In making out the assignment for the evening shift, the LPN charge nurse is careful to assign IV rounds to be performed:
1. every 15 minutes.
2. every 30 minutes.
3. every 60 minutes.
4. twice per shift.
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IV checks every hour, made by a nurse, ensure maintenance of a proper rate, infusion condi-tion, and complication detection.
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Which actions would the charge nurse evaluate as indicating "alarm fatigue" in a nurse who works in an intensive care unit (ICU)?
1. The nurse completes measuring a patient's urine before responding to a ventilator alarm in the next cubicle. 2. The nurse says, "Would you check this patient's IV? The controller alarm keeps sounding." 3. The manager discovers deactivation of a heart rate alarm in the rooms of two patients assigned to the nurse. 4. The nurse responds to the wrong cubicle when a ventilator alarm sounds. 5. The nurse responds to an alarm while saying, "I wish this patient would stop moving his arm around. It makes his IV alarm sound."
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a. Systems b. Community c. Policy d. Individual/family
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a. Pulse of 90 beats/min b. Temp. of 99.6 degrees c. Blood pressure of 136/88 mm Hg d. Respiratory Rate of 22/min