NUR101 Ch 19&20 Quizzizz

Which activity would the nurse include in a nursing plan for indirect care of a patient?

• • Manage the patient’s environment.
    

  
  

• • Administer medication on time.
    

  
  

• • Change the intravenous solution when empty.
    

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• • Counsel the patient about coping strategies.

Which action would the nurse take when unable to perform a complex intervention successfully?

• • Continue until the intervention is successfully completed.
    

  
  

• • Ask for assistance from an experienced nurse.
    

  
  

• • Tell the patient about the inability to perform it.
    

  
  

• • Compromise on the intervention to make it easier to perform.
    

  
  

Which action would be implemented when the nurse is unsure about providing fall prevention guidelines for an older-adult patient?

• • Refer to the clinical practice guidelines
    

  
  

• • Ask a colleague who knows about it.
    

  
  

• • Wait until the health care provider makes rounds.
    

  
  

• • Allow the next shift to begin the skill.
    

  
  

Evaluation is:

• • Only necessary if the health care provider orders it

  
  

• • An integrated, ongoing nursing care activity

  
  

• • Begun immediately before the patient's discharge

  
  

• • Performed primarily by nurses in the quality assurance department

  
  

When a patient-centered goal has not been met in the projected time frame, the most appropriate action by the nurse would be to:

• • Rewrite the plan using different interventions

  
  

• • Continue with the same plan until the goal is met

  
  

• • Repeat the entire sequence, recognize error or unmet outcomes, of the nursing process to discover needed changes

  
  

• • Conclude that the goal was inappropriate or unrealistic and eliminate it from the plan

  
  

Which option explains the primary purpose for the nurse performing evaluative measures?

• • To verify specific nursing interventions were completed
    

  
  

• • To validate the nurse’s physical assessment
    

  
  

• • To make sure the nurse made the correct nursing diagnoses
    

  
  

• • To determine whether a patient met expected outcomes