Basic Nursing Skills
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Course Introduction
Basic Nursing Skills introduces students to the foundational competencies required for a successful career in nursing. The course covers essential concepts such as patient hygiene, vital sign measurement, proper body mechanics, infection control, medical asepsis, mobility assistance, and basic patient assessment. Through a combination of classroom instruction, hands-on laboratory practice, and clinical experiences, students develop critical thinking, effective communication, and compassionate caregiving abilities. Emphasis is placed on ethical standards, patient safety, and evidence-based practices to ensure high-quality care in various healthcare settings.
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Success in Practical Vocational Nursing 7th Edition by Signe S. Hill
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Chapter 1: The Adult Learner: Hints to Succeed
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Q1) With regard to the teaching-learning process, what can the nursing student identify as the instructor's responsibility to the student? (Select all that apply.)
A) Solve each of the student's learning problems.
B) Create an environment in which learning can occur.
C) Make learning simple and free from psychological pain.
D) Eliminate difficult concepts from lectures and laboratories.
E) Assist students to answer questions not independently resolved.
Answer: B, E
Q2) A student who wishes to utilize research findings regarding the best way for students to learn will
A) stay up late each night and study.
B) actively participate in the learning process.
C) sit passively during each lecture session.
D) cram before each examination.
Answer: B
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Chapter 2: Time Management: Making Time Work for You
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Q1) Which options are common outcomes of failure to plan adequately? (Select all that apply.)
A) Working harder, not smarter
B) Overlooking priority items
C) Feeling guilt, frustration, and anxiety
D) Being a master of one's time
Answer: A, B, C
Q2) A nursing instructor advises a student nurse to set a long-term goal. An example of a long-term goal is
A) graduating from nursing school within 2 years.
B) writing a paper on the ramifications of childhood obesity.
C) giving two oral reports during clinical preconference and postconference.
D) earning a grade of C or better on each of the current semester exams.
Answer: A
Q3) Using a schedule allows a nursing student to A) develop inflexibility.
B) increase anxiety related to deadlines.
C) allocate adequate study time.
D) find time to do everything.
Answer: C
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Chapter 3: Learning Methods and Skills: How Do You Learn
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Q1) Which of the following are potential outcomes when using a nursing textbook lacking multicultural information? (Select all that apply.)
A) Students from the nondominant culture may feel insignificant.
B) Readers may oversimplify cultural behaviors and traits of others.
C) Readers may view patients from other cultures as unsophisticated.
D) Open discussion of cultural differences is promoted.
Answer: A, B, C
Q2) A person who learns best by using an organized method that involves categorizing, classifying, and working with abstract patterns and relationships is known as what type of learner?
A) Spatial learner
B) Musical learner
C) Linguistic learner
D) Logical/mathematical learner
Answer: D
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Chapter 4: Using Your Methods and Skills: Studying and Testing
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Q1) A nursing student is studying for an examination and becomes distracted by things needing to be done. The best intervention would be to A) make a list of things that need to be done and return to studying.
B) turn on the radio in an attempt to "drown out" the distraction. C) stop studying until there are fewer distractions with which to contend.
D) do what has to be done immediately and then return to studying.
Q2) A nursing student is asked to identify distractions that limit the ability to concentrate. An example of an external distraction is A) anxiety.
B) daydreaming.
C) mental fatigue.
D) background noise.
Q3) A nursing student is asked to identify distractions that limit the ability to concentrate. An example of an internal distraction is A) mental fatigue.
B) background noise.
C) the physical environment.
D) other nursing students.
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Chapter 5: Learning During School: Using Available Resources
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Q1) A nursing student could best explain an Internet search engine to a peer by saying it is most like
A) a book or periodical index.
B) a clinical contact with a patient.
C) a videotape.
D) the vertical file.
Q2) A nursing student has a course syllabus and a course outline. When anticipating what topics to study for an examination, it is best to refer to the A) course objectives.
B) unit objectives.
C) bibliography.
D) course policies.
