TEST BANK for Medical-Surgical Nursing: Concepts for
Clinical Judgment and Collaborative Care
11th Edition by Donna D. Ignatavicius,
All chapters 1 - 74
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,Chapter 01: Overview of Professional Nursing Concepts for Medical-
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1. A nurse wishes to provide client-
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centered care in all interactions. Which action by the nurse best demonstrates this concept?
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a. Assesses for cultural influences affecting health care DM DM DM DM DM DM
b. Ensures that all the clients basic needs are met DM DM DM DM DM DM DM DM
c. Tells the client and family about all upcoming tests
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d. Thoroughly orients the client and family to the room DM DM DM DM DM DM DM DM
CORRECT ANSWER: A DM DM
Competency in client- DM DM
focused care is demonstrated when the nurse focuses on communication, culture, respect compassion, client
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education, and empowerment. By assessing the effect of the clients culture on health care, this nurse is pra
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cticing client- DM
focused care. Providing for basic needs does not demonstrate this competence. Simply telling the client ab
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out all upcoming tests is not providing empowering education. Orienting the client and family to the room is
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M an important safety measure, but not directly related to demonstrating client-centered care.
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DIF: Understanding/Comprehension REF: 3
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KEY: Patient- DM
centered care| culture MSC: Integrated Process: Caring NOT: Client
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Needs Category: Psychosocial Integrity
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2. A nurse is caring for a postoperative client on the surgical unit. The clients blood pressure was 142/76 m
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m Hg 30 minutes ago, and now is 88/50 mm Hg. What action by the nurse is best?
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a. Call the Rapid Response Team.
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b. Document and continue to monitor. DM DM DM DM
c. Notify the primary care provider. DM DM DM DM
d. Repeat blood pressure measurement in 15 minutes. DM DM DM DM DM DM
CORRECT ANSWER: A DM DM
The purpose of the Rapid Response Team (RRT) is to intervene when clients are deteriorating before the
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y suffer either respiratory or cardiac arrest. Since the client has manifested a significant change, the nurse sho
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uld 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
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be notified, but this is not the priority over calling the RRT. The clients blood pressure should be reasses
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,sed frequently, but the priority is getting the rapid care to the client.
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DIF: Applying/Application REF: 3
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KEY: Rapid Response Team (RRT)| medical emergencies MS
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C: Integrated Process: Communication and Documentation
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NOT: Client Needs Category: Physiological Integrity: Physiological Adaptation
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3. A nurse is orienting a new client and family to the inpatient unit. What information does the nurse provide
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to help the client promote his or her own safety?
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a. Encourage the client and family to be active partners. DM DM DM DM DM DM DM DM
b. Have the client monitor hand hygiene in caregivers.
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c. Offer the family the opportunity to stay with the client.
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d. Tell the client to always wear his or her armband.
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CORRECT ANSWER: A DM DM
Each action could be important for the client or family to perform. However, encouraging the client to b
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e active in his or her health care as a partner is the most critical. The other actions are very limited in scope an
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d do not provide the broad protection that being active and involved does.
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DIF: Understanding/Comprehension REF: 3
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KEY: Patient safety
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,MSC: Integrated Process: Teaching/Learning
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NOT: Client Needs Category: Safe and Effective Care Environment: Safety and Infection Control
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4. A new nurse is working with a preceptor on an inpatient medical-
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surgical unit. The preceptor advises the student that which is the priority when working as a profession
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al nurse?
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a. Attending to holistic client needs DM DM DM DM
b. Ensuring client safety DM DM
c. Not making medication errorsDM DM DM
d. Providing client-focused care D M D M
CORRECT ANSWER: B DM DM
All actions are appropriate for the professional nurse. However, ensuring client safety is the priority. Up t
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o 98,000 deaths result each year from errors in hospital care, according to the 2000 Institute of Medicine rep
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ort. Many more clients have suffered injuries and less serious outcomes. Every nurse has the responsibili
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ty to guard the clients safety.
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DIF: Understanding/Comprehension REF: 2
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KEY: Patient safety DM DM
MSC: Integrated Process: Nursing Process: Intervention
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NOT: Client Needs Category: Safe and Effective Care Environment: Safety and Infection Control
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5. A client is going to be admitted for a scheduled surgical procedure. Which action does the nurse explain i
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s the most important thing the client can do to protect against errors?
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a. Bring a list of all medications and what they are for.
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b. Keep the doctors phone number by the telephone.
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c. Make sure all providers wash hands before entering the room.
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d. Write down the name of each caregiver who comes in the room.
