Nursing Process
The first practicing nurse epidemiologist
Who is Florence Nightingale
The nurse is applying for a position with a home care organization that specializes in spinal cord injury. In doing so, the nurse is applying for a position in _____care.
Restorative - This is designed to help the patient reach optimal recovery from disease or injury
According to the Office of Minority Health (OMH), the thoughts, communications, actions, customs, beliefs, values, and institutions of racial, ethnic, religious, or social groups are known as
Culture
Intimacy vs Isolation is part of who's psychosocial theory of development?
Erik Erikson
Normal physical findings of the head in a healthy newborn include
Triangle-shaped anterior fontanels
What are the five steps of the nursing process
The setting of health care services that includes blood pressure and cancer screening is _____ care.
Preventative Care - includes screenings, immunizations, information, counseling etc.
Care that includes the nurse learning about cultural issues involved in the patients health care belief system and enable patients and families to achieve meaningful and supportive care is known as
Culturally Competent Care
Who developed the post conventional level of reasoning?
Kohlberg
Encouraging children to play a game of kickball would be best suited for which age group?
A nurse is assisting a patient with exercises in a physical therapy program after surgery. What part of the nursing process is she practicing?
Implementation
What are the dimensions of wellness? (8)
Physical, emotional, intellectual, interpersonal, cultural, spiritual, environmental, and financial
In performing a cultural assessment, knowledge of a patients country of origin and its history and ecological contexts is known as
Ethnohistory
According to Piagets theory of cognitive development, the nurse should allow a hospitalized 4-year-old patient to safely play with?
Blood Pressure Cuff
A nurse establishes that a young girl who lives in a bad neighborhood is not able to receive the proper care that she needs because which of her basic needs are in jeopardy?
Safety needs
A nurse is working with a patient to determine what goals the patient would like to accomplish prior to being discharged. What part of the nursing process is being discussed?
Planning
A long term assisted living or adult daycare would be considered what type of care
Continuing care
When asked to describe the differences between ethnicity and race, what should the student nurse explain?
Ethnicity referes to a shared identity and race is limited to biological attributes
What is the 4th stage of Freud's five stage psychosexual theory of development?
Latency
According to Benner's, as a graduated nurse, you have moved from the stage of novice to?
Advanced Beginner
What is the Nemonic used to remember the nursing process?
ADPIE
Care designed to prevent further progression of a disease is termed
Tertiary Prevention - care that prevents progression of a disease.
When caring for a Hindu patient who is dying, what would a nurse expect to see from the family?
Place a drop of holy water on the patient's lips
Jean Piagets cognitive developmental theory focuses on four stages of development, including
Sensorimotor, pre-operational, concrete operation, and formal operations
The developmental self-concept task known as initiative versus guilt would occur in which age group
Pre-School