Part of the performance evaluation for a staff nurse focused on ethics and character development. What kind of activity demonstrates to the nurse manager that a staff nurse has a healthy character?
a. Declining civic responsibility
b. Attempt to create a caring workplace
c. Promotion of exterior motivation
d. Excessive drinking leading to increased absenteeism
ANS: B
To promote character development, the organization must be a caring community.
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The nurse would explain that: 1. The disorder caused the infant to be a hermaphrodite with both male and female sex organs. 2. The changes in the genitalia are due to increased androgens secondary to deficient cortisol. 3. The excessive cortisol caused the enlargement of the female tissue, creating a male appearance. 4. The child has only one sex chromosome resulting in an XO configuration.
A 21-year-old college football player has acknowledged to a nurse at a campus clinic that he has been injecting androgens in an effort to increase the size of his musculature and enhance his on-field performance
Which of the following teaching points should the nurse include in a conversation with the player? A) "You run a real risk of developing acne and developing breasts by doing this." B) "You will indeed be able to increase your muscles, but they will rebound by shrinking smaller than they ever were within a few months." C) "Most of the people who do this cause themselves to be permanently sterile." D) "A reduction in the size of your penis and the production of mutated sperm can be an effect of steroid use."
You are a community-based care manager in a community that does not have a resource directory available. One of your goals is to compile such a directory. What would be important to include in this directory? (Mark all that apply.)
A) Nearby medical facilities B) List of social service workers in the community C) Eligibility requirements for services D) Commonly used resources E) Costs of services
A patient notices that the doctor writes "positive Chadwick's sign" on her chart. She asks the nurse what this means. The nurse's best response is
a. "It refers to the bluish color of the cervix in pregnancy." b. "It means the cervix is softening." c. "The doctor was able to flex the uterus against the cervix." d. "That refers to a positive sign of pregnancy."