Test Bank For Brunner And Suddarth’s Medical Surgical Nursing 12th Edition by Suzanne C. Smeltzer
Chapter 01: Health Care Delivery and Nursing Practice
Multiple Choice
- The school nurse is presenting a health promotion class to a group of high school students. How does the nurse define health?
- A) Health is being disease free.
- B) Health is having fulfilling relationships.
- C) Health is having a clean drinking source and nutritious food.
- D) Health is being connected in body, mind, and spirit.
Ans: D
Chapter: 1
Client Needs: B
Cognitive Level: Application
Difficulty: Moderate
Integrated Process: Teaching/Learning
Objective: 1
Page and Header: 6, Health, Wellness, and Health Promotion
Feedback: The World Health Organization (WHO) defines health in the preamble to its constitution as a “state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease and infirmity.” The other answers are incorrect because they are not how WHO defines health.
- A nurse is speaking to a group of high school students about what it is like to be a nurse. What is one characteristic the nurse would cite as necessary to possess to be an effective nurse?
- A) Sensitivity to cultural differences
- B) Team-focused nursing approach
- C) Strict adherence to routine
- D) One set cultural practice
Ans: A
Chapter: 1
Client Needs: C
Cognitive Level: Application
Difficulty: Moderate
Integrated Process: Caring
Objective: 2
Page and Header: 7, Influences on Health Care Delivery
Feedback: To promote an effective nurse–patient relationship and positive outcomes of care, nursing care must be culturally competent, appropriate, and sensitive to cultural differences. Team-focused nursing and strict adherence to routine are not characteristics needed to be an effective nurse. “One set” cultural practice is nonexistent.
- With the changing population and increased longevity, people have had to become more knowledgeable about their health and the professional health care they receive. A development that has been born of this trend is organized self-care education programs. What is one thing these programs emphasize?
- A) Good prenatal care
- B) An abundance of information
- C) Judicious use of internet self-help groups
- D) Management of illness
Ans: D
Chapter: 1
Client Needs: D-3
Cognitive Level: Comprehension
Difficulty: Moderate
Integrated Process: Nursing Process
Objective: 2
Page and Header: 6, Health, Wellness, and Health Promotion
Feedback: Organized self-care education programs emphasize health promotion, disease prevention, management of illness, self-care, and judicious use of the professional health care system. The other answers are incorrect because they are not emphasized by self-care education programs.
- The home health nurse is assisting a patient and his family in planning the patient’s return to work after an extensive illness. On which level of Maslow’s hierarchy of basic needs does the patient’s need for self-fulfillment fit?
- A) Physiologic
- B) Safety and security
- C) Love and belonging
- D) Self-actualization
Ans: D
Chapter: 1
Client Needs: C
Cognitive Level: Application
Difficulty: Moderate
Integrated Process: Nursing Process
Objective: 1
Page and Header: 5, The Health Care Industry and the Nursing Profession
Feedback: Maslow’s highest level of human needs is self-actualization, which includes self-fulfillment, desire to know and understand, and aesthetic needs. The other answers are incorrect because self-fulfillment does not fit on any of them.
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