The staff development nurse has elected to use coaching as a staff development technique. Which situation is an example of this technique?
1. Pairing a newly licensed nurse with a nurse who has worked on the unit for 5 years
2. Matching a newly hired male nurse with a newly hired female nurse
3. Pairing a nurse with conflict management experience with an employee who has expressed dissatisfaction with the job
4. Matching nurses who have similar educational and cultural backgrounds when selecting participants for an educational offering
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Rationale 1: Pairing a newly licensed nurse with a nurse who has worked on the unit for 5 years more closely describes preceptorship.
Rationale 2: Matching a new male nurse and a new female nurse does not describe coaching.
Rationale 3: Coaching is a strategy suggested to address a nurse's job dissatisfaction.
Rationale 4: Assigning educational offerings on the basis of similar educational and cultural backgrounds does not represent coaching.
Global Rationale:
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1. Provide primary care for high-risk children who are in hospital settings. 2. Provide primary care for healthy children. 3. Work toward the goal of informed choices with the family. 4. Obtain a physician consultation for any technical procedures at delivery.
Transmission of information in superior-subordinate relationships is called ____
a. Expressive communication b. Formal communication c. Impersonal communication d. Vertical communication
To increase the safety of a blood transfusion, which of the following actions should the nurse take? The nurse should prepare to administer the blood with (Select all that apply)
a. a second nurse to take the vital signs. b. a tubing set designed for blood products. c. an IV of D5W. d. an IV of normal saline.
Which does the nurse use for the hang time of an intermittent gavage tube feeding?
1. Up to 8 hours 2. Up to 24 hours 3. 10 to 15 minutes 4. 30 to 60 minutes