A student nurse would properly contact and advise the supervisory staff nurse if
1. A patient demands to be moved to a different room but will not say why.
2. A physically larger patient for whom the student nurse is providing ambulation therapy has trouble getting back into bed and the student is unable to get him into bed herself.
3. A patient seems to be trying to communicate something urgent but cannot do so because of a language barrier.
4. A patient's condition seems worse than at the staff nurse's last assessment.
ANS: 4
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