A nurse educator is working with a group of students who are in their first clinical rotation. They have had a particularly busy clinical day
All have felt rushed to complete medication administration as well as personal cares for their assigned clients. Charting has been completed, and they are ready to leave the clinical area for the day. A client on the unit needs medication delivered by a Z-track injection, and the staff nurse asks the instructor if one of the students would like to perform this. The instructor, understanding the important concepts surrounding timing and environment in a learning experience, makes which of the following comments to the staff nurse? A)
"Would it be OK if the students observed today? We'll do it next time we're here."
B)
"I'll check with the students and see if one of them would like to volunteer."
C)
"We're leaving now, but thanks for asking."
D)
"It will take me a moment to explain the procedure to the students, since we've not practiced this, but I'll find somebody to administer it."
A
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