ROLE AND SCOPE FINAL STUDY QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

ROLE AND SCOPE FINAL STUDY QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

After her first week working on a busy medical/surgical unit, a new charge nurse notes that the nurses, although highly competent, are unable to function productively as a team. What can she do to facilitate team-building on her unit?

a. Provide an opportunity for the nurses to express their feelings and emotions

b. hire more staff members to reduce stress and fatigue from understaffing

c. allow the staff more input into important policy decision-making

d. give the staff members more time to adjust to the change in charge nurses

The oxygen saturation for a client with acute infective bronchitis drops to 84% and the client develops severe dyspnea. there is a standing order for a handheld nebulizer treatment PRN for SOB. the respiratory therapy department is designated to give all respiratory treatments in the facility. when the nurse calls the RT, he states that he has several more treatments to give but he should be there in 10 or 15 minutes. which action by the nurse is most appropriate at this time?

a. increase the flow rate of the client's oxygen until the RT can arrive

b. call the respiratory therapist back and insist that he come NOW.

c. do not wait for the respiratory therapist, give the HHN treatment himself or herself

d. give the client a prescribed PRN sedative to reduce anxiety.

Identify the two most important ethical issues surrounding organ transplantation

a. beneficence and nonmaleficence

b. autonomy and justice

c. veracity and informed consent

d. fidelity and option rights

Provision number 1 of 2001 Code of Ethics for Nurses states: "the nurse, in all professional relationships, practices with compassion and respect or the inherent dignity, worth, and uniqueness of every individual, unrestricted by considerations of social or economic status, personal attributes, or the nature of health-care problems." On which ethical principle is this statement primarily based?

a. right to privacy

b. justice

c. fidelity

d. veracity