Intro Quizzes Test 2
The nurse enters the room of an 82-year-old patient for whom she has not cared previously. The nurse notices that the patient wears a hearing aid. The patient looks up as the nurse approaches th
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Intro Quizzes Test 2
The nurse enters the room of an 82-year-old patient for whom she has not cared previously. The nurse notices that the patient wears a hearing aid. The patient looks up as the nurse approaches the bedside. Which of the following approaches are likely to be effective with an older adult? (Select all that apply.)
Listen attentively to the patient's story.
Use gestures that reinforce your questions or comments.
Stand back away from the bedside.
Maintain direct eye contact. Ask questions quickly to reduce the patient's fatigue.
Listen attentively to the patient's story.
Use gestures that reinforce your questions or comments.
Maintain direct eye contact. Ask questions quickly to reduce the patient's fatigue.
The nurse asks a patient, "Describe for me a typical night's sleep. What do you do to fall asleep? Do you have difficulty falling or staying asleep? This series of questions would likely occur during which phase of a patient-centered interview?
Orientation
Working phase
Data validation
Termination
Working Phase
During a visit to the clinic, a patient tells the nurse that he has been having headaches on and off for a week. The headaches sometimes make him feel nauseated. Which of the following responses by the nurse is an example of probing?
So you've had headaches periodically in the last week and sometimes they cause you to feel nauseated—correct?
Have you taken anything for your headaches?
Tell me what makes your headaches begin.
Uh huh, tell me more.
Tell me what makes your headaches begin
A 72-year-old male patient comes to the health clinic for an annual follow-up. The nurse enters the patient's room and notices him to be diaphoretic, holding his chest and breathing with difficulty. The nurse immediately checks the patient's heart rate and blood pressure and asks him, "Tell me where your pain is." Which of the following assessment approaches does this scenario describe?
Review of systems approach
Use of a structured database format
Back channeling
A problem-oriented approach
A problem-oriented approach
A nurse assesses a patient who comes to the pulmonary clinic. "I see that it's been over 6 months since you've been here, but your appointment was for every 2 months. Tell me about that. Also I see from your last visit that the doctor recommended routine exercise. Can you tell me how successful you've been in following his plan?" The nurse's assessment covers which of Gordon's functional health patterns?
Value-belief pattern
Cognitive-perceptual pattern
Coping-stress-tolerance pattern
Health perception-health management pattern
Health perception-health management pattern
The nurse observes a patient walking down the hall with
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