Which term describes a nurse who is sensitive to the client's feelings, but remains objective enough to help the client achieve positive outcomes?

A) Competent
B) Caring
C) Honest
D) Empathic


Ans: D
Empathy is identifying with the way another person feels. An empathic nurse is sensitive to the client's feelings and problems, but remains objective enough to help the client work to attain positive outcomes.

Nursing

You might also like to view...

The CIT includes eight phases. List the phases in order, beginning with the first phase

A. Crisis B. Unstable C. Downward D. Dying E. Stable F. Acute G. Trajectory onset H. Pretrajectory

Nursing

You are teaching the local disaster response team about blast injuries. What would you teach the disaster response team occurs in the tertiary phase of the blast injury?

A) Exacerbated pre-existing conditions B) The pressure wave causes the victim to be thrown, resulting in traumatic injury C) The pressure wave causes the injuries D) Injuries caused by debris or shrapnel from the blast

Nursing

When a patient is taking a traditional antipsychotic medication, the nurse should assess carefully for EPSEs, particularly

a. akathisia. b. mydriasis. c. hypotension. d. constipation.

Nursing

A volume of 800 mL is to infuse at 90 mL/hr. It is now 1730 . Calculate the infusion time and the completion time

What will be an ideal response?

Nursing