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                                                   MEDICAL-SURGICAL NURSING
Medical-Surgical Nursing Practice (Chapter 1)
1.       Medical-surgical nursing focuses on adult patients with?
A)     Acute or chronic illness and their responses to actual or potential alternation in health.  
B)      Typical medical-surgical patient over age 65 and above.     
C)      Two or more children before the age 65.

2.       To be an effective educator, the nurse must be skilled at?
A)     Community advocacy service.  
B)      Youth empowerment.   
C)      Interpersonal communication and familiar with principles of adult learning.

3.       As a change agent, the nurse works with the patient to address
A)      His health concerns, and with staff members to address organizational and community concerns.
B)      His research.
C)      His legal authority and supervise his health condition.

4.       A nurse who is preparing to delegate:
A)     Can delegate any member of staff not minding their qualification
B)      Makes sure the person to whom she delegate has the legal authority to perform the task
C)      Emphasize the age of the patient to whomever she chooses

5.        One of the five ‘’rights’’ of delegation that must be satisfied by the delegating nurse
A)     Right to plan and implement teaching ability.
B)      Right direction and communication.
C)      Right research to promote growth in the science of nursing.

6.       The primary tasks of nursing research are to promote growth
A)     In the synthesis of multiple randomized controlled clinical trials
B)      In the science nursing and to develop a scientific basis for nursing practice.
C)      To determine the strength of parental support system

7.       In the community, nurses serve as
A)     Delegate to safety and environmental hazards in communities
B)      Institutional policies makers and decision makers for communities.
C)      Role models and assist consumers in bringing about changes to improve the environment, work condition, or other factors that affect health.

8.       Nurses provide the best possible patient care when they base.
A)     Their strength on empirical evidence.
B)      Their strength of evidence increases.
C)      Their practices on scientific evidence.

9.       A common description for health is?
A)     A disease unfree state
B)      A disease state
C)      A disease-free state

10.   THE World Health Organization (WHO) calls health
A)     A culture of social cultural state of wellness
B)      A state of incomplete and physical well being
C)      A state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.

11.    Sociologists view health as?
A)     A cultural values of complete state of mind
B)      A condition that allows for the pursuit and enjoyment of desired cultural value.
C)      A culture that allows the activities of daily living.

12.    One of the nurse’s primary functions is to assist
A)     Patients in reaching an optimal level of wellness.
B)      Patients maximize their diverse cultural values
C)      Patients view their health and community wellness

13.    Illness may be defined as?
A)     A sickness or deviation from a healthy state.
B)      A state of unhealthiness
C)      A state of valuation from a healthy state

14.    Illness may be?
A)     Accurate and chronic
B)      Acute and chronic
C)      Critical and accurate

15.    Chronic illness refers to a condition
A)     Shortest expected period of illness and health condition
B)      Typically has a slower onset, less intensity and a longer duration than acute illness
C)      A shorter and more intense illness.

16.   When a person experience an illness, one or more changes occur that signal its presence. Theses includes
A)     Sensory changes.
B)      Changes in body appearance or function
C)      All of the above

17.    One of these is not an effects of illness
A)     Changes in relationship
B)      Changes in community
C)      Changes in emotional status

18.    The presence of illness in a family can have a dramatic effect on.
A)     Sensory movement
B)      The functioning of the family as a unit
C)      Family morals

19.    The effect of illness in a family depends on the following factors:
A)     The seriousness  and duration of the illness
B)      Which family member is ill
C)      All of the above



20.   One of these is not an effect of illness on the family
A)     The family’s social and cultural customs
B)      Health benefits and promotions
C)      The seriousness and duration of the illness

21.    Research shows that poor health practices contribute
A)     Serious economic and child care problems.
B)       To a wide range of illness, a shortened life spans and increased health care costs.
C)      Neighborhood illness and lower health care costs for communities.

22.   In good health practices
A)     The person must depend on support systems for help or people face additional stress
B)      It can benefits most people no matter when they started
C)      Can have opposite effect

23.    Stopping cigarette smoking has immediate and long-term benefits
A) Immediately, the patient will experience stressful movement and critical condition
B) Immediately, the patient will experience unimproved health condition and circulation of pulse rate.
C) Immediately, the patient will experience improved circulation, pulse rate and blood pressure.

24.   After 10 years without smoking, the patient will cut his risk of dying from lung cancer in
A)     Quarter
B)      Half
C)      Figures

25.   Health promotion is
A)     Teaching good health practices and finding ways to help people correct their poor health practices.
B)      Teaching good health practices and giving false hope to health concise people.
C)      Teaching good health practices and moving people from one geographical location to another.

26.     The project ‘’Healthy people 2020 sets forth comprehensive health goals for:
 A)  The nation to help community develop the health sector.
 B)  The nation with the aim of reducing mortality and morbidity in all ages.
 C)  The nation wants all citizens to adhere to health information and policy.

27.   The US department of Health and Human services identifies a set of health improvement objectives for the next decade. ‘’Healthy people 2020’’ include.
A)  Create social objectives and health goals for all.
B)  Measurable healthy and success rate among infant, toddlers & teenagers.
C)  Eliminate preventable diseases, disability, injury and premature death.

28.    The US department of Health and Human services identifies a set of health improvement objectives for the next decade. ‘’Healthy people 2020’’ Exclude.
A)     Achieve health equity, eliminate disparities and improve the health of all groups.
B)      Create social and physical environments good health for all.
C)      Uncomfortable physical manifestation.

29.   Adult between the age of _________________ may fall victim to several health problems, including heart disease and cancer
A)     25 and 75
B)      25 and 74
C)      25 and 64

30.   Some of these problems stem from?
A)     General predisposition
B)      Genital predisposition
C)      Genetic predisposition

31.   Many of these health problem are linked to unhealthy habits, such as
A)     Overeating
B)      Dancing
C)      None of the above

32.   Many of these health problems are linked to unhealthy habits. Excluding
A)     Creativity
B)      Lack of exercise
C)      Alcohol and use of drugs

33.   Today, people live longer than ever before
A)     True
B)      False
C)      Never

34.    In the past century, life expectancy in the United States has increased from
A)     46 years to about 78
B)      47 years to about 78
C)      48 years to about 79

35.   Most elderly people suffer from at least
 A) Many chronic health problems
 B) One chronic health problem
 C) Severe chronic health problem

36.   Emphasize that aging is?
A)     A state of mind as well as body
B)      Weakness of the body
C)      None of the above

37.   Recommend to elderly patient
A) To avoid driving at night or using high power machine
B) To sit around and move slowly
C) They attend a hospital –or community sponsored seminar on retirement.


38.   Which trait isn’t a characteristic of a critical thinker?
A)     Desire for truth
B)      Relying on tradition
C)      Open-mindedness

39.   The effect of illness on a family unit depends on several factors, including:
A)     When illness occurs
B)      At what point the patient sought care
C)      Which family member is affected

40.   Which action is an example of health promotion?
A)     Assisting a patient in smoking cessation
B)      Administering any kind of drug to ease pain
C)      None of the above


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