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NUR 215 Module 1 PPT Exam Questions and Answers
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NUR 215 Module 1 PPT Exam Questionsand Answers
History of Nursing - Answer-Florence Nightingale
Clara Barton
nursing today - Answer--nurses are highly trained, well educated, caring, and competent
professionals
-lifelong leaders, engaging in continuing education
-the nurse must have critical thinking, communication, organizational, leadership,
advocacy, and tech skills to ensure patient safety
-app of clinical judgement, critical thinking, and problem solving
-code of ethics
Roles and Functions of the Nurse - Answer-direct care provider
communicator
client/family educator
client advocate
counselor
change agent
leader
manager
case manager
research consumer
basic principles of ethics - Answer-1. Advocacy
2. Responsibility
3. Accountability
4. Confidentiality
6 key ethical principles of nursing - Answer-autonomy
beneficence (doing good for that of pt)
fidelity (agreement to keep promises)
justice (fairness in care delivery and resources)
nonmaleficence (avoidance of harm or injury)
veracity (always telling truth)
your client mrs. jones 67 year old has decided not to have chemo for her stage 4 breast
cancer - Answer-autonomy
a nurse makes an med error and reports it to leadership - Answer-fidelity
a nurse informs her client she will be back in one hour; she comes back in one hour -
, interprofessional teams - Answer-physicians
nurses
UAP
pharmacist
phy/occ therapist
technologists
social workers
spiritual care providers
Nurses Practice Act - Answer-statutory laws passed by each sates legislative body that
define the practice of nursing
-scope of nursing practice
RNs can delegate to other RNs, PNs and APs ex: - Answer-To PNs:
-monitoring findings
-reinforcing client teaching from a standard care plan
-performing trach care
-suctioning
-check NG
-administering eternal feedings
-inserting urinary catheter
-administering meds
to APs:
-ADLSs
-bathing, grooming, dressing, toileting, ambulating, feeding, positioning, bed making,
I&O, VS(stable clients)
delegation factors - Answer-RNs can only delegate tasks that are appropriate to the skill
and education level of the individual who is receiving the assignment
5 rights of delegation - Answer-1. Tasks to delegate (right task)
2. Under what circumstances (right circumstances, such as setting and resources)
3. To whom (right person)
4. What information to communicate (right direction and communication)
5. How to oversee and appraise (right supervision and evaluation)
Use professional judgement and critical thinking skills when delegating
delegate an AP to assist a client who has PNA to use a bedpan - Answer-RIGHT
delegate an AP to administer a nebulizer treatment ro a client who has PNA - Answer-
WRONG
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