Your unit has a number of patients who have undergone limb amputation
In working with the clients, you begin to think beyond therapies such as pharmacotherapeutics and surgery and you explore biomechanics, robotics, mind-body approaches, and cognitive behavioral therapies as possibilities in working with these clients. You begin to amass information in a number of areas with which you previously had little familiarity. According to the Wise Forecast Model©, you are
a. Acting wildly.
b. Learning wildly.
c. Engaging in interprofessional care.
d. Increasing your complexity compression.
ANS: B
The first step, learn widely, means that we must extend our sources of knowledge beyond our role and clinical areas of interest. In fact we must extend our learning beyond nursing and health care. Widely might encompass another discipline such as architecture or engineering.
You might also like to view...
The feasibility of conducting a study is determined by examining which of the following?
a. Availability of subjects b. Previous studies c. Researcher's credibility d. Significance of research problem
A 27-year-old female patient is admitted to the hospital for evaluation of right lower quadrant abdominal pain with nausea and vomiting. Which action should the nurse take?
a. Encourage the patient to sip clear liquids. b. Assess the abdomen for rebound tenderness. c. Assist the patient to cough and deep breathe. d. Apply an ice pack to the right lower quadrant.
A researcher utilizes an emic approach in a research study in order to
a. gather data about lived experiences of individuals. b. trying to understand behaviors from within a culture. c. examine individual human behavior according to personal biases. d. use techniques such as bracketing and intuiting.
Two staff nurses applied for promotion to nurse manager. The nurse not promoted initially had feelings of loss but then became supportive of the new manager by helping make the transition smooth and encouraging others
Which term best describes the nurse's response? a. Altruism b. Suppression c. Intellectualization d. Reaction formation