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WorksheetsNursing Communication & Assessment
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
Which element is most essential in establishing a therapeutic nurse–client relationship?
Giving personal opinions
Maintaining professional boundaries
Using medical jargon for accuracy
Offering sympathy
A nurse greets a patient by name, maintains eye contact, and introduces herself clearly. These actions demonstrate which communication element?
Assertiveness
Courtesy
Autonomy
Confrontation
A nurse notices that a client is leaning away, frowning, and crossing their arms. What type of communication is being observed?
Verbal
Written
Nonverbal
Paraverbal
When receiving communication, the nurse should recognize that interpretation is influenced by:
Personal perception and culture
Education level only
Environment alone
Noise level
Which external factor should the nurse control first to promote effective communication?
Client’s posture
Nurse’s tone of voice
Environmental privacy
Client’s vocabulary
When collecting a health history from a child, which action by the nurse is most appropriate?
Focus only on the parent’s responses
Ignore the child if they are nonverbal
Observe both the child and caregiver interactions
Avoid play because it distracts from assessment
When interviewing a child, which question is most appropriate to ask the caregiver?
“Do you think your child behaves normally?”
“Can you describe your child’s feeding and developmental milestones?”
“Why is your child misbehaving?”
“Do you discipline your child frequently?”
What is the nurse’s priority when interviewing an adolescent?
Encourage parental control
Maintain confidentiality and build trust
Ask direct and closed questions
Focus only on physical health
Which tool assists in assessing adolescent psychosocial health?
CAGE
HEEADSSS
FICA
TACE
During an adolescent health history, the nurse should:
Force the conversation to maintain control
Be flexible and adapt to the adolescent’s needs
Speak only to the parent
Avoid topics about sexuality
Motivational interviewing (MI) is best described as:
A confrontational technique to challenge patient beliefs
A nurse-directed approach focused on compliance
A collaborative, person-centered method promoting patient-driven change
A method to persuade patients to change unhealthy behavior
Which of the following exemplifies the “A” in the OARS model?
Asking “Why” questions
Affirming patient strengths
Assessing emotional barriers
Agreeing with patient statements
During the orientation phase of the helping relationship, the nurse should:
Evaluate whether patient outcomes were met
Collaborate with the patient to achieve goals
Conclude the relationship with a summary
Offer praise for progress toward goals
The working phase of the nurse-patient relationship focuses on:
Evaluating care outcomes
Building trust and setting goal
Problem solving and achieving outcomes
Reviewing patient data before meeting
A nurse summarizes a patient's progress at the end of the shift and provides a hand-off report to the oncoming nurse. This represents which phase?
Orientation
Termination
Working
Evaluation
