Published - Thu, 23 Feb 2023

NCLEX-PN Exam Questions - Part 113

1. People-related supervisory tasks include all of the following except:

A) coaching.
B) encouraging.
C) target setting.
D) rewarding.

2. After the client discusses her relationship with her father, the nurse says, 'Tell me whether I am understanding your relationship with your father. You feel dominated and controlled by him?' This is an example of:

A) verbalizing the implied.
B) seeking consensual validation.
C) encouraging evaluation.
D) suggesting collaboration.

3. The best definition of communication is:

A) the sending and receiving of messages.
B) the effect of sending verbal messages.
C) an ongoing, interactive form of transmitting transactions.
D) the use of message variables to send information.

4. The nurse supporting a family who has just experienced a sudden and unexpected death needs to know:

A) that survivors have greater emotional turmoil and shock than when death is expected.
B) that survivors have less emotional turmoil and shock than when death is expected.
C) that survivors have the same emotional turmoil and shock as when death is expected.
D) that survivors have little emotional turmoil and shock because they were not there.

5. A mother has just given birth to a baby who died soon after. The mother has been crying and states, 'I can - t believe this has happened to me. I did everything right during this pregnancy.' How should the nurse respond to this mother?

A) Tell her she did nothing wrong; it was God - s will.
B) Tell her she can have another baby.
C) Tell her that her behavior is not going to solve anything.
D) Tell her nothing and let her mourn this loss in the manner she chooses.

1. Right Answer: D
Explanation: Target-setting is the projection of goals or objectives to be accomplished and is considered to be a task-centered, supervisory responsibility. Coaching, encouraging, rewarding, evaluating, and facilitating are supervisory activities that are people related as they involve direct interaction with those doing the work.Coordinated Care

2. Right Answer: B
Explanation: Consensual validation is a technique used to check ones understanding of what the client has said. Consensual validation is the process by which people come to agreement about the meaning and significance of specific symbols. Through this experience, individuals develop the ability to relate effectively. PsychosocialIntegrity

3. Right Answer: C
Explanation: Communication is a personal, interactive system a series of ever-changing, ongoing transactions in the environment. Transmissions are simultaneously received (decoded), sent (encoded), and influenced by the total of experiences and perceptions of the receivers and senders. Through communication and interaction with others, an individual develops a sense of identity and being. Communication is the basis of a persons self-concept and the relationship of this self to another individual, to a group of people, and to the world. Psychosocial Integrity

4. Right Answer: A
Explanation: Sudden death produces greater emotional turmoil and shock in survivors than does a gradual, expected death.Survivors do not have time to engage in anticipatory grief. The most disturbing and unbalancing feature of sudden death is its unexpectedness. Psychosocial Integrity

5. Right Answer: D
Explanation: Perinatal loss is a great tragedy for the parents. A bereaved mother must resolve the crisis of perinatal loss in addition to the crisis of pregnancy. Such a loss is described as losing part of ones self loss of self-worth. The perinatal grief response must involve attachment and detachment as a part of the mourning process. Psychosocial Integrity

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