On your nursing unit, you employ LPNs, RNs, and advanced practice nurses. You will need to be familiar with at least:
a. Two nursing practice acts.
b. Two nursing practice acts in most states.
c. At least one nursing practice act.
d. One nursing practice act and a medical act.
C
In all states, you will need to be familiar with at least one nursing practice act. In some states, there may be two nursing practice acts if RNs and LPNs/LVNs come under different licensing boards.
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a. Administer nalmefene [Revex]. b. Contact the provider to obtain an order for naloxone [Narcan]. c. Question the patient about heroin use that day. d. Suspect that the patient exaggerated the amount of heroin used.
A nurse's ability to deal with changing orders from the physician, patient needs and problems, supervision and delegation issues, vital signs readings, and medication orders requires being ____________________;
it is the only way for them to accomplish all of this for several patients during one shift. Fill in the blank with correct word.
Qualitative nursing research is valuable in that it
a. Excludes all bias. b. Uses randomization in structure. c. Determines associations between variables and conditions. d. Studies phenomena that are difficult to quantify.
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a. A patient with anorexia nervosa b. A patient with a personality disorder c. A patient with generalized anxiety disorder d. A patient with a chronic severe mood disorder