Practice Question
A nurse is caring for a hospitalized client who is experiencing sensory overload due to the hospital environment. Which of the following actions should the nurse take?
Answer Choices:
Correct Answer:
Provide the client with earplugs.
Rationale:
🔹 Sensory overload results from excessive stimuli; earplugs reduce auditory input, promoting calm.
🔹 This intervention supports rest and recovery, especially in ICU or busy hospital units.
🔹 Managing sensory input is crucial to prevent delirium, anxiety, and agitation.
🔹 Earplugs are a non-pharmacologic strategy, often preferred in comfort-based nursing care.
🔹 It addresses the environmental factor, which is often modifiable, enhancing the client's healing environment.
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This question is from Custom NUR 109 Final Assessment Summer~2025 which contains 44 questions.
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A nursing student is preparing a presentation on cultural competence for a group of fellow nursing students. Which of the following statements should the student include in their explanation to best describe cultural competence in nursing?
Answer Choices:
A. "Cultural competence involves understanding and respecting diverse cultural backgrounds and incorporating this understanding into client care to improve outcomes and client satisfaction.'
B. "Cultural competence requires that nurses adopt the cultural practices of their clients to provide the best care,"
C. "Cultural competence means that healthcare providers must follow a standardized approach to care that applies to all clients, regardless of their cultural background."
D. "Cultural competence is only necessary when caring for clients from cultures that are significantly different from one’s own."
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Answer Choices:
A. Aggravating and alleviating factors.
B. Exacerbation, with associated signs and symptoms.
C. Intensity, temporal characteristics, and functional impact.
D. Location, quality, and duration.
A nurse is preparing a teaching plan for a client who speaks limited English and is scheduled for a surgical procedure. Which of the following guidelines should the nurse plan to use when selecting written educational materials for the client? (Select all that apply.)
Answer Choices:
A. use materials written in the client's spoken language.
B. Provide a variety of educational materials.
C. use materials written at a twelve-grade level.
D. use pictures.
E. Choose materials that include culturally relevant information and examples.
A nurse is educating a client about the wellness-illness continuum. Which of the following statements by the client indicates an understanding of the concept?
Answer Choices:
A. 'The wellness-illness continuum is used to categorize individuals into distinct health categories, such as healthy or sick."
B. "The wellness-illness continuum focuses on a person's ability to stay completely well without any variations in health status."
C. "The continuum recognizes that health is multidimensional and includes physical, mental, and social well-being."
D. The wellness-illness continuum is a model that shows a person's health moving between complete wellness and complete illness in a linear fashion."
A nurse is caring for a client who has an eating disorder. The nurse is practicing which of the following ethical concepts when the client refuses to drink a between meal protein and calorie supplement?
Answer Choices:
A. Beneficence
B. Autonomy
C. Veracity.
D. Confidentiality
Question Details
- Category: RN Nursing Exam(s)
- Subcategory: ATI Exam(s)
- Domain: RN Custom Exam(s)
- Answer Choices: 4