Ms. Jones, RN, is the night charge nurse on your unit. She has come to work obviously drunk. What would your legal obligations be as a professional nurse?
a. Ignore her condition out of professional etiquette.
b. Have a second person validate your ob-servation.
c. Give her several cups of strong coffee to sober her up.
d. Have her "sleep it off" in an empty room and cover for her.
B
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A) Cost containment versus quality of care B) Acute care versus the burden of chronic disease C) Private insurance payments versus Medicare support D) Long-term care at home versus nursing home services
A nurse is providing care for an 82-year-old woman on the palliative care unit of a hospital. The woman has a long-standing diagnosis of diabetes that has manifested in serious cardiac problems and she is not expected to survive the weekend
How can the nurse best understand this course of events in light of the chronic care that the patient has long received? A) Death represents the ultimate failure of the provision of care. B) Dying in comfort and dignity is the final component of high-quality chronic care. C) The period of death represents the transition from chronic care to acute care. D) Holistic, chronic care requires that the nurse limit care to psychosocial interventions.
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1) They are based on assessment and diagnosis. 2) They focus on the patient's perception of his needs. 3) They require input from a multidisciplinary team. 4) They have specific timelines in which to be completed.
A nurse explained to a new mother that because she had tested positive for the hepatitis B virus, her newborn son would need the hepatitis B vaccine immediately and then also an immune globulin injection
"Wait," said the new mother. "Why is my son getting two shots?" Which of the following statements would be the best response by the nurse? a. "One injection protects your son, while the other encourages his body to build up immunity." b. "One shot keeps your son from getting sick, while the other is a typical vaccine to prevent you from accidentally infecting him." c. "Since you've already been infected with the virus, your son needs twice as much protection." d. "The second shot is just to make sure the first one works."