Published - Thu, 23 Feb 2023

NCLEX-PN Exam Questions - Part 63

1. Which of the following factors can impact an individual - s ability to give informed consent?

A) IQ
B) educational level
C) pain medications
D) financial status

2. There are many types of torts that can be committed against clients. They include all of the following except:

A) assault.
B) battery.
C) negligence.
D) felony.

3. American families are having difficulty adequately performing their vital health care function. What are the basic reasons for this difficulty?

A) structure of the health care system and family structure
B) psychological factors for men and women seeking health care
C) conditions being labeled disabilities and seen as too time consuming
D) health care organizations (HMOs) and disconnected families

4. Kleinman - s Explanatory Model of Health and Illness is significant because:

A) it explains what kind of health beliefs a family is likely to have.
B) it brings out the importance of culture in forming health explanations.
C) it discusses the important role that popular and folk domains of influence have.
D) it has an educational base to the structure.

5. An example of an extended care facility is a:

A) home health agency.
B) suicide prevention center.
C) state-owned psychiatric hospital.
D) nursing facility.

1. Right Answer: C
Explanation: Pain medications might alter alertness, thought processes, and reactions. It is recommended that a client be approached for consent at least 4 hours after the last dose of pain medicine to allow minimal impact. Choices 1, 2, and 4 are incorrect. IQ and educational levels might have a bearing on how information is presented through the discussion process, but they do not have a bearing on informed-consent decision-making. Coordinated Care

2. Right Answer: D
Explanation: Felonies are serious crimes punishable by time in prison. Types of torts are assault, battery, and negligence in addition to slander, invasion of privacy, false imprisonment, and fraud. Coordinated Care

3. Right Answer: A
Explanation: Scholars suggest that the reasons families are having difficulty providing health care for their members lies with both the structure of the health care system and the family structure. Major factors explaining differences in utilization patterns of medical services include the lack of healthcare insurance coverage, lack of services for special populations (that is, teenage males), perception by families of the health care system and the health care provider, and lack of partnership between health care providers and families in mutually addressing health care issues. Health Promotion and Maintenance

4. Right Answer: C
Explanation: The anthropologist Kleinman makes a distinction between disease and illness. Disease is the health care professionals biomedical understanding of the health problem, while illness is the clients personal and unique understanding and definition of what is happening to him. The theorist states that cultural factors determine the importance of the various domains of influence. Health Promotion and Maintenance

5. Right Answer: D
Explanation: When an elderly client has been hospitalized for an illness, under Medicare he or she can be transferred to a nursing facility. Health Promotion and Maintenance

80% DISCOUNT: SPHR PRACTICE EXAMS