PCN Study
An RN enters a client's room and observes the unlicensed assistive personnel (UAP) forcefully pushing a client down on the bed. The client starts crying and informs the UAP of the need to go to the bathroom. What action is the RN witnessing that should be immediately reported to the supervisor? Battery Assault Fraud Defamation of character
Battery
A nurse and an older adult client with chronic back pain are beginning to communicate. What activity should the nurse focus on at this point? Explaining in detail all of the pain management options available Being sensitive to the client's emotional barriers Sharing the nurse's own family and personal history of back pain Reassuring the cleint that back surgery will likely alleviate the pain completely
Being sensitive to the client's emotional barriers
What is the priority nursing responsibility when transferring a client from one unit in the hospital to another? Bring all of the client's belongings to the new unit. Transport the completed client chart to the receiving unit. Provide a verbal report of the client's status to the admitting nurse. Help the client become familiar with the new unit.
Provide a verbal report of the client's status to the admitting nurse.
When an American client states, "I only want an American doctor," the client is expressing: ethnocentrism. cultural relativity. cultural pervasiveness. racism.
ethnocentrism.
