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Pensacola State College
ESC 201
1)You are in the process of admitting an ethnically diverse client. To plan culturally complement care, you will conduct a cultural assessment that includes:
a. Biocultural history b. Ethnohistory
c. Negotiation
d. Ethnocentrism
2. match the levels of communiation:
a. intrapersonal
b. interpersonal
c. transpersonal
d. small group
e. public
i. one-to-one interaction between two people
ii. occurs within an individual
iii. interaction with an audience
iv. interaction within a person’s spiritual domain
v. interactions with a small number of people
3. Match the elements of communication:
a. Referent
b. Sender and receiver
c. Message
d. Channels
e. Feedback
f. Interpersonal variables
g. Environment
i. One who encodes and one who decodes the message
ii. The setting for sender-receiver interactions
iii. Message the receiver returns
iv. Motivates one to communicate with another
v. Means of conveying and receiving messages
vi. Factors that influence communication
vii. Content of the message
4. Helping relationships serve as the foundation of clinical nursing practice. Contracts for a therapeutic helping relationship are formed during the:
a. Orientation stages
b. Working stage
c. Termination stage
d. Preinteraction stage
5. while admitting a patient, during the initial interview, a family member tells you, “my mom really means that she does not understand her medical diagnosis.”the communication form used by the family member is:
a. focusing
b. clarifying
c. summarizing d. paraphrasing
6. information regarding a patient’s health status may not be released to non-health care team members because:
a. legal and ethical obligations require health care providers to keep information strictly confidential.
b. Regulations require health care institutions to document evidence of physical and emotional well-being
c. Reimbursement issues related to patient care and procedures may be of concern
d. Fragmentation of nursing and medical care procedures may be identified.
7. you are invited to attend the weekly unit patient care conference. The staff discusses patient care issues. This type of communication is:
a. public
b. interpersonal
c. intrapersonal
d. transpersonal
e. small group
8. a nurse has just admitted a patient with a medical diagnosis of congestive heart failure. When completing the admission paper work, the nurse needs to record:
a. an interpretation of patient behavior b. objective data that are observed
c. lengthy entry using lay terminology
d. abbreviations familiar to the nurse
9. a nurse records that the patient stated his abdominal pain is worse now than last night. This is an example of:
a. PIE documentation
b. SOAP documentation c. Narrative charting
d. Charting by exception
10. a patient you are assisting has fallen in the shower. You must complete an incident report. The purpose of an incident report is to :
a. exchange information among health care members
b. provides information about patients from one unit to another unit.
c. Ensure proper care for the patient
d. Aid in the hospitals quality improvement program
11. upon admission, when gathering a patient’s sexual history, nurses should:
a. focus only on physical factors that affect exual functioning
b. discuss sexual concerns only if the patient raises questions or concerns
c. use emotionally laden terms when discussing sexual concepts.
d. Include questions related to sexual function
12. when caring for patients, the nurse must understand the difference between religion and spirituality. Religious care helps individuals
a. maintain their belief systems and worship practices
b. develop a relationship with a higher being
c. establish a cultural connectedness with the purpose of life
d. achieve the balance needed to maintain health and well-being
13. to assess, evaluate and support a patients spirituality, the best action a nurse can take is to:
a. assist the patient to use faith to get well
b. refer the patient to the health care facility chaplain
c. provide the patient with a variety of religious literature d. Determine the patient’s perceptions and belief system.
14. you are caring for a patient who is depressed because the only child has gone away to college. The nurse will assess this type of depression as:
a. actual loss
b. perceived loss
c. situational loss
d. maturational loss
15. as a first year nursing student, you are assigned to care for a dying patient. To best prepare you for this assignment, you will want to:
a. complete a course on death and dying
b. control your emotions about death and dying
c. compare this experience to the death of a family member
d. develop a personal understanding of your own feelings about grief and death
16. you are a nurse working in the college student health center. You receive a call that an athlete has just fallen and has been injured. You know that according to the general adaption syndrome, the athlete will be exhibiting:
a. an increased appetite b. an increased heart rate
c. a decreased in perspiration
d. a decrease in respiratory rate
17. a patient into the emergency department complaining a chest of pain. When discussing possible reasons why the chest pain has occurred, the nurse learns that the patient is depressed because of the loss of a job. This type of crisis can be classified as:
a. maturational b. situational
c. sociocultural
d. posttraumatic
