Caring enables a nurse to know the client and thereby focus on identifying the client's specific needs. This ability is most typically impacted by a nurse's:
1. Assessment skills
2. Sense of compassion
3. Clinical experience
4. Communication proficiency
ANS: 3
As nurses acquire more experience, they typically learn that caring helps them to focus on the clients for whom they care. Caring facilitates a nurse's ability to know a client, allowing the nurse to recognize a client's problems and to find and implement individualized solutions.
While assessment skills aid a nurse's ability to identify client needs, they do not have the greatest impact on the development of caring as a nursing characteristic.
Although compassion is a vital component of a caring nurse's personality, it does not have the greatest impact on the development of caring as a nursing characteristic.
While effective, proficient nurse-client communication is a vital nursing skill, it does not have the greatest impact on the development of caring as a nursing characteristic.
You might also like to view...
The nurse is discussing the differences between a patient with a neurosis and one with a psychosis. What is true of the patient experiencing a neurosis?
a. The patient experiences a flight from reality. b. The patient usually needs hospitalization. c. The patient has insight that there is an emotional problem. d. The patient has severe personality deterioration.
While assessing an older patient in the emergency department the nurse suspects that the patient has been abused. In which order should the nurse approach the care of this patient?
1. Review options for help 2. Provide information for services to help 3. Determine if the patient is in any danger 4. Emphasize that the patient has the right to be safe 5. Explain that the patient is not to blame for any abuse
The nurse is concerned that an older patient with a chronic illness is on a trajectory towards frailty and dependence. From the nursing assessment findings listed, which is the priority?
1. Sustained cognitive impairment 2. Conditions controlled with medications 3. Family that phones several times a day 4. A decline in functional ability
Eight weeks after surgery, M.D. is now beginning a prescribed a chemotherapy regimen of six cycles of
CAF (cyclophosphamide [Cytoxan], fluorouracil [5-FU], and doxorubicin [Adriamycin]). M.D. asks you why she has to have chemotherapy with so many drugs if the surgeon removed all of the cancer. How would you respond?