Test Bank for Medical Surgical Nursing 7th Edition by Linton (2)

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1. What provides direction for individualized care and assures the delivery of accurate, safe care through a definitive pathway that promotes the client’s and the support persons’ progress towar... d positive outcomes? 2. The nurse is performing behaviors and actions that assist clients and significant others in meeting their needs and the identified outcomes of the plan of care. What is the correct term for these nursing behaviors? 3. The nurse understands the importance of being answerable for all actions and the possibility of being called on to explain or justify them. What term best describes this concept? 1. The nurse manager is providing an inservice about conflict resolution. What modes of conflict resolution should be addressed? (Select all that apply.) 2. What are the characteristics of an effective leader? (Select all that apply.) 1. _________ is defined as the process by which information is exchanged between individuals verbally, nonverbally, and/or in writing or through information technology. 2. _________ is the collection and processing of relevant data for the purpose of appraising the client’s health status. 3. _________ is concerned with the ethical questions that arise in the context of health care. 4. Place the corresponding letter to each stage of conflict in the correct order. _________ (Place the events in the appropriate sequence with capital letters. Do not separate answers with a space or punctuation. Example: ABCD.) 5. Place the corresponding letter to each key step in solving an ethical dilemma in the correct order. _________ (Place the events in the appropriate sequence. Do not separate answers with a space or punctuation. Example: ABCD.) 1. While a home health nurse is making the entry to a service assessment on a homebound patient, the spouse of the patient asks whether Medicare will cover the patient’s ventilator therapy and insulin injections. What is the best response by the nurse? 2. The wife of a patient asks the nurse whether her husband would be considered for placement in a skilled nursing care facility when he is discharged from the general hospital. The patient is incontinent, has mild dementia but is able to ambulate with a walker, and must have help to eat and dress himself. What is the nurse’s most appropriate response? [Show More]

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