A nursing instructor is reviewing the literature on nurses' responses to learning with simulation. Which response would the instructor most likely find?
A) Increased self-confidence
B) Higher anxiety levels
C) Difficulty in adapting
D) Limited learning
A
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The patient arrives in the clinic with a complaint of altered bowel habits and has a family history of ulcerative colitis. The stools of these patients are characteristically:
A) Watery with blood and mucus B) Hard and black C) Long and cylinder shaped D) Loose and fatty
You are doing rounds at the beginning of your shift when you notice a sputum specimen sitting on the bedside table in a patient's room. You ask the patient when he produced the sputum specimen
You learn the specimen is about 4 hours old. Knowing this information, what action would you take? A) Immediately take the sputum specimen to the laboratory B) Discard the specimen and assist the patient in obtaining another specimen C) Refrigerate the sputum specimen D) Wait an additional 2 hours before sending the specimen to the laboratory
The patient who receives patient-controlled analgesia (PCA) with an opioid analgesic reports that the pain level is 9 on a scale of 0 to 10 . Which does the nurse implement to increase patient pain control?
a. Elevates the head of the bed (HOB) to 30 degrees b. Increases the interval between demand doses c. Increases the demand and the basal doses d. Checks patient manipulation of the PCA button
When a nursing student expresses concerns about how mental health nurses "lose all their nursing skills," the best response by the mental health nurse is:
a. "Psychiatric nurses practice in safer environments than other specialties. Nurse-to-patient ratios must be better because of the nature of the patients' problems." b. "Psychiatric nurses use complex communication skills as well as critical thinking to solve multidimensional problems. I am challenged by those situations." c. "That's a misconception. Psychiatric nurses frequently use high technology monitoring equipment and manage complex intravenous therapies." d. "Psychiatric nurses do not have to deal with as much pain and suffering as medical-surgical nurses do. That appeals to me."