Q3) A nursing student states, "When we have lecture-discussion sessions, I never know what's expected of me." The best reply by a peer would be, "I think it's our responsibility as students to
A) avoid actively disagreeing with the instructor or other students."
B) make a list of questions about material we don't understand."
C) listen until we're called upon to answer questions."
D) use review books to check the depth of the material we're learning."
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Chapter 6: Personal Health Promotion: a Role Model for Patients
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Q1) During report, the LPN/LVN relates that although her assigned patient was ambulatory, she provided a bed bath, special foot care, and nail care; she justified the care by saying that the patient seemed very tired. The nurse also mentioned that the patient had a number of personal problems for which she provided counseling. The charge nurse recognizes these behaviors as suggesting
A) conscientious nursing.
B) empathetic response.
C) conflict avoidance.
D) co-dependence.
Q2) How can nurses avoid burnout?
A) Put patients' needs before their own needs.
B) Accept that as nurses, their vocational and personal lives are one.
C) Understand their own needs and maintain balance between work and personal life.
D) Use sympathy for the patient as a key to personal growth and professional development.
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Chapter 7: How Practicalvocational Nursing Evolved: 1836 to Present
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Q1) Which was the first state to pass a law licensing practical nurses?
A) Alabama
B) California
C) New York
D) Mississippi
Q2) When was the first U.S. school of practical nursing founded?
A) 1830
B) 1853
C) 1892
D) 1902
Q3) The event that had the most profound influence in changing practical/vocational nursing was the
A) depression of the 1930s, when nurses worked for room and board in lieu of salary.
B) post-World War II movement of practical/vocational nurses into hospital positions.
C) American Medical Association (AMA) proposal to develop registered care technicians as new health care workers.
D) first computer-adaptive test for practical/vocational nursing graduates.
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Chapter 8: Critical Thinking: a Lifelong Journey
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Q1) When an instructor asks a nursing student to answer a question in her or his own words and give an example, the cognitive level utilized is
A) knowledge.
B) comprehension.
C) application.
D) analysis.
Q2) A nursing student determines that she needs to increase her reading effectiveness. Identify two effective strategies for accomplishing this goal that can be implemented immediately. Select all that apply.
A) Read one word at a time.
B) Move her lips while reading.
C) Read recreational literature more slowly than technical material.
D) Underline unfamiliar words.
Q3) Which factor that influences critical thinking provides the best rationale for using a team meeting to plan care for a patient?
A) Collaboration
B) Moral development
C) Self-confidence
D) Maturity
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Chapter 9: Nursing Process: Your Role
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Q1) The RN head nurse is having a busy day. When the LPN/LVN reports data she has collected, the RN states, "Incorporate that into the nursing care plan and write down the intervention you'd use. I'll co-sign the entry." The LPN/LVN should A) do as requested.
B) ask the advice of the shift supervisor later in the shift.
C) tell the RN that this action is not within the LPN/LVN scope of practice.
D) write a letter to the state board of nursing to report the RN's unprofessional conduct.
Q2) A nurse reviews a patient's care plan and finds a goal for the patient to ambulate at least three times a day. The nurse assists the patient to accomplish this goal. The nurse is participating in which step of the nursing process?
A) Planning
B) Evaluation
C) Data collection
D) Implementation
Q3) A nurse notes that a patient is experiencing increased peripheral edema and has urinated 20 cc of urine in the past hour. This is an example of ____________________ data.
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Chapter 10: Nursing Theory, Research, and Evidence-Based Practice
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Q1) An independent, not-for-profit organization established in 1993 with the purpose of preparing and promoting the accessibility of a collection of evidence-based health care interventions obtained by systematic reviews of research is known as the ____________________________________.
Q2) The three concepts considered important to nursing are person, health, and A) socialization.
B) procedure.
C) environment.
D) theory.
Q3) Which of the following are the elements of evidence-based practice? (Select all that apply.)
