Prioritizing client care practice questions

The charge nurse is planning the assignment for the day. Which factors should the nurse remain mindful of when planning the assignment? SATA 1. The acuity level of the clients 2. Specific requests from the staff 3. The clustering of the rooms on the unit 4. The number of anticipated client discharges 5. Client needs and workers' needs and abilities

1, 5 There are guideline that the nurse should use when delegating and planning assignments. These include the following: ensure client safety; be aware of individual variations in work abilities; determine which tasks can be delegatee and to whom; match the gas to the delegated on the basis of the nurse practice act and appropriate position descriptions; provide directions that are clear, concise, accurate, and complete; validate the delegatees understanding of the directions; communicate a feeling of confidence to the delegatee and provide feedback promptly after the task is performed; and maintain continuity of care as much as possible when assigning client care.

The nurse manager is discussing the facility protocol in the event of a tornado with the staff. Which instructions should the nurse manager include in the discussion? SATA 1. Open doors to client rooms 2. Move beds away from windows 3. Close window shades and curtains 4. Place blankets over clients who are confined to bed 5. Relocate ambulatory clients from the hallways back into their rooms

2, 3, 4 In this weather event, the appropriate nursing actions focus on protecting clients from flying debris or glass. The nurse should close doors to each clients room and move beds away from windows, and close window shades and curtains to protect clients, visitors, and staff from shattering glass and flying debris. Blankets should be places over clients confined to bed. Ambulatory clients should be loved into hallways from their rooms, away from windows.

The registered nurse is planning the client assignments for the day. Which is the most appropriate assignment for an assistive personnel (AP)? 1. A client requiring a colostomy irrigation 2. A client receiving continuous tube feelings 3. A client who requires urine specimen collections 4. A client with difficulty swallowing food and fluids

3 The nurse must determine the most appropriate assignment based on the skills of the staff member and the needs of the client. In this case, the most appropriate assignment for the AP would be to care for the client who requires urine specimen collection. The AP is skilled in this procedure.

The nurse is assigned to care for four clients. I'm planning client rounds, which client should the nurse assess first? 1. A postoperative client preparing for discharge with a new medication 2. A client requiring daily dressing changes of a recent surgical incision 3. A client scheduled for a chest X-ray after insertion of a nasogastric tube 4. A client with asthma who requested a breathing treatment during the previous shift

4 Airway is always the highest priority, and the nurse would attend to the client with astham who requested a breathing treatment during the previous shift. This could indicate the client was experiencing difficulty breathing.

The nurse mama her has implemented a change in the method of the nursing delivery system from functional to team nursing. An assistive personnel (AP) is resistant to the change and is not taking an active part in facilitating the process of change. Which is the best approach in dealing with the AP? 1. Ignore the resistance 2. Exert coercion on the AP 3. Provide a positive reward system for the AP 4. Confront the AP to encourage verbalization of feelings regarding the change

4 Confrontation is an important strategy to meet resistance head on. Face to face meetings to confront the issue at hand will allow verbalization of feelings, identification of problems and issues, and development of strategies to solve the problem

The nurse employed in an emergency department is assigned to triage clients coming to the emergency department for treatment on the evening shift. The nurse should assign priority to which client? 1. A client complaining of muscle aches, a headache, and history of seizures 2. A client who twisted her ankle when rollerblading and is requesting medication for pain 3. A client with a minor laceration on the index finger sustained while cutting an eggplant 4. A client with chest pain who states that he just ate pizza that was made with very spicy sauce

4 In an emergency department, triage involves brief client assessment to classify clients according to their need for care and includes establishing priorities of care. The type of illness or injury, the severity of the problem, and the resources available govern the process. Clients with trauma, chest pain, severe respiratory distress or cardiac arrest, limb amputation, and acute neurological deficits and those who have sustained chemical splashes to the eyes are classified as emergent and are highest priority. Clients with conditions such as simple fracture, asthma without respiratory distress, fever, hypertension, abdominal pain, or a renal stone have urgent needs and are classified as a second priority. Clients with conditions such as a minor laceration, sprain, or cold symptoms are classified as non urgent and are a third priority.

A nursing graduate is attending an agency orientation regarding the nursing model of practice implemented in the health care facility. The nurse is told that the nursing model is a team nursing approach. The nurse determines that which scenario is characteristic of the team-based model of nursing practice?: 1. Each staff member is assigned a specific task for a group of clients. 2. A staff member is assigned to determine the client's needs at home and begin discharge planning. 3. A single registered nurse (RN) is responsible for providing care to a group of 6 clients with the aid of an unlicensed assistive personnel (UAP). 4. An RN leads 2 licensed practical nurses (LPNs) and 3 UAPs in providing care to a group of 12 clients.

4 In team nursing, nursing personnel are led by a RN leader in providing care to a group of clients. Option 1 identified functional nursing. Option 2 identified component of case management. Option 3 identified primary nursing (relationship based practice)

The nurse is giving a bed bath to an assigned client when an assistive personnel (AP) enters the clients room and tells the nurse that another assigned client is in pain and needs pain medication. Which is the most appropriate nursing action? 1. Finish the bed bath and then administer the pain medication to the other client 2. Ask the AP to find out when the last pain medication was given to the client 3. Ask the AP to tell the client in pain that medication will be administered as soon as the bed bath is completed 4. Cover the client, raise the side rails, tell the client you will return shortly, and administer the pain medication to the other client.

4 The nurse is responsible for the care provided to assigned clients. The appropriate action in this situation is to provide safety to the client who is receiving the bed bath and prepare to administer the pain medication

The nurse has received the assignment for the day shift. After making initial rounds and checking all of the assigned clients, which client should the nurse plan to care for first? 1. A client who is ambulatory demonstrating steady gait 2. A postoperative client who had just received an opioid medication 3. A client scheduled for physical therapy for the first crutch walking session 4. A client with a white blood cell found of 14,000 mm^3 (14X10^9 /L) and a temperature of 38.4 degrees Celsius

4 The nurse should plan to care for the client who has an elevated white blood cell found and a fever first, because this clients needs are the priority.

The nurse employed in a long term care facility is planning assignments for the clients on a nursing unit. The nurse needs to assign four clients and has a LPN and 3 assistive personnel (APs) in a nursing team. Which would the nurse most appropriately assign to the LPN? 1. A client who requires a bed bath 2. An older client requiring frequent ambulation 3. A client who requires hourly vital sign measurements 4. A client requiring abdominal wound irrigation's and dressing changes every 3 hours

4 When delegating nursing assignments, the nurse needs to consider the skills and educational level of the nursing staff. Giving a bed bath, assisting with frequent ambulation, and taking vital signs can be provided most appropriately by an AP. The LPN is skilled in wound irrigation's and dressing changes and most appropriately would be assigned to the client who needs this care.