The instructor tells an SP/VN, "You have functioned at a substandard level of clinical performance recently. Now you have a chance to redeem yourself. I'm assigning you to a complex nursing situation
I expect you to function without asking for assistance." What is the most accurate assessment of the instructor's action?
a. The action will enable the instructor to determine whether the student should pass or fail the course.
b. The instructor is accountable for making an unsafe patient care assignment.
c. It is an acceptable teaching practice to challenge students to higher levels of performance.
d. The instructor should be investigated for fraud by the state board of nursing.
ANS: B
Assigning an SP/VN to a complex nursing situation shows poor judgment. A complex nursing situation involves a patient whose clinical condition is unpredictable. Nursing care expectations are beyond what the LPN/LVN has learned during the educational program. An instructor is expected to make patient assignments based on student knowledge and ability to give safe nursing care and is expected to provide necessary supervision.
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