NURS 125 UNIT 1
Why is the role of teaching clients and families and ensuring their proper education important in
health care? Select all that apply.
Empowers autonomy
Allows client/family to perform self-care
Allows for informed decisions regarding healthcare
Empowers family to make decisions for clients
Allows for evaluation of client's cognition and readiness to be discharged - ANS Empowers
autonomy
Allows client/family to perform self-care
Allows for informed decisions regarding healthcare
When educating a client, which are important factors to consider regarding the client's ability to
learn and retain information? Select all that apply.
Client's literacy level
Desire and motivation
Developmental and physical limitations
Barriers to communication
Culture and religious practices
Family dynamics - ANS Client's literacy level
Desire and motivation
Developmental and physical limitations
Barriers to communication
Culture and religious practices
A nurse has demonstrated the proper cleaning and dressing change techniques for a client's
postoperative wound. The nurse has the client then demonstrate the proper technique and
repeat the instructions on when to change the dressing and why. By allowing the client to
demonstrate learning, which type of educational learning has been practiced?
Cognitive
Psychomotor
Affective
,Practical - ANS Psychomotor
What is the best explanation of teaching?
An interactive process involving planning and implementing instructional activities that meet
intended outcomes as well as activities that allow the learner to learn
A change in behavior, knowledge, skills, or attitudes to reach common goals
A result of motivation to learn that involves planned or spontaneously occurring situations,
events, or exposures
Using teaching, counseling, and behavioral modification together to achieve effective client
learning - ANS An interactive process involving planning and implementing instructional
activities that meet intended outcomes as well as activities that allow the learner to learn
Which description best explains learning?
An interactive process involving planning and implementing instructional activities that meet
intended outcomes as well as activities that allow the learner to learn
A change in behavior, knowledge, skills, or attitudes to reach common goals
A result of motivation to learn that involves planned or spontaneously occurring situations,
events, or exposures
Using teaching, counseling, and behavioral modification together to achieve effective client
learning - ANS A change in behavior, knowledge, skills, or attitudes to reach common goals
A client has just been shown when and how to self-administer epinephrine (EpiPen). How can
the nurse ensure the client fully understands and can self-inject it when needed?
The client can verbally explain why it is important as well as demonstrate the proper use of the
EpiPen
The client verbally explains how to administer epinephrine by pointing to areas of the body that
are injection sites
The client demonstrates the movements of self-injection
The client repeats the importance of why epinephrine is to be used in an allergic reaction - ANS
The client can verbally explain why it is important as well as demonstrate the proper use of the
EpiPen
What is the benefit of having a client learn in the psychomotor learning domain?
Clients are able to analyze information to create ways to meet their own healthcare needs
Clients tend to value what they have learned and understand and implement skills and changes,
thus experiencing both affective and cognitive learning
Clients have a sense of accomplishment, which builds autonomy
Clients can remember more factual information - ANS Clients tend to value what they have
learned and understand and implement skills and changes, thus experiencing both affective and
cognitive learning
,A client recovering from a traumatic brain injury (TBI) with short-term posttraumatic amnesia and
impaired mobility is preparing for discharge. Considering the nature of this client's injury, how
should the nurse proceed with discharge education on using a walker and signs of
disorientation, confusion, chronic pain, and ataxia? Select all that apply.
Provide teaching in brief, frequent learning sessions
Present information slowly
Use repetition
Be satisfied with slower progress
Omit certain components the may be extraneous - ANS Provide teaching in brief, frequent
learning sessions
Present information slowly
Use repetition
Be satisfied with slower progress
The student nurse is teaching a client with heart failure about healthy food options. When asked
to choose between a hamburger and baked chicken, the client states that eating baked chicken
is better than eating a hamburger. In this situation, which element represents the feedback?
The client stating that eating baked chicken is better than eating a hamburger
The student nurse listing the food options for the client
The student nurse asking the client to choose between options
The client observing and listening to options - ANS The client stating that eating baked chicken
is better than eating a hamburger
A 3-year-old is going to have a myringotomy with tubes on the left ear. Which teaching strategy
is most appropriate for this developmental stage?
Developing a teaching module in which the child can determine what will happen next
Using play and placing a bandage on a doll's ear
Encouraging the child to vocalize what he or she has learned
Discussing with the child that will happen and describing each step and who will be involved -
ANS Using play and placing a bandage on a doll's ear
Which factors impact inaccuracies with dosage calculations in medication administration? Select
all that apply.
Conversions are sometimes required.
Not all measurements fall within the standard systems of measure.
Multiple measurement systems are sometimes involved.
Medications prescribed are a different dose from what is available.
Errors are not reported. - ANS Conversions are sometimes required.
, Not all measurements fall within the standard systems of measure.
Multiple measurement systems are sometimes involved
Medications prescribed are a different dose from what is available.
The physician has prescribed furosemide, 10 mg PO daily. The pharmacy has furosemide, 20
mg tablet available. How many tablets should the nurse administer daily?
10 tabs
0.5 tab
2 tabs
1 tab - ANS 0.5 tab
The physician has prescribed methylprednisolone, 60 mg IV bid. The pharmacy has
methylprednisolone, 40 mg/mL available. How many milliliters should the nurse administer?
1.5 mL
1 mL
0.67 mL
0.33 mL - ANS 1.5 mL
The physician has prescribed morphine sulfate, 12 mg IV q2h, prn for pain. The pharmacy has
morphine sulfate, 5 mg/mL available. How many milliliters should the nurse administer?
0.42 mL
2.4 mL
0.84 mL
1.2 mL - ANS 2.4 mL
The physician has prescribed acetaminophen, ½ teaspoon. The pharmacy has acetaminophen,
160 mg/5 mL available. How many milliliters should the nurse administer if 1 teaspoon = 5 mL?
1 mL
2.5 mL
0.5 mL
5 mL - ANS 2.5 mL
Martha recently graduated nursing school, passed the NCLEX, and started working at a local
hospital. After receiving a hand-off report for a group of clients, she is preparing for the day. As
she looks over the medication record, Martha begins to consider the dosage calculations she
will need to make for the safe delivery of medications.
At 0830 she begins to prepare for the delivery of morning medications. Her first client, Donovan
Matthews has a history of peptic ulcer disease, diabetes, and hypertension. The first medication