Foundations of Nursing Practice
Multiple Choice Questions - Chapter 1

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1) Conditional to a nurse's registration is the ablity to do which of the following?
a) undertake and document a comprehensive, systematic and accurate nursing assessment of the physical, psychological, social and spiritual needs of patients, clients and comunities
b) provide a rationale for the nursing care delivered which takes account of social, cultural, spiritual, legal, political, and economic influences
c) Evaluate and document the outcomes of nursing and other interventions
d) All of the above

 

2) What is the Essence of Care?
a) a Government document outlining benchmark standards of care
b) the framework for clinical governance reviews conducted by the Commission for Health Improvement
c) the stages of the nursing process

 

3) Who is responsible for Clinical Governace reviews in NHS acute Trusts?
a) The Standards Care Agency
b) The Commission for Health Improvement
c) The Health Professions Coucil

 

4)  What is a nursing diagosis?
a) The nurses interpretation of a Doctors diagnosis of a patients illness
b) The second stage of the nursing process and seen as the label given by a nurse to the decision about phenomenon that is the focus of nursing intervention
c) The ability of nurses to prescribe a limited list of medicines

 

5) When assessing a patients parasymathetic responses to intense or chronic pain, will they present with....
a) decreased blood pressure, decreaed heart rate and increased gastrointestinal activity
b)  increased blood pressure, increased heart rate and decreased salivation and gastrointestinal activity
c) increased blood pressure, decreased pulse, initially decreased but then increased gastrointestinal activity