What is the primary purpose of the American Nurses Association-Political Action Committees (ANA-PACs)?
a. Persuade public officials to work for leg-islation nurses consider important.
b. Influence the outcome of elections.
c. Prevent bills that are negative for nursing from being introduced in Congress.
d. Attempt to change the minds of legislators already serving in Congress.
Select all items from the list below that are characteristics of effective managers.
a. Optimistic
b. Insensitive to negative comments
c. Identifies restraining forces
d. Distrusts everyone
e. Goal directed
While evaluating a postcolon cancer surgery client who has a new colostomy, the nurse notes that the client is in the denial stage of the grieving process.
Select the response by the nurse that best facilitates the client's progression through the grieving process.
a. Interpret the denial for the client and point out that it is part of the grieving process.
b. Confront the client's denial as an unrealis-tic response.
c. Support the client in his denial.
d. Accept the denial as one of the stages in the grieving process.
A client receives an autograft of skin from his abdomen to his right arm after suffering a third-degree burn from a campfire. Select the instructions by the nurse that best insure that the newly grafted skin is not rejected.
a. Decrease your protein intake to 60 grams per day.
b. Increase your fluid intake to 2 to 3 liters per day.
c. Avoid going outside for 2 weeks after you are discharged from the hospital.
d. Keep your right arm in a sling with mi-nimal range of motion for 2 weeks.
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