The community health nurse is conducting a 15-minute family interview. Using your knowledge of interviewing techniques, which principle is being used to maximize information when the nurse validates family concerns with their active listening?
A) Manners
B) Use of therapeutic conversation
C) Use of therapeutic questions
D) Acknowledgment of family strengths
D
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"Stress-buffering" behaviors can be elicited to reduce stress. All of the following behavioral coping responses can be used by nurse managers to reduce and manage stress except:
a. Distancing oneself from work. b. Using cognitive reframing to change irra-tional thoughts. c. Refusing a request to sit on a committee to evaluate scheduling software. d. Exercising regularly.
A pregnant patient is concerned about a sharp pain that is felt in the lower abdomen when making a quick move. What action should the nurse take to help this patient?
A) Assess when the patient's last bowel movement occurred. B) Explain that the sharp pain is tension on a uterine ligament. C) Notify the physician because of manifestations of appendicitis. D) Instruct that the pain is a pulled muscle and a heating pad will help.
The nurse needs to deliver rescue breathing with a bag-valve-mask unit for the adult client. Which intervention does the nurse implement to use the device effectively?
1. Ventilates the client at 15 to 20 breaths per minute 2. Connects bag to supplemental oxygen before using 3. Increases compression force for an airway obstruction 4. Removes oropharyngeal airway to improve ventilation
The federal government began facilitating competition among health care services when:
a. It mandated a decrease in the number of hospitals b. It experienced increased costs due to increasing use of technology c. It permitted health maintenance organizations (HMOs) to offer competitive medical plans d. It initiated physician review of Medicare patients' charts to control health care utilization and costs