A) Patient preferences
B) Basic needs
C) Best research evidence
D) Nurse's clinical expertise
E) Hypothesis
Q4) ______________________________ was the first to emphasize the environment as influencing the course of illness and is often spoken of as the first nursing theorist.
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Chapter 11: Ethics Applied to Nursing: Personal Vs Professional Ethics
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Q1) When a treatment team decides to go to court to obtain permission to provide chemotherapy for a child whose parents refuse to give consent for the treatment based on religious grounds, the ethical principles that are in conflict are
A) fidelity and justice.
B) beneficence and autonomy.
C) justice and beneficence.
D) autonomy and fidelity.
Q2) A major change in medical ethics that affected nursing occurred when the Western secular belief system shifted emphasis from duties to A) individual autonomy and rights.
B) satisfying Medicare regulations.
C) the cost-effectiveness of care.
D) nonmaleficence.
Q3) A nurse injects himself or herself with a narcotic prescribed for a patient. This is an example of
A) unethical and illegal behavior.
B) ethical and legal behavior.
C) unethical but legal behavior.
D) ethical but illegal behavior.
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Chapter 12: Nursing and the Law: What Are the Rules
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Q1) Individual A has worked as an LPN/LVN for a year. The agency where she works discovers that the registration document she presented at the time she was hired was altered to remove the name of the rightful registrant and show her name instead. What are the possible outcomes of this situation? (Select all that apply.)
A) The state board of nursing, when notified, will charge the nurse with fraud and deceit.
B) The agency will terminate the employment of the individual.
C) The agency will notify all patients for whom the individual cared to determine injury.
D) The individual will be arrested for misrepresentation.
E) The individual's license to practice will be revoked.
Q2) When documenting patient behavior, the LPN/LVN should
A) record subjective interpretations of patient behavior.
B) avoid mentioning communicating with supervisors to report changes in condition.
C) record all interventions performed and patient instruction given.
D) use Wite-Out to erase errors in documentation.
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Chapter 13: Straightforward Communication: Instructors,
Coworkers, and Patients
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Q1) A trusting relationship with a patient can be fostered by
A) introducing oneself and stating one's role.
B) identifying the patient by room number.
C) seeing the patient every 5 to 7 minutes.
D) making up answers when one does not know the answer.
Q2) Which option provides information that allows an individual to identify the patient's affective state?
A) Mr. B states that he is in considerable pain, about 8 on a scale of 1 to 10. He characterizes the pain as stabbing.
B) Mrs. T's facial expression looks sad. Tears well up in her eyes, and the corners of her mouth droop.
C) Miss L lies still with her eyes shut, her arms held rigidly at her side, and her fists clenched.
D) Mr. A listens carefully to the directions for blood glucose monitoring and then asks several relevant questions.
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Chapter 14: Assertiveness: Your Responsibility
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Q1) Which behavior should be considered an early sign that a co-worker may have the potential for violence?
A) Verbalization of a wish to harm someone
B) A suicidal threat
C) Destruction of agency property
D) Lack of cooperation with supervisors
Q2) When a nurse tells a peer, "You have to watch out for the charge nurse. Sometimes she's OK, but sometimes she's just plain unreasonable. The best thing to do is to tell her off the first time she gets on your back about something. Keep me posted and I'll try to help you." An assertive reply would be
A) "Thanks for the warning. I'll be careful."
B) "You take care of yourself, and I'll watch out for myself."
C) "I think it would be best for me to work on my relationship independently."
D) "It seems to me that you're playing a manipulative game and giving out poor advice."
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Chapter 15: The Health Care Team: Where the
Practicalvocational Nurse Fits in
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Q1) A student nurse asks, "What determines the LPN/LVN's role and responsibilities in the practice setting?" The best answer is
A) "The job analysis performed by the National Council of State Boards of Nursing."
B) "The Nurse Practice Act of the state in which the LPN/LVN is employed."
C) "The skill mix of the agency unit to which the nurse is assigned."
D) "The degree of centralization of the unit on which the LPN/LVN works."
Q2) Select the person or persons who may be included on the physical therapy team. (Select all that apply.)
