Test Bank For Focus on Adult Health Medical-Surgical Nursing Psc Edition by Linda
| 1. | The school nurse is presenting a health promotion class to a group of high school students. How does the nurse define health? | |
| A) | Health is being disease free. | |
| B) | Health is having fulfilling relationships. | |
| C) | Health is having a clean drinking source and nutritious food. | |
| D) | Health is being connected in body, mind, and spirit. | |
| 2. | The home health nurse is assisting a patient and his family in planning the patient’s return to work after an extensive illness. On which level of Maslow’s hierarchy of basic needs does the patient’s need for self-fulfillment fit? | |
| A) | Physiologic | |
| B) | Safety and security | |
| C) | Love and belonging | |
| D) | Self-actualization | |
| 3. | A nurse on a medical-surgical unit has asked to represent her unit on the hospital’s Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) committee. In researching CQI programs, the nurse should understand that they have what characteristic? | |
| A) | CQI programs establish accountability on the part of health care professionals. | |
| B) | CQI programs focus on the process used to provide care. | |
| C) | CQI programs identify incidents rather than processes. | |
| D) | CQI programs justify health care costs. | |
| 4. | Economics have dictated many significant changes in the health care delivery system. What is one major effect that economic factors have had on the patient population? | |
| A) | Patients are in the hospital for a longer period of time. | |
| B) | Patients have access to greater technology at lower costs. | |
| C) | Patients with high home-care needs are being discharged into the community. | |
| D) | Patient use of ambulatory care has decreased. | |
| 5. | Staff nurses in an ICU setting have noticed that their patients required fewer interventions for pain when the ICU was quiet. They passed their observations on to a nurse researcher and asked the researcher to design a study about the effects of noise on the pain levels of hospitalized patients. How does this demonstrate the primary purpose of nursing research? | |
| A) | Nursing research involves patients and their care while hospitalized. | |
| B) | Nursing research contributes to the scientific base of nursing practice. | |
| C) | Nursing research draws conclusions about the quality of patient care. | |
| D) | Nursing research explains ongoing medical studies to patients. | |
