Name:
Date:
Potter: Fundamentals of Nursing, 10th Edition
Chapter 01: Nursing Today
Case Study:
Maylie is a new nurse graduate who is attending orientation at the local hospital. Before she is assigned to a preceptor and can begin taking patients, she must attend a 2-day classroom orientation at the hospital where she learns about institution policies and procedures.
Maylie is anxious to begin work in the intensive care unit (ICU) caring for patients, but she understands that part of her job is to represent the hospital in a professional manner. She cannot do this until she learns institution protocols.
Maylie learns about the hospital’s protocols regarding bioterrorism. Which of the following are examples of public health simulation exercises that help train nurses for threats of bioterrorism? (Select all that apply.)
Vaccine research
Prioritization
Decontamination
Triage
Rationale:
The hospital in which Maylie is employed is a large county health care facility that cares for thousands of medically underserved patients. Which of the following contribute to increases in the medically underserved population? (Select all that apply.)
Government funding
Mental illness
Homelessness
Rising health care costs
Rationale:
Since nursing is a caring profession, Maylie does not need to be concerned about budgets and rising costs when it comes to caring for her patients.
True
False
Rationale:
Chapter 02: The Health Care Delivery System
Case Study:
Midge is a nursing student who works as a certified nurse assistant with a local home care and hospice service while she is in nursing school. She enjoys her work because it presents her with the opportunity to take care of a wide array of patients in their homes where they are most comfortable. As a result of her work, she has learned a great deal not only about providing care to patients but also about health care delivery systems in general.
Midge is assigned to the patients of one nurse, Tammy. Therefore Tammy is considered Midge’s supervisor and oversees her work in addition to serving as her mentor.
Several of Midge’s patients receive hospice care. Which of the following groups administers a federally funded hospice benefit?
Medicaid
Medicare
Managed care
Preferred provider organization
Rationale:
Tammy explains the causes of rising health care costs to Midge and how the costs impact patient care in both the hospital and the home health setting. Acute care is less costly for patients who wait longer to seek medical treatment than for those who seek medical treatment immediately.
True
False
Rationale:
Midge learns that nursing care is just one service offered in the home care setting. Which of the following are additional services or therapies offered in the home care setting? (Select all that apply.)
Occupational
Speech
Respiratory
Surgical
Nutritional
Rationale:
While on break one day, Tammy and Midge discuss the nursing shortage. Which of the following are causes of the nursing shortage? (Select all that apply.)
Increased nursing school enrollments
Aging nursing workforce
Nursing faculty shortage
Limited nursing school clinical site availability
Limited nursing school available student spaces
Rationale:
Chapter 06: Health and Wellness
Case Study:
Trevor is a nursing student who works at a local clinic as a medical assistant three times a week while he is in nursing school. He has been a medical assistant for 6 years and decided to attend nursing school this semester to expand his career options. Trevor kept his medical assisting job in hopes that gaining the “hands on” experience would make nursing school more manageable; plus he needed the income to help offset the cost of nursing school.
At the clinic Trevor cares for a wide range of patients from newborns to the older adult. Today the clinic is hosting a “Love Your Child” health drive and is providing wellness examinations and immunizations for children.
Trevor is assigned to the immunization station at the health drive where he is responsible for administering vaccines to the children. Immunizations are an example of _________________ and _____________ prevention.
Rationale:
Trevor knows that receiving an immunization is included in which hierarchy of need according to Maslow?
Physiological
Safety and security
Love and belonging needs
Self-esteem
Self-actualization
Rationale:
Immunizations are not an objective as defined by Healthy People 2010 because immunizations are largely for children and children are not included in the Healthy People 2010 initiative.
True
False
Rationale:
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