Which situation requires an adaptive decision?
1. The nurse manager discovers that two clients require the use of a new piece of equipment and that the one the hospital has is the only one in the state.
2. The nurse has made a medication error on an experimental medication.
3. The nursing student makes an error when changing a client dressing.
4. The nurse manager scheduled too many nurses for the client census on the night shift, and all of the nurses scheduled have already been asked to take a low-census unpaid day off this month.
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Rationale 1: Adaptive decisions must be made when the situation is unusual and there is no clear-cut policy for decision making.
Rationale 2: Making a medication error is not an unusual situation, and a policy exists for handling this issue.
Rationale 3: A policy exists for handling procedure errors.
Rationale 4: A policy exists for handling staffing errors.
Global Rationale:
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