Chapter 13: Understanding and Dealing Successfully With Difficult Behavior

Nursing Now, Today's Issues, Tomorrows Trends 7th Edition by Joseph T. Catalano

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Chapter 13: Understanding and Dealing Successfully With Difficult Behavior

 

Complete Chapter Questions With Answers

 

Sample Questions Are Posted Below

 

MULTIPLE CHOICE

 

  1. Learning forgiveness is a skill that tends to counteract which of the following childhood survival mechanisms?
A) Self-centeredness
B) Jealousy
C) Hording
D) Anxiety

 

 

ANS:  A                    PTS:   1                    DIF:    Medium

TOP:   Understanding and Dealing Successfully With Difficult Behavior

KEY:  Cognitive Domain: Application | Integrated Process: Evaluation | Client Need: Safe and Effective Care Environment

 

  1. Which one of the following is a key to understanding people displaying difficult behavior?
A) Understanding how they use communication blockers
B) Avoiding their sharp vocal barbs
C) Identifying what goals they are trying to achieve
D) Recognizing that perception is 90 percent of behavior

 

 

ANS:  C                    PTS:   1                    DIF:    Medium

TOP:   Understanding and Dealing Successfully With Difficult Behavior

KEY:  Cognitive Domain: Application | Integrated Process: Evaluation | Client Need: Safe and Effective Care Environment

 

  1. What is a primary tactic that is used by a person displaying persecutor behavior?
A) Backstabbing
B) Inconsistent behavior
C) Leading gossip sessions
D) Finger-pointing

 

 

ANS:  B                    PTS:   1                    DIF:    Medium

TOP:   Understanding and Dealing Successfully With Difficult Behavior

KEY:  Cognitive Domain: Analysis | Integrated Process: Planning | Client Need: Safe and Effective Care Environment

 

  1. Which of the following goals has the highest priority for the nurse to achieve when helping a patient work through the stages of grief?
A) Help the patient work his or her way through the stages of grief until he or she reaches resolution.
B) Monitor the patient’s emotional expressions for signs of suicide.
C) Keep contact sessions with the patient short and to the point.
D) Provide the best care possible so that the patient will survive and recover from his or her illness by meeting physiological and safety needs.

 

 

ANS:  D                    PTS:   1                    DIF:    Medium

TOP:   Understanding and Dealing Successfully With Difficult Behavior

KEY:  Cognitive Domain: Application | Integrated Process: Planning | Client Need: Safe and Effective Care Environment

 

  1. What is one of the major differences between coworkers’ difficulty behavior and the difficult behavior displayed by patients?
A) Coworkers’ behavior is driven by work-oriented goals.
B) Patients’ difficult behavior is much easier to resolve.
C) Patients’ difficult behavior usually involves meeting the needs of the lower levels of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs.
D) Coworkers’ difficulty behavior must be addressed directly for best results.

 

 

ANS:  C                    PTS:   1                    DIF:    Medium

TOP:   Understanding and Dealing Successfully With Difficult Behavior

KEY:  Cognitive Domain: Application | Integrated Process: Planning | Client Need: Safe and Effective Care Environment

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