The nurse who is an expert at providing care to adult medical?surgical clients is transitioning to providing care to adult intensive care clients. The nurse's skill level will most likely change to:
1. Advanced beginner.
2. Novice.
3. Competent.
4. Proficiency.
Advanced beginner.
Rationale: Even though the nurse is an expert at providing care to the adult medical−surgical client, the nurse is now in a new clinical setting where there is a need to learn subtle variations of the clients' clinical presentations; these are characteristics of an advanced beginner. A novice nurse is one who has little or no experiential background or understanding; the nurse is not a novice. It will take some time before the nurse is able to function at the level of competent in the new clinical setting. It will take some time before the nurse is able to function at the level of proficient in the new clinical setting.
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