MULTIPLE CHOICE

 1. What provides direction for individualized care and assures the delivery of accurate, safe

care through a definitive pathway that promotes the client’s and the support persons’

progress toward positive outcomes?

a. Physician’s orders

b. Progress notes

c. Nursing care plan

d. Client health history

ANS: C

The nursing care plan provides direction for individualized care and assures the delivery of

accurate, safe care through a definitive pathway that promotes the client’s and the support

persons’ progress toward positive outcomes.

DIF: Cognitive Level: Comprehension REF: p. 2 OBJ: 1

TOP: Nursing Care Plan KEY: Nursing Process Step: Planning

MSC: NCLEX: Physiological Integrity: Reduction of Risk

 2. The nurse is performing behaviors and actions that assist clients and significant others in

meeting their needs and the identified outcomes of the plan of care. What is the correct

term for these nursing behaviors?

a. Assessments

b. Interventions

c. Planning

d. Evaluation

ANS: B

Caring interventions are those nursing behaviors and actions that assist clients and

significant others in meeting their needs and the identified outcomes of the plan of care.

DIF: Cognitive Level: Comprehension REF: p. 3 OBJ: 1

TOP: Interventions KEY: Nursing Process Step: Planning

MSC: NCLEX: Physiological Integrity: Reduction of Risk

 3. The nurse understands the importance of being answerable for all actions and the

possibility of being called on to explain or justify them. What term best describes this

concept?

a. Reliability

b. Maturity

c. Accountability

d. Liability

ANS: C

Accountability means that a person is answerable for his or her actions and may be called

on to explain or justify them.

DIF: Cognitive Level: Comprehension REF: pp. 6-7 OBJ: 3 | 5 | 7