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• You are participating in a clinical care coordination conference for a patient with terminal

cancer. You talk with your colleagues about using the nursing code of ethics for professional registered nurses to guide care decisions. A non-nursing colleague asks about this code.Which of the following statements best describes this code?

• Improves self-health care
• Protects the patient's confidentiality
• Ensures identical care to all patients
• Defines the principles of right and wrong to provide patient care -

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• Defines the principles of right and wrong to provide patient care

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• An 18-year-old woman is in the emergency department with fever and cough. The nurse

obtains her vital signs, auscultates her lung sounds, listens to her heart sounds, determines her level of comfort, and collects blood and sputum samples for analysis. Which standard of practice is performed?

• Diagnosis
• Evaluation
• Assessment
• Implementation -

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• Assessment
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• A patient in the emergency department has developed wheezing and shortness of breath.

The nurse gives the ordered medicated nebulizer treatment now and in 4 hours. Which standard of practice is performed?

• Planning
• Evaluation
• Assessment
• Implementation -

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• Implementation

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• A nurse is caring for a patient with end-stage lung disease. The patient wants to go home

on oxygen and be comfortable. The family wants the patient to have a new surgical procedure. The nurse explains the risk and benefits of the surgery to the family and discusses the patient's wishes with the family. The nurse is acting as the patient's:

• Educator
• Advocate
• Caregiver
• Case manager -

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• Advocate

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5. Evidence-based practice is defined as:

• Nursing care based on tradition
• Scholarly inquiry of nursing and biomedical research literature 2 / 4

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• A problem-solving approach that integrates best current evidence with clinical practice
• Quality nursing care provided in an efficient and economically sound manner -

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• A problem-solving approach that integrates best current evidence with clinical practice

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• The examination for registered nurse licensure is exactly the same in every state in the

United States. This examination:

• Guarantees safe nursing care for all patients
• Ensures standard nursing care for all patients
• Ensures that honest and ethical care is provided
• Provides a minimal standard of knowledge for a registered nurse in practice -

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• Provides a minimal standard of knowledge for a registered nurse in practice

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• Contemporary nursing requires that the nurse has knowledge and skills for a variety of

professional roles and responsibilities. Which of the following are examples? (Select all that apply.)

• Caregiver
• Autonomy and accountability
• Patient advocate
• Health promotion
• Lobbyist -

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• Caregiver
• Autonomy and accountability
• Patient advocate 3 / 4

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• Health promotion

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8. Advanced practice registered nurses generally:

• Function independently
• Function as unit directors
• Work in acute care settings
• Work in the university setting -

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• Function independently

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• Health care reform will bring changes in the emphasis of care. Which of the following

models is expected from health care reform?

• Moving from an acute illness to a health promotion, illness prevention model
• Moving from illness prevention to a health promotion model
• Moving from an acute illness to a disease management model
• Moving from a chronic care to an illness prevention model -

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• Moving from an acute illness to a health promotion, illness prevention model

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• Which of the following nursing roles may have prescriptive authority in their practice?

(Select all that apply.)

• Critical care nurse
• Nurse practitioner
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