Author Question: The nurse does not know the answer to a question posed by a client. Which of these actions should ... (Read 43 times)

renzo156 · **on:** Jul 22, 2018

The nurse does not know the answer to a question posed by a client. Which of these actions should the nurse take?

a. Admit not knowing but offer to find out.
b. Give the client literature pertaining to the subject.
c. Suggest the client ask the health care provider.
d. Tell the client what a possibly correct answer may be.

Question 2

The Nightingale School of Nursing was the first school of nursing that:

a. admitted both female and male students
b. offered a nursing program at no cost to students
c. required a year of college studies before students were admitted
d. provided both theory-based knowledge and clinical skill building

juliaf · **Reply #1 on:** Jul 22, 2018

Answer to Question 1

A
A trusting relationship between nurse and client can occur only when the client perceives a nurse as being dependable and responsible in a caregiving situation. When the nurse admits to not knowing information but offers to find out, this allows the client to trust the nurse.

Answer to Question 2

D
The Nightingale Training School for Nurses at St. Thomas's Hospital in London recognized that there is a body of nursing knowledge distinct from medical knowledge. Among Nightingale's major contributions to nursing as it is practiced today are using a systematic method of client assessment, individualizing care on the basis of client needs and preferences, advocating confidentiality in client care, seeing nurses as client advocates, using a holistic framework for nursing and nursing education, identifying the necessity of a liberal education as the foundation of nursing practice, and pointing out the importance of the environment to the healing process by provided both theory-based knowledge and clinical skill building.