ATI Dynamic quizzes-Leadership
A charge nurse is reviewing the code of ethics for nurses during a staff meeting. Which of the following statements should the charge nurse include in the teaching?
"The Code of Ethics for Nurses is a guide for professional actions."
A nurse is delegating tasks to an assistive personnel (AP) for the care of a group of clients. Which of the following directions should the nurse provide?
"Transport the client in room 203 to the radiology department at 1000."
A nurse is teaching a group of newly licensed nurses about violations of client rights. Which of the following examples of a violation of client rights should the nurse include in this teaching?
A client who has schizophrenia is placed in the seclusion room of the psychiatric unit for making frequent outbursts of obscenities directed at nurses of the opposite sex.
A nurse manager is observing the staff members working on her unit. Which of the following actions should the nurse manager recognize as an example of paternalism?
A nurse practitioner withholding information from a client who is dying to avoid causing the client distress.
A nurse is admitting a client who has measles. This client should be placed in which of the following types of isolation?
Airborne.
A nurse enters a client's room and finds the client lying on the floor next to the bed. Which of the following actions should the nurse take first?
Check the client for injuries.
A health care facility's leadership team is implementing a new computerized charting system. When preparing for the implementation date, which of the following actions should the nurse manager take first?
Collect the staff members' input about planning and implementing the change.
A charge nurse finds an increased incidence of health-care-associated infections (HAIs) on a long-term care unit. Which priority action should the charge nurse take to address the problem?
Conduct a chart review to gather data about clients who developed HAIs
A nurse is caring for a postoperative client who has an Hgb of 8.0g/dL. The nurse delegates the administration of a unit of packed RCBs to a nurse floating from a psychiatric unit who is unfamiliar with blood administration. Which of the following actions should the float nurse take?
Decline to hang the blood
A nurse manager is planning staff development activities for the unit's new unlicensed assistive personnel (UAP). Which of the following activities should the nurse manager perform first?
Determine the learning needs of the UAP's
A nurse is preparing an IM injection for a client who is preoperative when another client suddenly calls for assistance. The nurse asks another nurse to give the injection since an assistive personnel is waiting to take the client to surgery. Which of the following actions should the second nurse take?
Help the client requesting assistance so the first nurse can give the prepared injection.
A nurse is assisting with the informed consent process for a client who is scheduled for a below-the-knee amputation. The client asks the nurse, "Why are they making me have this surgery today? I don't understand why they are doing this." Which of the following actions should the nurse take?
Notify the provider of the client's comments.
A nurse is providing teaching for new parents on safe sleeping recommendation to reduce the risk of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). Which of the following instructions should the nurse include?
Room sharing is recommended while the infant sleeps.
A nurse manager notes that several staff members are late in completing an annual mandatory educational session about extremity restraint safety. Which of the following actions should the nurse manager plan to take?
Send an email to each non-adherent employee that includes a link to upcoming educational sessions.
A nurse is walking with a client who falls after the facility-issued walker loses a wheel. Which of the following actions should the nurse take regarding the completed incident report?
Submit the variance report to the risk manager.
A charge nurse is observing a group of newly licensed nurses. Which of the following actions should the charge nurse report to the nurse manager as a violation of HIPAA?
Talking about clients with other nurses in the cafeteria.
A nurse is teaching a newly licensed nurse about the informed consent process for a client who is scheduled for a surgical procedure. Which of the following pieces of information should the nurse include in the teaching?
The person who will perform the procedure is responsible for obtaining informed consent.
A nurse in a community health clinic is planning an in-service staff training session on nationally notifiable infections conditions. Which of the following conditions should the nurse include in the teaching?
Varicella
