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NR 222 EXAM 1 STUDY GUIDENR 222
PCNR 222 EXAM 1 STUDY GUIDE
,Which nursing interventions are appropriate to include in a plan of care to promote sleep for patients
who are hospitalized? (Select all that apply.)
1. Give patients a cup of coffee 1 hour before bedtime.
2. Plan vital signs to be taken before the patients are asleep.
3. Turn television on 15 minutes before bedtime.
4. Have patients follow at-home bedtime schedule.
5. Close the door to patients' rooms at bedtime. - correct answer ✔✔2. Plan vital signs to be taken
before the patients are asleep.
4. Have patients follow at-home bedtime schedule.
5. Close the door to patients' rooms at bedtime.
Professional Roles & Responsibility of Nurses
Autonomy & Give example - correct answer ✔✔in nursing, it involves the initiation of independent
nursing interventions WITHOUT medical orders
EX: Independently advise pt to cough & suggest deep breathing exercises to clear lungs of pt
Professional Roles & Responsibility of Nurses
Accountability - correct answer ✔✔Responsibility professionally & legally for the type & quality of
nursing care provided. Must remain current & competent in nursing scientific knowledge & technical
skills
Professional Roles & Responsibility of Nurses
Caregiver - correct answer ✔✔help pts maintain & regain health, manage disease & symptoms, and
attain a maximal level of function & independence through the healing process
Professional Roles & Responsibility of Nurses
Advocate - correct answer ✔✔Protect pts human & legal rights & provide assistance in asserting those
rights if needed.
Act on behalf of pt, such as safeguarding their case against errors, suggesting alternative care, securing
pt healthcare rights and facilitating personal & cultural preferences.
Professional Roles & Responsibility of Nurses
,Manager - correct answer ✔✔Nurse managers direct groups of nurses by establishing an environment
for collaborative patient-centered care and safe, evidence-based quality care with positive patient
outcomes.
-manager coordinates the activities of members of a nursing staff in delivering nursing care and has
personnel, policy, and budgetary responsibility for a specific nursing unit or agency
-uses appropriate leadership styles to create a nursing environment for patients and staff that reflects
the mission and values of the health care organization
Professional Roles & Responsibility of Nurses
Communicator - correct answer ✔✔Communicating allows you to know your patients, including their
preferences, strengths, weaknesses, and needs.
- routinely communicate with patients and families, other nurses and health care professionals, resource
people, and the community.
-Effective communication strategies are fundamental to providing high-quality care, coordinating and
managing patient care, assisting patients in rehabilitation, advocating for patients, assisting patients and
families in decision-making, providing patient education
Professional Roles & Responsibility of Nurses
Educator - correct answer ✔✔-Your ability to teach effectively improves patients' knowledge, skills, self-
care activities, and ability to make informed decisions.
-As an educator, you identify patients' willingness and ability to learn, explain concepts and facts about
their health, describe the reason for care activities, demonstrate procedures such as self-care activities,
reinforce learning or patient behavior, and evaluate the patient's progress in learning.
What are the Professional Roles & Responsibility of Nurses - correct answer ✔✔Autonomy,
Accountability, Advocate, Educator, Communicator, Manager, Caregiver
A nurse is caring for a patient with end-stage lung disease. The patient wants to go home on oxygen and
be comfortable. The family wants the patient to have a new surgical procedure. The nurse explains the
risk and benefits of the operation to the family and discusses the patient's wishes with them. The nurse
is acting as the patient's:
1. Educator
2. Advocate
3. Caregiver
, 4. Communicator - correct answer ✔✔Advocate
Contemporary nursing requires that the nurse have knowledge and skills for a variety of professional
roles and responsibilities. Which of the following are examples of these roles and responsibilities? (Select
all that apply.)
1. Caregiver
2. Autonomy
3. Patient advocate
4. Health promotion
5. Genetic counselor - correct answer ✔✔Caregiver
Autonomy
Patient Advocate
Health promotion
The nurse spends time with a patient and family reviewing a dressing change procedure for the patient's
wound. The patient's spouse demonstrates how to change the dressing. The nurse is acting in which
professional role?
1. Educator
2. Advocate
3. Caregiver
4. Communicator - correct answer ✔✔Educator
You are preparing a presentation for your classmates regarding the clinical care coordination conference
for a patient with terminal cancer. As part of the preparation, you have your classmates read the Nursing
Code of Ethics for Professional Registered Nurses. Your instructor asks the class why this document is
important. Which statement best describes this code?
1. Improves self-health care
2. Protects the patient's confidentiality
3. Ensures identical care to all patients
4. Defines the principles of right and wrong to provide patient care - correct answer ✔✔Defines the
principles of right and wrong to provide patient care
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