decision of whether to accept experimental treatment for cancer. The nurse begins to offer information to a patient but the patient says,”I’ve already heard all that before and I don’t agree with any of it.” How should a nurse proceed?
Encourage the patient to discuss his beliefs
Which nursing theory of care describes how the nurses presence in the nurse-patient relationship transcends the physical and material world
Watson s theory of human science and human care
Which statement best describes for new parents how and when children develop first order of beliefs?
From life experiences during the toddler and preschool years
People who go under the knife always die
Stereotype
Nurse tells a colleague that “homeless people are too dumb to understand instructions
Ask the nurse about the patients personal history assessment data
The nurse asks a mother of an 8 year old in the ER for asthma if she has been smoking around him and she responds with yes. What is the next step?
Ask the patients mother what she knows about smoking and asthma
35 year old patient who needs to decide whether to donate a kidney to his brother because he would no longer be able to work in his profession if he ever needed dialysis. What should the nurse respond with?
Guide the patient through a values clarification
Provide factual information
Ask for his permission to contact the kidney donation team about any questions he has
57 year old asked if his family could bring in meat and and vegetables after coming in with high blood pressure. What should be done?
Negotiate home prepared food options
What action is included in swansons 5 processes of caring?
Ask the patient to identify the most important thing that the patient would like to accomplish during the nurse shift
80 year old is scared and confused on the insertion of an NG tube and the nurse does not have that much experience with one. What should be done?
Ask for help from a well practiced nurse
Speak calmly and collectively to the 80 year old lady
