NUR 280 EXAM 1 NEWEST 2024 ACTUAL EXAM

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NUR 280 EXAM 1 NEWEST 2024 ACTUAL EXAM

COMPLETE 210 QUESTIONS AND CORRECT

DETAILED ANSWERS ( VERIFIED ANSWERS )

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A major cause of health-related problems is the increase in the incidence of chronic conditions. This is the case not only in developed countries like the United States but also in developing countries. What factor has contributed to the increased incidence of chronic diseases in developing countries?

• Developing countries are experiencing an increase in average life

span.

• Increasing amounts of health research are taking place in developing

countries.

• Developing countries lack the health infrastructure to manage illness.
• Developing countries are simultaneously coping with emerging

infectious diseases. - ANSWER- D

A patient with a spinal cord injury is being assessed by the nurse prior to his discharge home from the rehabilitation facility. The nurse is planning care through the lens of the interface model of disability. Within this model, the nurse will plan care based on what belief?

• The patient has the potential to function effectively despite his

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• The patients disabling condition does not have to affect his lifestyle.
• The patient will not require care from professional caregivers in the

home setting.

• The patients disability is the most salient aspect of his personal

identity. - ANSWER- A

During the care conference for a patient who has multiple chronic conditions, the case manager has alluded to the principles of the interface model of disability. What statement is most characteristic of this model?

• This patient should be free to plan his care without our interference.
• This patient can be empowered and doesnt have to be dependent.
• This patient was a very different person before the emergence of

these health problems.

• This patients physiological problems are the priority over his

psychosocial status. - ANSWER- B

The nurse is caring for a young adult male with a traumatic brain injury and severe disabilities caused by a motor vehicle accident when he was an adolescent. Where does the nurse often provide care for patients like this young adult?

• Adult day-care facilities
• Step-down units
• Medical-surgical units
• Pediatric units - ANSWER- C
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You are caring for a young woman who has Down syndrome and who has just been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. What consideration should you prioritize when planning this patients nursing care?

• How her new diagnosis affects her health attitudes
• How her diabetes affects the course of her Down syndrome
• How her chromosomal disorder affects her glucose metabolism
• How her developmental disability influences her health management

- ANSWER- D

You are the nurse caring for a young mother who has a longstanding diagnosis of multiple sclerosis (MS). She was admitted to your unit with a postpartum infection 3 days ago. You are planning to discharge her home when she has finished 5 days of IV antibiotic therapy. With what information would it be most important for you to provide this patient?

• A succinct overview of postpartum infections
• How the response to infection differs in patients with multiple

sclerosis

• The same information you would provide to a patient without a

chronic condition

• Information on effective management of multiple sclerosis in the

home setting - ANSWER- C

You have admitted a new patient to your unit with a diagnosis of stage IV breast cancer. This woman has a comorbidity of myasthenia gravis.While you are doing the initial assessment, the patient tells you that she felt the lump in her breast about 9 months ago. You ask the patient why she did not see her health care provider when she first found the lump in 3 / 4

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her breast. What would be a factor that is known to influence the patient in seeking health care services?

• Lack of insight due to the success of self-managing a chronic

condition

• Lack of knowledge about treatment options
• Overly sensitive patient reactions to health care services
• Unfavorable interactions with health care providers - ANSWER- D

The community nurse is caring for a patient who has paraplegia following a farm accident when he was an adolescent. This patient is now 64 years old and has just been diagnosed with congestive heart failure. The patient states, Im so afraid about what is going to happen to me. What would be the best nursing intervention for this patient?

• Assist the patient in making suitable plans for his care.
• Take him to visit appropriate long-term care facilities.
• Give him pamphlets about available community resources.
• Have him visit with other patients who have congestive heart failure.

- ANSWER- A

An initiative has been launched in a large hospital to promote the use of people-first language in formal and informal communication. What is the significance to the patient when the nurse uses people-first language?

• The nurse knows more clearly who the patient is.
• The person is of more importance to the nurse than the disability.
• The patients disability is the defining characteristic of the patients

life.

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