Question 1

The nurse is caring for a patient admitted for the removal of an infected appendix.Which actions by the nurse would indicate an understanding of the 2012 hospital safety goals? (Select all that apply. )

Accepted Answer

The 2012 hospital goals include the following broad categories: Identify patients correctly (Placing an ID band on the right are),improve staff communication,use medicines safely (Check medications three times before administration),prevent infection (Washing hands),identify patient safety risks,and prevent mistakes in surgery (Mark the surgical site with a black-felt pen).Removing allergy bands would prevent identification of that patient's safety risk.

Question 2

The Institute of Medicine (IOM)Report identified several goals for nursing in the United States.The IOM suggested that: (Select all that apply. )

Accepted Answer

The Future of Nursing: Leading Change,Advancing Health (IOM,2011)identified several goals for nursing in the United States: Nurses should practice to the full extent of their education and training;Nurses should achieve higher levels of education and training through an improved education system that promotes seamless academic progression;Nurses should be full partners with physicians and other health care professionals in redesigning health care in the United States;and Effective workforce planning and policy making require better data collection and an improved information infrastructure.

Question 3

The nurse documents that patient laboratory results often take 4 hours to populate into the electronic medical record.The lengthy time frame has contributed to delayed antibiotic administration.From this point,what should the nurse do to produce change using the evidence-based process? (Select all that apply. )

Accepted Answer

The application of EBP includes the following basic components: Assessing the need for change and identifying a problem,linking the problem with interventions and outcomes by formulating a well-built question to search the literature,identifying articles and other evidence-based resources that answer the question,critically appraising the evidence to assess its validity,synthesizing the best evidence,designing a change for practice,implementing and evaluating the change by applying the synthesized evidence,and integrating and maintaining change while monitoring process and outcomes by reevaluating the application of evidence and assessing areas for improvement.By identifying the problem,assessing the need for change and identifying the problem has already been completed.

Question 4

The nurse is conducting a health assessment on a patient from a foreign country.Which of the following should be addressed during the interview? (Select all that apply. )

Accepted Answer

Culture is the integrated patterns of human behavior that include the language,thoughts,communications,actions,customs,beliefs,values,and institutions of racial,ethnic,religious,or social groups.

Question 5

Which statement contributes to the understanding that nursing is considered a profession? (Select all that apply. )

Accepted Answer

A profession is an occupation that requires at a minimum specialized training and a specialized body of knowledge.Nursing meets these minimum requirements.Thus nursing is considered to be a profession.Members of a profession have autonomy in decision making and practice and are self-regulating in that they develop their own policies in collaboration with one another.Nursing professionals make independent decisions within their scope of practice and are responsible for the results and consequences of those decisions.A profession is committed to competence and has a legally recognized license.Members are accountable for continuing their education.The ANA is a professional organization that provides standards (not regulation)of nursing practice.

Quiz 1: Nursing, Theory, and Professional Practice

The nurse is caring for a patient admitted for the removal of an infected appendix.Which actions by the nurse would indicate an understanding of the 2012 hospital safety goals? (Select all that apply. )

The Institute of Medicine (IOM) Report identified several goals for nursing in the United States.The IOM suggested that: (Select all that apply. )

The nurse is conducting a health assessment on a patient from a foreign country.Which of the following should be addressed during the interview? (Select all that apply. )

Which statement contributes to the understanding that nursing is considered a profession? (Select all that apply. )