Nursing Interventions & Clinical Skills 6th Edition by Anne Griffin Perry -Test Bank

Nursing Interventions & Clinical Skills 6th Edition by Anne Griffin Perry -Test Bank

Chapter 03: Documentation and Informatics

Perry et al.: Nursing Interventions & Clinical Skills, 6th Edition

MULTIPLE CHOICE

1. The nurse discovers a medication error on another nurse’s documentation, so the nurse completes an incident report. Which statement should the nurse include in the report?

ANS: C

Stating that the patient received morphine 10 mg instead of 5 mg is a factual statement to include on an incident report because it is objective and provides no interpretation or conjecture from the nurse. The remaining choices are incorrect statements that do not accurately reflect what occurred. The physician needs to be notified as soon as the patient has been assessed, not the following day.

DIF: Cognitive Level: ApplyREF: Page 42

OBJ: NCLEX: Safe and Effective Care TOP: Nursing Process: Implementation

2. The nurse is documenting the care of a patient. Which entry would be characteristic of charting by exception (CBE) as a documentation method?

ANS: A

CBE allows the nurse to specify exceptions to normal nursing assessments efficiently without documenting the normal assessment data and reducing the amount of narrative writing inpatient documentation. The emphasis is on recording abnormal findings and trends in clinical care. It is a shorthand method for documenting based on defined standards for normal nursing assessments and interventions. CBE simply involves completing a flow sheet that incorporates these standards, thus minimizing the need for lengthy narrative notes. Increasing pain would not be expected and would be outside the “normal” or “expected.”

DIF: Cognitive Level: UnderstandREF: Page 39 | Page 41

OBJ: NCLEX: Safe and Effective Care TOP: Nursing Process: Assessment

3. The nurse is documenting a patient with a respiratory problem. Which patient datum documented by the nurse is the least objective?

ANS: B

Low flow rate oxygen is the least objective datum and the datum most subject to interpretation because the quantity of oxygen is not as precise as “liters/minute” or the “percentage” of oxygen. The remaining options provide more verifiable data.

DIF: Cognitive Level: UnderstandREF: Page 40

OBJ: NCLEX: Safe and Effective Care TOP: Nursing Process: Assessment

4. The nurse runs into a co-worker whose family friend is a patient on the unit. The co-worker asks about the friend’s health problems. Which is the correct response by the nurse?

ANS: C

The nurse can’t talk about the co-worker’s friend or acknowledge the friend’s presence in the facility without breaching the friend’s right to privacy, so the nurse reminds the co-worker about confidentiality.

DIF: Cognitive Level: ApplyREF: Page 36

OBJ: NCLEX: Safe and Effective Care TOP: Nursing Process: Planning

5. The nurse is providing home care for a patient with an infection that is not improving. The patient refuses to see an infectious disease specialist. What should the nurse include in the documentation of the patient teaching provided?

ANS: A

The nurse documents the discussion about the consequences of refusing to see a specialist and the patient’s response. Documenting the factual information presented about the risks of refusing treatment and the patient’s specific response to it (continued refusal to seek a specialist) are key pieces of information to include. The nurse should neither try to scare the patient into seeing the specialist nor provide false hope that only one consultation will be required. As long as the patient is competent to make a decision, the nurse must accept his or her choice. It is a requirement to document the facts surrounding that choice.

DIF: Cognitive Level: ApplyREF: Page 37

OBJ: NCLEX: Safe and Effective Care TOP: Nursing Process: Assessment

6. The nurse documents patient care using the SOAP format. Which should the nurse record under the “P” section?

ANS: D

“P” in the SOAP format stands for “plan.” Checking the response to pain medication is recorded at “P” because the plan is a future strategy for nursing care and the nurse chooses nursing interventions to accomplish the plan. Patient statements are subjective data recorded at “S.” The serum glucose and the wound description are objective data, or facts, recorded at “O.”

DIF: Cognitive Level: ComprehensionREF: Page 40

OBJ: NCLEX: Safe and Effective Care TOP: Nursing Process: Planning