What action must the charge nurse take when delegating responsibilities to an unfamiliar float
nurse who has been assigned to work on the unit?
A) Ask the float nurse what patients he wishes to be assigned.
B) Assess the competency of the float nurse by asking him about his skill, ability, and experience
in caring for patients such as those of the assigned unit.
C) Avoid discrimination by giving him an assignment equal to that of the other unit nurses.
D) Assign the float nurse to work with an experienced nurse familiar with the patients.
B
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When planning care for the client with a dissociative disorder, the nurse would include interventions addressing the issue that the client's use of defense mechanisms may be difficult to avoid because of:
A) Poor communication. B) Secondary gain. C) Unpredictable behaviors. D) Predictable behaviors.
When a researcher analyzes data obtained from study variables for possible significant relationships among these variables, the researcher is testing the
a. abstract ideas. b. conceptual definitions. c. relationship statements. d. study assumptions.
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