A client's caregiver opens the door to the client's home, and the home health nurse enters to find the elderly client sitting up in a chair. The client states, I have not been myself lately and I am hearing things that frighten me.
The nurse assesses the client and discusses with her that the new medication that the physician put her on may be causing these symptoms. The caregiver states, She was like this before she was put on the medicine. As she charts, the nurse comments on the flowers that the client received and states that they are beautiful. What nontherapeutic communication technique occurred?
A) Changing the subject
B) Exhibiting judgmental behaviors
C) Stereotyping the individual
D) Failing to listen
Question 2A nurse uses the nurse-client relationship to facilitate healing in a client. Which of the following statements best describes the role of the nurse in healing?
A) To assist with physiological recovery from an illness
B) To facilitate another person's growth and life processes toward wholeness
C) To assist with psychological recovery from an illness
D) To facilitate the body and mind in the transition to death
Question 3A client has been diagnosed with cancer and is alone when she is told. The nurse sits down at her bedside and engages in therapeutic communication. What is the most effective therapeutic communication technique listed by Sundeen and colleagues in
in the process of effective communication?
A) Authenticity
B) Empathy
C) Clarification
D) Listening
Question 4The nurse arrives to the unit with a headache and is assigned five patients for the night shift. One of her clients, Client A, is having surgery the next day and has a bowel prep ordered for the night shift.
As the nurse and the client come together and discuss the plans for the night, the nurse and the client communicate expectations and ideas for obtaining the goal of readiness for surgery. The prep is delivered, the nurse's headache has subsided, and by 6 a.m. the next morning, both are satisfied that the client has met the physiological and psychological readiness to make the surgery a success. What term best describes this scenario?
A) Mutuality
B) Respect
C) Reciprocity
D) Helper relationship
Question 5There are several theories that have been developed that outline the stages of a nurse-client relationship. Peplau developed one theory utilizing concepts from psychiatry. What are the phases of Peplau's theory?
A) Trust formation, resistance, working, and termination
B) Preparation, initiation, exploration, and termination
C) Orientation, identification, exploitation, and resolution
D) Original encounter, emerging identities, empathy, sympathy, and rapport
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