A group of nurses are concerned about the chronic understaffing and mandatory overtime requirements of their state's hospitals. How could this group best help solve this issue?
1. Advise nurses to go home after their assigned shift instead of working overtime.
2. Talk to state legislatures about establishing staffing ratios.
3. Lobby for legislation supporting safe staffing measures.
4. Develop policies whereby nurse managers are the only ones required to work overtime.
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Rationale: If the nurses go home and there is not adequate staff to care for patients, the nurses may be guilty of abandonment.
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a. minimal competency under the Nurse Practice Act. b. the ability to distinguish what is right or wrong for the patient. c. the demonstration of satisfactory knowledge of policies and procedures. d. providing reasonable, prudent care comparable to that of like practitioners.