What is the nursing assistant expected to do during the discharge process?
What will be an ideal response?
The nursing assistant's role in the discharge process is to follow
policies and instructions, help the patient, assist with discharge
planning, help with transport, ease the discharge, and perform
follow-up procedures.
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The nurse is assisting the physician with a minor office procedure when the doctor is called away and asks the nurse to finish suturing the small wound created by the procedure. The nurse:
1. Sutures the wound, applies a dressing, and instructs the client how to perform wound care. 2. Tells the physician that nurses are not allowed to suture because it is outside the scope of practice. 3. Asks the physician to demonstrate by placing the first suture, and then performs the remainder of the procedure. 4. Notifies the nurse supervisor of the physician's request, and asks for permission to perform the procedure.
The nurse is right handed and needs to remove the male client's NGT. Which does the nurse implement during NGT removal to maintain client safety?
1. Leave on the low suction. 2. Clamp, then pull out tube. 3. Stand on client's left side. 4. Ask client to inhale deeply.
Both quantitative and qualitative researchers face conceptual, financial, ethical, and methodologic challenges
A) True B) False
What would you do differently and how?