Which represents the greatest potential barrier to effective communication?
1. The nurse gives discharge instructions to a couple in their early 80s.
2. The nurse manager hires a new nurse originally from the Philippines.
3. The emergency nurse receives a client via ambulance transferred for confusion.
4. The nurse obtains an admission history from the parents of an adopted child.
Question 2
A nurse has just attended a conference, and is expected to present the highlights to colleagues. As an inexperienced speaker, this nurse is practicing her speech delivery.
Which statement indicates a lack of understanding how easily this communication could be distorted?
1. I know I can better connect with my audience with good eye contact.
2. If I repeat a complicated point in another way, comprehension can be improved.
3. The topic is not complicated, so I don't have to worry about misunderstanding.
4. If I know the background of the audience, it can help me tailor the content.
B, The nurse teaches the postoperative client to use an incentive spirometer to expand the lungs.
Application of an ostomy bag or pouch: B, An ostomy nurse applying an ostomy bag to a stoma;
Nurse collaboration
The action potential.
The voltage-gated channel cycles during an action potential
The Ames test, which screens compounds for potential mutagenicity