A) RN
B) LPN/LVN
C) Physical therapists
D) Physical therapy assistants
Q3) An LPN/LVN offers input to the RN about the effectiveness of the patient's care plan. By doing this, the LPN/LVN is functioning in an
A) entrepreneurial role.
B) expanded role.
C) interdependent role.
D) independent role.
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Chapter 16: Cultural Uniqueness, Sensitivity, and Competence
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Q1) A new mother on the OB unit refuses to allow her newborn to wear disposable diapers. She insists on applying cloth diapers without safety pins, because this is how her culture applies diapers. During break, the nurse discusses the patient's strange diapering technique compared with the excellent American method of diapering. Besides violating confidentiality, the nurse is displaying
A) ethnocentrism.
B) stereotyping.
C) unusual behavior during break.
D) lack of adherence to hospital policy on diapering.
Q2) Mrs. X is a patient from South Korea. She has never experienced Western medical care. She is hospitalized with hepatitis C. Which measures will lead to successful negotiation of a treatment plan with this culturally diverse patient? (Select all that apply.)
A) Encourage the patient to explain her views about the cause of illness.
B) Explain the biomedical point of view of the health problem.
C) Support beliefs and practices the patient sees as helpful and that do no harm.
D) Realize that it is impossible to prevent a patient's use of harmful health practices.
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Chapter 17: Spiritual Needs, Spiritual Caring, and Religious Differences
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Q1) Select the patient who would benefit least from the nurse reading from the New Testament.
A) Mrs. A of the Assembly of God
B) Mr. B, who is Roman Catholic
C) Miss C, who is a Jehovah's Witness
D) Mr. D, who is an Orthodox Jew
Q2) A religion that was founded in the nineteenth century by Mary Baker Eddy is
A) Mormonism.
B) Christian Scientist.
C) Jehovah's Witness.
D) Seventh-Day Adventist.
Q3) A patient who practices Buddhism tells the nurse, "My pain is the result of things I have done in the past." The nurse, who wishes to be supportive, should respond
A) "Are you saying you have been a bad person?"
B) "This understanding helps give meaning to your pain."
C) "Perhaps you could ask God to help you bear the pain."
D) "Pain can be an enlightening experience."
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Chapter 18: Health Care Settings: Potential Job Sites
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Q1) An example of a voluntary health agency that is focused on research and education of the public is
A) the Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration.
B) the Visiting Nurse Association.
C) St. Jude's Children's Hospital.
D) the American Heart Association.
Q2) A nurse working in the emergency department who must obtain data to identify the patient's primary care provider should ask the patient about
A) hospital stays.
B) low-cost health care providers.
C) receiving specialized care aimed at restoring the function of a body part.
D) the referring physician, nurse practitioner, or ambulatory care setting.
Q3) Which of the following are types of health care agencies in which the LPN/LVN would most likely find work? (Select all that apply.)
A) Board and care home
B) Emergency unit facility
C) Skilled nursing facility
D) Adult day care center
E) Hospice
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Chapter 19: Health Care System: Financing, Issues, and Trends
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Q1) A trend in health care that may negatively affect the number of practical nurses hired by an agency is
A) the aging of the U.S. population.
B) the increased use of unlicensed assistive personnel.
C) decentralization of health care agencies.
D) the emphasis on critical thinking and problem solving.
Q2) Which LPN/LVN will be most successful in dealing with change?
A) Nurse S, who always assumes that the worst will happen in any situation
B) Nurse T, who agrees with whatever the administration proposes
C) Nurse U, who sees change as an opportunity to improve conditions
D) Nurse V, who predicts that the change will probably not work
Q3) Which program offers an incentive to hospitals to discharge patients as quickly as possible?
A) Retrospective payment system
B) Prospective payment system
C) Seamless system
D) Private insurance plans in effect for under 1 year
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Chapter 20: Leadership Skills
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Q1) To discover the expanded role of the practical nurse, the LPN/LVN should investigate A) the state's Nurse Practice Act.
