A nurse develops the following PICOT question: Do patients who listen to music achieve better control of their anxiety and pain after surgery when compared with patients who receive standard nursing care following surgery?
Which information will the nurse use as the "C"?
a. After surgery
b. Who listen to music
c. Who receive standard nursing care
d. Achieve better control of their anxiety and pain
ANS: C
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Which behavior is being demonstrated when a nurse encourages a dying client to "not give up"? Carative Factor to Clinical Caritas Processes CARATIVE FACTOR CLINICAL CARITAS PROCESSES Forming a humanistic-altruistic system of values Practice of loving-kindness and equanimity within context of caring consciousness Enabling and sustaining faith-hope Being authentically present and enabling and sustaining the deep belief system and subjective life world of self and one-being-cared-for Being sensitive to self and others Cultivation of one's own spiritual practice and transpersonal self, going beyond ego self Developing a help-trusting, caring relationship (seeking transpersonal connections) Developing and sustaining helping-trusting, authentic caring relationship Promoting and accepting the expression of positive and negative feelings and emotions Being present to, and supportive of, the expression of positive and negative feelings as a connection with deeper spirit of self and the one-being-cared-for Engaging in creative, individualized problem-solving caring processes Creative use of self and all ways of knowing a part of the caring process, to engage in artistry of caring-healing practices Promoting transpersonal teaching-learning Engaging in genuine teaching-learning experience that attends to unity of being and meaning, attempting to stay within others' frame of reference Attending to supportive, protective, and/or corrective mental, physical, societal, and spiritual environments Creating healing environment at all levels, (physical as well as nonphysical), subtle environment of energy and consciousness, whereby wholeness, beauty, comfort, dignity, and peace are potentiated Assisting with gratification of basic human needs while preserving human dignity and wholeness Assisting with basic needs, with an intentional caring consciousness, administering "human care essential," which potentiate alignment of mind/body/spirit, wholeness, and unity of being in all aspects of care; tending to both embodied spirit and evolving spiritual emergence Allowing for, and being open to, existential- phenomenological and spiritual dimensions of caring and healing that cannot be fully explained scientifically through modern Western medicine Opening and attending to spiritual-mysterious and existential dimensions of one's own life-death; should care for self and the one-being-cared-for Source: Julia B. George (2011). Nursing theories: The base for professional nursing practice, 6th ed., Box 18-2. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall. A) Forming a humanistic-altruistic system of values B) Enabling and sustaining faith-hope C) Promoting and accepting the expression of positive and negative feelings and emotions D) Promoting transpersonal teaching-learning
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