Question: The nursing diagnosis rape trauma syndrome applies to a rape victim in the emergency department. Which outcome should occur before the patient’s discharge?
Answer Choices: a. Patient states, “I feel safe and entirely relaxed.” b. Memory of the rape is less vivid and frightening c. Physical symptoms of pain and discomfort are no longer present. d. Patient agrees to keep a follow-up appointment with the rape crisis center.
Answer: d. Patient agrees to keep a follow-up appointment with the rape crisis center.
Question: The nurse cares for a victim of a violent sexual assault. What is the most therapeutic intervention?
Answer Choices: a. Use accepting, nurturing, and empathetic communication techniques. b. Educate the victim about strategies to avoid attacks in the future. c. Discourage the expression of feelings until the victim stabilizes. d. Maintain a matter-of-fact manner and objectivity.
Answer: a. Use accepting, nurturing, and empathetic communication techniques.
Question: What is the primary motivator for most rapists?
Answer Choices: a. Anxiety b. Need for humiliation c. Overwhelming sexual desires d. Desire to inflict violence or control others
Answer: d. Desire to inflict violence or control others
Question: A nurse working a rape telephone hotline should focus communication with callers toward what intervention?
Answer Choices: a. Arranging long-term counseling b. Serving as a sympathetic listener c. Obtaining information to relay to the local police d. Explaining immediate steps that a victim of rape should take
Answer: d. Explaining immediate steps that a victim of rape should take
Question: A rape victim tells the emergency department nurse, “I feel so dirty. Please let me take a shower before the doctor examines me.” How should the nurse respond to the request?
Answer Choices: a. Arrange for the patient to shower. b. Explain that washing would destroy evidence. c. Give the patient a basin of hot water and towels. d. Instruct the victim to wash above the waist only.
Answer: b. Explain that washing would destroy evidence.
Question: Which situation constitutes consensual sex rather than rape?
Answer Choices: a. After coming home intoxicated from a party, a person forces the spouse to have sex. The spouse objects. b. A person’s lover pleads to have oral sex. The person gives in but then regrets the decision. c. A person is beaten, robbed, and forcibly subjected to anal penetration by an assailant. d. A physician gives anesthesia for a procedure and has intercourse with an unconscious patient.
Answer: b. A person’s lover pleads to have oral sex. The person gives in but then regrets the decision.
Question: When a victim of sexual assault is discharged from the emergency department, the nurse should arrange for which intervention?
Answer Choices: a. Secure support from the victim’s family. b. Provide referral information verbally and in writing. c. Advise the victim to try not to think about the assault. d. Offer to stay with the victim until stability is regained.
Answer: b. Provide referral information verbally and in writing.
Question: A victim of a sexual assault that occurred approximately 1 hour earlier sits in the emergency department rocking back and forth and repeatedly saying, “I can’t believe I’ve been raped.” This behavior is characteristic of which phase of the rape trauma syndrome?
Answer Choices: a. Anger phase b. Acute phase c. Outward adjustment phase d. Long-term reorganization phase
Answer: b. Acute phase
Question: Which of the following terms is defined as the potential of gaining or losing something of value?
Answer Choices: a. Redundancy b. Risk c. Certainty d. Liability
Answer: b. Risk
Question: Which of the following is true of software testing?
Answer Choices: a. Static testing involves software programs called static analyzers which are run against new code. b. Integration testing involves independent testing that is performed by trained end users to ensure that the system operates as they expect. c. White-box testing involves viewing the software unit as a device that has expected input and output behaviors but whose internal workings are unknown. d. Black-box testing treats the software unit as a device that has expected input and output behaviors but whose internal workings are known.
Answer: a. Static testing involves software programs called static analyzers which are run against new code.
Question: In the context of development of safety critical systems, if an undesirable event has a ten percent probability of occurring and a potential cost of $50,000, then the risk can be calculated as which of the following?
Answer Choices: a. $2500 b. $5000 c. $9500 d. $7000
Answer: b. $5000
Question: When developing safety-critical systems, a key assumption must be that safety will automatically result from following an organization’s standard development methodology.
Answer Choices: a. True b. False
Answer: b. False
Question: Software quality is defined as the degree to which a software product meets:
Answer Choices: a. the standards of its competitors. b. sustainability and environmental protection needs. c. the needs of its users. d. the minimum financial return standards.
Answer: c. the needs of its users.
Question: When sued for which of the following, a software supplier is not held responsible for every product defect that causes customer or third-party loss?
Answer Choices: a. breach of warranty b. strict liability c. negligence d. misrepresentation
Answer: b. strict liability
Question: A type of business system which is used to develop accurate forecasts of customer demand, recommend stocks and bonds for an investment portfolio is known as which of the following?
Answer Choices: a. upgrade management system b. data information system c. executive information system d. decision support system
Answer: d. decision support system
Question: Black-box testing treats the software unit as a device that has expected input and output behaviors but whose internal workings are known.
Answer Choices: a. True b. False
Answer: b. False
Question: Which of the following can be oral, written, or inferred from the seller’s conduct?
Answer Choices: a. Warranty b. Disclaimer c. Certification d. Guarantee
Answer: a. Warranty
Question: The nurse cares for a victim of a violent sexual assault. What is the most therapeutic intervention?
Answer Choices: a. Use accepting, nurturing, and empathetic communication techniques. b. Educate the victim about strategies to avoid attacks in the future. c. Discourage the expression of feelings until the victim stabilizes. d. Maintain a matter-of-fact manner and objectivity.
Answer: a. Use accepting, nurturing, and empathetic communication techniques.