One of your staff nurses asks for your advice because a patient refuses to sign a consent for surgery. The patient says that he won't sign because he doesn't understand the nature of the sur-gery. You advise that (select all that apply):
a. Consent must not be coerced.
b. The patient has a right to choose not to consent.
c. The patient must sign the consent because the doctor wants him to sign.
d. Witnessing a consent is related only to the voluntary nature of the signature.
Question 2Individual culture should be considered when planning an exercise program.
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Question 3After a year, the staff at Pacific Hospital is frustrated, and implementation of evidence-based practice has gone poorly. In responding to this situation, the strategic planning team at Pacific Hospital:
a. Recommends that the mission, objectives, and goals of the hospital be reassessed.
b. Revises the goal statements in the strategic plan.
c. Consults an external team on preparation of materials on evidence-based practice.
d. Holds focus groups with staff to deter-mine what kinds of issues, challenges, and obstacles have occurred in implementa-tion.
Question 4Which of the following is an example of a focus area for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)?
a. Developing safer food handling practices
b. Eliminating risks for the use of pesticides
c. Monitoring the testing of chemicals sold in the marketplace
d. Studying the occurrence of health effects in humans
Question 5Jenny tells you that she is always able to tell when others are about to become violent because they yell. Your response to Jenny is based on your understanding that:
a. Her perception is accurate.
b. Yelling is more likely associated with ag-gression.
c. Violence is signaled by a variety of beha-viors.
d. She is mostly accurate in her thinking.
Question 6The responsibility of developing the unit culture for evidence-based practice belongs to the:
a. staff nurses.
b. unit manager.
c. medical director.
d. chief executive officer.
Question 7The Office of National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (HIT) was created by:
a. President Barack Obama.
b. President George W. Bush.
c. Hillary Clinton.
d. President Bill Clinton.
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