The nurse is assigned to assist in working with food services in a
rural, poor school setting. A goal for the school dietary program
is to avoid nutritional deficiencies and enhance the children's
nutritional status through healthy dietary practices. In
implementing interventions by levels of prevention, which
primary prevention intervention should the nurse suggest to use?
- ANSWER- Providing educational programs, literature, and
posters to promote awareness of healthy eating
The nurse who works on the night shift enters the medication
room and finds a coworker with a tourniquet wrapped around
the upper arm. The coworker is about to insert a needle attached
to a syringe containing a clear liquid into the antecubital area.
Which action would be the appropriate initial action by the
nurse? - ANSWER- Call the nursing supervisor.
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A new nurse is employed at a local community hospital and is
attending an orientation session. The nurse educator conducting
the session asks the new nurse to describe an organization's
mission statement. The new nurse appropriately responds with
which statement? - ANSWER- It outlines what the organization
plans to accomplish.
The nurse witnesses an automobile accident and provides care at
the scene of the accident to an open wound on a young child.
The family is extremely grateful and insists that the nurse accept
monetary compensation for the care provided to the child.
Because of the family's insistence, the nurse accepts the
compensation to avoid offending the family. The child develops
an infection and sepsis and is hospitalized. The family files suit
against the nurse who provided care to the child at the scene of
the accident. The nurse understands that which is accurate
regarding immunity from this suit? - ANSWER- Good
Samaritan laws will not provide immunity from suit if the nurse
accepted compensation for the care provided.
A nurse working in a long-term care facility is assigned to care
for four clients on the hospice unit. In planning client rounds,
which client should the nurse collect data on first? - ANSWER-
A client who was complaining of severe back pain on the
previous shift
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A vascular surgeon repeatedly asks the nurse to obtain signed
consent forms on his surgical clients. The nurse is
uncomfortable with obtaining the informed consents and
explains this to the surgeon, but the surgeon tells the nurse that
she will be reported if the consents are not obtained. The nurse
should appropriately manage this situation by taking which
action? - ANSWER- Discuss the situation with the nurse
manager.
After weeks of witnessing a man's deterioration and subsequent
death from liver failure, his family disagrees about performing
an autopsy. Which criterion does the nurse use to determine if
the autopsy can proceed? - ANSWER- Determination by the
client's son
The nurse wants to ensure that the emergency department is
prepared for a disaster and is creating an action plan for
educating the staff. Which actions should the nurse plan in order
to adequately prepare the staff? Select all that apply. -
ANSWER- Identify specific nursing roles during a disaster.
Test the disaster plans before a disaster occurs.
Begin educating staff on roles at the time of a disaster.
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Encourage each nurse to create a personal emergency
preparedness plan.
The nurse knows that litigation involving nurses is common
because of which reasons? Select all that apply. - ANSWER-
Clients are better educated about health care.
Clients are better informed about their rights.
Clients have a higher expectation about the care they receive.
The nurse is attending an agency orientation meeting about the
nursing model of practice implemented in the facility. The nurse
is told that the nursing model is a team nursing approach. The
nurse understands that which is a characteristic of this type of
nursing model of practice? - ANSWER- Nursing staff are led by
the nurse when providing care to a group of clients.
The nurse employed in a long-term care facility calls the health
care provider (HCP) regarding a new medication prescription
because the dose prescribed is higher than the recommended
dosage. The nurse is unable to locate the HCP, and the
medication is due to be administered. Which action should the
nurse take? - ANSWER- Contact the nursing supervisor.
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