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CORRECT ANSWER: A DM DM
Medication errors are the most common type of health care mistake. The Joint Commissions Speak Up c
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ampaign encourages clients to help ensure their safety. One recommendation is for clients to know all their
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medications and why they take them. This will help prevent medication errors.
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DIF: Applying/Application REF: 4
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KEY: Speak Up campaign| patient safety MSC: Integrated Process: Teaching/Learning
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NOT: Client Needs Category: Safe and Effective Care Environment: Safety and Infection Control
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6. Which action by the nurse working with a client best demonstrates respect for autonomy?
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a. Asks if the client has questions before signing a consent
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b. Gives the client accurate information when questioned
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,c. Keeps the promises made to the client and family
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d. Treats the client fairly compared to other clients
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CORRECT ANSWER: A DM DM
Autonomy is self- DM DM
determination. The client should make decisions regarding care. When the nurse obtains a signature on the c
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onsent form, assessing if the client still has questions is vital, because without full information the client
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cannot practice autonomy. Giving accurate information is practicing with veracity.
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Keeping promises is upholding fidelity. Treating the client fairly is providing social justice.
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DIF: Applying/Application REF: 4
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KEY: Autonomy| ethical principles MSC: Integrated Process: Caring
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NOT: Client Needs Category: Safe and Effective Care Environment: Management of Care
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7. A student nurse asks the faculty to explain best practices when communicating with a person from the
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DM lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer/questioning (LGBTQ) community. What answer by the faculty is
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a. Avoid embarrassing the client by asking questions.
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b. Dont make assumptions about their health needs.
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c. Most LGBTQ people do not want to share information.
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,d. No differences exist in communicating with this population.
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Many members of the LGBTQ community have faced discrimination from health care providers and may be re
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luctant to seek health care. The nurse should never make assumptions about the needs of members of this
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population. Rather, respectful questions are appropriate. If approached with sensitivity, the client with an
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y health care need is more likely to answer honestly.
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DIF: Understanding/Comprehension REF: 4
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KEY: LGBTQ| diversity
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MSC: Integrated Process: Teaching/Learning
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NOT: Client Needs Category: Psychosocial Integrity
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8. A nurse is calling the on-
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call physician about a client who had a hysterectomy 2 days ago and has pain that is unrelieved by the pr
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escribed narcotic pain medication. Which statement is part of the SBAR format for communication?
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a. A: I would like you to order a different pain medication.
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b. B: This client has allergies to morphine and codeine.
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c. R: Dr. Smith doesnt like nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory meds.
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d. S: This client had a vaginal hysterectomy 2 days ago.
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SBAR is a recommended form of communication, and the acronym stands for Situation, Background, Asse
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ssment, and Recommendation. Appropriate background information includes allergies to medications the on
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call physician might order. Situation describes what is happening right now that must be communicated; the cl
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ients surgery 2 days ago would be considered background. Assessment would include an analysis of the c
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lients problem; asking for a different pain medication is a recommendation. Recommendation is a stateme
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nt of what is needed or what outcome is desired; this information about the surgeons preference might b
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e better placed in background.
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DIF: Applying/Application REF: 5 KEY
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: SBAR| communication
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MSC: Integrated Process: Communication and Documentation
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NOT: Client Needs Category: Safe and Effective Care Environment: Management of Care
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9. A nurse working on a cardiac unit delegated taking vital signs to an experienced unlicensed assisti
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ve personnel (UAP). Four hours later, the nurse notes the clients blood pressure is much higher than pre
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vious readings, and the clients mental status has changed. What action by the nurse would most like
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ly have prevented this negative outcome?
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a. Determining if the UAP knew how to take blood pressure DM DM DM DM DM DM DM DM DM
, b. Double-checking the UAP by taking another blood pressure DM DM DM DM DM DM DM
c. Providing more appropriate supervision of the UAP
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d. Taking the blood pressure instead of delegating the task
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Supervision is one of the five rights of delegation and includes directing, evaluating, and following up on
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delegated tasks. The nurse should either have asked the UAP about the vital signs or instructed the UAP
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to report them right away. An experienced UAP should know how to take vital signs and the nurse shoul
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d not have to assess this at this point. Double-
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checking the work defeats the purpose of delegation. Vital signs are within the scope of practice for a UAP
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and are permissible to delegate. The only appropriate answer is that the nurse did not provide adequate ins
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truction to the UAP. DM DM DM
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KEY: Supervision| delegation| unlicensed assistive personnel
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MSC: Integrated Process: Communication and Documentatio
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NOT: Client Needs Category: Safe and Effective Care Environment: Management of Care
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10. A nurse is talking with a client who is moving to a new state and needs to find a new doctor and hospita
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l there. What advice by the nurse is best?
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