TEST BANK FOR MEDICAL SURGICAL
NURSING:CONCEPTS FOR CLINICAL JUDGEMENT AND
COLLABORATIVE CARE 11TH EDITION IGNATAVICIUS
TEST BANK
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Chapter 01: Overview of Professional Nursing Concepts for Medical-Surgical Nursing MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. A nurse wishes to provide client-centered care in all interactions. Which action
by the nurse bestdemonstrates this concept?
a. Assesses for cultural influences affecting health care
b. Ensures that all the clients basic needs are met
c. Tells the client and family about all upcoming tests
d. Thoroughly orients the client and family to the room
ANS: A
Competency in client-focused care is demonstrated when the nurse focuses on communication,
culture, respect compassion, client education, and empowerment. By assessing the effect of the
clients culture on health care, this nurse is practicing client- focused care. Providing for basic needs
does not demonstrate this competence. Simply telling the client about all upcoming tests is not
providing empowering education.
Orienting the client and family to the room is an important safety measure, but not directly related
to demonstrating client-centered care.
2. A nurse is caring for a postoperative client on the surgical unit. The clients blood pressure was
142/76 mm Hg 30 minutes ago, and now is 88/50 mm Hg. What action by the nurse is best?
a. Call the Rapid Response Team.
b. Document and continue to monitor.
c. Notify the primary care provider.
d. Repeat blood pressure measurement in 15 minutes.
ANS: A
The purpose of the Rapid Response Team (RRT) is to intervene when clients are deteriorating
before they suffer either respiratory or cardiac arrest. Since the client has manifested a significant
change, the nurse should call the RRT. Changes in blood pressure, mental status, heart rate, and
pain are particularly significant.
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Documentation is vital, but the nurse must do more than document. The primary care provider
should be notified, but this is not the priority over calling the RRT. The clients blood pressure
should be reassessed frequently, but the priority is getting the rapid care to the client.
DIF: Applying/Application REF: 3
KEY: Rapid Response Team (RRT)| medical emergencies MSC:
Integrated Process:
Communication and Documentation
NOT: Client Needs Category: Physiological Integrity: Physiological Adaptation
3. A nurse is orienting a new client and family to the inpatient unit. What information does the
nurse provide to help the client promote his or her own safety?
a. Encourage the client and family to be active partners.
b. Have the client monitor hand hygiene in caregivers.
c. Offer the family the opportunity to stay with the client.
d. Tell the client to always wear his or her armband.
ANS: A
Each action could be important for the client or family to perform. However, encouraging the
client to be active in his or her health care as a partner is the most critical. The other actions are
very limited in scope and do not provide the broad protection that being active and involved
does.
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MSC: Integrated Process: Teaching/Learning
NOT: Client Needs Category: Safe and Effective Care Environment: Safety and Infection Control
4. A client is going to be admitted for a scheduled surgical procedure. Which action does the
nurse explain is the most important thing the client can do to protect against errors?
a. Bring a list of all medications and what they are for.
b. Keep the doctors phone number by the telephone.
c. Make sure all providers wash hands before entering the room.
d. Write down the name of each caregiver who comes in the room.
ANS: A
Medication errors are the most common type of health care mistake. The Joint Commissions Speak
Up campaign encourages clients to help ensure their safety. One recommendation is for clients to know
all their medications and why they take them.
This will help prevent medication errors. DIF:
Applying/Application REF: 4
KEY: Speak Up campaign| patient safety MSC: Integrated Process: Teaching/Learning NOT: Client
Needs Category: Safe and Effective Care Environment: Safety and Infection Control
5. A new nurse is working with a preceptor on an inpatient medical-surgical unit. The preceptor
advises the student that which is the priority when working as a professional nurse?
a. Attending to holistic client needs
b. Ensuring client safety
c. Not making medication errors
d. Providing client-focused care
ANS: B
All actions are appropriate for the professional nurse. However, ensuring client safety is the
priority. Up to98,000 deaths result each year from errors in hospital care, according to the 2000
Institute of Medicine report. Many more clients have suffered injuries and less serious outcomes.
Every nurse has the responsibility to guard the clients safety.
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