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joblessjake · **on:** Jul 23, 2018

Nurses must collaborate effectively with patients to find treatment methods that are congruent with the patients' belief systems and that promote healthy outcomes. This approach requires:

a. focusing on patient values only and disregard family desires in setting goals.
b. relying more and more on their scientific background.
c. listening carefully to how the patient's beliefs impact their health beliefs.
d. Understanding that the nurse's beliefs are the most important.

Question 2

The nurse is discussing the use of a values clarification tool with a patient. The patient asks, What is the goal of the values clarification tool? Which is the best response by the nurse?

a. The tool will help change your value system so that you can make the right decision.
b. The tool will dispel your current beliefs and formulate brand new ones.
c. The tool will assist you in prioritizing your value preferences and help you make decisions.
d. The tool allows you to make decisions without the need of self-awareness.

Pariscourtney · **Reply #1 on:** Jul 23, 2018

Answer to Question 1

ANS: C
Nurses must collaborate effectively with patients to find treatment methods that are congruent with the patients' belief systems and that promote healthy outcomes. This approach requires excellent assessment skills and a willingness to listen carefully to determine how patients' personal beliefs impact their health beliefs. Incorporating patient values and beliefs into a plan of care requires that patients and their families or primary caregivers be actively involved in establishing goals and outcome criteria. As nurses learn about their discipline, their paradigm (or worldview) gradually changes to one based on a body of knowledge that focuses on scientific principles and dismisses as superstition other explanations for the presence of disease or illness. Research shows that the beliefs of nurses and other health care workers are equally important factors in determining how patients are treated.

Answer to Question 2

ANS: C
Values clarification is a process used to help people reflect on, clarify, and prioritize personal values to increase self-awareness or to make decisions. Nurses can use values clarification to help patients identify the nature of a conflict and reach a decision based on their values.