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NUR 162 ( LATEST 2024 / 2025 ) CH7 PREPU | (ACTUAL EXAM ) QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (SOLVED)
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NUR 162 CH7 PrepU1. A post-anesthesia nurse is reporting about a client to the intensive care unit nurse in the
elevator. There are staff members and visitors in the elevator. The post-anasthesia nurse is doing
what?
Answer
breaching the client's confidentiality
2. A client states that his recent fall was caused by the fact that his scheduled antihypertensives
were mistakenly administered by two different nurses, an event that is disputed by both of the
nurses identified by the client. Which of the following measures should the nurses prioritize
when anticipating that legal action mayfollow?
Answer
Document the client's claims and the events surrounding the alleged incident.
3. A nurse hired to work in an ambulatory setting attends new employee orientation. The nurse
never worked in ambulatory before and is concerned about the Scope and Standards of Practice
for Professional Ambulatory Care Nursing. Which response, given by the nurse educator, would
further explain the Scope and Standards of Practice for Professional Care Nursing to the new
nurse?
Answer
"The Scope and Standards of Practice for Professional Ambulatory Care Nursing deal with the
professional obligations of a nurse working in the ambulatory setting."
4. Which of the following nursing students would most likely be held liable for negligence?
Answer
A nursing student administers medication to a resident, while working as a nursing assistant at a
local nursing home.
5. Which process evaluates and recognizes educational programs as having met certain
standards?
Answer
Accreditation
, 6. A client admitted with Hodgkin disease has a handwritten prescription for vinblastine 3.7
mg intravenously (IV) weekly. The nurse interprets the pre- scription as vincristine 3.7 mg and
administers the wrong medication. The client becomes neurovascularly compromised and has a
fatal reaction to the medication. The client's family begins a litigious suit against the facility and
the nurse's license is suspended by the board of nursing. In preparation for the lawsuit, the nurse
meets with the nurse attorney to review the events. Which appropriate statement, if given by the
nurse, indicates he has an understanding of the lawsuit?
Answer
"I had a duty and it was my responsibility to get clarification before administering the
medication, which I did not."
7. While caring for an infant, the nurse hears another child screaming in the
next room. She rushes to the other room to check on the screaming child, forgetting to put the
side rails up on the infant's crib. She returns to the room to find the infant has fallen out of the
crib and sustained a head injury. Based on the nurse's action, which tort is the nurse liable for?
Answer
Malpractice
8. A medical surgical client is in the radiology department. The client's cousin arrives on
themedical surgical unit and asks to speak with the nurse caring for
his cousin. The visitor asks the nurse to provide a brief outline of the client's illness. Which
response, if given by the nurse, would demonstrate application of legal safeguard in her practice?
Answer
"I cannot give you that information due to client confidentiality."
9. Having recently completed a specialty nursing program in neonatal care, a nurse is now
preparing to leave her current position on a medical unit and begin providing care in the
hospital's neonatal intensive care unit (NICU).The nurse has completed which of the following
processes of credentialing?
Answer
Certification
10. Injuries related to lifting or transferring patients occur in the health care setting and may
be considered a work-related injury. Which law was intended to reduce work-related injuries and
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