You are the charge nurse on a busy medical-surgical unit. You are also the preceptor to a novice nurse
What response would be expected from a nurse in the novice stage of clinical competence development when assigned to perform a morning assessment on a patient? a. Nurse uses Doppler to obtain pulses on a patient with no palpable peripheral pulses
b. Reporting to the charge nurse that they cannot feel a patient's peripheral pulses and the blood pressure is only palpable
c. Nurse calls for help when she finds the patient with barely palpable blood pressure and hard to arouse
d. Reporting to the charge nurse that she decided to let the patient sleep until the breakfast trays arrive because the patient was sleeping so soundly
D
Feedback
A This would be the response of a nurse as she becomes more experienced.
B This would be the response of a nurse as she becomes more experienced.
C This would be the response of a nurse as she becomes more experienced.
D A novice nurse would go into the patient's room prepared to get vital signs in the morning and decide not to further assess a patient who is "sleeping soundly.".
You might also like to view...
A patient tells a nurse that she drinks wine for its cardioprotective effects. She wants to know how much is safe. The nurse is correct in telling her that:
a. "A couple of glasses of wine 1 or 2 days a week will help prevent heart disease." b. "Abstaining from alcohol completely is the best way to prevent heart disease." c. "If you drink only on weekends, you will minimize your risk of developing heart disease." d. "Cardioprotective effects are greatest in people who live an unhealthy lifestyle."
The nurse is teaching a patient about home administration of insulin. The patient will receive regular (Humulin R) and NPH (Humulin NPH) insulin at 0700 every day. What is important to teach this patient?
a. "Draw up the medications in separate syringes." b. "Draw up the NPH insulin first." c. "Draw up the regular insulin first." d. "Draw up the medications after mixing them in a vial."
A patient with emphysema presents to the emergency room with severe dyspnea; O2 saturation is 74%, pulse is 120, and respirations are 26 . The nurse positions the patient in high Fowler. What action should the nurse take next?
a. Collect a sputum specimen. b. Coach the patient in pursed-lip breathing. c. Give oxygen at 5 L/min by nasal cannula. d. Ensure patent intravenous (IV) access.
Sodium, potassium, and other electrolytes are often measured based on their equivalent weight using a unit called
A. milligrams. B. milliequivalents. C. minims. D. drams.