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Copyright © 2011 Wolters Kluwer Health | Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. Study Guide for Fundamentals of Nursing:10.List four areas a nurse should consider when
seeking to develop a sense of legal and ethical
accountability to a patient.
a.
b.
c.
d.APPLYING YOUR KNOWLEDGE
CRITICAL THINKING QUESTIONS
1.Assess your personal blend of the skills nurses
need: cognitive, technical, interpersonal, and
ethical/legal. Would you want you to be your
nurse? What skills do you need to develop to
meet the needs of those entrusted to your care?
2.Think about major health problems on
campus. How might the school of nursing use
the nursing process to address one or more of
these problems? Do you as a nursing student
have an obligation to address the health prob-
lems you encounter?
3.Think about a stressful situation you had to
deal with, such as changing a course of study,
accepting a job in another city, dealing with a
sick relative, deciding on a life partner, and so
on. What methods did you use to weigh all
your options in making this decision? Where
did you turn for information or assistance?
How did you reach your final decision? Relate
the method you used in your life to the mod-
els of problem solving listed in this chapter.
Which process most accurately describes your
personal process of problem solving? Compare
this process to the nursing process.
4.Write down all the qualities you admire in
your friends. What is it about them that
makes you respect them? What attributes of
their personality don’t you like? How might
this knowledge help you to understand your
responses to patients with different personal-
ity traits? Are some patients more worthy of
your respect than others? Do you feel your
attitude toward a patient affects the outcome
of treatment?REFLECTIVE PRACTICE USING CRITICAL
THINKING SKILLS
Use the following expanded scenario from
Chapter 11 in your textbook to answer the
questions below.
Scenario:Charlotte Horvath is a single mother
whose 5-year-old daughter is to be discharged
soon. Ms. Horvath is scheduled to learn how to
perform wound care for her daughter at home
but has missed every planned teaching session
thus far. When questioned by the nurse, Ms.
Horvath says she doesn’t have enough time to
put a decent meal on the table, let alone learn
how to take care of a wound at home. Ms. Hor-
vath works the evening shift and has a babysit-
ter stay with her children from immediately
after school until midnight.
1.How might the nurse use blended nursing
skills to respond to this patient situation?2.What would be a successful outcome for this
patient and her family?3.What intellectual, technical, interpersonal,
and/or ethical/legal competencies are most
likely to bring about the desired outcome?4.What resources might be helpful for
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