Exam Prep: NUR101 / NUR 101
(Latest 2024 / 2025 Update) Health Assessment | Guide with Questions and Verified Answers | 100% Correct | Grade A – Fortis
Question:
Mr. Child is a 35-year-old patient who comes to the clinic for a general health visit. When asked about past medical problems and surgeries, his answers are confusing. Which communication technique do you use?
Answer:
Clarification
Rationale:
Clarification is the communication technique useful when a patient's word choice is ambiguous or confusing. When clarifying, you summarize the patient's words, simplify the statement, and ensure you are on the right track.
- / 4
Question:
Play is a communication strategy appropriate for which age group?
Answer:
Preschool
Rationale:
Play is an appropriate communication strategy when working with a preschool child. Play helps the child develop a concrete understanding of an abstract idea. It also allows children to express their feelings and can provide the nurse with insight into the child's perception of what is going on.
Question:
. The interview is essentially a contract formed between the nurse and the patient. Which statement is descriptive of this contract?
Answer:
The contract consists of spoken and unspoken rules for behavior.
Rationale:
During the interview, a contract is formed between the nurse and the patient.The contract consists of spoken and unspoken rules for behavior. The contract sets the tone for future interactions with the patient as an active, not passive, partner with the mutual goal of optimal health. The contract does not specify the nature of future interactions between the patient and the health care system.
- / 4
Question:
Which statement made by a patient who has had a bowel resection with a colostomy for colon cancer is an example of distancing?
Answer:
"The bowel had a cancer in it and now it has a bag."
Rationale:
"The bowel had a cancer in it and now it has a bag" is an example of distancing. Distancing is the use of impersonal speech to put space between self and a threat.
Question:
Which communication strategy offers children an opportunity to explore alternatives?
Answer:
Mutual storytelling
Rationale:
Mutual storytelling offers the child an opportunity to explore alternatives. It also provides the nurse with an insight into the child's feelings and offers an opportunity for the nurse to explore the moral of the story with the child to determine better ways to handle the situation. Mutual storytelling is appropriate when communicating with preschool and school-age children.
- / 4
Question:
Which is an example of an open-ended question?
Answer:
"How may I help you?"
Rationale:
"How may I help you?" is an open-ended question because it asks for narrative information. It is unbiased and leaves the patient free to answer in any way.All the other questions are closed-ended or direct in that they ask for specific information and require only a one- or two-word answer.
Question:
Which is a primary purpose for an interviewer choosing to use closed-ended questions?
Answer:
Lower response burden
Rationale:
A primary purpose for an interviewer to choose the use of closed-ended questions is to lower the response burden for acutely ill patients. A hospitalized person with a critical or severe illness is usually too weak, too short of breath, or in too much pain. In the interview, the first concern the patient mentions should be explored and closed-ended, direct questions are asked early to decrease the response burden.
- / 4