B) job descriptions for the practical nurse in local health care agencies.
C) information gained from practical nurses working in various clinical settings.
D) the opinions of physicians who service area nursing homes and extended care facilities.
Q2) A nursing instructor has instructed a student nurse to document objectively. The student nurse demonstrates understanding when documenting A) "Patient is noncompliant."
B) "Patient is drunk, confused, and uncooperative."
C) "Patient and family are nasty, abrasive, and difficult."
D) "Odor of alcohol on breath; refuses to stay in assigned room."
Q3) LPN/LVNs functioning in an expanded role are most often employed in A) critical care units.
B) pediatric clinics.
C) home health care.
D) long-term care.
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Chapter 21: Lpnlvn Charge Nurse Skills: Management, Including
Assignment and Delegation
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Q1) An LPN/LVN is working in a health care facility that allows delegation of nursing duties to nursing assistants by the LPN/LVN. Which of the following duties could be delegated to the nursing assistant?
A) Weighing a patient
B) Initial patient education
C) Assessing a patient's pain
D) Changing a sterile dressing
Q2) When a resident's family complains that their mother is receiving inferior care in the extended care facility, which action should the LPN/LVN charge nurse initially take?
A) Gently explain that Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) would not permit giving inferior care.
B) Mention that the staff is overworked and would be glad for the family's assistance.
C) Ask the family to be specific and give examples of "inferior care" the mother has received.
D) Tell the family that their reaction is based on guilt because of their need to place their mother in an extended care facility.
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Q1) What is the first step that should be taken by a student nurse who wants to use a particular instructor's name as a reference?
A) Look in the catalog to make sure the name is spelled correctly.
B) Pass the course taught by the instructor, which permits listing the name.
C) Ask the instructor whether her or his name may be used as a positive reference.
D) Check with recent graduates to see which instructor writes the best letters of reference.
Q2) An LPN/LVN applicant wishes to use knowledge of interpersonal styles to his benefit during a job interview. He assesses the interviewer to be a "results-focused" person. Which behavior should he adopt?
A) Answer the interviewer's questions in detail.
B) Try to interject information about himself as a person (e.g., his hobbies).
C) Look for ways to interject humor into the interview.
D) Keep answers to the point and relatively brief.
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Chapter 23: The Nclex-Pn Examination
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Q1) Which phrases accurately describe computerized adaptive testing (CAT) as used in the NCLEX-PN examination? (Select all that apply.)
A) Selects questions of varying difficulty, depending on previous responses
B) Provides an individualized examination for each tester
C) Requires the tester to answer a minimum of 85 questions
D) Selects an equal number of questions from the four categories of client need
E) Ends testing when 50% of the questions have been answered correctly
Q2) The practical/vocational nursing student tells a colleague, "I know I'm going to fail the NCLEX-PN examination. I've heard that a huge amount of the examination is psychology related, and I hated psychology!" The reply that shows the best understanding of the NCLEX-PN examination is
A) "You'd better retake the psychology course."
B) "There are equal numbers of questions related to each aspect of patient needs."
C) "Psychosocial integrity is the basis for 8% to 14% of the questions."
D) "I've heard there's more emphasis on care planning than anything else."
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Chapter 24: Future Career Decisions: Choosing What Is Right
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Q1) In which areas may LPN/LVNs obtain certification? (Select all that apply.)
A) Managed care
B) Pharmacology
C) Long-term care
D) Mental health care
E) IV therapy
F) Wound care
G) Neonatal care
Q2) What situation is responsible for certain practical/vocational nurse graduates being unprepared to work in a behavioral/mental health clinical setting?
A) Historically, only RNs have been permitted to work with the mentally ill.
B) Some practical/vocational nursing programs do not include a specific mental health nursing component.
C) Practical/vocational nursing students are too fearful of mentally ill patients to learn enough during their programs.
D) Because the number of mentally ill people in the United States is declining, little emphasis needs to be placed on that portion of the educational program.
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