The home health nurse uses creativity and critical thinking to devise a way for a client to receive intravenous medication while sitting outside on the porch. Which skill did the nurse use for this situation?
1. Technical
2. Interpersonal
3. Creativity
4. Cognitive
Correct Answer: 4
Rationale 1: Technical skills are "hands-on" skills such as manipulating equipment, giving injections, bandaging, and 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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