Which task can a nurse safely delegate to a student nurse who is working as a nursing assistant?
a. Distributing medications to patients
b. Administering insulin injections
c. Collecting intake and output data
d. Assessing patients
C
During the time when a student nurse works as an employee of a health care facility, perform only tasks that appear in a job description for a nurse's aide or nursing assistant. For example, even if a student nurse has learned how to administer intramuscular medications, do not perform this task as a nurse's aide.
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When applying lotion to the skin, the nurse should:
a. avoid shaking lotion as this causes bubble formation. b. apply lotion heavily as the water from lo-tion evaporates. c. wash off residue before applying fresh lotion. d. "dab" on lotion to reduce skin irritation.
The nurse is caring for a patient diagnosed with acute hepatic dysfunction. Which of the following clinical findings would indicate to the nurse that the patient is developing hepatorenal syndrome?
1. decrease in PT 2. blood pressure 136/88 mm Hg 3. glomerular filtration rate reduced from 58% to 36% 4. urine output 45 cc/hour
A nurse manager has encountered resistance to a planned change. What is one way the nurse can overcome the resistance?
A) Tell the staff that if they don't like it, they can quit. B) Implement change rapidly and all at once. C) Encourage open communication and feedback. D) Let the staff know that the change is mandated.
An adolescent who belongs to a neighborhood gang has been caught both lying and stealing by a parent
After psychiatric testing determines that the adolescent is able to adequately test reality and has no symptoms of a major psychiatric disorder, the most likely finding will be that the child's behavior demonstrates: a. healthy deviant. b. healthy conformist. c. unhealthy deviant. d. unhealthy conformist.