This image of nursing depicts nurses as mean-spirited people who inflict painful procedures to control or punish their patients
What is the battle-axe?
100
This ability refers to the healthcare professional's ability to provide sensitive and appropriate care to patients from diverse backgrounds.
What is cultural competence?
100
This nursing diagnosis may apply if illness or hospitalization interfere with the practice of the patient's religion.
What is impaired religiosity?
100
Rules and regulations governing nursing practice that are enacted by the state board of nursing.
What is the Nurse Practice Act?
100
Well-baby checkups, cholesterol screening, and routine office visits examples of this type of care.
What is primary care?
200
A group that has a specific knowledge base, is held to a standard by peers, has a service orientation and a code of ethics, and practices with autonomy, responsibility, and accountability.
What is a profession?
200
The multicultural population of America, patient diversity, and the influence of culture on health beliefs and health behaviors.
What are the reasons nurses need to learn about culture?
200
Identifying the client's religion, and asking them about their community of worship, religious dietary restrictions are part of this.
What is assessment of spirituality?
200
A nurse can be accused of this when he or she performs a procedure on a patient without consent.
What is battery?
200
These facilities offer care for patients who no longer need hospitalization in an acute care facility, but are not ready for discharge.
What are extended care facilities?
300
If a nurse initiates a quality improvement project on his unit, he is said to be acting in this role.
What is a "change agent"?
300
Language barriers, ethnocentrism, lack of awareness of one's own culture, prejudice, racism, and stereotyping are examples of this.
What are barriers to culturally sensitive care?
300
This nursing diagnosis would address the spiritual needs of a patient with terminal cancer who requests to see a pastor or priest (more than one answer can be correct)
What is spiritual distress, readiness for enhanced spirituality, or at risk for spiritual distress.
300
One example of this quasi-intentional tort could occur when an unflattering and untrue statement about a patient is documented in the medical record.
What is libel?
300
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Wills Eye Hospital, Princeton House Behavioral Center, and Fox Chase Cancer Center are examples of this type of healthcare setting.
What are specialty hospitals?
400
This organization promotes the profession of nursing, sets standards of care for all nurses, defines the code of ethics for nurses, and lobbies for health policy.
What is the American Nurses Association or ANA?
400
A patient of Latino heritage reports giving her 2 month old infant chamomile tea for colic, which is an example of this.
What is a folk remedy or indigenous healthcare?
400
A special manner of dress with spiritual significance, the use of prayer beads, or ceremonial washing are examples of this.
What are religious customs?
400
Competent practice, careful documentation, communicating effectively, and adherence to your institution's policies are examples of this.
What are ways to avoid malpractice?
400
This level of healthcare is a costlier way to provide care and occurs after a patient has become ill.
What is secondary healthcare?
500
A nurse can help accomplish this goal if she joins a professional organization, behaves professionally, and educates the public about what nurses do.
What is advance the professional image of nursing?
500
Certain populations, such as the homeless, the elderly, the developmentally disabled, and ethnic/racial minorities, may have poor outcomes because of this.
What is decreased access to care?
500
Spiritual communication directed toward a higher power.
What is prayer?
500
A nurse who leaves an assigned patient without finding a replacement is guilty of this violation of the nurse practice act.
What is patient abandonment?
500
There is growing emphasis on strengthening healthcare structures in this setting, which may also indicate job growth for nurses.