ATI LPN
Foundations and Adult Health Nursing Test Bank
Chapter 39 Questions
Question 1 of 5
When planning care for children, the nurse uses a concept that recognizes the pivotal role of the family in the lives of children with disabilities or other chronic conditions. What is this philosophy called?
Correct Answer: C
Rationale: Family-centered care is an evolving concept that uses the family as equal partners in the rehabilitation process.
Question 2 of 5
The rehabilitation nurse assesses localized edema around the knee of a patient with paraplegia. The nurse suspects that this is the first sign of ossification.
Correct Answer: heterotopic
Rationale: Heterotopic ossification is a bony growth in joints of spinal cord injury patients below the injury that ultimately limits range of motion.
Question 3 of 5
The patient with a brain injury is beginning to regain memory. The nurse explains to the family that what will most likely occur?
Correct Answer: C
Rationale: Generally, the more the memory improves, the more the patient becomes depressed.
Question 4 of 5
A 33-year-old patient with a spinal cord injury says to the nurse, 'I've let my family down. I don't know what to do.' What would be the best response by the nurse?
Correct Answer: C
Rationale: The patient should be encouraged to express his or her feelings about the disability.
Question 5 of 5
The nurse explains that the main roles of the gerontological rehabilitation nurse are to provide rehabilitative care and what other role?
Correct Answer: B
Rationale: Teaching prevention is the dual role of the geriatric rehabilitation nurse. Restoration, adaptive skills, and positive reinforcements are all part of providing rehabilitative care.