A nurse works in the intensive care unit. She enjoys being on the unit charge nurse team, the recruitment and retention team, and the peer evaluation team
The recruitment and retention team is responsible for hiring new employees into the intensive care unit. The five-member team, con-sisting of three registered nurses, a unit clerk, and a nurse's aide, conduct the interviewing process with key questions that were developed by the team. This is an example of ____. a. Centralized power
b. Shared governance
c. Span of control
d. Vertical authority
B
Shared governance is a vehicle through which nurses actively engage in making decisions re-garding nursing practice, quality of patient care, education, nursing peer issues, and issues in the work environment.
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The student nurse is planning care for a patient with a recent spinal cord injury. Which intervention indicates the need for further instruction regarding care of the patient with a spinal cord injury?
a. Keep the halo jacket fastened unless the patient is in a supine position. b. Monitor the bladder every 4 hours for signs of bladder distention. c. Instruct unlicensed assistive personnel (UAP) to turn and reposition the patient every 2 hours. d. Assess compression stockings for proper fit.
Which of the following themes are common in the definitions of nursing? (Select all that apply)
_______ Adaptive _______ Client centered _______ Goal directed according to the needs of the client _______ Diagnosis and treatment of disease _______ An art _______ A science Fill in the blank(s) with correct word
The nurse is working in a clinic performing assessments on well newborn infants. A 3-month-old child that the nurse has weighed and measured falls below the 5th percentile
Which of the following does the nurse suspect is the reason for the slow weight gain? 1. The infant eats an appropriate amount each day. 2. The parents are Asian American. 3. The child sleeps the whole night through. 4. The parents socialize two nights a week.
Raynaud's disease is characterized by:
A) Streaky redness, tenderness, warmth along the course of a vein. B) Intermittent pain in calves upon ambulation. C) Gangrene of hands and fingers. D) Intermittent pallor and cyanosis of hands and fingers.