The home health nurse must devise a way to administer IV antibiotics to a client who insists on being outside during the infusion. Using creativity and critical thinking, the nurse is able to meet the client's requests
This is an example of which of the following?
1. Technical skill
2. Interpersonal skill
3. Creativity
4. Cognitive skill
Correct Answer: 4
Rationale 1: Technical skills are "hands-on" skills such as manipulating equipment, giving injections, bandaging, moving, lifting, and repositioning clients.
Rationale 2: Interpersonal skills are all of the activities, verbal and nonverbal, people use when interacting directly with one another.
Rationale 3: Creativity is part of cognitive skill.
Rationale 4: Cognitive skills include problem solving, decision making, critical thinking, and creativity. Finding a unique way to provide the treatment while keeping the client's wishes in mind is an example of the nurse using cognitive abilities.
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