A registered nurse is required to participate in a simulation to learn how to triage patients who are arriving to the hospital after exposure to an unknown gas. This is an example of a response to what type of influence on nursing?
a. Workplace hazards
b. Nursing shortage
c. Professionalism
d. Emergency preparedness
D
Many health care agencies, schools, and communities have educational programs to prepare for nuclear, chemical, or biological attack and other types of disasters. Nurses play an active role in emergency preparedness. Workplace hazards include violence, harassment, and ergonomics. A person who acts professionally is conscientious in actions, knowledgeable in the subject, and re-sponsible to self and others. There is an ongoing global nursing shortage, which results from in-sufficient qualified registered nurses (RNs) to fill vacant positions and the loss of qualified RNs to other professions.
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