A graduate nurse who has just completed orientation in the pediatric ICU is striving to attain the required skill level to care for children returning from open-heart surgery
In the second stage of mentoring, the mentor might suggest which assignment as a means of accomplishing the graduate's goal? 1. Caring for critically ill children
2. Caring for children who have recovered from heart surgery
3. Performing postoperative teaching for children who had heart surgery
4. Participating in emergency resuscitations of postoperative heart children
2. Caring for children who have recovered from heart surgery
Rationale:
While setting goals for the second phase of mentoring, the mentor might suggest that the graduate nurse care for those children who have recovered from surgery but have not yet met the criteria for discharge. This would enable the nurse to learn about the surgeries, goals, and treatments for this group of clients. Having the graduate nurse care for critically ill children would put the clients at risk as the new nurse has neither the knowledge nor skills to care for this category of client need. The new nurse would not be entrusted with performing postoperative teaching for the critically ill child until more knowledge has been gained. Certainly, the graduate should observe emergency resuscitation with the goal of eventually taking more responsibility, but this would not best facilitate the goal of caring for children immediately after open-heart surgery.
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