Unit 8 Flash
The nurse is assisting in working with disaster relief following a tornado. The nurse's goal with the overall community is to prevent as much injury and death as possible from the uncontrollable event. Finding safe housing for survivors, providing support to families, organizing counseling sessions, and securing physical care when needed are examples of which type of prevention?
The tertiary level of prevention
The nurse in charge of a rehabilitation center is planning the client assignments for the day. Which client should the nurse assign to the unlicensed assistive personnel?
A client on strict bed rest and a 24-hour urine collection
The nurse on the day shift receives client assignments for the day. Which assigned client should the nurse check first?
A client who was admitted during the night because of a severe exacerbation of asthma
The nurse sees another nurse administer an incorrect medication to a client. The nurse who administered the incorrect medication does not report the error. Which would be the initial action by the nurse who observed the error?
Ask the nurse if he or she intends to report the error.
The nurse is planning the client assignments. Which is the least appropriate assignment for the unlicensed assistive personnel (UAP)?
Assisting a child who is profoundly developmentally disabled to eat lunch
The nurse discovers that one of her assigned clients is bleeding excessively from an abdominal incision. The nurse gives specific prescriptions to an unlicensed assistive personnel (UAP) to attend to the other clients and tells another nurse to call the health care provider immediately. In this situation, the nurse is implementing which leadership style?
Autocratic
The nurse is giving a bed bath to an assigned client. An unlicensed assistive personnel (UAP) enters the client's room and tells the nurse that another assigned client is in pain and needs pain medication. The nurse should do which?
Cover the client, raise the side rails, tell the client that you will return shortly, and administer the pain medication to the other client.
The nurse employed in a long-term care facility calls the health care provider (HCP) regarding a new medication prescription because the dose prescribed is higher than the recommended dosage. The nurse is unable to locate the HCP, and the medication is due to be administered. Which action should the nurse take?
Contact the nursing supervisor.
A nursing instructor asks a nursing student to describe accountability. Which statement by the student indicates an inaccurate description of accountability?
"Accountability can be delegated."
The nurse witnesses an automobile accident and provides care at the scene of the accident to an open wound on a young child. The family is extremely grateful and insists that the nurse accept monetary compensation for the care provided to the child. Because of the family's insistence, the nurse accepts the compensation to avoid offending the family. The child develops an infection and sepsis and is hospitalized. The family files suit against the nurse who provided care to the child at the scene of the accident. The nurse understands that which is accurate regarding immunity from this suit?
Good Samaritan laws will not provide immunity from suit if the nurse accepted compensation for the care provided.
