The nursing student is giving a bath to a client on the first clinical day. The physician arrives and removes a wound dressing, and tells the student to redress the wound. Which of the following actions should the student take?
1. Tell the doctor that wound dressings have not been covered in class yet.
2. Cover the wound with gauze.
3. Perform the dressing change.
4. Seek assistance from the instructor or nurse assigned to the client.
4
Rationale 1: The correct action would be to seek help, as it is the student's responsibility to know limits of current practice and to seek new learning experiences. Answer option 1 would not meet the needs of the client. Options 2 and 3 should not be attempted by the new student if she is not comfortable with the process.
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