Question: A nurse is administering medications to a client who is recovering from a stroke and has right-sided paralysis. The nurse places the client’s medications on the left side of his mouth and administers the pills one at a time. Which of the following ethical principles is the nurse displaying?
Answer: Nonmaleficence
Question: A new nurse manager on a busy oncology unit keeps her office door closed when she is in the office, and does not offer to help resolve daily staffing issues. Which of the following types of leadership behavior is the nurse manager displaying?
Answer: Laissez-faire
Question: a nurse is delegating tasks to an assistive personnel (AP) for the care of a group of clients. Which of the following statements should the nurse make?
Answer: Transport the client in room 203 to the radiology department at 1000
Question: A nurse is caring for a postoperative client who has an Hgb of 8.0 g/dL. The nurse delegates the administration of a unit of packed RBCs to a nurse floating from psychiatric unit who is unfamiliar with blood administration. Which of the following actions should the float nurse take?
Answer: Decline to hang the blood
Question: A nurse from a facility’s float pool received an assignment to float on a nursing unit. The float nurse tells the charge nurse that she has never worked on this unit before. How should the charge nurse respond?
Answer: I will assign you to work with a registered nurse on the unit who is experienced and will act as a resource for you
Question: A nurse is assisting with the preoperative preparation of a client who is scheduled for surgery. Which of the following tasks can the nurse delegate to an assistive personnel (AP)?
Answer: Assist with placing the client onto the stretcher for transport to the surgical suite. a
Question: The nurse manager is observing the staff working on her unit. Which of the following observations should the nurse manager recognize as an example of paternalism?
Answer: A nurse practitioner withholding information from a client who is dying to avoid causing the client distress
Question: A nurse in a mental health clinic is interviewing a client who has a history of substance use disorder. The client reports his experiences from a previous voluntary hospitalization. Which of the following reported experiences constitutes as assault?
Answer: “I was threatened with a shot when I refused to take an oral medication I knew would make me groggy”
Question: Nurses working in a long-term care facility inform the nurse manger they have identified the need for updating the whirlpool bath units so that the clients bathing is more efficient. Which of the following responses should the nurse manager make?
Answer: “This purchase will need to be addressed in the capital budget plan for the unit”
Question: A nurse is transporting a client to a surgical suite for a procedure. The client tells the nurse he no longer wants to have the surgery. Which of the following responses should the nurse make?
Answer: “Let me call your surgeon while you tell me about your concerns”