While Talking with the Nursing Supervisor, a Graduate RN Expresses

question 10

Multiple Choice

While talking with the nursing supervisor, a graduate RN expresses frustration that a Mexican American client always has several family members at the bedside. The most appropriate action by the nursing supervisor to help the graduate RN become a patient advocate is to

• A) ask about the graduate RN's personal beliefs about family support during hospitalization.
• B) remind the graduate RN that this cultural practice is important to the family and the patient.
• C) suggest that the graduate RN ask family members to leave the room during patient care.
• D) have the graduate RN explain to the family that too many visitors will tire the patient.

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Definitions:

Reciprocal Determinism

A psychological principle indicating that an individual's actions are simultaneously shaped by and shape their own characteristics and the surrounding milieu.

Self-serving Bias

The common tendency to attribute positive events to one's own character but attribute negative events to external factors.

Self-esteem

An individual's subjective evaluation of their own worth, encompassing beliefs about oneself as well as emotional states.

Extraversion

A personality trait marked by outgoingness, high energy, and positive emotions towards social interactions.