Table of Contents Table of Contents 1 Chapter 01: Professional Nursing 3 Chapter 02: Health Equity and Culturally Competent Care 13 Chapter 03: Health History and Physical Examination 21 Chapter 04: Patient and Caregiver Teaching 28 Chapter 05: Chronic Illness and Older Adults 38 Chapter 06: Stress Management 48 Chapter 07: Sleep and Sleep Disorders 54 Chapter 08: Pain 59 Chapter 09: Palliative and End of Life Care 71 Chapter 10: Substance Use Disorders 79 Chapter 11: Inflammation and Healing 91 Chapter 12: Genetics 101 Chapter 13: Immune Responses and Transplantation 105 Chapter 14: Infection 117 Chapter 15: Cancer 129 Chapter 16: Fluid, Electrolyte, and Acid-Base Imbalances 148 Chapter 17: Preoperative Care 165 Chapter 18: Intraoperative Care 175 Chapter 19: Postoperative Care 184 Chapter 20: Assessment and Management: Visual Problems 196 Chapter 21: Assessment and Management: Auditory Problems 216 Chapter 22: Assessment: Integumentary System 227 Chapter 23: Integumentary Problems 233 Chapter 24: Burns 245 Chapter 25: Assessment: Respiratory System 259 Chapter 26: Upper Respiratory Problems 270 Chapter 27: Lower Respiratory Problems 282 Chapter 28: Obstructive Pulmonary Diseases 305 Chapter 29: Assessment: Hematologic System 325 Chapter 30: Hematologic Problems 332 Chapter 31: Assessment: Cardiovascular System 353 Chapter 32: Hypertension 364 Chapter 33: Coronary Artery Disease and Acute Coronary Syndrome 375 Chapter 34: Heart Failure 394 Chapter 01: Professional Nursing Test Bank MULTIPLE CHOICE The nurse teaches a student nurse about how to apply the nursing process when providing patient care. Which statement, if made by the student nurse, indicates that teaching was successful? The nursing process is a scientific-based method of diagnosing the patients health care problems. The nursing process is a problem-solving tool used to identify and treat patients health care needs. The nursing process is based on nursing theory that incorporates the biopsychosocial nature of humans. The nursing process is used primarily to explain nursing interventions to other health care professionals. ANS: B The nursing process is a problem-solving approach to the identification and treatment of patients problems. Diagnosis is only one phase of the nursing process. The primary use of the nursing process is in patient care, not to establish nursing theory or explain nursing interventions to other health care professionals. DIF: Cognitive Level: Understand (comprehension) TOP: Nursing Process: Implementation MSC: NCLEX: Safe and Effective Care Environment The nurse describes to a student nurse how to use evidence-based practice guidelines when caring for patients. Which statement, if made by the nurse, would be the most accurate? Inferences from clinical research studies are used as a guide. Patient care is based on clinical judgment, experience, and traditions. Data are evaluated to show that the p