A registered nurse has a patient assignment of caring for six postoperative patients in the orthopedic unit. He completes the patient assessments, distributes medications, and provides care to the patients as outlined within his job description
What term best describes this behavior? A. Accountability
B. Responsibility
C. Authority
D. Leadership
B
Responsibility refers to the duties and activities that an individual is employed to perform. A position description outlines a professional nurse's responsibilities in patient care and in participating as a member of the nursing unit.
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The nurse is assessing the client's pupillary responses. The client is found to have no consensual response. The finding indicates which of the following to the nurse?
1. Cranial nerve III may not be functioning appropriately. 2. This is a normal finding. 3. This is evidence of increased intracranial pressure. 4. This is evidence of optic nerve damage.
When you are cleaning the bedside stand of a hospitalized 10-year-old, you find 48 packages of sugar. Your best action in relation to this would be to
A) put them back in the drawer as they were. B) ask the child's mother if he has a history of craving sweets. C) advise the child's mother to have him tested for diabetes. D) throw out the sugar; the child will develop cavities if he eats it.
A nurse is asked, “Why are you so rarely in the department office?” Which of the following would be the most appropriate response?
a. "I have to be where the people are."
b. "I prefer to write my reports in my car immediately after my intervention."
c. "I thought I was paid to be in the community, not the office."
d. "I try to avoid paperwork as much as possible."
Which term describes the body's way of removing the waste products of ordinary cell processes?
A. metabolism B. excretion C. absorption D. distribution