A nurse is teaching a group of newly hired nurses about the requirements for disaster planning

1.A 13-year-old female adolescent tells the charge nurse in the pediatric unit that she does not

want a male nurse assigned to care for her. Which of the following responses should the

nurse make? "I'll change the assignment so a female nurse is caring for you today."

2. A charge nurse is providing teaching to a new staff nurse about the management of a team

consisting of a licensed practical nurse (LPN) and an assistive personnel (AP). Which of the

following pieces of information should the charge nurse include in the teaching? The nurse

should be familiar with the task she plans to delegate.

3.A client who is postoperative has a hemoglobin of 8.0 g/dL. The nurse delegates the

administration of a unit of packed red blood cells for this client to a nurse floating from a

psychiatric unit. Which of the following nursing actions is appropriate for the nurse to take at

this time? Decline to hang the blood

4.A group of nurses on a telemetry unit informs a nurse manager of a need to update the

cardiac monitoring system to improve arrhythmia detection. Which of the following

responses should the nurse manager make? "This purchase will need to be addressed in

the capital budget plan for the unit."

5.A home health care nurse is conducting a home hazard assessment. For which of the

following finding should the nurse intervene? The clients household lamps have 40 watt

light bulbs

6.A new nurse manager on a busy oncology unit keeps her office door closed when she is in the

office, not offering to help resolve daily staffing issues, and not scheduling any staff

meetings. Which of the following types of leadership behavior is the nurse manager

displaying? Laissez-faire

7.A nurse enters a client's room and discovers a small fire in a trash can. Which of the

following actions should the nurse take first? Move the client out of the room

8.A nurse enters the room of an older adult client and finds him attempting to crawl over the

side rail. Which of the following actions should the nurse take? Ask an assistive personnel

to sit with the client

9.A nurse finds a client standing next to his bed with the side rails up. The client is visibly

confused and not wearing an identification bracelet, and his IV is detached. The client states,

"I can't remember my name." After assisting the client back into bed, which of the following

actions should the nurse take next? Assess the client for injury.

10.A nurse from a facility's float pool receives 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? "I will assign you to work with a registered nurse on the unit who

is experienced and will act as a resource for you."

11.A nurse has several tasks to complete to prepare a client scheduled for surgery. Which of the

following tasks can the nurse delegate to an assistive personnel (AP)? Assist with placing

the client onto the stretcher for transport to the surgical suite.

What do the responsibilities of the nurse manager include?

Which of the following statements by the newly licensed nurse indicates understanding of the purpose of documentation?

Which of the FF should the nurse deal first?

Which of the following the client should be attended to first by the nurse?