NURS2725 - Clinical Integration II
Textbook Questions
Which of the following rights is the most recent right to be added to the
list of rights of medication administration?
1. Right to refuse
2. Right route
3. Right medication
4. Right patient - ANS right to refuse
The nurse is having difficulty reading a physician's order for a medication.
She knows the physician is very busy and does not like to be called. What
does the nurse do?
1. Call a pharmacist to interpret the order.
2. Call the physician to have the order clarified.
3. Consult the unit manager to help interpret the order.
4. Ask the unit secretary to interpret the physician's handwriting. - ANS call the physician to
have the order clarified
A patient has a gastrointestinal alteration. Which method of medication
administration should not be used?
1. Fails to follow routine procedures
2. Is responsible for administering numerous medications
3. Is caring for too many patients
4. Is administering unfamiliar medications - ANS fails to follow routine procedures
A patient is to receive cephalexin (Keflex) 500 mg PO. The pharmacy has
sent 250 mg tablets. How many tablets should the nurse give?
1. 0.5 tablet
2. 1 tablet
,3. 1.5 tablets
4. 2 tablets - ANS 2 tablets
A medication injection into the loose connective tissue under the dermis is
known as what kind of injection?
1. An intramuscular injection
2. An intravenous injection
3. A subcutaneous injection
4. An intradermal injection - ANS a subcutaneous injection
Nurses are responsible for following legal provisions when administering
controlled substances or narcotics. What may be the result of a nurse's
failure to comply?
1. Fines, imprisonment, and loss of nurse licensure
2. Loss of employment
3. Medication errors
4. Poor health outcomes resulting from narcotic use - ANS fines, imprisonment, and loss of
nurse licensure
Pharmacokinetics is the study of how medications:
1. Are derived from plants
2. Enter the body, reach their site of action, are metabolized, and exit the
body
3. Are used for certain disease processes
4. Are manufactured and distributed to pharmaceutical companies - ANS enter the body, reach
their site of action, are metabolized, exit the body
Which of the following is an official publication that sets standards for
medication strength, quality, purity, packaging, safety, labelling, and dose
form?
1. Physicians Reference Guide
2. Nurse's Drug Guide
3. Narcotic Control Act
4. The Canadian Formulary (CF) - ANS The Canadian Formulary
Who is responsible for the administration of the Food and Drugs Act and
the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act?
1. Health Protection Branch (HPB)
2. Nurse or physician dispensing and prescribing medications
, 3. Canadian Formulary
4. Health care institutions - ANS Health Protection Branch
The nurse completes a nursing health history with her client. In order to
avoid incorrect inferences and ensure that the data are accurate, the
nurse's next step is to:
1. Analyze and interpret the data
2. Document the data
3. Validate data with the client
4. Share the data with other health care providers - ANS validate data with the client
During data clustering, a nurse:
1. Provides documentation of nursing care
2. Reviews data with other health care providers
3. Makes inferences about patterns of information
4. Organizes cues into patterns that enable the nurse to identify nursing
diagnoses - ANS Organizes cues into patterns that enable the nurse to identify nursing
diagnoses
A nursing diagnosis is:
1. The diagnosis and treatment of human responses to health and illness
2. The advancement of the development, testing, and refinement of a
common nursing language
3. A clinical judgement about individual, family, or community responses
to actual and potential health problems or life processes
4. The identification of a disease condition on the basis of a specific
evaluation of physical signs, symptoms, the client's medical history, and
the results of diagnostic tests - ANS a clinical judgement about individual family or community
response
One of the purposes of the use of standard formal nursing diagnostic
statements is to:
1. Evaluate nursing care
2. Gather information on client data
3. Help nurses to focus on the role of nursing in client care
4. Facilitate understanding of client problems among health care providers - ANS facilitate
understanding of client problems among health care providers
The nursing diagnosis readiness for enhanced communication is an example of:
1. A risk nursing diagnosis
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