According to the American Association of Colleges of Nursing, there are five factors that a nurse should assess when making a decision to delegate nursing tasks
These factors are assessing the potential for harm, the complexity of the task, the amount of problem solving and innovation re-quired, the unpredictability of the outcome, and the ____. a. Amount of time that the task will take
b. Degree of comfort the delegatee has with the task
c. Level of patient interaction
d. Method of measuring outcomes
C
The level of patient interaction is the fifth factor that nurses should assess when making delega-tion decisions.
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Patients with permanent disabilities can no longer manage their ADLs independently at home. They may be admitted to ________ for ongoing care.
A. a long-term care facility B. an acute facility or hospital C. home health care D. rehabilitation
Which patient does the nurse classify as facing the highest surgical risk?
a. 40-year-old with hepatitis secondary to past IV drug use b. 83-year-old with medically controlled hypertension c. 6-month-old with congenital heart anomaly and early stage liver disease d. 28-year-old taking anticoagulants secondary to mitral valve prolapse
The GI tract is innervated by which of the following nervous systems?
A) peripheral B) autonomic C) central D) both a and b