Scope of nursing practice
What will be an ideal response?
Give direction to you as a practicing nurse, spelling out what you have the obligation to do, what you have permission to do and what you are prohibited from doing for patients.
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The mother of a 45-year-old patient is a retired physician and requests to discuss the patient's plan of care with the nurse caring for the patient. What is the nurse's best response to this re-quest?
a. "I will need to ask permission from my supervisor before I can share that infor-mation." b. "I will show you the chart, just follow me and we can discuss your questions and concerns." c. "I would suggest that you leave me out of your family problems. I am here to care for the patient." d. "I will have to get the patient's permission before I can share that information."
If the client is placed in restraints and requires these restraints for longer than 2 hours, the nurse must carry out which of the following actions?
a. Remind the client why he or she is in restraints, and what the consequences are for what he or she did. b. Remove the restraints for at least 5 minutes every 2 hours (one at a time), and check circulation. c. Give the client a snack such as an apple. d. Take off the restraints, and leave them off.
A client has just been told that he has lung cancer. The physician then describes several potential courses of treatment to the client. When the physician leaves the room, the client asks the nurse, "What did he just say?"
The nurse understands that the client is experiencing: A) sensory overload. B) sensory deprivation. C) sensoristasis. D) sensory perception.
Which of the following is considered first-line non pharmacologic treatment of lower extremity peripheral arterial disease?
a. exercise training b. low fat diet c. wear warm clothes when going out in the cold d. antiplatelet therapy