Concept 44: Collaboration Giddens: Concepts for Nursing Practice, 3rd Edition
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Nur
1. A newly licensed nurse is assigned to an experienced nurse for training on a medical unit of a hospital. What type of nurse-to-nurse collaboration does this assignment demonstrate?
a. Interprofessional
b. Shared governance
c. Interorganizational
d. Mentoring
ANS: D
Mentoring is a collabora...
Test Bank for Concepts for Nursing Practice 3rd Edition Giddens (Test Bank Rn)
Concept 44: Collaboration
Giddens: Concepts for Nursing Practice, 3rd Edition
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. A newly licensed nurse is assigned to an experienced nurse for training on a medical unit of
a hospital. What type of nurse-to-nurse collaboration does this assignment demonstrate?
a. Interprofessional
b. Shared governance
c. Interorganizational
d. Mentoring
ANS: D
Mentoring is a collaborative partnership between a novice nurse and an expert nurse to help
transition a nurse through career development, personal growth, and socialization into the
profession. Interprofessional collaboration is working with several disciplines. Shared
governance is a type of management for nursing. Interorganizational collaboration often
includes teams from inside and outside an organization to meet a common goal.
OBJ: NCLEX Client Needs Category: Safe and Effective Care Environment: Management
of Care
2. The nurse is presenting an in-service on the importance of collaborative communication.
The nurse includes which critical event identified by the Joint Commission as an outcome of
poor communication among healthcare team members?
a. The occurrence of a patieG ntReAvD
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suAltBin.gCinOdMeath or serious injury
b. Decreased ability to document expenses of care provided
c. Longer time to begin surgical cases
d. Increased time to discharge patients to outpatient care
ANS: A
The Joint Commission has identified that poor communication is the primary factor in the
occurrence of sentinel events, or events resulting in unintended death or serious injury to
patients. Lack of documentation, longer time to begin surgery, and increased delays in
discharge all contribute to the management of health care, but do not result in critical patient
outcomes.
OBJ: NCLEX Client Needs Category: Safe and Effective Care Environment: Management
of Care
3. A nurse is reviewing the concept of professional collaboration. Which patient scenario
should the nurse identify as the best example of professional collaboration?
a. The nurse, physician, and physical therapist have all visited separately with the
patient.
b. The nurse, physical therapist, and physician have all developed separate care plans
for the patient.
c. The nurse mentions to the physical therapist that the patient may benefit from a
muscle strengthening evaluation.
d. The nurse and physician discuss the patient's muscle weakness and initiate a
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