Answer to Question 1
ANS: 1
Cognitive skills involve the application of nursing knowledge. Being able to identify a client's discharge needs is a cognitive skill. Interactive skills are interpersonal skills such as developing a trusting relationship and communicating effectively. Psychomotor skills involve the integration of cognitive and motor skills such as with administering an injection. Effective communication is an interpersonal skill. The nurse communicates with the client and family when providing client teaching and emotional support. The nurse communicates with the health care team to achieve client outcomes.
Answer to Question 2
ANS: 4
Cognitive skills involve the application of nursing knowledge. Understanding normal and ab-normal physiological and psychological responses is a cognitive skill, as in recognizing the poten-tial complications of a blood transfusion. Providing a soothing bed bath involves both interper-sonal skills and psychomotor skills. The nurse who provides a soothing bed bath is expressing a level of caring that is an interpersonal skill. The nurse who provides a soothing bed bath is also using a psychomotor skill in performing the bed bath correctly. Communicating with the client and family is an example of an interpersonal skill. Giving an injection to the client is a psycho-motor skill.
Magnet hospital nurse requirements
Fluid Replacement Drugs
Using small, circular strokes, exfoliate the client’s neck and back.
Building a Client Base
Testing the Achilles tendon reflex with client in a sitting position
Removal and replacement of RNA primer nucleotides and ligation of Okazaki fragments in E. coli